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black family connections
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black political life in New Bern during Civil War
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Catherine Bishir
changes in craft roles
Cicero M. Richardson
Cicero Richardson Harris
Civil War occupation of New Bern
Clinton D. Pierson
contrabands behind Union lines
Crafting Lives
disfranchisement of blacks in North Carolina
Ebenezer Presbyterian Church
Edward Kinsley
Edward R. Dudley
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enslaved artisan self-hiring
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Equal Rights League
First Presbyterian Church (New Bern)
Frederick Douglass
Free black artisans
free black disfranchisement
free black suffrage
free blacks in New Bern NC
Fusionism in North Carolina
George A. Rue
George B. Willis
George H. White
impact of industrialization on craft trades
Israel B. Abbott
James Walker Hood
John C. Stanly
John Carruthers Stanly
John Randolph Jr.
John Rice Green
John Stanly
John Wright Stanly
Joseph C. Price
King Solomon Masonic Lodge
laws concerning slave hiring
manumissions by free blacks
multi-generational families
North Carolina Freedmen's Convention
Oleana Pegram
Richard Mason Hancock
Rue's Chapel AME Church
runaway slaves
Sarah Dudley Pettey
schools for blacks in New Bern
schools for blacks in North Carolina
separate black religious congregations
slave artisan hiring
slave artisan training
slave literacy
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- ISBN 9781469626574
- Weight: 589g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2015
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Drawing upon myriad sources, Bishir brings to life men and women who employed their trade skills, sense of purpose, and community relationships to work for liberty and self-sufficiency, to establish and protect their families, and to assume leadership in churches and associations and in New Bern's dynamic political life during and after the Civil War. Focusing on their words and actions, Crafting Lives provides a new understanding of urban southern black artisans' unique place in the larger picture of American artisan identity.
Drawing upon myriad sources, Bishir brings to life men and women who employed their trade skills, sense of purpose, and community relationships to work for liberty and self-sufficiency, to establish and protect their families, and to assume leadership in churches and associations and in New Bern's dynamic political life during and after the Civil War. Focusing on their words and actions, Crafting Lives provides a new understanding of urban southern black artisans' unique place in the larger picture of American artisan identity.
Catherine W. Bishir is curator of Architectural Records Special Collections at North Carolina State University Libraries, USA. She is author or co-author of six books, including North Carolina Architecture.
