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Plainfield's African-American: From Northern Slavery to Church Freedom

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Plainfield's African-American: From Northern Slavery to Church Freedom - Bethel, Leonard L, and Johnson, Frederick A.
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The history of how blacks came to America is generally not found in city hall documents, but in the old Black churches and in the hearts and minds of elderly blacks who attended those churches. Through oral history and participant observation, this book attempts to unfold the story of what really occurred in the development of northeastern American towns and cities through the events that took place in Plainfield, New Jersey. This town was chosen for the study because of its large African-American population (65-70%), and ...

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Plainfield's African-American: From Northern Slavery to Church Freedom 2016, University Press of America, Lanham, MD

ISBN-13: 9780761868040

Paperback

Plainfield's African-American: From Northern Slavery to Church Freedom 1998, University Press of America, Lanham, MD

ISBN-13: 9780761808480

Hardcover