Black Homeownership on Martha's Vineyard: A History

by Thomas Dresser and Richard Lewis Taylor

Book Overview

Martha's Vineyard has always been a unique island and vacation destination, made even more diverse with the arrival of Black homeowners in the 19th century.

Early landowners included the formerly enslaved Charles Shearer, who along with his wife Henrietta, founded Shearer Cottage. However, the fall of the first Black community on the island came in the 1890s when forty Black and Indigenous people were required to remove their cottages from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467157074
• ISBN13: 9781467157070
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"