Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are: An Ethnohistorical Study of the African-American Community on the Lands of Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1865-1918 (Legacy 92-0067)

Summary

This document is a study of an African American community established in the Virginia Tidewater after the Civil War on land that is now the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1865-1919. This study of the "Emancipation" period discusses how African Americans adjusted to and lived with their new freedom (economic and social development, family life, education, religion, and interracial relations).

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Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are: An Ethnohistorical Study of the African-American Community on the Lands of Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1865-1918 (Legacy 92-0067). ( tDAR id: 468036) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8468036

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Keywords

Culture
Historic

Investigation Types
Historic Background Research

General
African American History • Archival Research • Emancipation • Ethnohistorical Study • Historic Context • U.S. Navy • Virginia Tidewater • Yorktown Naval Weapons Station

Geographic Keywords
Virginia • Yorktown • Yorktown Naval Weapons Station

Temporal Keywords
Late 18th - Early 19th Century

Spatial Coverage

min long: -76.593; min lat: 37.177 ; max long: -76.435; max lat: 37.26 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): OSD Cultural Resources Program

Prepared By(s): William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research

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  1. Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are: An Ethnohistorical Study of the African-American Community on the Lands of Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1865-1918 - Report (Legacy 92-0067) (1992)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Bradley McDonald. Kenneth Stuck. Kathleen Bragdon.

    This document is a study of an African American community established in the Virginia Tidewater after the Civil War on land that is now the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, 1865-1919. This study of the "Emancipation" period discusses how African Americans adjusted to and lived with their new freedom (economic and social development, family life, education, religion, and interracial relations).