The history of Black business in America : capitalism, race, entrepreneurship Juliet E.K. Walker

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Juliet E. K., 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American business enterprises--History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 405 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009-

Summary:

Despite almost four centuries of black independent self-help enterprises, the agency of African Americans in attempting to forge their own economic liberation through business activities and entrepreneurship has remained noticeably absent from the historical record. This work is the only source that provides a detailed study of the continuity, diversity, and multiplicity of independent self-help economic activities among African Americans. This new, updated edition divides the original work into two volumes. The first volume covers African American business history through the end of the Civil War and features the first comprehensive account of black business during the Civil War. By emphasizing the African origins of black business practices and highlighting the contributions of black women, enslaved and free, the author casts aside the long-held assumption that a "lack of a business tradition" is responsible for the failure of African Americans to establish successful, large-scale enterprises. The second volume covers the era spanning from the end of the Civil War to the twenty-first century.

Contents:

v. 1. (To 1865)

African diaspora commercial survivalisms in colonial American plantation communities

Free Black business activities in colonial America

Business activities of African American slaves, 1790-1865

They are capitalists : antebellum free Black business activities

Antebellum free Black women enterprises

They never had a chance : Black business in the crossfires of the American Civil War, 1861-1865.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection

ISBN:

9780807832417

0807832413

9780807859100

0807859109

OCLC:

277069313