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| Author: | Boyer, Leila O. W. |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Title: | "Getting Started Most Happily:" The Progress of Ex-Slaves in Rockingham County, Virginia, 1865- 1885 |
| Publisher: | [James Madison University] |
| City: | [Harrisonburg, Va.] |
| Number of Pages: | 19, [8]p.: illus., folded map, map.Bibliography: p. 18-19. |
| Keywords: | 1. Reconstruction - History. 2. Afro- Americans - History. 3. Afro-Americans - Civil rights. |
| Abstract: | Typescript copy. Term paper done at James Madison University. This paper looks at the status and progress of Rockingham County African Americans before and during the Reconstruction era. Pictures show several churches and buildings of the era. Maps from Lake's 1885 atlas of Rockingham County are used to note several settlements of African Americans. |
| Location: | JMU |