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There are rich deposits
of black history throughout Maine,
starting with the Cape
Verde fishermen who chased cod along our
shores before colonization. Blacks accompanied the European explorers
and settlers, and some were settlers themselves; and many came
enslaved. The African migration to Maine had begun, and it continues today.
H.H.
Price and Gerald E. Talbot have spent seven years collecting this
history through photographs, interviews with black elders, and scholarly
research to produce a book for students, libraries, schools and post-secondary
institutions, and the general public. It is intended to be interesting
reading, a resource book, and educational in the broadest sense.
Buy The Book!
Maine's Visible Black History: The
First Chronicle of Its People by H.H. Price and Gerald E.
Talbot is available now - click
here. You can read more details about the book here.
- Published by Tilbury House
Publishers and Visible Black History
- Paperback
- 448 pages
- 240 amazing photos -
many that have never
been seen before
- essays by 42 contributors
“... brings
together professional and local historians, genealogists and storytellers,
participants and narrators in an accessible, fascinating, and
groundbreaking way....”
—Randolph
Stakeman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of African Studies and History,
Director of the Africana Studies Program, and Director of the John Brown
Russwurm African American Center at Bowdoin College.
“...will surprise
and delight its readers. This book has reclaimed a history in danger of
being lost forever, and shares with us Maine's African American citizens'
rightful place in the fabric of the state's long history.”
—Kate Clifford Larson, Ph.D., author, "Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman,
Portrait of an American Hero."
Sample entries are The Reverend Amos Freeman, Blacks
in 19th Century Maine and Black Seafaring
in Maine.
We provide a comprehensive list of resources on Maine's black
history > to do your own research, in both the book and on this web
site.
Buy the book!
Read more details about
the book.
Photographs in the
collage at the top of the page (from left to right): Wally and Tephy
Leek; Gertrude, Alice, and Belle;
and unidentified man (photograph taken in Bangor, Maine).
All three are courtesy of the Gerald E. Talbot Collection at the African
American Collection of Maine:
James S. Wentworth, man with the crutch, is a
detail from a group photograph of 13 Mexican War Veterans taken in
Portland, Maine. Courtesy of the Maine Historical Society.
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