Author: Maxwell Pierson GaddisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Foot-prints of an Itinerant
Author: Maxwell Pierson GaddisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Brief Recollections of the Late Rev. George W. Walker
Author: Maxwell Pierson GaddisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
A Pilgrim's Foot-prints, Or, Passages in the Life of Rev. John Hancock, of East Madison, New Jersey
Author: Ellwood Haines StokesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Madison (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Alphabetical Catalogue of the Dayton Public Library of Dayton, Ohio
Author: Dayton Public Library and MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Alphabetic Catalog of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Pictures and Curios of the Illinois State Historical Library
Author: Illinois State Historical LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Conversion of a Skeptic
Author: Maxwell Pierson GaddisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Sacred Hour. [On Sallie K. Caldwell. With Her Correspondence and Portrait.]
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Author: Maxwell Pierson GADDISPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book ShopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
This Southern Metropolis
Author: Mike BunnPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 1588385264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Based on visitor descriptions of antebellum Mobile, Alabama’s physical and social environment, this book captures a place and time that is particular to Gulf Coast history. Mobile’s foundational era is a period in which the city transformed from a struggling colonial outpost into one of the nation’s most significant economic powerhouses, largely owing to the cotton trade and the labor of enslaved people. On the eve of the Civil War, the Mobile ranked as the fourth most populous community in what would soon become the Confederacy, and within the Gulf Coast region, it stood second only to New Orleans in population, wealth, and influence. In addition to ranking as one of the busiest ports in the United States, the city’s remarkable architecture, beautiful natural setting, and abundance of entertainment options combined to make it one of the South’s most distinctive communities. Its cultural diversity only added to its uniqueness. In addition to being home to the largest white population of any community in Alabama, the city also claimed the state’s largest free Black, foreign-born, and Creole communities. Mobile was the slave-trading center of the state until the 1850s as well and remained thoroughly intertwined with the institution of slavery throughout the antebellum period. By 1860 Mobile's population stood at nearly thirty thousand people, making it the twenty-seventh-largest city in the United States overall. Although numerous histories of Mobile have been published, none have focused on the dozens of evocative firsthand accounts published by antebellum-era visitors. These writings allowed literary-minded travelers, who were often consciously looking for things that struck them as singular about a place, to become proxy tour guides for their contemporary readers. In attempting to capture the essence of the city’s reality at a specific moment in time, Mobile’s antebellum visitors have left us a unique record of one of the South’s most historic communities.