Author: Lois McMichaelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
History of Butts County, Georgia, 1825-1976
Author: Lois McMichaelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Butts County, Georgia, 1825-1976, the History of
Author: Lois McMichaelPublisher:
ISBN: 9780893086282
Category : Butts County (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
History of Butts County Georgia, 1825-1976
Author: Lois McMichaelPublisher:
ISBN: 9780893088613
Category : Butts County (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery
Author: Henry GoingsPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813932386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author eventually procured freedom papers from a man he resembled and took the man’s name, Henry Goings. His life story takes us on an epic journey, traveling from his Virginia birthplace through the cotton kingdom of the Lower South, and upon his escape from slavery, through Tennessee and Kentucky, then on to the Great Lakes region of the North and to Canada. His Rambles show that slaves were found not only in fields but also on the nation’s roads and rivers, perpetually in motion in massive coffles or as solitary runaways. A freedom narrative as well as a slave narrative, this compact yet detailed book illustrates many important developments in antebellum America, such as the large-scale forced migration of enslaved people from long-established slave societies in the eastern United States to new settlements on the cotton frontier, the political-economic processes that framed that migration, and the accompanying human anguish. Goings’s life and reflections serve as important primary documents of African American life and of American national expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This edition features an informative and insightful introduction by Calvin Schermerhorn.
The Courthouse and the Depot
Author: Wilber W. CaldwellPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865547483
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Their songs insist that the arrival of the railroad and the appearance of the tiny depot often created such hope that it inspired the construction of the architectural extravaganzas that were the courthouses of the era. In these buildings the distorted myth of the Old South collided head-on with the equally deformed myth of the New South."
The Moving Appeal
Author: Barbara G. EllisPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865547643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Ellis relates the story of the Memphis Daily Appeal , the mobile newspaper that rallied Southern civilians and soldiers during the Civil War, and eluded capture by Yankee generals who chased the Appeal's portable printing operation across four states. The study also serves as a biography of the news
The Stilwell Letters
Author: William Ross StilwellPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865548077
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"The 53rd Georgia, on reaching Virginia, was immediately assigned to the brigade commanded by Paul Jones Semmes, a wealthy Columbus banker. The brigade was later commanded by Goode Bryan and then by James Philip Simms. The 53rd Georgia was in the Corps of James Longstreet and fought at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Cedar Creek.".
Through the Heart of Dixie
Author: Anne S. RubinPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469617773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory
The Sacred Flame of Love
Author: Christopher H. OwenPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820319636
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Attempting to restore subtlety and nuance to the study of southern religion, The Sacred Flame of Love ranges across the entire nineteenth century to chronicle the evolution of the institutions, theology, and social attitudes of Georgia Methodists in light of such phenomena, trends, and events as slavery, class prejudice, republicanism, population growth, economic development, sectional politics, war, emancipation, and urban growth. In connecting Methodist history with the larger social transformation of nineteenth-century Georgia, Christopher H. Owen uncovers a story of considerable complexity and variety. Because Georgia Methodists included people from every social class, few generalizations apply properly to all of them. For many years they were loosely united by common adherence to the ideals of Wesleyan evangelicalism, but economic and political developments would gradually accentuate Methodist social divisions and weaken even this bond. Indeed, deviating far from the conception of unchanging and asocial southern religion often held by scholars, Owen sees both church and society undergoing enormous change in the nineteenth century.
The Buttrill Family
Author: Carrol Oliver ButtrillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Thomas Buttrill, Sr. and his family immigrated from England to Yorktown, Virginia in 1776. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico and elsewhere.