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Historians and other scholars often use first-hand accounts, including contemporary observations, as sources for study of the past. These types of sources are valuable, especially when used in conjunction with other documents, as they help us to approximate the past. This study uses these types of sources to attain glimpses of African American life in the post-emancipation South. Spanning from the 1860s through the New Deal, this study incorporates a broad cross-section of the views of European travelers and Euro-American visitors from the North, based upon travel books as well as articles and essays from periodicals and scholarly journals. The study synthesizes the outsiders' observations and assesses their summaries' overall validity for increasing our understanding of the lives of blacks in the post-emancipation South. Furthermore, these accounts allow for a reconstruction of African American life and labor in the major aspects of black culture-religion, education, politics, criminal justice, employment and entrepreneurship, social life and status-of the times. The work is constructed in the context of contemporary anthropology, ethnography, psychology, and sociology.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: African Americans in the Post-Emancipation South
• Subtitle: The Outsiders' View
• Author: Alton Hornsby
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190
• EAN: 9780761851059
• ISBN: 0761851054
• ID: 04914831
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Weight: 286 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 155 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. December 2010

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