Author: Kenneth E. Stuck
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: John William Reps
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Languages : en
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Author: Donald G. Shomette
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN: 9780870335273
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In the years between 1668 and 1751, the government of Maryland envisioned an urban development program unrivaled in scope by any other colony except Virginia. Unwilling to allow development to occur naturally, both the Lord Proprietor and the legislature tried to create towns, ignoring the social, economic, and topographic realities that would doom most of them to short lives. The background of Maryland's attempt at urbanization is complex and perplexing. It is a history laced with proclamations and laws, acts and supplementary acts, all of which flowed against the grain of rural plantation society, as time and experience eventually proved. Of the 130 sites designated in the tidewater section of the state, less than a score exist today as cities or towns of any note. The others, the majority, shared a common end--they disappeared into oblivion, destroyed by the sequence of tumultuous events that shaped Maryland's past. This is the story of ten lost towns, chosen to represent a cross section of all. Each was unique in the manner in which it was given birth, flickered into existence against all odds, matured, and finally expired. The story of Maryland's lost towns is not a simple tale of buildings and wharves, but a history of the people, both freemen and slaves, who created them, lived and worked in them, defended them, and died with them.

Author: Marya Annette McQuirter
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Author: John William Reps
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2316

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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2276

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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 1060

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Author: Catherine Kerrison
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern women's lives. Claiming the Pen offers the first intellectual history of early southern women. It situates their reading and writing within the literary culture of the wider Anglo-Atlantic world, thus far understood to be a masculine province, even as they inhabited the limited, provincial social circles of the plantation South.Catherine Kerrison uncovers a new realm of female education in which conduct-of-life advice—both the dry pedantry of sermons and the risqué plots of novels—formed the core reading program. Women, she finds, learned to think and write by reading prescriptive literature, not Greek and Latin classics, in impromptu home classrooms, rather than colleges and universities, and from kin and friends, rather than schoolmates and professors. Kerrison also reveals that southern women, in their willingness to "take up the pen" and so claim new rights, seized upon their racial superiority to offset their gender inferiority. In depriving slaves of education, southern women claimed literacy as a privilege of their whiteness, and perpetuated and strengthened the repressive institutions of slavery.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Languages : en
Pages : 270

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