| A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas Contributor(s): Higgins, Billy D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557288054 ISBN-13: 9781557288059 Publisher: University of Arkansas Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: The extraordinary story of a pioneering African-American community leader is now told. After serving in the War of 1812, Peter Caulder, a free African-American settler in the Arkansas territory, has his life turned upside down on the eve of the Civil War. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.12" W x 9.02" (1.10 lbs) 370 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Arkansas |
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| Publisher Description: A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas tells the extraordinary story of Peter Caulder, a free African American settler in the Arkansas Territory. After serving as a rifleman in the war of 1812, Caulder established a community of free-born African Americans in northern Arkansas and was largely accepted by his white neighbors until an 1859 expulsion law forced the community to flee the state and settle in Missouri. Like many frontier people, Peter Caulder was unschooled and signed his name only with a mark. To document such a man s life, and to determine how he thrived within a slave society and came to join a free black backwoods community, Billy Higgins has skillfully interwoven oft-neglected primary sourcesmany of which are reproduced herefrom around the country; and through the information revealed in censuses, tax records, sutler s account books, army returns, folk stories, land warrants, traveler s journals, and newspaper notices, a fascinatingand groundbreakingaccount of Caulder, his family, his friends, and his community has emerged." |