. The African American Experience in Louisiana’s Lafourche Region during the Civil War

2012 ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Stephen S. Michot
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
American Experience

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Jonathan A. Noyalas
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Source Material ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
Shenandoah Valley ◽  
Civil War Era ◽  
Better Than

The book’s introduction stresses that while a handful of historians have examined various aspects of the African American experience in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War era, the topic has been largely ignored or inaccurately portrayed. The introduction’s cornerstone is a historiographical discussion of how authors such as Joseph Waddell, John Walter Wayland, and Julia Davis—who minimized slavery’s role in the Valley, promulgated the myth that slavery was not important to the Valley’s agrarian economy, and wrote that enslaved people in the Shenandoah Valley were treated better than in other parts of the slaveholding South—influenced various authors. Finally, the introduction highlights the various primary source material, including freedom narratives, never before utilized by historians who investigated any aspect of the Shenandoah Valley’s African American story.

My Children Is My Own

2020 ◽  
pp. 226-253
Author(s):  
Libra R. Hilde
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
African American Fathers ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Labor Practices

This chapter considers the lives of African American fathers and children in freedom prior to, during, and after the Civil War and emancipation. Ongoing challenges, including postwar violence and abusive labor practices, undermined patriarchal status and underscore the ways in which normative definitions of fatherhood and family limit a full understanding of the African American experience. Although the promise of emancipation remained incomplete, caretaking fathers used their newfound freedom to reconstitute their families and attempt to assert their paternal rights.

Scriptures, Myths, and Power: The Bible at Work

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Burton Mack
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Linguistic Style ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Cultural Function ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Henry Louis Gates ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Christian Myth ◽  
American Society

The introduction to Burton Mack's extended conversation with Vincent Wimbush and Institute for Signifying Scripture, Claremont Graduate University. The conversation revolves around the cultural function of the Bible as Christian myth in American society, and the African-American domestication of the Bible as their Scripture. The essay explores the differences between the Bible as myth in the dominant Euro-American tradition, and the Bible as Scripture in African-American experience. Drawing upon the work of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the concept of "signifying" describes a remarkable linguistic style characteristic of African-American mentality and culture.

Scriptures, Myths, and Power: The Bible at Work - Chapter Five

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-113
Author(s):  
Burton Mack
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Linguistic Style ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Cultural Function ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Henry Louis Gates ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Christian Myth ◽  
American Society

Part 6 of Burton Mack's extended conversation with Vincent Wimbush and Institute for Signifying Scripture, Claremont Graduate University. The conversation revolves around the cultural function of the Bible as Christian myth in American society, and the African-American domestication of the Bible as their Scripture. The essay explores the differences between the Bible as myth in the dominant Euro-American tradition, and the Bible as Scripture in African-American experience. Drawing upon the work of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the concept of "signifying" describes a remarkable linguistic style characteristic of African-American mentality and culture.

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