Stranger and a Sojourner

Stranger and a Sojourner

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Billy D. Higgins, Higgins
University of Arkansas Press
EAN: 9781610754064
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A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas tells the extraordinary story of Peter Caulder, a free African American settler in the Arkansas Territory. After serving as a rifleman in the war of 1812, Caulder established a community of free-born African Americans in northern Arkansas and was largely accepted by his white neighbors until an 1859 expulsion law forced the community to flee the state and settle in Missouri. Like many frontier people, Peter Caulder was unschooled and signed his name only with a mark. To document such a man's life, and to determine how he thrived within a slave society and came to join a free black backwoods community, Billy Higgins has skillfully interwoven oft-neglected primary sources-many of which are reproduced here-from around the country; and through the information revealed in censuses, tax records, sutler's account books, army returns, folk stories, land warrants, traveler's journals, and newspaper notices, a fascinating-and groundbreaking-account of Caulder, his family, his friends, and his community has emerged.
EAN 9781610754064
ISBN 1610754069
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavatel University of Arkansas Press
Datum vydání 1. září 2004
Stránky 367
Jazyk English
Země Uruguay
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