Author: Effie Gwynn Bowie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bowies family
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Across the Years in Prince George's County
Author: Effie Gwynn Bowie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bowies family
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bowies family
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Across the Years in Prince George's County
Author: Effie Gwynn Bowie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prince George's County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prince George's County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Journey Through Time
Author: Dennis Campbell
Publisher: Edward Schauf
ISBN: 9780898658170
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher: Edward Schauf
ISBN: 9780898658170
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Prince George's County, Maryland
Author: Katharine D. Bryant
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738502656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Prince George's County, one of Maryland's most populous counties, has a rich and vibrant history. From agriculture to industry, school life to religious life, trolleys, trains, and tobacco, the people of this area share a distinctive regional heritage and a great pride in the communities they have built. With numerous recognized historic sites, Prince George's County boasts, among others, Mount Calvert, the only structure remaining at the site of the first county seat; Melwood Park and the Magruder House, both visited by George Washington; and His Lordship's Kindness, a five-part Georgian mansion. Other historic buildings were not elegant manors, but functional public facilities. The College Park Airport holds the record as the oldest continuously operating airport in the world, and the Surratt House played a role in the assassination plot of Abraham Lincoln. But the everyday lives of citizens are represented here as well, in the images of early residents, their homes and businesses, of the city services and social events, of elementary school classes and congregations. All can be found within these pages.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738502656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Prince George's County, one of Maryland's most populous counties, has a rich and vibrant history. From agriculture to industry, school life to religious life, trolleys, trains, and tobacco, the people of this area share a distinctive regional heritage and a great pride in the communities they have built. With numerous recognized historic sites, Prince George's County boasts, among others, Mount Calvert, the only structure remaining at the site of the first county seat; Melwood Park and the Magruder House, both visited by George Washington; and His Lordship's Kindness, a five-part Georgian mansion. Other historic buildings were not elegant manors, but functional public facilities. The College Park Airport holds the record as the oldest continuously operating airport in the world, and the Surratt House played a role in the assassination plot of Abraham Lincoln. But the everyday lives of citizens are represented here as well, in the images of early residents, their homes and businesses, of the city services and social events, of elementary school classes and congregations. All can be found within these pages.
Prince George's County
Author: Alan Virta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prince George's County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prince George's County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Employment in Selected Manufacturing Industries and in Wholesale and Retail Trade Establishments
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Like a Phoenix I'll Rise
Author: Alvin Thornton
Publisher: Walsworth Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780898659849
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Walsworth Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780898659849
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A Question of Freedom
Author: William G. Thomas
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300256272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George’s County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court. Between 1787 and 1861, these lawsuits challenged the legitimacy of slavery in American law and put slavery on trial in the nation’s capital. Piecing together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in the archives, William Thomas tells an intricate and intensely human story of the enslaved families (the Butlers, Queens, Mahoneys, and others), their lawyers (among them a young Francis Scott Key), and the slaveholders who fought to defend slavery, beginning with the Jesuit priests who held some of the largest plantations in the nation and founded a college at Georgetown. A Question of Freedom asks us to reckon with the moral problem of slavery and its legacies in the present day.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300256272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George’s County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court. Between 1787 and 1861, these lawsuits challenged the legitimacy of slavery in American law and put slavery on trial in the nation’s capital. Piecing together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in the archives, William Thomas tells an intricate and intensely human story of the enslaved families (the Butlers, Queens, Mahoneys, and others), their lawyers (among them a young Francis Scott Key), and the slaveholders who fought to defend slavery, beginning with the Jesuit priests who held some of the largest plantations in the nation and founded a college at Georgetown. A Question of Freedom asks us to reckon with the moral problem of slavery and its legacies in the present day.
The Culture of Tobacco
Author: F. B. Moodie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
P.G. County
Author: Connie Briscoe
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN: 034549492X
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In the sprawling homes and upscale townhouses of the exclusive, largely African American Prince George’s County, the lives of five women intersect–and the secrets, scandals, loves, and losses that ensue are par for the course where power, beauty, and wealth reside. Barbara is the most influential woman in this swanky neighborhood, but she’s got her hands full–one hand is busy dealing with her husband’s wandering eye, while the other always needs a cocktail glass. Jolene is half of P.G. County’s number-two couple–and she desperately wants what she doesn’t have: namely Barbara’s husband. Pearl owns a hair salon and lives on the outskirts of the posh community with her son, Kenyatta. She’s not only juggling a growing business and a bad divorce, but now she’s has to cope with Kenyatta’s less-than-ideal girlfriend. Candice is white and liberal, but her daughter’s new beau tests her beliefs–and opens a can of worms she never knew existed. Lee is a runaway teen, a girl whose only connection to her father is an old photo and the belief that he’s well-off and waiting for her in . . . P.G. COUNTY From the Trade Paperback edition.
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN: 034549492X
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In the sprawling homes and upscale townhouses of the exclusive, largely African American Prince George’s County, the lives of five women intersect–and the secrets, scandals, loves, and losses that ensue are par for the course where power, beauty, and wealth reside. Barbara is the most influential woman in this swanky neighborhood, but she’s got her hands full–one hand is busy dealing with her husband’s wandering eye, while the other always needs a cocktail glass. Jolene is half of P.G. County’s number-two couple–and she desperately wants what she doesn’t have: namely Barbara’s husband. Pearl owns a hair salon and lives on the outskirts of the posh community with her son, Kenyatta. She’s not only juggling a growing business and a bad divorce, but now she’s has to cope with Kenyatta’s less-than-ideal girlfriend. Candice is white and liberal, but her daughter’s new beau tests her beliefs–and opens a can of worms she never knew existed. Lee is a runaway teen, a girl whose only connection to her father is an old photo and the belief that he’s well-off and waiting for her in . . . P.G. COUNTY From the Trade Paperback edition.