Research Catalog

Title

A free man of color and his hotel : race, Reconstruction, and the role of the federal government / Carol Gelderman.

Author

Gelderman, Carol W.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2012.

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Description

xiii, 162 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The amazing story of a nineteenth-century businessman, Reconstruction, and the Constitution.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• 1800-1899
• African Americans > History > 19th century
• African Americans > Washington (D.C.) > Biography
• Free African Americans > Washington (D.C.) > Biography
• Hotelkeepers > Washington (D.C.) > Biography
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Washington (D.C.)
• Washington (D.C.) > Biography
• Washington (D.C.) > History > 19th century
• Wormley Hotel (Washington, D.C.)
• Wormley, James, 1819-1884

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What Might Have Been : James Wormley's Life to the Opening of his Eponymous Hotel -- Grant's Second Administration and Needed Reform : The Issue of the 1876 Election and Wormley's Continued Success -- In the Blink of an Eye : Growing and Receding Federal Protection of Civil Rights and Wormley's Generosity in Helping Others of his Race -- Election -- We, the Other People -- Resolution of Election -- States' Rights Ride Supreme and the Closing of the Wormley Hotel -- Epilogue: Then and Now.

ISBN

• 9781597978330 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
• 1597978337 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
• 9781597978347 (electronic ed.)
• 1597978345 (electronic ed.)

LCCN

^^2011041712

OCLC

733238375

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library