African Americans on Martha's Vineyard

by A. Bowdoin Van Riper

The history of Martha's Vineyard is the history of arrivals from elsewhere, of meetings and gatherings. The Island's population has, as a result, always been richly diverse. A hundred thousand life stories have unfolded on these hundred square miles of clay, gravel, and sandy soil, but only a fraction have been told, and the uniformity of their subjects (overwhelmingly, prosperous able-bodied white men engaged in public life) belies the diversity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1429094346
• ISBN13: 9781429094344
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"