Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-215) and index.
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Summary
'Growing Up with the Country' documents the migration of freedom's first generation out of the South and into the West after the Civil War. A narrative history, the text traces three of the author's ancestors and their successive migrations in the half-century after emancipation.
Contents
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One: "Intruder of Color": Freedom, Sovereignty, and Kinship in Indian Territory -- Two: Passing for Black: White Kinfolk, "Mulatto" Freedpeople, and Westward Migration -- Three: "He Dreamed of Africa": Kinship, Class, and Peoplehood -- Four: "No Such Thing as Stand Still": The Chief Sam Movement and the "African Pioneers" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index