Freedom's First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890

By Robert Engs and Robert F. Engs

Book Overview

In this age of affirmative action and increasing complexity in black-white relations, this pioneering study of Hampton, Virginia, tells the story of what race relations in postbellum America might have been. Here, if only for a time, the promises of Emancipation and Reconstruction were fulfilled. Why was the American Dream realized by blacks in Hampton and not elsewhere? Engs follows a community of freedmen over a thirty-year period to answer this compelling question.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823223647
• ISBN13: 9780823223640
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"