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Growing up with the country family, race, and nation after the Civil War

Field, Kendra Taira, author

Overview

The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the migrants. Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field's epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom's first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyond the United States, Field traces their journey out of the South to Indian Territory, where they participated in the development of black and black Indian towns and settlements. When statehood, oil speculation, and Jim Crow segregation imperiled their lives and livelihoods, these formerly enslaved men and women again chose emigration. Some migrants launched a powerful back-to-Africa movement, while others moved on to Canada and Mexico. Their lives and choices deepen and widen the roots of the Great Migration. Interweaving black, white, and Indian histories, Field's beautifully wrought narrative explores how ideas about race and color powerfully shaped the pursuit of freedom.

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Subject: African Americans Oklahoma History 19th century. / African Americans Oklahoma Relations with Indians History 19th century. / African Americans Migrations. / Migration, Internal United States History 19th century. / Migration, Internal United States History 20th century.
• ISBN: 9780300180527, 0300180527

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E185.93.O4 F54 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE