Built by Blacks : African American architecture and neighborhoods in Richmond

Title:

Author:

Richardson, Selden.

Added Author:

Duke, Maurice.

Personal Author:

Richardson, Selden.

ISBN:

9781596294592

Publication Information:

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

General Note:

"The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods, Richmond, Virginia."

Contents:

Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The beginning : early slavery and early buildings -- 2. The slave markets in Shockoe Valley -- 3. Urban plantations and the Civil War -- 4. Black entrepreneurs, designers, craftsmen and builders -- 5. The new architects : Jackson Ward and Church Hill -- 6. Virginia Union University and Frederick Douglass Court -- 7. Highways and expressways : Navy Hill -- 8. Urban destruction as urban renewal : Fulton -- 9. A community saved : Westwood -- 10. The city's black churches -- 11. Richmond's African American cemeteries -- Notes.

Subject Term:

African American architecture -- Virginia -- Richmond.

African Americans -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Social conditions.

Geographic Term:

Richmond (Va.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.

Richmond (Va.) -- Social conditions.

Added Corporate Author:

Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods.

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Summary

Richmond is a classic Southern city, most notable as the Confederate capitol. However, the irony of Richmond is that much of its beautiful architecture was built by Black laborers.

The city's vast and varied collection of architecture provides an archive of African American history, both of enslaved and free peoples. Author Selden Richardson explains how iconic symbols of old Richmond and the generations of Black laborers who helped assemble it are embodied in both the preserved and the forgotten architecture of the city. After you finish this book, it will be as if the buildings in Richmond tell their own stories to you.