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John David Smith

Bio: John David Smith is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Frontier & Emancipation. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 8 citations.

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TL;DR: In this paper, we learned details of Frank's life when in 1795 his owner moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky, and Frank was left in charge of the Kentucky farm.
Abstract: We first learn details of Frank's life when in 1795 his owner moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky. We know that he married Lucy, a slave on a neighboring farm, in 1799. Later he was allowed to hire out his time, and when his owner moved to Tennessee, Frank was left in charge of the Kentucky farm. During the War of 1812, he set up his own saltpeter works, an enterprise he maintained until he left Kentucky. In 1817 he purchased his wife's freedom for $800; two years later he bought his own liberty for the same price. Now free, he expanded his activities, purchasing land and dealing in livestock.

7 citations

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TL;DR: Goggin and Goggin this paper have written excellent biographies of black lawyer and author Archibald H Grimke (18491930) and historian Carter G Woodson (1875-1950) who forcefully challenged segregation, disfranchisement, and proscription.
Abstract: Dickson D Bruce, Jr, and Jacqueline Goggin have written, respectively, excellent biographies of black lawyer and author Archibald H Grimke (18491930) and historian Carter G Woodson (1875-1950) Intellectuals and civil rights activists, Grimke and Woodson forcefully challenged segregation, disfranchisement, and proscription In their writings they emphasized slavery's destructive legacy, race pride and solidarity, political activism, and the development of African American institutions Grimke and Woodson fell in and out of the intellectual orbits of Booker T Washington and W E B Du Bois and operated amidst the layers of conflict and contradictions within the black community Bruce and Goggin have researched deeply and unearthed rich documentary material, especially in obscure archival collections Their books link August Meier's monumental research in black thought during the age of segregation to the field of African American intellectual history that is burgeoning today1 Born a slave in South Carolina, Grimke graduated from Lincoln University and Harvard Law School, practiced law, and edited a black Republican newspaper in Boston Pragmatic and politically independent, he asked blacks in 1884: "Shall we allow our racehood to limit our expanding powers and destiny?" (p 48) Two years later Grimke bolted the Republicans, urging blacks to look after their self-interests and to support Democrat Grover Cleveland In 1894 Cleveland rewarded Grimke with an appointment as US consul to the Dominican Republic Grimke's diplomatic service, Bruce posits, showed him firsthand that alternatives existed to America's segregated society

1 citations


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TL;DR: A review of work on African Americans through archaeology takes place under diasporic studies and relies on literature that defines the North American black experience as mentioned in this paper, focusing on the establishment of freedom by the founding of maroon communities and independent settlements of free people, particularly by archaeologists using knowledge of the diaspora to effect modern political change.
Abstract: A review of work on African Americans through archaeology takes place under diasporic studies and relies on literature that defines the North American black experience. The focus is on the establishment of freedom by the founding of maroon communities and independent settlements of free people, as well as on the use and interpretation of African diasporic history and theory, particularly by archaeologists using knowledge of the diaspora to effect modern political change.

88 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2014
Abstract: Introduction 1. The challenge of immediate emancipationism: the origins of abolitionist heresy, 1829-35 2. Heresy and schism: the uneasy gradualist-proslavery ecclesiastical alliance, 1836-45 3. The limits of Christian conservative antislavery: white supremacy and the failure of emancipationism, 1845-59 4. The abolitionist threat: religious orthodoxy and proslavery unionism on the eve of civil war, 1859-61 5. Competing visions of political theology: Kentucky Presbyterianism's civil war, 1861-2 6. The end of neutrality: emancipation, political religion, and the triumph of abolitionist heterodoxy, 1862-5 7. Kentucky's redemption: confederate religion and white democratic domination, 1865-74 Epilogue: the antebellum past for the postwar future.

14 citations

Book
21 Apr 2014
TL;DR: Harlow as mentioned in this paper argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian 'orthodoxy' constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery, and sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates.
Abstract: This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Luke E. Harlow argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian 'orthodoxy' constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery. The central locus of these debates was Kentucky, a border slave state with a long-standing antislavery presence. Although white Kentuckians famously cast themselves as moderates in the period and remained with the Union during the Civil War, their religious values showed no moderation on the slavery question. When the war ultimately brought emancipation, white Kentuckians found themselves in lockstep with the rest of the Confederate South. Racist religion thus paved the way for the making of Kentucky's Confederate memory of the war, as well as a deeply entrenched white Democratic Party in the state.

11 citations

Dissertation
01 Aug 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, the self-identity of antebellum New Orleans's free people of color was studied and it was shown that French culture, mixed Gallic and African ancestry, and freedom from slavery served as the three keys to the identity of this class of people.
Abstract: This thesis is about the self-identity of antebellum New Orleans's free people of color. The emphasis of this work is that French culture, mixed Gallic and African ancestry, and freedom from slavery served as the three keys to the identity of this class of people. Taken together, these three factors separated the free people of color from the other major groups residing in New Orleans - Anglo-Americans, white Creoles and black slaves. The introduction provides an overview of the topic and states the need for this study. Chapter 1 provides a look at New Orleans from the perspective of the free people of color. Chapter 2 investigates the slaveownership of these people. Chapter 3 examines the published literature of the free people of color. The conclusion summarizes the significance found in the preceding three chapters and puts their findings into a broader interpretive framework.

9 citations