African Americans on Martha's Vineyard

By A. Bowdoin Van Riper

The history of Martha's Vineyard is the history of arrivals from elsewhere, of meetings and gatherings. The Island's population has, as a result, always been richly diverse. A hundred thousand life stories have unfolded on these hundred square miles of clay, gravel, and sandy soil, but only a fraction have been told, and the uniformity of their subjects (overwhelmingly, prosperous able-bodied white men engaged in public life) belies the diversity of Vineyarders.

Great strides in broadening that once-narrow vision have been made in the last half-century and, especially, in the two decades between the first (1997) and second (2016) editions of this volume. They varied in scope, sources, and focus, but were united by a common conviction that African American history is not peripheral, but central, to Vineyard history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1429094346
• ISBN13: 9781429094344
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"