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Night riders in Black folk history / Gladys-Marie Fry ; foreword by William Lynwood Montell.
LIBRA - Rare E443 .F89 1991 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fry, Gladys-Marie, 1931-2015.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions.
- Enslaved persons.
- Social conditions.
- Folklore.
- Folklore and history.
- African Americans.
- United States.
- African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Southern States.
- Race relations.
- African Americans--Southern States--Folklore.
- African Americans--Folklore.
- Folklore and history--Southern States.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Folklore.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social conditions.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Enslaved persons--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Folk tales.
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xvi, 251 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 1991.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- 1. The Problem of Slave Control
- 2. The Role of the Master and of the Overseer in the Use of Supernatural Subterfuge
- 3. The Patrol System
- 4. The Reconstruction of the Ku Klux Klan
- 5. The Ku Klux Klan in the Eyes of the Black
- 6. The Night Doctors: A Final Phase in the Psychological Control of the Black
- Epilogue: The Preservation of Oral Stories in Black Culture.
- Notes:
- Reprint, with new foreword. Originally published: Knoxville, Tenn. : University of Tennessee Press, 1975.
- "Brown Thrasher books."
- Cover art 'Visit of the Ku-Klux,' drawn by Frank Bellew, reproduced from Harper's Weekly (1872).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-244) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has stamp of Yawa Books & Gifts, Washington, D.C.
- ISBN:
- 0820313386
- 9780820313382
- OCLC:
- 23767312
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