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Nantucket’s People of Color: Essays on History, Politics and Community

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Nantucket’s Other folks of Color is an interesting observe of Nantucket’s African population from historical, cultural, and racial perspectives. Even as such a lot other Africans were sold into slavery and bondage, the African-American citizens and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket worked as free Other folks and established communities and institutions such as schools and churches. This anthology examines the relationships that developed between Africans, Quakers, others of European descent, and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket and the events and controversies that both united and divided the bigger community along ‘racial’ lines. This anthology is the culmination of more than ten years of scholarly research on the culture and history of Nantucket Island by James Bradford Ames Scholars. The James Bradford Ames Fellowship Program used to be established on the University of Massachusetts Boston to foster research into the history and culture of African-American citizens and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket.

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