Crafting lives : African American artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900 /
From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities, thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors and others, played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craf...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Bishir, Catherine W.
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2013]
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| Subjects: |
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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