Discovering Black Vermont
ISBN: 9781584659082
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Vermont Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: African American farmers; African American farmers; African Americans; African Americans;

An impressive work of historical recovery, Discovering Black Vermont tells the story of three generations of free blacks trying to build a life and community in northern Vermont in the years following statehood. By piecing together fragments of the history of free blacks in Vermont--tax and estate records, journals, diaries, and the like--the author recovers what is essentially a lost world, establishing a framework for using primary sources to document a forgotten past. The book is an invaluable resource for those conducting local history research and will serve as inspiration for high school and college students and their teachers.

ELISE A. GUYETTE, Ed.D., is a historian active in efforts to develop Vermont's diversity curriculum in K--12 schools.

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