Research Catalog

Title

Rhoda G. Freeman manuscript and research collection, 1956-1985.

Author

Freeman, Rhoda Golden.

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

9 lin. ft.

Summary

• The Rhoda G. Freeman manuscript and research collection consists of manuscripts of writings by Freeman, course materials, and research materials collected by Freeman and used in her writings and teaching.
• The manuscripts include two college papers, "The Pro-Slavery Defense in the Ante-Bellum South" and "Marcus Aurelius Garvey: Story of a Dream"; Freeman's master's thesis, "The American Negro and the Back-to-Africa Movement"; her dissertation, "The Free Negro in New York City in the Era Before the Civil War"; and later papers on the leadership of the free Black community in New York and emigration. There are several complete drafts of the dissertation as well as scattered notes and chapter revisions.
• There are also notes, syllabi, and readings for the class Freeman taught at Upsala College, "The Black Experience in America," and materials for a lecture she delivered on "The Future Roles of Men and Women" at South Maplewood Adult School.
• The largest part of the collection is research materials, which include photocopies of relevant articles and primary source documents such as nineteenth-century correspondence and census records relating to free African Americans in New York City and other topics in Black history, including Black English and Black-Jewish relations. Her files also include conference papers by others and lists and bibliographies of papers and microfilms. A major portion of the collection consists of bibliographic and topical index card files dealing with the following subjects: emancipation, colonization, abolition, kidnappings, fugitive slaves, political issues, biography, church, census, conventions, economics, problems of poverty, education, discrimination, social and cultural. Numerous index cards relate to bibliographic materials.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

• Freed persons > United States
• African Americans > New York (State) > New York > History
• Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
• Slaves > United States > Justification
• African Americans > Colonization > Liberia
• Freeman, Rhoda Golden
• African Americans > History > To 1863
• African Americans > Relations with Jews

Source (note)

• Freeman, Robert

Biography (note)

• A professor of Afro-American history since since 1948, Rhoda G. Freeman taught at Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey from 1965 until her death in 1986. She served as dean from 1976 to 1979. Freeman received her bachelor's degree from Hunter College in 1948, her master's degree from George Washington University in 1950, and her doctoral degree from Columbia University in 1966. She specialized in the history of African Americans prior to the Civil War.

Processing Action (note)

• Accessioned
• Cataloged

Call Number

Sc MG 313

OCLC

NYPW088000016-A

Author

Freeman, Rhoda Golden.

Title

Rhoda G. Freeman manuscript and research collection, 1956-1985.

Biography

A professor of Afro-American history since since 1948, Rhoda G. Freeman taught at Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey from 1965 until her death in 1986. She served as dean from 1976 to 1979. Freeman received her bachelor's degree from Hunter College in 1948, her master's degree from George Washington University in 1950, and her doctoral degree from Columbia University in 1966. She specialized in the history of African Americans prior to the Civil War.

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Finding aid

Research Call Number

Sc MG 313