Author: William Stephens
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737
Author: William Stephens
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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The Grim Years
Author: John J. Navin
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643360558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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“The compelling story of a colony besieged by meteorological, epidemiological, economic, and manmade catastrophes only to arise like the phoenix.” —Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln During South Carolina’s settlement, a cadre of men rose to political and economic prominence, while ordinary colonists, enslaved Africans, and indigenous groups became trapped in a web of violence and oppression. John J. Navin explains how eight English aristocrats, the Lords Proprietors, came to possess the vast Carolina grant and then enacted elaborate plans to recruit and control colonists as part of a grand moneymaking scheme. But those plans went awry, and the mainstays of the economy became hog and cattle ranching, lumber products, naval stores, deerskin exports, and the calamitous Indian slave trade. The settlers’ relentless pursuit of wealth set the colony on a path toward prosperity but also toward a fatal dependency on slave labor. Rice would produce immense fortunes in South Carolina, but not during the colony’s first fifty years. Religious and political turmoil instigated by settlers from Barbados eventually led to a total rejection of proprietary authority. Using a variety of primary sources, Navin describes challenges that colonists faced, setbacks they experienced, and the effects of policies and practices initiated by elites and proprietors. Storms, fires, epidemics, and armed conflicts destroyed property, lives, and dreams. Threatened by the Native Americans they exploited, by the Africans they enslaved, and by their French and Spanish rivals, South Carolinians lived in continual fear. For some it was the price they paid for financial success. But for most there were no riches, and the possibility of a sudden, violent death was overshadowed by the misery of their day-to-day existence.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643360558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
“The compelling story of a colony besieged by meteorological, epidemiological, economic, and manmade catastrophes only to arise like the phoenix.” —Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln During South Carolina’s settlement, a cadre of men rose to political and economic prominence, while ordinary colonists, enslaved Africans, and indigenous groups became trapped in a web of violence and oppression. John J. Navin explains how eight English aristocrats, the Lords Proprietors, came to possess the vast Carolina grant and then enacted elaborate plans to recruit and control colonists as part of a grand moneymaking scheme. But those plans went awry, and the mainstays of the economy became hog and cattle ranching, lumber products, naval stores, deerskin exports, and the calamitous Indian slave trade. The settlers’ relentless pursuit of wealth set the colony on a path toward prosperity but also toward a fatal dependency on slave labor. Rice would produce immense fortunes in South Carolina, but not during the colony’s first fifty years. Religious and political turmoil instigated by settlers from Barbados eventually led to a total rejection of proprietary authority. Using a variety of primary sources, Navin describes challenges that colonists faced, setbacks they experienced, and the effects of policies and practices initiated by elites and proprietors. Storms, fires, epidemics, and armed conflicts destroyed property, lives, and dreams. Threatened by the Native Americans they exploited, by the Africans they enslaved, and by their French and Spanish rivals, South Carolinians lived in continual fear. For some it was the price they paid for financial success. But for most there were no riches, and the possibility of a sudden, violent death was overshadowed by the misery of their day-to-day existence.
A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737 (Classic Reprint)
Author: William Stephens
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666929907
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Excerpt from A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737 Only seventy copies of this journal were ever printed, and of these two, and only two, are in Georgia, one among the ar chives of the State in the capitol, the other in the library of the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah. It is possible, indeed probable, that none of these seventy printed copies, ex cept the two referred to, are in existence. It is said, however, that the original manuscript volumes are still preserved in the hands of private parties in England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666929907
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Excerpt from A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737 Only seventy copies of this journal were ever printed, and of these two, and only two, are in Georgia, one among the ar chives of the State in the capitol, the other in the library of the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah. It is possible, indeed probable, that none of these seventy printed copies, ex cept the two referred to, are in existence. It is said, however, that the original manuscript volumes are still preserved in the hands of private parties in England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Bulletin of reprints
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2202
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2202
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Books in Series
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Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 1858
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Vols. for 1980- issued in three parts: Series, Authors, and Titles.
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Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 1858
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Vols. for 1980- issued in three parts: Series, Authors, and Titles.
Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia
Author: Anthony W. Parker
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820324566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Between 1735 and 1748 hundreds of young men and their families emigrated from the Scottish Highlands to the Georgia coast to settle and protect the new British colony. These men were recruited by the trustees of the colony and military governor James Oglethorpe, who wanted settlers who were accustomed to hardship, militant in nature, and willing to become frontier farmer-soldiers. In this respect, the Highlanders fit the bill perfectly through training and tradition. By focusing on the Scots themselves, Anthony W. Parker explains what factors motivated the Highlanders to leave their native glens of Scotland for the pine barrens of Georgia and attempts to account for the reasons their cultural distinctiveness and "old world" experience aptly prepared them to play a vital role in the survival of Georgia in this early and precarious moment in its history.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820324566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Between 1735 and 1748 hundreds of young men and their families emigrated from the Scottish Highlands to the Georgia coast to settle and protect the new British colony. These men were recruited by the trustees of the colony and military governor James Oglethorpe, who wanted settlers who were accustomed to hardship, militant in nature, and willing to become frontier farmer-soldiers. In this respect, the Highlanders fit the bill perfectly through training and tradition. By focusing on the Scots themselves, Anthony W. Parker explains what factors motivated the Highlanders to leave their native glens of Scotland for the pine barrens of Georgia and attempts to account for the reasons their cultural distinctiveness and "old world" experience aptly prepared them to play a vital role in the survival of Georgia in this early and precarious moment in its history.
Executing Democracy
Author: Stephen John Hartnett
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609172078
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807 is the first volume of a rhetorical history of public debates about crime, violence, and capital punishment in America. This examination begins in 1683, when William Penn first struggled to govern the rowdy indentured servants of Philadelphia, and continues up until 1807, when the Federalists sought to impose law-and-order upon the New Republic. This volume offers a lively historical overview of how crime, violence, and capital punishment influenced the settling of the New World, the American Revolution, and the frantic post-war political scrambling to establish norms that would govern the new republic. By presenting a macro-historical overview, and by filling the arguments with voices from different political camps and communicative genres, Hartnett provides readers with fresh perspectives for understanding the centrality of public debates about capital punishment to the history of American democracy.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609172078
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807 is the first volume of a rhetorical history of public debates about crime, violence, and capital punishment in America. This examination begins in 1683, when William Penn first struggled to govern the rowdy indentured servants of Philadelphia, and continues up until 1807, when the Federalists sought to impose law-and-order upon the New Republic. This volume offers a lively historical overview of how crime, violence, and capital punishment influenced the settling of the New World, the American Revolution, and the frantic post-war political scrambling to establish norms that would govern the new republic. By presenting a macro-historical overview, and by filling the arguments with voices from different political camps and communicative genres, Hartnett provides readers with fresh perspectives for understanding the centrality of public debates about capital punishment to the history of American democracy.
Books in Series, 1876-1949: Titles
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Books in Series, 1876-1949: Titles
Author: R.R. Bowker Company
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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