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Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900 Catherine W. Bishir
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Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900
Catherine W. Bishir
"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 craftspeople have gained popular and scholarly attention. Catherine W. Bishir remedies this oversight by offering an in-depth portrayal of urban African American artisans in the small but important port city of New Bern. In so doing, she highlights the community's often unrecognized importance in the history of nineteenth-century black life"--
400 pages, illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 30, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9781469608754 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 400 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 30 mm · 717 g |
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