Author: J. C. B. Webster
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015812000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317454162
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 847
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Provides a look at the network known as the Underground Railroad - that mysterious "system" of individuals and organizations that helped slaves escape the American South to freedom during the years before the Civil War. This work also explores the people, places, writings, laws, and organizations that made this network possible.
Author: J. Webster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781477465257
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Author: Everett Dick
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806123851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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The Dixie frontier was one of the most romantic and heroic of the entire North American continent. This engaging social history of the everyday life of the first settlers and pioneers has earned readers' praise over two generations.
Author: Andrea L. Smalley
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
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How did efforts to control wild animals affect colonization? Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL From the time Europeans first came to the New World until the closing of the frontier, the benefits of abundant wild animals—from beavers and wolves to fish, deer, and bison—appeared as a recurring theme in colonizing discourses. Explorers, travelers, surveyors, naturalists, and other promoters routinely advertised the richness of the American faunal environment and speculated about the ways in which animals could be made to serve their colonial projects. In practice, however, American animals proved far less malleable to colonizers’ designs. Their behaviors constrained an English colonial vision of a reinvented and rationalized American landscape. In Wild by Nature, Andrea L. Smalley argues that Anglo-American authorities’ unceasing efforts to convert indigenous beasts into colonized creatures frequently produced unsettling results that threatened colonizers’ control over the land and the people. Not simply acted upon by being commodified, harvested, and exterminated, wild animals were active subjects in the colonial story, altering its outcome in unanticipated ways. These creatures became legal actors—subjects of statutes, issues in court cases, and parties to treaties—in a centuries-long colonizing process that was reenacted on successive wild animal frontiers. Following a trail of human–animal encounters from the seventeenth-century Chesapeake to the Civil War–era southern plains, Smalley shows how wild beasts and their human pursuers repeatedly transgressed the lines lawmakers drew to demarcate colonial sovereignty and control, confounding attempts to enclose both people and animals inside a legal frame. She also explores how, to possess the land, colonizers had to find new ways to contain animals without destroying the wildness that made those creatures valuable to English settler societies in the first place. Offering fresh perspectives on colonial, legal, environmental, and Native American history, Wild by Nature reenvisions the familiar stories of early America as animal tales.
Author: Bob L. Cox
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572335660
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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This new book tells-for the first time-the story of Charlie Bowman, a musician from East Tennessee, who was a major influence on the distinctive fiddle style definitive of country music of the 1920s and 1930s. Charlie, along with three of his brothers and two of his daughters, were part of the Columbia Records "Johnson City Sessions" of 1928 and 1929. The farmer-turned-musician was one of the pioneers who helped shape and develop a vital American musical genre. Bowman was acquainted with many musical luminaries of that colorful era, including the legendary Carter Family. But this is not simply the biography of one man. Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman is the portrayal of a large colorful family, a close-knit mountain community, a geographic area, and a specific musical variety defined as old-time traditional Appalachian music. This volume explores Bowman's musical life - his work with various bands, including the Hill Billies (the first group to use that name to characterize old-time music), his years on the road touring, and his association with other performers. Beyond that, it chronicles the experiences of Bowman's large family left behind in Gray Station, Tennessee and details the many hardships caused by his departure and prolonged absence. Written by Bowman's great nephew Bob L. Cox, this biography provides an insider's perspective on an important but often overlooked musician. For his research, Cox drew on his family's records and memories. In addition to published books and articles, his resources included the family Bible, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, and taped interviews with family members and friends. Sure to be enjoyed by all those interested in the origins of country music and Appalachian history, Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman is a delightful account of the life and times of this musical trailblazer. Bob Cox, a retired chemical engineer, is a history columnist with the Johnson City (Tennessee) Press, producing a weekly feature entitled Yesteryear.
Author: John Coram Webster
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
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When Pharaoh Jackson Chesney dictated his narrative to John Coram Webster in 1902, he claimed to be approximately 120 years old. Born a slave in Clarksville, Va, Chesney married and had four children. Separated from his wife and children, at age 60, when sold to John Chesney in Tennessee, Pharaoh Jackson Chesney was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation after eighty years of slavery. Narrative contains information about slave and rural life in the 18th and 19th centuries. Much focuses on the economic, societal, and cultural changes that occurred during Chesney's long life, including development of cities and expansion of the west, farming and manufacturing techniques, and the Civil War's impact on the United States. Also includes various rural traditions and customs, such as harvest traditions, quilting bees, religious life, and superstitions. He discusses slavery, primarily to point out that in his experience, slaves were generally well-treated. He also describes the Underground Railroad and what it was like to be a slave working on plantations during the Civil War. Also includes a copy of the bill of sale for Ferry (as Chesney was called) and a memorium to J.C. Webster.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
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Author: James L. Rader
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615182178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The first 3 generations of Casper Rader's Descendants. He is found first on the ship Edinberg in 1750 Pennsylvania. He lives in Lebanon county and Cumberland county Pennsylvania during the Rev War -- --- His children are in Greene County Tennessee and other places The major improvement over earlier versions is the inclusion of $3,000 of land research. The land they lived on is plotted on Quad maps in detail sufficient for you to go right to each place they lived ---- visit my website at www.rader.org for more details
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1496
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American national trade bibliography.
