Ronald Coleman
Ronald G. Coleman is Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah. His teaching and research interests include African American history, race and ethnic relations in the United States, and the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. He has been published in the Utah Historical Quarterly and the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture. His article “Is There No Blessing for Me?: Jane Elizabeth Manning James, A Mormon African American Woman,” appeared in Quintard Taylor and Shirley Moore, eds., African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003)
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Jane Elizabeth Manning James (1813-1908)
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Samuel D. Chambers (1831-1929) and Amanda Chambers (1840-1925)
Like the majority of black Americans living in the South in pre-Civil War America, Samuel and Amanda Chambers were slaves. ...
