H. H. Price is a white New Englander with a background in civil rights and African American history, who has lived and worked in Maine since 1969. She is a writer/researcher, who led the research in the late 1990s that established Maine was part of the underground railroad and communicated those findings through published works, an exhibition, and a web site. Gerald E. Talbot is an eighth-generation Mainer, who has been educating Maine people since the early 1970s about black history, through talks at schools, colleges and universities, and community groups. He is a black historian, a civil rights leader, the first black to be elected to the Maine State Legislature (1972-78), and the major donor of the African American Collection of Maine at the University of Southern Maine.
'Maine's Visible Black History' is a remarkable achievement,
vividly bringing to life hundreds of years of Maine's long obscured
African American history! From the earliest days of pre-colonial
settlement, Black Mainers have helped forge and build a New England
commonwealth. They struggled through slavery and freedom,
discrimination and liberation, to create and maintain families,
communities, and institutions, from Maine's coastal islands to
inland mill towns and logging centers. Meticulously researched,
infused with rich personal and community oral stories, 'Maine's
Visible Black History' 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"
A remarkable achievement, poignant, endowed with the kind of
intuitive storytelling that captivates.-- "Maine Sunday
Telegram"
'Maine's Visible History' marks a new stage in the history of
African Americans in Maine and the United States. It is a lavishly
illustrated tapestry of personal reminiscences, local, state, and
national history that makes us reconsider what we thought we knew.
It brings together professional and local historians, genealogists
and storytellers, participants and narrators in an accessible,
fascinating, and groundbreaking way. African Amerian history has
always been about black populations large enough that black people
could form institutions to affect their relationships with the
prevailing community. In Maine the black population was so small
that blacks could only form micro versions of those institutions to
protect themselves from the assaults of the dominant society. Their
perserverance in the face of the tremendous odds against them is
not only a testament to the human spirit but provides examples that
allow us to see how these institutions were formed. 'Maine's
Visible Black History' is a grassroots account of African American
individuals and small black communites building the institutions
that enabled them to carve out lives and get a tiny piece of the
promise of America.--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 Colle
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