The Afro-Yankees Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era

Subjects:

• Multicultural Studies » Black Studies

Awards:

• Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1984

Reviews:

• Robert J. Cottrol's The Afro-Yankees ... is a thoroughly professional, competent, solid, and useful contribution to the study of urban black communities. Cottrol's central thesis, addressed primarily in the first and last chapters, has to do with the forging of the black community. ... The Afro-Yankees is, on balance, a useful book. ... Cottrol has certainly added to our understanding of Providence's antebellum black community and thus, of other antebellum black experiences.
  —American Historical Review