A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African-American experience / edited by Carroll Pursell.

"Published in cooperation with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-386) and index.

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Machine generated contents note: 1. African medicine in the new world -- Cotton Mather on smallpox inoculation (1716) -- account of the method and success of inoculating the small-pox in Boston (1722) -- 2. New world skills -- Runaway slave advertisements -- profile of runaway slaves in Virginia and South Carolina from 1730 through 1787 / Lathan Algerna Windley -- Advertisement for a fugitive slave (1769) / Thomas Jefferson -- Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer (1792) / Benjamin Banneker / Thomas Jefferson -- 3. persistence of craft -- Advertisements for runaway slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820 / Daniel Meaders -- Life and times of Frederick Douglass (1882) / Frederick Douglass -- fugitive blacksmith; or, events in the history of James W.C. Pennington -- Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- ^ journey in the seaboard slave states (1856) and a journey in the back country (1861) / Frederick Law Olmsted -- His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad / John P. Parker -- Layout of Parker's Phoenix Foundry (1884) -- U.S. patent to John Percial Parker for a soil-pulverizer (1890) -- Tending a cotton gin (1853) -- 4. new industrial age -- Notes on North America, agricultural, economical, and social (1851) / James F.W. Johnston -- Scenes from Oak Lawn, Louisiana plantation (1864) -- Slave labor as reported in Nile's weekly register (1849) and DeBow's Southern and Western review (1851) -- history of the first locomotives in America (1874) / William H. Brown -- Advertisement in The liberator seeking colored inventors (1834) -- U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-works" (1843) -- ^ U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-making" (1846) -- Confederate Patent Act (1861) -- 5. Finding a place in the industrial age -- Mechanism and art (1873).

"A Hammer in Their Hands (the title comes from the famous song about John Henry, "the steel-driving man" who beat the steam drill) collects newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography and fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African-Americans."--Jacket

English.

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