Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842029254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
The American Census Handbook
Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842029254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842029254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
Ambiguous Lives
Author: Adele Logan Alexander
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610750144
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
1992 Myers Center Outstanding Book on Human Rights Historians have produced scores of studies on white men, extraordinary white women, and even the often anonymous mass of enslaved Black people in the United States. But in this innovative work, Adele Logan Alexander chronicles there heretofore undocumented dilemmas of one of nineteenth-century America’s most marginalized groups—free women of color in the rural South. Ambiguous Lives focuses on the women of Alexander’s own family as representative of this subcaste of the African-American community. Their forbears, in fact, included Africans, Native Americans, and whites. Neither black nor white, affluent nor impoverished, enslaved nor truly free, these women of color lived and died in a shadowy realm situated somewhere between the legal, social, and economic extremes of empowered whites and subjugated blacks. Yet, as Alexander persuasively argues, these lives are worthy of attention precisely because of these ambiguities—because the intricacies, gradations, and subtleties of their anomalous experience became part of the tangled skein of American history and exemplify our country’s endless diversity, complexity, and self-contradictions. Written as a “reclamation” of a long-ignored substratum of our society, Ambiguous Lives is more than the story of one family—it is a well-researched and fascinating profile of America, its race and gender relations, and its complex cultural weave.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610750144
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
1992 Myers Center Outstanding Book on Human Rights Historians have produced scores of studies on white men, extraordinary white women, and even the often anonymous mass of enslaved Black people in the United States. But in this innovative work, Adele Logan Alexander chronicles there heretofore undocumented dilemmas of one of nineteenth-century America’s most marginalized groups—free women of color in the rural South. Ambiguous Lives focuses on the women of Alexander’s own family as representative of this subcaste of the African-American community. Their forbears, in fact, included Africans, Native Americans, and whites. Neither black nor white, affluent nor impoverished, enslaved nor truly free, these women of color lived and died in a shadowy realm situated somewhere between the legal, social, and economic extremes of empowered whites and subjugated blacks. Yet, as Alexander persuasively argues, these lives are worthy of attention precisely because of these ambiguities—because the intricacies, gradations, and subtleties of their anomalous experience became part of the tangled skein of American history and exemplify our country’s endless diversity, complexity, and self-contradictions. Written as a “reclamation” of a long-ignored substratum of our society, Ambiguous Lives is more than the story of one family—it is a well-researched and fascinating profile of America, its race and gender relations, and its complex cultural weave.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Previous editions titled: Genealogical books in print
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Previous editions titled: Genealogical books in print
Family or Freedom
Author: Emily West
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813136938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In the antebellum South, the presence of free people of color was problematic to the white population. Not only were they possible assistants to enslaved people and potential members of the labor force; their very existence undermined popular justifications for slavery. It is no surprise that, by the end of the Civil War, nine Southern states had enacted legal provisions for the "voluntary" enslavement of free blacks. What is surprising to modern sensibilities and perplexing to scholars is that some individuals did petition to rescind their freedom. Family or Freedom investigates the incentives for free African Americans living in the antebellum South to sacrifice their liberty for a life in bondage. Author Emily West looks at the many factors influencing these dire decisions -- from desperate poverty to the threat of expulsion -- and demonstrates that the desire for family unity was the most important consideration for African Americans who submitted to voluntary enslavement. The first study of its kind to examine the phenomenon throughout the South, this meticulously researched volume offers the most thorough exploration of this complex issue to date.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813136938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In the antebellum South, the presence of free people of color was problematic to the white population. Not only were they possible assistants to enslaved people and potential members of the labor force; their very existence undermined popular justifications for slavery. It is no surprise that, by the end of the Civil War, nine Southern states had enacted legal provisions for the "voluntary" enslavement of free blacks. What is surprising to modern sensibilities and perplexing to scholars is that some individuals did petition to rescind their freedom. Family or Freedom investigates the incentives for free African Americans living in the antebellum South to sacrifice their liberty for a life in bondage. Author Emily West looks at the many factors influencing these dire decisions -- from desperate poverty to the threat of expulsion -- and demonstrates that the desire for family unity was the most important consideration for African Americans who submitted to voluntary enslavement. The first study of its kind to examine the phenomenon throughout the South, this meticulously researched volume offers the most thorough exploration of this complex issue to date.
Red Book
Author: Alice Eichholz
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9781593311667
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9781593311667
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.
The Callaway Census Records from 1790 Through 1860
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Callaway (individual or family) census data, arranged chronologically by census, then alphabetically by state and county.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Callaway (individual or family) census data, arranged chronologically by census, then alphabetically by state and county.
History of Greene County
Author: Thaddeus Brockett Rice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Library Catalog
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Disunion, War, Defeat, and Recovery in Alabama
Author: Augustus Benners
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780881460568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Of Augustus Benners's Life -- Prelude to War: 1850-1860 -- The Civil War Years: 1861-May 1865 -- The Reconstruction Years: May 1865-1877 -- The Later Years, 1878-1885.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780881460568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Of Augustus Benners's Life -- Prelude to War: 1850-1860 -- The Civil War Years: 1861-May 1865 -- The Reconstruction Years: May 1865-1877 -- The Later Years, 1878-1885.