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Author: William A. Griffin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Elizabeth City (N.C.) Languages : en Pages : 188
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The purpose of this study is to trace the development of Elizabeth City from its incorporation until its fall to Federal forces in the Civil War. In order to understand the beginning of the town, the history of the Albemarle area and Pasquotank County is developed from Indian occupation to the building of the Dismal Swamp Canal. This includes a coverage of the earliest settlements by Virginians in Carolina, the government of Pasquotank Precinct and County, the Revolutionary War sentiment, and the beginning of religious activities in the area. The need of a southern terminus for the Dismal Swamp Canal prompted the chartering of Elizabeth City in 1793. The town site, a fifty acre plantation located next to a crossroads and a ferry dock, was at the Narrows of the Pasquotank River. An account of each of the original incorporators and lot owners is given. The construction of public buildings in Elizabeth City after the town became the county seat is traced, as are the elections and proceedings of the town commissioners. The paper chronicles extensions of the town's boundaries and gives the actions of both the county court and the town commissioners in preparation for the arrival of Federal forces in the Civil War. Elizabeth City became the "Emporium of northeastern North Carolina" as the Dismal Swamp Canal funneled commerce into the town. This was evidenced by the appearance of new stores, industries, newspapers, hotels, transportation companies, banks, and the frequent construction of new homes. Except for periods of national panic, the town enjoyed prosperity. The histories of the town's newspapers are traced in detail. By the time of the war, three white churches and one Negro church were thriving. As a result of its schools, the town could boast of over eighty-five percent of its population being literate in 1860. The court house and, later, Avon Hall hosted both local and traveling talent in the town's cultural series. Excitement in the town-- from epidemics and murders to celebrations and political campaigns--is presented to sum up life in Ante-Bellum Elizabeth City.
Author: William A. Griffin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Elizabeth City (N.C.) Languages : en Pages : 188
Book Description
The purpose of this study is to trace the development of Elizabeth City from its incorporation until its fall to Federal forces in the Civil War. In order to understand the beginning of the town, the history of the Albemarle area and Pasquotank County is developed from Indian occupation to the building of the Dismal Swamp Canal. This includes a coverage of the earliest settlements by Virginians in Carolina, the government of Pasquotank Precinct and County, the Revolutionary War sentiment, and the beginning of religious activities in the area. The need of a southern terminus for the Dismal Swamp Canal prompted the chartering of Elizabeth City in 1793. The town site, a fifty acre plantation located next to a crossroads and a ferry dock, was at the Narrows of the Pasquotank River. An account of each of the original incorporators and lot owners is given. The construction of public buildings in Elizabeth City after the town became the county seat is traced, as are the elections and proceedings of the town commissioners. The paper chronicles extensions of the town's boundaries and gives the actions of both the county court and the town commissioners in preparation for the arrival of Federal forces in the Civil War. Elizabeth City became the "Emporium of northeastern North Carolina" as the Dismal Swamp Canal funneled commerce into the town. This was evidenced by the appearance of new stores, industries, newspapers, hotels, transportation companies, banks, and the frequent construction of new homes. Except for periods of national panic, the town enjoyed prosperity. The histories of the town's newspapers are traced in detail. By the time of the war, three white churches and one Negro church were thriving. As a result of its schools, the town could boast of over eighty-five percent of its population being literate in 1860. The court house and, later, Avon Hall hosted both local and traveling talent in the town's cultural series. Excitement in the town-- from epidemics and murders to celebrations and political campaigns--is presented to sum up life in Ante-Bellum Elizabeth City.
Author: Sylviane A. Diouf Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814760287 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 415
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The forgotten stories of America maroons—wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground or built comfortable settlements. Known as maroons, they lived on their own or set up communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered. Although well-known, feared, celebrated or demonized at the time, the maroons whose stories are the subject of this book have been forgotten, overlooked by academic research that has focused on the Caribbean and Latin America. Who the American maroons were, what led them to choose this way of life over alternatives, what forms of marronage they created, what their individual and collective lives were like, how they organized themselves to survive, and how their particular story fits into the larger narrative of slave resistance are questions that this book seeks to answer. To survive, the American maroons reinvented themselves, defied slave society, enforced their own definition of freedom and dared create their own alternative to what the country had delineated as being black men and women’s proper place. Audacious, self-confident, autonomous, sometimes self-sufficient, always self-governing; their very existence was a repudiation of the basic tenets of slavery.
Author: William N. Still Jr. Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 0865264953 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 790
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In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for the first time a bygone era when maritime industries dotted the Tar Heel coast. The work of shipbuilding craftsmen and entrepreneurs contributed to the colony's and the state's economy from the era of exploration through the age of naval stores to World War I. The study includes an inventory of 3,300 ships and 270 shipwrights.
