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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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Published in:Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 379 - 406
Main Authors: FIELD, KENDRA, LYNCH, DANIEL
Format: Biography
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Nov2016
Subjects:
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
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.