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Built by Blacks : African American architecture and neighborhoods in Richmond Cover Image Book

Built by Blacks : African American architecture and neighborhoods in Richmond / Selden Richardson ; editor and photographer, Maurice Duke, PhD.

African American architecture and neighborhoods in Richmond (portion title)
Richardson, Selden. (Author). Duke, Maurice. (Added Author). History Press (Charleston, S.C.) (Added Author). Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods. (Added Author).

Summary:

"They helped dig the canal, grade the hills and even raise the state capitol, but African Americans are largely unrecognized for the role they played in the construction and design of Richmond, Virginia, one of America's most historic cities. Before the Civil War, Richmond's manual labor supply drew heavily upon black slaves. After emancipation, free blacks continued to make significant contributions to the city's structural evolution. Richmond's blacks became contractors and designers, and one woman, Ethel Bailey Furman, became Virginia's first African American female architect. While many prominent African American neighborhoods and historic sites have been lost to poor planning, demolition or the desire to bury a troubled past, these landmarks receive the study and appreciation they deserve in [this book]."--Back cover

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781540218681
  • ISBN: 1540218686
  • Physical Description: 192 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps, facsimiles ; 27 cm
  • Edition: Second printing, 2011.
  • Publisher: [Charleston, SC] : The History Press, [2011]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A publication of The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods"--Back cover
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Illustrations -- Preface -- The beginning : early slavery and early buildings -- The slave markets in Shockoe Valley -- Urban plantations and the Civil War -- Black entrepreneurs, designers, craftsmen and builders -- The new architects at work : Jackson Ward and Church Hill -- Virginia Union University and Frederick Douglass Court -- Highways and expressways : Navy Hill -- Urban destruction as urban renewal : Fulton -- A community saved : Westwood -- The city's black churches -- Richmond's African American cemeteries.
Original Version Note:
Originally published: Richmond, Va. : Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods, 1997.

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