Was freedom dead or only sleeping? : the pre-1870 African American rural community of La Porte County, Indiana, 1996.

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Was freedom dead or only sleeping? : the pre-1870 African American rural community of La Porte County, Indiana, 1996.

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A one-page abstract outlining the project; a 10-page manuscript by Goldsworthy detailing the pre-1870 history of African-Americans in Clark County and the communities of Banks, Henderson, and Clear Lake; and an index and abstract of all African-Americans in La Porte County who appear in the 1840 to 1870 U.S. population schedules.

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Northern Indiana Center for History.

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The Northern Indiana Center for History, South Bend, Ind., received an Indiana Heritage Research Grant to complete a project on the history of African-Americans in La Porte County, Ind. before 1870. Terry Douglas Goldsworthy was the primary researcher. Several products resulted from the project, including a history by Goldsworthy and a slide-lecture program looking at early African-American county residents and the non-African-American response to the issues of race and slavery. From...

Goldsworthy, Terry Douglas.

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Indiana Heritage Research Grant

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