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The African American population of Arkansas would grow in proportion, comprising 110,000 and 25% of the population in 1860 on the eve of the American Civil War. African Americans lived throughout the state, and were primarily made to work on cotton plantations; some were made to work skilled trades. Living conditions were barely adequate for ...
The history of slavery in Arkansas began in the 1790s, before the Louisiana Purchase made the land territory of the United States. [1] Arkansas was a slave state from its establishment in 1836 until the Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1865. [1]
If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8032-8983-9; Silber, Irwin, comp. and ed. Songs of the Civil War. 1960; New York, Dover Publications, 1995. ISBN 0-486-28438-7; Stetson, Erlene, and Linda David, Glorying in Tribulation: The Lifework of Sojourner Truth ...
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University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "African-American history of Arkansas" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
The land near modern-day Lake Village in Chicot County, Arkansas was acquired in the 1820s and 1830s by Abner Johnson, a planter from Kentucky. [1] [2] [3] Johnson served as the Sheriff of Chicot County from 1830 to 1834. [4] His plantation spanned 2,200 acres, with 42 African American slaves working in the cotton fields. [2]
The unprecedented 1842 extradition of Nelson Hackett from Canada on a theft charge sparked an uproar in the British colony, The post Arkansas city honors enslaved man who fled to Canada and was ...
Blake Wintory is a historian and author who served as the on-site director at the Lakeport Plantation from 2008-2018. He wrote a book on Chicot County (Chicot County (2015), Arcadia Publishing, part of the Images of America series) and has written about African American legislators in Arkansas during and after the Reconstruction era.
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