Free Men in an Age of Servitude : Three Generations of a Black Family / Lee H. Warner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warner, Lee H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American men--Florida--Biography.

African American men.

African American families--Florida--History.

African American families.

Florida--Biography.

Florida.

Florida--Race relations.

Proctor family.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

The University Press of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Freedom did not solve the problems of the Proctor family. Nor did money, recognition, or powerful supporters. As free blacks in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, three generations of Proctor men were permanently handicapped by the social structures of their time and their place. They subscribed to the Western, middle-class value system that taught that hard work, personal rectitude, and maintenance of family life would lead to happiness and prosperity. But for them it did not -- no matter how hard they worked, how clever their plans, or how powerful their white patrons.The eldest, An

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Antonio the Soldier; 2. George the Entrepreneur; 3. Work and Family; 4. Reversal; 5. George's Defeat; 6. California; 7. George's Family; 8. John the Politician; 9. The End of Reconstruction; 10. Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-165) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-9511-X

0-8131-6486-9

OCLC:

645855273