Author: Lucy Ferriss Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 9780807124710 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 394
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To her self-posed questions “What is a woman’s narrative?” and “Why Warren?” Lucy Ferriss responds with an acutely perceptive examination that is groundbreaking in two regards. Sleeping with the Boss opens up the feminist critical project by showing that author gender has no bearing on the creation of feminine-structured narrative. Moreover, by exposing a considerable “female consciousness” in the major fictional works of Robert Penn Warren, it departs dramatically from previous criticism of Warren. Ferriss, a novelist as well as a critic, expands on narrative poetics to suggest that female subjectivity is the central concept in defining a woman’s narrative. Specifically, the subjective voice of a female character is present to such a degree that the traditional structures of masculine narrative (described as linear, forward moving, and authoritative) can no longer hold. Leapfrogging over existing feminist theory, she asserts that such female consciousness may permeate the writing of men as well as women. Within Warren’s traditional masculine narrative style, Ferriss detects the complicating presence of female voice, with its potential to alter the focus and direction of the plot. As she demonstrates, the degree to which Warren distances himself from or steps inside his female characters’ consciousness varies enormously across his career. Still, his novels reveal the consistent pattern of a major woman character in a liaison with a wealthy or powerful man; those sexual relationships, Ferriss maintains, are pivotal in establishing female personae whose subjective effect on the narrative disturbs or overturns conventional readings of the novels’ meaning. For example, she presents a startlingly subversive analysis of the character Amantha Starr (Band of Angels), heretofore viewed as a simpering victim by critics. In addition to nine of Warren’s novels, Ferriss critiques his book-length poem, Brother to Dragons, which in the powerful voice of Lucy Lewis exhibits the moral and narrative limitations of the male speakers even as that female voice is itself thwarted and cut off. She also explores Warren’s frequent motif of the female empty-handed gesture, reading in it the author’s own assumption of the feminine perspective by expressing his abdication of narrative authority and ambivalence toward ascribing meaning. Sleeping with the Boss represents a new generation of Warren scholarship, revitalizing the poet-novelist’s complex oeuvre in light of contemporary concerns. It provokes a radical rethinking of some of the plot elements taken for granted by other critics of Warren’s work and offers a wide range of new ways to encounter his female characters.
Author: David S. Cecelski Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 0807869724 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 325
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The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers. Demonstrating the vitality and significance of this local African American maritime culture, David Cecelski also reveals its connections to the Afro-Caribbean, the relatively egalitarian work culture of seafaring men who visited nearby ports, and the revolutionary political tides that coursed throughout the black Atlantic. Black maritime laborers played an essential role in local abolitionist activity, slave insurrections, and other antislavery activism. They also boatlifted thousands of slaves to freedom during the Civil War. But most important, Cecelski says, they carried an insurgent, democratic vision born in the maritime districts of the slave South into the political maelstrom of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Author: Clay Lancaster Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813165156 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 200
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The ante bellum homes of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky, are both more numerous and more distinctive in design than those of many communities of similar age. Founded in 1775, Lexington by the turn of the century had become the chief cultural center north of New Orleans and west of the Alleghenies. During the eight decades between the Revolution and the Civil War, Fayette County was the focus of converging streams of immigration, and a phenomenal amount of building activity took place in Lexington and the surrounding area. Although local builders followed the trends of national architecture, they were not primarily concerned with "correctness," and developed a provincial style which was distinguished by originality and a high level of craftsmanship. In Ante Bellum Houses of the Bluegrass, Clay Lancaster seeks to define the indigenous character of Fayette County building, which he concludes is of unusually distinguished quality. A second aim is the presentation of authentic data as a guide for intelligent restoration of existing old buildings, many of which have been defaced by unnecessary changes and inappropriate additions. He traces the development of house building in this restricted area from the first crude log cabins, through frame, stone, and early brick residences, to the substantial homes built by wealthy landowners and merchants in the mid-nineteenth century. The text is supplemented by 200 line drawings which present the essential features of each building free from the later alterations and decay which would be recorded by the camera. These illustrations have been compiled on the basis of intensive research, from old photographs, maps, drawings, and other records. An album of halftone illustrations, many of which are reproductions of old photographs of buildings which have been altered or demolished, supplements these illustrations.
Author: William A. Griffin
Author: William A. Griffin
Author: Wayne H. Payne
Author: Guion Griffis Johnson
Author: Sylviane A. Diouf
Author: Dale E. Henderson
Author: Thomas Russell Butchko
Author: William N. Still Jr.
Author: Lucy Ferriss
Author: David S. Cecelski
Author: Clay Lancaster