The Black West

A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States

William Loren Katz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

380 Seiten

2019 | Revised edition
Fulcrum Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-68275-226-5 (ISBN)

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This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs—many never before seen—as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on America's early frontiers. This revised volume includes an exciting new chapter on the Civil War and the experiences of African Americans on the western frontier. Among its fascinating accounts are those explaining how thousands of enslaved people in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas successfully escaped into the neighboring Indian Territory in Oklahoma. These runaways inspired the idea eventually adopted as the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves within the states that were in rebellion. Inspired by a conversation that William Loren Katz had with Langston Hughes, The Black West presents long-neglected stories of daring pioneers like Nat Love, a.k.a. Deadwood Dick; Mary Fields, a.k.a. Stagecoach Mary; Cranford Goldsby, a.k.a. Cherokee Bill—and a host of other intrepid men and women who marched into the wilderness alongside Chief Osceola, Billy the Kid, and Geronimo.

William Loren Katz is the author of 40 books, including such award-winning titles as Breaking the Chains and Black Women of the Old West. He has been a Scholar in Residence at Teachers College, Columbia University, and he has served as a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution and to school systems from California to Florida and England.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2019
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	6 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-68275-226-7 / 1682752267
ISBN-13	978-1-68275-226-5 / 9781682752265
Zustand	Neuware