Böcker av Dale Edwyna Smith

The African American presence in St. Louis began in 1763 with the arrival of several free men of colour who accompanied Pierre Laclede from New Orleans to set up a fur trading fort on the Mississippi. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book for the first time explores the role of blacks in the history of St. Louis through the Civil War.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A new wave historian mines previously unexamined documents of the Amite county seat courthouse (Liberty, MS) in relating the lives of black Americans under and freed from slavery. Main foci are: slave law, gender issues, local churches, the "troubles" of 1861-65 as related in a slaveowner's diary w