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Nantucket's People of Color is a fascinating study of Nantucket's African population from historical, cultural, and racial perspectives. While most other Africans were sold into slavery and bondage, the African-Americans and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket worked as free people and established communities and institutions such as schools and churches. This anthology examines the relationships that developed between Africans, Quakers, others of European descent, and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket and the events and controversies that both united and divided the larger community along "racial" lines. This anthology is the culmination of more than ten years of scholarly research on the culture and history of Nantucket Island by James Bradford Ames Scholars. The James Bradford Ames Fellowship Program was established at the University of Massachusetts Boston to foster research into the history and culture of African-Americans and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1. Absalom Boston and the Development of Nantucket's African-American Community Chapter 4 2. Before Douglass: Racism and Nationalism in Nantucket's Newspapers in the Early Republic Chapter 5 3. Anna Gardner: An Examination of Her Years as a Teacher of Freedom Chapter 6 4. Frederick Douglass: The Nantucket Connection Chapter 7 5. African-American Women in Nineteenth Century Nantucket: Spiritual Wives, Their Lives, and Their Stories Chapter 8 6. Mary Ellen Pleasant's Nantucket Chapter 9 7. Making Their Mark: African Nantucketers and Literacy Chapter 10 8. The Cape Verdean Legacy of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Environs Chapter 11 9. Patience A. Cooper: A Re-Evaluation of her Arrest and Trial in Nineteenth Century Nantucket Chapter 12 10. Non-Maritime Occupational and Business History of African-Americans and Cape Verdeans Chapter 13 Biographies of Contributors Chapter 14 Index
About the author
Robert Johnson, Jr. is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He received his J.D. from Cornell Law School and his M.P.S. in African & Afro-American Studies from Cornell University. He is an accomplished author of six scholarly works, numerous articles, and plays.
Summary
Presents a study of Nantucket's African population from historical, cultural, and racial perspectives. This anthology examines the relationships between Africans, Quakers, others of European descent, and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket and the events and controversies that both united and divided the larger community along racial lines.
