Black Portsmouth: Three Centuries of African-American Heritage
Mark J. Sammons and Valerie Cunningham
Softcover, 7”x10”, 280 pages, Notes, Bibliography, Index
University of New Hampshire Press, 2004, ISBN: 978-1-584652-89-1
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African American Demographic Studies /
U.S. State & Local History
Few people think of a rich Black heritage when they think of New England. Covering more than three centuries of New England and Portsmouth social, political, economic, and cultural history as well as scores of personal and site-specific stories, in Black Portsmouth we meet such Africans as the "likely negro boys and girls from Gambia," who debarked at Portsmouth from a slave ship in 1758; Prince Whipple, who fought in the American Revolution; their descendants, including the performer Richard Potter and John Tate of the People’s Baptist Church. Anti-slavery issues, extant historical sites important to Black Portsmouth—including the surprise revelation of an African burial ground in October 2003—and more.
