Author: William Earl Rasco Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 512
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The Rascos from England to Virginia, North Carolina and elsewhere. The first identified ancestor, William Rasco (ca. 1750-1806), married Rachel Harrell, daughter of Phereby (Fereby) and Jesse Harrell of Bertie Co., North Carolina, in 1777 in Bertie County. Their eight children were born in Bertie Co., N.C. and the youngest child in Tennessee or Kentucky ca. 1797. Family members and descendants live in Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky and elsewhere.
Author: Graham Russell Gao Hodges Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807876011 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 427
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In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African--a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613--to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863. Throughout, he explores the intertwined themes of freedom and servitude, city and countryside, and work, religion, and resistance that shaped black life in the region through two and a half centuries. Hodges chronicles the lives of the first free black settlers in the Dutch-ruled city, the gradual slide into enslavement after the British takeover, the fierce era of slavery, and the painfully slow process of emancipation. He pays particular attention to the black religious experience in all its complexity and to the vibrant slave culture that was shaped on the streets and in the taverns. Together, Hodges shows, these two potent forces helped fuel the long and arduous pilgrimage to liberty.
Author: Library of Congress Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service ISBN: Category : Genealogy Languages : en Pages : 1368
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The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.
Author: Marion J. Kaminkow Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com ISBN: 9780806316673 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 882
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This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.
Author: Margo Lee Williams Publisher: Margo Lee Williams, Personal Prologue ISBN: 9780578810362 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 148
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In 1879, Islay Walden, born enslaved and visually impaired, returned to North Carolina after a twelve-year odyssey in search of an education. It was a journey that would take him from emancipation in Randolph County, North Carolina to Washington, D. C., where he earned a teaching degree from Howard University, then to the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Along the way, he would publish two volumes of poetry and found two schools for African American children. Now ordained, he would return to his home community, where he founded two Congregational churches and common schools. Despite an early death at age forty, he would leave an educational and spiritual legacy that endures to this day. Born Missionary uses Walden's own words as well as newspaper reports and church publications to follow his journey from enslavement to teacher, ordained minister, missionary, and community leader.
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