Freedom's First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890

In this age of affirmative action and increasing complexity in black-white relations, this pioneering study of Hampton, Virginia, tells the story of what race relations in postbellum America might have been. Here, if only for a time, the promises of Emancipation and Reconstruction were fulfilled. Why was the American Dream realized by blacks in Hampton and not elsewhere? Engs follows a community of freedmen over a thirty-year period to answer this compelling question.

Author: Robert F. Engs
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 11/01/2004
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780823223640

About the Author
Robert F. Engs is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His other books include Educating the Disenfranchised: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1939-1893; Freedom's First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia (Fordham); and, with Randall E. Miller, The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans' First Generation.