Theresa Vara-Dannen

The African-American Experience in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut (eBook, ePUB)

Benevolence and Bitterness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The African-American Experience in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut examines and analyzes the African-American experience in Connecticut as it was through primary sources. Theresa Vara-Dannen analyzes the language of real nineteenth-century Americans expressing the complexity of their thoughts and feelings about the racial issues of their times in a small state with very small communities of people of color. This book highlights the attitudes of ordinary people whose voices emerged, sometimes heroically, through their daily newspapers. The meshing of these voices regarding their race-related experiences provides a nuanced account of a long-gone past, but also gives us an understanding of twenty-first-century Connecticut, which leads the nation in the educational and economic gap between urban and nonurban citizens and has one of the most segregated school systems and residential patterns in the nation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739188637
• Artikelnr.: 41208562

Autorenporträt

Theresa Vara-Dannen teaches English and American studies as adjunct faculty at the University of Connecticut and the University of Hartford.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Researching Race and
Region......................................................................1
Chapter I- The Limits of White Memory: Slavery, Violence and the Amistad
Incident in
the Press and in History
...................................................................................................31
Chapter II- Letters of Protest: Responding to Racial Prejudice against
Frederick Douglass and Others in
Connecticut.................................................................................................
79
Chapter III- Uplift through Education: The Dream of a Negro College in New
Haven and Prudence Crandall's School for Little Colored
Misses....................................................130
Chapter IV- Marrying Up? Interracial Marriages in 19th Century Connecticut
............177
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................223
Appendix..........................................................................................................................235
Bibliography....................................................................................................................250
Acknowledgments...........................268
About the Author............................269