It is difficult to piece together existing records that describe the migrations of African Americans in the nineteenth-century American West. Efforts to assemble collections of oral histories, images, diaries, and other written documents on the black experience in the Western United States and Canada have proven surprisingly fruitful, however, and the rewarding culmination of such research flourished in the archival images found in this second edition of John Ravage\u2019s\u00a0Black Pioneers.<\/i><\/p>\n
Using public and private collections in every western state and in Canada, Ravage has gathered more than three hundred photographs, line drawings, lithographs, stereoviews, and other images. This new edition also adds sections on black entertainers and ranchers, a chapter on the dating of historic photographs and their genealogical significance, as well as an expanded bibliography. All aid understanding of the black frontier experience.<\/p>\n
Ravage goes beyond the stereotypical photography of the era, which often reflected white fears and prejudices, to present the works of frontier photographers. Galveston\u2019s Lucius Harper, Denver\u2019s John Green, and the Northwest\u2019s nomadic James Presley Ball all bring life to their subjects and meaning to their presence in the American West.\u00a0Black Pioneers<\/i>\u00a0is a vibrant visual document of the profound influence blacks had on communal and frontier history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":50398,"template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_eb_attr":"","inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[43],"product_cat":[67],"product_tag":[1084],"class_list":{"0":"post-50397","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_brand-chicago-distribution","7":"product_cat-black-studies","8":"product_tag-202204inventoryconfirmed","9":"product_shipping_class-united-states","10":"pa_writer-ravage-john","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n