The Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community Jodi Lamanna Lewis (1880-1969)

Lewis (1880-1969)

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It also attempts to chart the future: the manner in which material culture studies may be extended and developed

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The Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community Jodi Lamanna Lewis (1880-1969)A long awaited work by one of the deans of Black studies Reginald Butler, the second director of UVA's Carter G. Woodson Institute, wrote an influential and much cited but never published dissertation at Johns Hopkins University that focused on community formation among the free Black population of Virginia. His innovative and meticulous research in county and state archives enabled him to reconstruct the ties that bound free Black Virginians to each