Nantucket's People of Color

Robert Johnson, Jr. is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He received his J.D. from Cornell Law School and his M.P.S. in African & Afro-American Studies from Cornell University. He is an accomplished author of six scholarly works, numerous articles, and plays.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 1. Absalom Boston and the Development of Nantucket's African-American CommunityChapter 4 2. Before Douglass: Racism and Nationalism in Nantucket's Newspapers in the Early RepublicChapter 5 3. Anna Gardner: An Examination of Her Years as a Teacher of FreedomChapter 6 4. Frederick Douglass: The Nantucket ConnectionChapter 7 5. African-American Women in Nineteenth Century Nantucket: Spiritual Wives, Their Lives, and Their StoriesChapter 8 6. Mary Ellen Pleasant's NantucketChapter 9 7. Making Their Mark: African Nantucketers and LiteracyChapter 10 8. The Cape Verdean Legacy of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and EnvironsChapter 11 9. Patience A. Cooper: A Re-Evaluation of her Arrest and Trial in Nineteenth Century NantucketChapter 12 10. Non-Maritime Occupational and Business History of African-Americans and Cape VerdeansChapter 13 Biographies of ContributorsChapter 14 Index