Author: Caroline Lee HentzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plantation life
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Planter's Northern Bride
Author: Caroline Lee HentzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plantation life
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Planter's Northern Bride
Author: Caroline Lee HentzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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The Half Has Never Been Told
Author: Edward E BaptistPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465097685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.
PLANTER'S NORTHERN BRIDE
Author: MRS. CAROLINE LEE. HENTZPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033560860
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Planter's Northern Bride
Author: Mrs. Caroline Lee HentzPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483349445
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Excerpt from The Planter's Northern Bride: Or Scenes From Mrs. Hentz's Childhood IT was the intention of the author to have given this book to the world during the course of the past season, but unforeseen occurrences have prevented the accomplishment of her pur pose. She no longer regrets the delay, as she believes it will meet a more cordial reception at the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Woman Rice Planter
Author: Elizabeth Waties Allston PringlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgetown County (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Albion's Seed
Author: David Hackett FischerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Freedom in a Slave Society
Author: Johanna Nicol ShieldsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107670655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Before the Civil War, most Southern white people were as strongly committed to freedom for their kind as to slavery for African Americans. This study views that tragic reality through the lens of eight authors - representatives of a South that seemed, to them, destined for greatness but was, we know, on the brink of destruction. Exceptionally able and ambitious, these men and women won repute among the educated middle classes in the Southwest, South, and the nation, even amid sectional tensions. Although they sometimes described liberty in the abstract, more often these authors discussed its practical significance: what it meant for people to make life's important choices freely and to be responsible for the results. They publically insisted that freedom caused progress, but hidden doubts clouded this optimistic vision. Ultimately, their association with the oppression of slavery dimmed their hopes for human improvement, and fear distorted their responses to the sectional crisis.
Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is
Author: Mary H. EastmanPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book is a plantation fiction novel. It was a strong commercial success and bestseller. Based on her growing up in Warrenton, Virginia, of an elite planter family, Eastman portrays plantation owners and slaves as mutually respectful, kind, and happy beings.
The Old Plantation
Author: James Battle AvirettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plantation life
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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