Nantucket's People of Color: Essays on History, Politics and Community

by Robert Johnson Jr.

Book Overview

Nantucket's People of Color is a fascinating study of Nantucket's African population from historical, cultural, and racial perspectives. While most other Africans were sold into slavery and bondage, the African-Americans and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket worked as free people and established communities and institutions such as schools and churches. This anthology examines the relationships that developed between Africans, Quakers, others of European...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761834958
• ISBN13: 9780761834953
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"