Author: Francis William LoringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Cotton Culture and the South Considered with Reference to Emigration
Author: Francis William LoringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Cotton Culture and the South, considered with reference to Emigration
Author: Frederick W. LORING (and ATKINSON (C. F.) Cotton Broker.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Origins of Southern Sharecropping
Author: Edward RoycePublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439904383
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Revised perspective on sharecropping.
Cotton Culture and the South Considered with Reference to Emigration
Author: Francis William LoringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum
Author: Boston AthenaeumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Come to Texas
Author: Barbara J. RozekPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603447067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"Come to Texas" urged countless advertisements, newspaper articles, and private letters in the late nineteenth century. Expansive acres lay fallow, ready to be turned to agricultural uses. Entrepreneurial Texans knew that drawing immigrants to those lands meant greater prosperity for the state as a whole and for each little community in it. They turned their hands to directing the stream of spatial mobility in American society to Texas. They told the "Texas story" to whoever would read it. In this book, Barbara Rozek documents their efforts, shedding light on the importance of their words in peopling the Lone Star State and on the optimism and hopes of the people who sought to draw others.Rozek traces the efforts first of the state government (until 1876) and then of private organizations, agencies, businesses, and individuals to entice people to Texas. The appeals, in whatever form, were to hope?hope for lower infant mortality rates, business and farming opportunities, education, marriage?and they reflected the hopes of those writing. Rozek states clearly that the number of words cannot be proven to be linked directly to the number of immigrants (Texas experienced a population increase of 672 percent between 1860 and 1920), but she demonstrates that understanding the effort is itself important.Using printed materials and private communications held in numerous archives as well as pictures of promotional materials, she shows the energy and enthusiasm with which Texans promoted their native or adopted home as the perfect home for others.Texas is indeed an immigrant state?perhaps by destiny; certainly, Rozek demonstrates, by design.
The Harvard Guide to African-American History
Author: Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674002760
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
Emancipation Betrayed
Author: Paul OrtizPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520239463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
"Paul Ortiz's lyrical and closely argued study introduces us to unknown generations of freedom fighters for whom organizing democratically became in every sense a way of life. Ortiz changes the very ways we think of Southern history as he shows in marvelous detail how Black Floridians came together to defend themselves in the face of terror, to bury their dead, to challenge Jim Crow, to vote, and to dream."—David R. Roediger, author of Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past “Emancipation Betrayed is a remarkable piece of work, a tightly argued, meticulously researched examination of the first statewide movement by African Americans for civil rights, a movement which since has been effectively erased from our collective memory. The book poses a profound challenge to our understanding of the limits and possibilities of African American resistance in the early twentieth century. This analysis of how a politically and economically marginalized community nurtures the capacity for struggle speaks as much to our time as to 1919.”—Charles Payne, author of I’ve Got the Light of Freedom
One Kind of Freedom
Author: Roger L. RansomPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521795500
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This edition of the economic history classic One Kind of Freedom reprints the entire text of the first edition together with an introduction by the authors and an extensive bibliography of works in Southern history published since the appearance of the first edition. The book examines the economic institutions that replaced slavery and the conditions under which ex-slaves were allowed to enter the economic life of the United States following the Civil War. The authors contend that although the kind of freedom permitted to black Americans allowed substantial increases in their economic welfare, it effectively curtailed further black advancement and retarded Southern economic development. Quantitative data are used to describe the historical setting but also shape the authors' economic analysis and test the appropriateness of their interpretations. Ransom and Sutch's revised findings enrich the picture of the era and offer directions for future research.
Annual Report
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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