Black New Orleans, 1860-1880

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University of Chicago Press, 15 Σεπ 2008 - 319 σελίδες
Reissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city’s black population more than doubled. Meticulously researched and replete with archival illustrations from newspapers and rare periodicals, John W. Blassingame’s groundbreaking history offers a unique look at the economic and social life of black people in New Orleans during Reconstruction. Not a conventional political treatment, Blassingame’s history instead emphasizes the educational, religious, cultural, and economic activities of African Americans during the late nineteenth century.

“Blending historical and sociological perspectives, and drawing with skill and imagination upon a variety of sources, [Blassingame] offers fresh insights into an oft-studied period of Southern history. . . . In both time and place the author has chosen an extraordinarily revealing vantage point from which to view his subject. ”—Neil R. McMillen, American Historical Review

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Background
1
Fighting for Freedom
25
Land Labor and Capital
49
Family Life
79
Schools Colleges and Intellectual Life
107
Social Life and Problems
139
Race Relations
173
Conclusions
211
Notes
247
Bibliography
275
Index
293
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Σελίδα 30 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
Σελίδα 9 - The whole behavior of the Negro toward the whites, as a matter of fact, was singularly free of that deference and circumspection which might have been expected in a slave community. It was not unusual for slaves to gather on street corners at night, for example, where they challenged whites to attempt to pass, hurled taunts at white women, and kept whole neighborhoods disturbed by shouts and curses. Nor was it safe to accost them, as many went armed with knives and...
Σελίδα 3 - Calinda was a dance of multitude, a sort of vehement cotillion. The contortions of the encircling crowd were strange and terrible, the din was hideous. One Calinda is still familiar to all Creole ears; it has long been a vehicle for the white Creole's satire; for generations the man of municipal politics was fortunate who escaped entirely a lampooning set to its air.
Σελίδα 84 - She is to me what a poor slave's wife can never be to her husband while in the condition of a slave; for she can not be true to her husband contrary to the will of her master. She can neither be pure nor virtuous, contrary to the will of her master.
Σελίδα 120 - ... regardless of race in all public relations, the other sworn to make race the supreme, sufficient, inexorable condition of supremacy on the one part and subjection on the other. Yet for all this the school prospered. Nevertheless, it suffered much internal unrest. Many a word was spoken that struck like a club, many a smile stung like a whip-lash, many a glance stabbed like a knife ; even in the midst of recitations a wounded one would sometimes break into sobs or silent tears while the aggressor...
Σελίδα 46 - Abandon all the posts now garrisoned by black men, take one hundred and fifty thousand men from our side and put them in the battlefield or cornfield against us, and we will be compelled to abandon the war in three weeks...
Σελίδα 6 - ... countenance, talking to a young negro with a crooked nose and eyes that squinted, and he too very soon began to talk and to preach, as he sprung high into the air, leaping up and down with incredible elasticity. Whichever way we looked in the church, we saw somebody leaping up and fanning the air; the whole church seemed transformed into a regular Bedlam, and the noise and the tumult was horrible.
Σελίδα 4 - Loise gal— Loise, w'at b'long to Pierre Soniat'; I see her, but she can't biggin Stan' up 'longside my sweet Layotte. I done been, etc. SOLO: I been meet up wid John Bayou, Say to him, "John Bayou, my son, Yalla gal newa meet yo...
Σελίδα 4 - moin aussi, mo fe bal ici." 207 Ouatchman la ye ye tomb6 la dans; Y£ fe gran' dega dans 16guirie la. etc. "It was in a stable that they had this gala night," says the song; "the horses there were greatly astonished. Preval was captain; his coachman, Louis, was master of ceremonies. There were negresses made prettier than their mistresses by adornments stolen from the ladies
Σελίδα 21 - around them. And at the thought of emancipation they picture to themselves an innumerable company of slaves, " turned loose " to overrun the North, as terrible as the locusts of Egypt! It is somewhat surprising to a Northern man to find none of this prejudice in the South. If the slaves could be set at liberty to-day, there would be nothing of this kind to exclude them from genteel society. The whites are accustomed now to associate with them as intimately, though not on the same terms of equality,...

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John W. Blassingame (1940–2000) was a scholar of the history of American slavery and a former chairman of the African American Studies program at Yale University.

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