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Valuing “Others”: African American Neighborhoods in Antebellum Alexandria

Valuing “Others”: African American Neighborhoods in Antebellum Alexandria. Kate Gastner HISP 711 Fall 2011 Reviewers: Donald Linebaugh , Paul Shackel. Introduction. Scope/Research Questions Methodology Town Establishment African American Neighborhoods Legal Situation

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Valuing “Others”: African American Neighborhoods in Antebellum Alexandria

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  1. Valuing “Others”: African American Neighborhoods in Antebellum Alexandria Kate Gastner HISP 711 Fall 2011 Reviewers: Donald Linebaugh, Paul Shackel

  2. Introduction • Scope/Research Questions • Methodology • Town Establishment • African American Neighborhoods • Legal Situation • Preservation Efforts • Reassessing Values

  3. Scope/Research Questions • Scope- 1749-1847 • African American Neighborhoods • Contributing Structures • Legal Situation • Evidence • Official Narrative/Values • Engaging in Preservation

  4. Methodology • Neighborhood Research • Building on Landscape • Preservation Efforts

  5. Town Establishment “Alexandria is built precisely on the plan of Philadelphia and is indeed frequently called Philadelphia in miniature. The houses have a mean appearance. There is ... scarcely one handsome mansion in place. A great many of the habitations are of wood and are called frame houses from their being built in a frame on moveable foundation.” - English Traveler 1824

  6. Free African American Neighborhoods: Establishment • Bottoms (1798) • Hayti (1800)

  7. Legal Situation 1800-1847 Subject to DC Laws Annual Registration Certificates of Freedom

  8. Free African American Neighborhoods: Development • Why Successful? • Religious Groups • “Living Out”/ Apprenticeships • Educational Opportunities

  9. Preservation Efforts • Early Preservation Values • Significant Architecture • Military/Political

  10. Preservation Efforts Resources • Two Historic Districts • 42 National Register sites • 14 Save America's Treasures Grant Recipients • 47 Easements

  11. Preservation Challenges Gentrification Interpretation Local Politics Public Interest Importance Values

  12. Preservation provides, "context in which differing points of view can be explored, diversity acknowledged, empathy inculcated, dialogue facilitated, and common ground defined."

  13. Preservation Efforts • 1990-2000 • Master Plan • Multiple Property Nominations • Changing Values

  14. Preservation Efforts • Wealth of Resources • Development of Tours/Trails • Future of Preservation?

  15. Conclusion

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