Author: WPA RecordsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788490705
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Giles County, Tennessee Miscellaneous Wills, 1830-1857
Author: WPA RecordsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788490705
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Author: The Searcher
Author: The Known Descendants of John Elliff, 1735-1800, of Chowan County, North Carolina, and His Cousins and Possible Ancestors Among the Elliff Families of England and Ireland
Author: Kenneth MickelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
"This work is a compilation of the research of all known family genealogists who have cooperated in the effort to expand the knowledge of the history of the Elliff family"--Title page verso.
The Tree Tracers
Author: Runaway Slaves
Author: John Hope FranklinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199840253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could. For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations of the American South have remained shrouded. Historians thought, for instance, that slaves were generally pliant and resigned to their roles as human chattel, and that racial violence on the plantation was an aberration. In this precedent setting book, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, significant numbers of slaves did in fact frequently rebel against their masters and struggled to attain their freedom. By surveying a wealth of documents, such as planters' records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, this book shows how slaves resisted, when, where, and how they escaped, where they fled to, how long they remained in hiding, and how they survived away from the plantation. Of equal importance, it examines the reactions of the white slaveholding class, revealing how they marshaled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established patrols to hunt down escaped slaves. Reflecting a lifetime of thought by our leading authority in African American history, this book provides the key to truly understanding the relationship between slaveholders and the runaways who challenged the system--illuminating as never before the true nature of the South's "most peculiar institution."
Genealogical Periodical Annual Index
Author: Ellen Stanley RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Ansearchin' News
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills
Author: Virgil M. HarrisPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills" by Virgil M. Harris. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881
Author: C.C. BaldwinPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5874721363
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 989
Book Description