Economy Hall
Fatima Shaik, The Historic The Historic New Orleans Collection · 2021
על הספר
"Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood tells the story of the Socie te d'Economie et d'Assistance Mutuelle, a New Orleans mutual aid society founded by free men of color in 1836. The group was one of the most important multiethnic, intellectual communities in the US South: educators, world-traveling merchants, soldiers, tradesmen, and poets who rejected racism and colorism to fight for suffrage and education rights for all. The author drew on the meeting minutes of the Socie te d'Economie as well as census and civil records, newspapers, and numerous archival sources to write a narrative stretching from the Haitian Revolution through the early jazz age"--
פרטי הספר
- שנה
- 2021
- שפה
- English
- הוצאה
- Historic New Orleans Collection, The
- מהדורות
- 2
- עמודים
- 525
- ISBN
- 9780917860805
מקור הנתונים: Wikidata
