I''ve Been Here All the While - Black Freedom on Native Land

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"-the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction.

List of contents

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The First Settlers of Indian Territory

Chapter 2. Emancipation and Intervention

Chapter 3. Whose Racial Paradise?

Chapter 4. The Last Wave

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Alaina E. Roberts

Summary

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"-the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction.

Product details

• Authors: Alaina E. Roberts
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780812253030
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5303-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous