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"MASTER OF CEREMONIES": THE WORLD OF PETER BIGGS IN CIVIL WAR-ERA LOS ANGELES.

This article reconstructs the life and times of Peter Biggs, a free African American man in 1850s and 1860s Los Angeles, revealing the social and economic niche that he fashioned between the U.S.-Mexican War and the Civil War. Biggs's little-known biography illuminates a forgotten moment in the temp...

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Publicado en:Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 379 - 406
Autores principales: FIELD, KENDRA, LYNCH, DANIEL
Formato: Biography
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Nov2016
Materias:
Biggs, Peter
Freedmen
African American barbers
African Americans
Democrats (United States)
Nineteenth century
History
African American history
Biography (Literary form)
Los Angeles (Calif.)
United States
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Sumario:This article reconstructs the life and times of Peter Biggs, a free African American man in 1850s and 1860s Los Angeles, revealing the social and economic niche that he fashioned between the U.S.-Mexican War and the Civil War. Biggs's little-known biography illuminates a forgotten moment in the temporal and spatial history of American racial construction.