In search of the promised land : a Black family and the Old South / John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009, author.

Schweninger, Loren, author.

Series:

New narratives in American history.

Oxford scholarship online.

New narratives in American history

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Sally, 1787-1850.

Thomas, Sally.

Thomas, Sally, 1787-1850--Family.

Thomas family.

Rapier family.

Enslaved persons--Tennessee--Nashville--Biography.

Enslaved persons.

African Americans--Tennessee--Nashville--Biography.

African Americans.

African American families--Southern States--Case studies.

African American families.

Slavery--Southern States--Case studies.

Slavery.

Nashville (Tenn.)--Biography.

Nashville (Tenn.).

Nashville (Tenn.)--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 286 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In an engaging narrative format, 'In Search of the Promised Land' tells the story of the Thomas-Rapier family of Nashville, following Sally Thomas and her sons James, Henry and John to analyze the complex and ambiguous nature of slavery and freedom in the Old South.

Contents:

Sally Thomas: a life in bondage : Virtual freedom ; Sally's children ; Sally's son James ; Sally's grandchildren: the Rapier boys

From slavery to freedom : The domestic slave trade ; James Thomas: the boyhood years ; Barbershop

Travels in the north and west : Nashville's Black community ; The changing attitudes of whites ; A fugitive slave in the north ; The California gold rush ; The epidemic's shadow

In search of Canaan : Bound for Nicaragua ; The dilemma of John Rapier Sr. ; The Minnesota territory ; Canada West and James Thomas Rapier

The Midwest, Haiti, and Jamaica : Into "Bleeding Kansas" ; Steamboating on the Mississippi ; John Rapier Jr. in the Caribbean

This mighty scourge of war : James Thomas in St. Louis ; John Rapier Jr.'s continuing odyssey ; The war's end

Epilogue

Afterword : Through the prism of a black family

Appendix 1. Petitions of Ephraim Foster and James Thomas to the Davidson county court

Appendix 2. John Rapier Sr. to Richard Rapier, April 8, 1845

Appendix 3. John Rapier Jr. to James Thomas, July 28, 1861.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771387-4

1-280-50323-8

1-4237-4662-7

1-60256-724-7

OCLC:

1406784626