Author: Helène Barret AgeePublisher:
ISBN: 9780875170411
Category : Goochland County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Facets of Goochland (Virginia) County's History
Author: Helène Barret AgeePublisher:
ISBN: 9780875170411
Category : Goochland County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A History of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Dover Parish, Goochland County, Virginia, 1877-1977
Author: William T. CarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Goochland Co., Va
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Author: Chesapeake Politics, 1781-1800
Author: Norman K. RisjordPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231043281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Chronicles the political developments in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina immediately following the Revolution, and the rise of the Federalist and Republican parties.
Virgina Local History
Author: Lee's Adjutant
Author: Walter Herron TaylorPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570030215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The 110 letters compiled in Lee's Adjutant shed light on day-to-day life at Lee's headquarters and on the general himself. Written to Taylor's fiancee and family, these letters recount the Army of Northern Virginia's early triumphs, invasions of the North, defeat at Gettysburg, the bloody struggle in the Wilderness, the siege of Petersburg, and final surrender. In them the young officer testifies to the simplicity of Lee's lifestyle as well as the gentility of his demeanor. He describes the bond that developed between himself and the general, and he discusses the furloughs, reports, dispatches, petitions, and grievances that he handled as Lee's alter ego in administrative matters.
Freedpeople in the Tobacco South
Author: Jeffrey R. Kerr-RitchiePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807861146
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia's tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed market conditions, sparked a breakdown of traditional tobacco culture. Focusing on the transformation of social relations between former slaves and former masters, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie traces the trajectory of this breakdown from the advent of emancipation to the stirrings of African American migration at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing upon a rich array of sources, Kerr-Ritchie situates the struggles of newly freed people within the shifting parameters of an older slave world, examines the prolonged agricultural depression and structural transformation the tobacco economy underwent between the 1870s and 1890s, and surveys the effects of these various changes on former masters as well as former slaves. While the number of older freedpeople who owned small parcels of land increased phenomenally during this period, he notes, so too did the number of freedom's younger generation who deserted the region's farms and plantations for Virginia's towns and cities. Both these processes contributed to the gradual transformation of the tobacco region in particular and the state in general.
Virginia Genealogical Research
Author: George Keene SchweitzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Proceedings of the Rockbridge Historical Society
Author: Rockbridge Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rockbridge County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Goochland Light, Goochland Turner and Mountain Artillery
Author: Jeffrey C. WeaverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description