Author: William HardenPublisher: Cherokee Publishing Company (GA)
ISBN: 9780877973218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
History of Savannah and South Georgia, Volumes I and II
Author: William HardenPublisher: Cherokee Publishing Company (GA)
ISBN: 9780877973218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
A History of Savannah and South Georgia
Author: William HardenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
A History of Savannah and South Georgia
Author: William HardenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
Author: Leslie Maria HarrisPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820344109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A richly illustrated, accessibly written book with a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city's founding to the early twentieth century. Written by leading historians of Savannah, Georgia, and the South, it includes a mix of thematic essays focusing on individual people, events, and places.
History of Savannah and South Georgia
Author: William HardenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780877970583
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages :
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The History of Georgia: Aboriginal and colonial epochs
Author: Charles Colcock Jones (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia
Author: Ellis Merton CoulterPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806310316
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Information pertaining to each settler consists, generally, of name, age, occupation, place of origin, names of spouse, children and other family members, dates of embarkation and arrival, place of settlement, and date of death. In addition, some of the more notorious aspects of the settlers' lives are recounted in brief, telltale sketches.
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
Author: Leslie M. HarrisPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082034706X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city's founding to the early twentieth century. Written by leading historians of Savannah, Georgia, and the South, the volume includes a mix of longer thematic essays and shorter sidebars focusing on individual people, events, and places. The story of slavery in Savannah may seem to be an outlier, given how strongly most people associate slavery with rural plantations. But as Harris, Berry, and the other contributors point out, urban slavery was instrumental to the slave-based economy of North America. Ports like Savannah served as both an entry point for slaves and as a point of departure for goods produced by slave labor in the hinterlands. Moreover, Savannah's connection to slavery was not simply abstract. The system of slavery as experienced by African Americans and enforced by whites influenced the very shape of the city, including the building of its infrastructure, the legal system created to support it, and the economic life of the city and its rural surroundings. Slavery and Freedom in Savannah restores the urban African American population and the urban context of slavery, Civil War, and emancipation to its rightful place, and it deepens our understanding of the economic, social, and political fabric of the U.S. South. This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. This volume is published in cooperation with Savannah's Telfair Museum and draws upon its expertise and collections, including Telfair's Owens-Thomas House. As part of their ongoing efforts to document the lives and labors of the African Americans--enslaved and free--who built and worked at the house, this volume also explores the Owens, Thomas, and Telfair families and the ways in which their ownership of slaves was foundational to their wealth and worldview.
Daisy Tales and Other Stories of My Grandfather's Younger Days in the South Georgia Piney Woods
Author: Joseph P. Byrd, IVPublisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1637641303
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Daisy Tales and Other Stories of My Grandfather’s Younger Days in the South Georgia Piney Woods By: Joseph P. Byrd, IV Daisy Tales and Other Stories of My Grandfather’s Younger Days in the South Georgia Piney Woods is a book of stories, remembrances and maybe a few tall tales as recounted by the author’s maternal grandfather, William Leroy Edwards. Much of the material, obtained by his father, was transcribed by his mother in the summer of 1955 when his widowed grandfather visited their home. Upon reading his grandfather’s stories, the author was transported back in time to the Georgia frontier and impressed with his sense of humor. Initially, thinking it a project to share with family, the author concluded these stories would appeal to a larger readership who would be interested in memoirs/history/Southern humor in addition to family history.
Oglethorpe and Colonial Georgia
Author: David Lee RussellPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786422335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
"Here is the story of James Oglethorpe and of Georgia's colonial days from its birth as a colony in 1733 to its emergence as a free state 50 years later. It includes, from Georgia's perspective, details of the military and political movements that led tothe Revolutionary War. The plight of the common settler is also presented"--Provided by publisher.