Homelands and Waterways The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

Name: Homelands and Waterways The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926
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ISBN: 9780679758716

ISBN-10: 0679758712

ISBN-13: 9780679758716

Edition: N/A

Authors: Adele Logan Alexander, Adele Logan Alexander

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This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both in slavery and in freedom. Beginning with John Robert Bond, who emigrated from England to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War and married a recently freed slave, Alexander shows three generations of Bonds as they take chances and break new ground. From Victorian England to antebellum Virginia, from Herman Melville's New England to the Jim Crow South, from urban race riots to the battlefields of World War I, this fascinating chronicle…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/18/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 720
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.43" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Heritage: Groundwork and Waterscapes



John: Odyssey of an Able-Bodied Seaman, 1846-1864



Mongrel Liverpool, Empire, and the "Nigger Jack"



New Bedford, the Cambridge, and "Seeing the Elephant"



An Able-Bodied Seaman No More



Emma: Old Bonds, New Bonds, 1846-1870



"Turkey Buzzard Lay Me": A Childhood in Tidewater Country



Wartime Norfolk, Liberty, and a Legitimized Marriage



Fire, Ashes, and the Hobbled Phoenix



Northern Exposures, 1870-1905



No Room at the Inn



Citizenship, Fraternity, and a Dutiful Son



Wake of the Lancaster: Little Brown Brother and the Navy Blues



Walking in Emma's Footsteps: Time and Tides along Mother Brook



Percy's Tribe, 1902-1926



Wizardry, and Jim Crow's Alabama Trilogy



Carrie: Theories of Evolution and the Company of Women



Captains' Tales, Before and Beyond the Great Wars



Capital Times: "A Paradise of Paradoxes"



All the World's a Stage



The Widow's Might: Further Hyde Park Chronicles, 1905-1926



Purgatory: The Poisoned Tree



Nights When the Music Stopped


Notes


Acknowledgments, and Coming to Conclusions


Index