UID:
edoccha_9959165308202883
Format:
1 online resource (240 pages) :
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illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4214-0237-8
Series Statement:
The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 126th ser., 2
Content:
Giltner's thorough research using slave narratives, sportsmen's recollections, records of fish and game clubs, and sporting periodicals offers a unique perspective on the African-American struggle for independence from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Introduction: Hunting, Fishing, and Freedom; 1 "You Can't Starve a Negro": Hunting and Fishing and African Americans' Subsistence in the Post-Emancipation South; 2 "The Pot-Hunting Son of Ham": White Sportsmen's Objections to African Americans' Hunting and Fishing; 3 "The Art of Serving Is with Them Innate": African Americans and the Work of Southern Hunting and Fishing; 4 "With the Due Subordination of Master and Servant Preserved": Race and Sporting Tourism in the Post-Emancipation South
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5 "When He Should Be between the Plow Handles": Sportsmen, Landowners, Legislators, and the Assault on African Americans' Hunting and Fishing Conclusion: Contradiction and Continuity in the Southern Sporting Field; Acknowledgments; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8018-9023-3
Language:
English
