The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
by William Loren Katz
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Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs--many never before seen--as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on America's early frontiers. This revised volume includes an exciting new chapter on the Civil War and the experiences of African Americans on the western frontier. Among its fascinating accounts are those explaining how thousands of enslaved people in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas successfully escaped into the neighboring Indian Territory in Oklahoma. These runaways inspired the idea eventually adopted as the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves within the states that were in rebellion. Inspired by a conversation that William Loren Katz had with Langston Hughes, The Black West presents long-neglected stories of daring pioneers like Nat Love, a.k.a. Deadwood Dick; Mary Fields, a.k.a. Stagecoach Mary; Cranford Goldsby, a.k.a. Cherokee Bill--and a host of other intrepid men and women who marched into the wilderness alongside Chief Osceola, Billy the Kid, and Geronimo.
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Historian WILLIAM LOREN KATZ is the author of forty books including such award-winning titles as Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage , Black Women of the Old West , and Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance. He has lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Africa and has served as a scholar in residence at Columbia University’s Teachers College and New York University. He has been a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, and in school systems from Seattle and Miami to London, England. Katz lives in New York City.
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- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
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- Title
- The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
- Author
- William Loren Katz
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
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- 1
- Edition
- Revised
- ISBN 10
- 1682752267
- ISBN 13
- 9781682752265
- Publisher
- Fulcrum Publishing
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- Buffalo Soldiers, Abolition, John Brown, Slavery, Free people of color, Dred Scot case, lynchings, Bleeding Kanas, Frederick Douglas, Langston City Oklahoma, Tenth Cavalry, Underground Railroad, Colorado, Arizona, Carolinas, Dakota Territory, James B
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- African American Studies;
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