Author: B. W. Higman
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This detailed study of the life of a Jamaican plantation community during slavery and the post-emancipation period is based on archaeological investigations as well as more traditional documentary sources. The family and household structure of the slave population is analysed and linked to the physical layout of the village. A comprehensive picture of the material culture of the plantation workers is facilitated by sources, and covers everything from foodways to clothing, ornament and architecture.
Montpelier, Jamaica
Author: B. W. Higman
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This detailed study of the life of a Jamaican plantation community during slavery and the post-emancipation period is based on archaeological investigations as well as more traditional documentary sources. The family and household structure of the slave population is analysed and linked to the physical layout of the village. A comprehensive picture of the material culture of the plantation workers is facilitated by sources, and covers everything from foodways to clothing, ornament and architecture.
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This detailed study of the life of a Jamaican plantation community during slavery and the post-emancipation period is based on archaeological investigations as well as more traditional documentary sources. The family and household structure of the slave population is analysed and linked to the physical layout of the village. A comprehensive picture of the material culture of the plantation workers is facilitated by sources, and covers everything from foodways to clothing, ornament and architecture.
Murder at Montpelier
Author: Douglas Brent Chambers
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034374
Category : Culture conflict
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034374
Category : Culture conflict
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
From Barre to Montpelier
Author: Paul Heller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781979724647
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
These are collected essays of Paul Heller, many previously published in the Times-Argus newspaper.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781979724647
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
These are collected essays of Paul Heller, many previously published in the Times-Argus newspaper.
Discovering Black Vermont
Author: Elise A. Guyette
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584659084
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The search for an African American community in rural Vermont
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584659084
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The search for an African American community in rural Vermont
Charity and Sylvia
Author: Rachel Hope Cleves
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199335451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new. Born in 1777, Charity Bryant was raised in Massachusetts. A brilliant and strong-willed woman with a clear attraction for her own sex, Charity found herself banished from her family home at age twenty. She spent the next decade of her life traveling throughout Massachusetts, working as a teacher, making intimate female friends, and becoming the subject of gossip wherever she lived. At age twenty-nine, still defiantly single, Charity visited friends in Weybridge, Vermont. There she met a pious and studious young woman named Sylvia Drake. The two soon became so inseparable that Charity decided to rent rooms in Weybridge. In 1809, they moved into their own home together, and over the years, came to be recognized, essentially, as a married couple. Revered by their community, Charity and Sylvia operated a tailor shop employing many local women, served as guiding lights within their church, and participated in raising their many nieces and nephews. Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of their extraordinary forty-four year union. Drawing on an array of original documents including diaries, letters, and poetry, Cleves traces their lives in sharp detail. Providing an illuminating glimpse into a relationship that turns conventional notions of same-sex marriage on their head, and reveals early America to be a place both more diverse and more accommodating than modern society might imagine, Charity and Sylvia is a significant contribution to our limited knowledge of LGBT history in early America.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199335451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new. Born in 1777, Charity Bryant was raised in Massachusetts. A brilliant and strong-willed woman with a clear attraction for her own sex, Charity found herself banished from her family home at age twenty. She spent the next decade of her life traveling throughout Massachusetts, working as a teacher, making intimate female friends, and becoming the subject of gossip wherever she lived. At age twenty-nine, still defiantly single, Charity visited friends in Weybridge, Vermont. There she met a pious and studious young woman named Sylvia Drake. The two soon became so inseparable that Charity decided to rent rooms in Weybridge. In 1809, they moved into their own home together, and over the years, came to be recognized, essentially, as a married couple. Revered by their community, Charity and Sylvia operated a tailor shop employing many local women, served as guiding lights within their church, and participated in raising their many nieces and nephews. Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of their extraordinary forty-four year union. Drawing on an array of original documents including diaries, letters, and poetry, Cleves traces their lives in sharp detail. Providing an illuminating glimpse into a relationship that turns conventional notions of same-sex marriage on their head, and reveals early America to be a place both more diverse and more accommodating than modern society might imagine, Charity and Sylvia is a significant contribution to our limited knowledge of LGBT history in early America.
Seven Years of Grace
Author: Sara Rath
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780934720663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A well-researched historical novel about Achsa Sprague (1827-1862), a Vermont woman and itinerant medium who gave popular lectures on Spiritualism, the abolition of slavery, women's rights, and prison reform.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780934720663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A well-researched historical novel about Achsa Sprague (1827-1862), a Vermont woman and itinerant medium who gave popular lectures on Spiritualism, the abolition of slavery, women's rights, and prison reform.
A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier
Author: Elizabeth Ann Williams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This study is a cultural history of Montpellier vitalism, regarded by many historians as the leading school of medicine in the French Enlightenment. Offering a holistic understanding of physical-moral relation in place of Descartes' mind-body dualism, Montpellier vitalism supplied essential discursive foundations of the medical enlightenment.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This study is a cultural history of Montpellier vitalism, regarded by many historians as the leading school of medicine in the French Enlightenment. Offering a holistic understanding of physical-moral relation in place of Descartes' mind-body dualism, Montpellier vitalism supplied essential discursive foundations of the medical enlightenment.
Something Abides
Author: Howard Coffin
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1581573189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Experience Civil War historic sites and small towns that can be found nowhere else in America Today, throughout Vermont, it is possible to identify hundreds and hundreds of Civil War–related sites. Throughout Vermont are soldier homes, halls where war meetings encouraged enlistments, churches where soldier funerals were held and abolitionists spoke, monuments to those who served, hospital sites, and homes where women gathered to make items for the soldiers. The Vermont State House is a virtual Civil War museum. A building survives in Woodstock where the war was administered. Cemeteries hold the gravestones of many of the 34,000 who fought. A field even exists where in 1803 a Quaker preacher heard a voice from above fortell a bloody war over slavery. With the help of this book, Civil War sites can be located as in no other state, taking the reader through the beautiful Vermont landscape of hill farms and small towns that looks more like the Civil War era than that of any other state.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1581573189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Experience Civil War historic sites and small towns that can be found nowhere else in America Today, throughout Vermont, it is possible to identify hundreds and hundreds of Civil War–related sites. Throughout Vermont are soldier homes, halls where war meetings encouraged enlistments, churches where soldier funerals were held and abolitionists spoke, monuments to those who served, hospital sites, and homes where women gathered to make items for the soldiers. The Vermont State House is a virtual Civil War museum. A building survives in Woodstock where the war was administered. Cemeteries hold the gravestones of many of the 34,000 who fought. A field even exists where in 1803 a Quaker preacher heard a voice from above fortell a bloody war over slavery. With the help of this book, Civil War sites can be located as in no other state, taking the reader through the beautiful Vermont landscape of hill farms and small towns that looks more like the Civil War era than that of any other state.
Uncommon Law, Ancient Roads, and Other Ruminations on Vermont Legal History
Author: Paul S. Gillies
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780934720601
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780934720601
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Vermont in Quandary, 1763-1825
Author: Chilton Williamson
Publisher: Montpelier [Vt.] : Vermont Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher: Montpelier [Vt.] : Vermont Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description