Author: Richard H. ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Memoirs of Judge Richard H. Clark
Author: Richard H. ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Reminiscences of Famous Georgians
Author: Lucian Lamar KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Memoirs of Georgia
Author: Library of Southern Literature
Author: Edwin Anderson AldermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Library of Southern Literature: Biographical dictionary of authors
Author: Edwin Anderson AldermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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The Sweetness of Life
Author: Eugene D. GenovesePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107138051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
American slaveholders used the wealth and leisure that slave labor provided to cultivate lives of gentility and refinement. This study provides a vivid portrait of slaveholders at home and at play as they built a tragic world of both 'sweetness' and slavery.
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: In Joy and in Sorrow
Author: Carol BleserPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019934423X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
In Joy and in Sorrow brings together some of the finest historians of the South in a sweeping exploration of the meaning of the family in this troubled region. In their vast canvas of the Victorian South, the authors explore the private lives of Senators, wealthy planters, and the belles of high society, along with the humblest slaves and sharecroppers, both white and black. Stretching from the height of the antebellum South's pride and power through the chaos of the Civil War and Reconstruction to the end of the century, these essays uncover hidden worlds of the Southern family, worlds of love and duty--and of incest, miscegenation, and insanity. Featuring an introduction by C. Vann Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mary Chesnut's Civil War, and a foreword by Anne Firor Scott, author of The Southern Lady, this work presents an outstanding array of historians: Eugene Genovese, Catherine Clinton, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Carol Bleser, Drew Faust, James Roark, Michael Johnson, Brenda Stevenson, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Jacqueline Jones, Peter Bardaglio, and more. They probe the many facets of Southern domestic life, from the impact of the Civil War on a prominent Southern marriage to the struggles of postwar sharecropper families. One author turns the pages of nineteenth century cookbooks, exploring what they tell us about home life, housekeeping, and entertaining without slaves after the Civil War. Other essays portray the relationship between a Victorian father and his devoted son, as well as the private writings of a long-suffering Southern wife. In Joy and in Sorrow offers a fascinating look into the tangled reality of Southern life before, during, and after the Civil War. With this collection of essays, editor Carol Bleser provides a powerful new way of understanding this most self-consciously distinct region. In Joy and in Sorrow will appeal to everyone interested in marriage and the family, the problems of gender and slavery, as well as in the history of the South, old and new.
Slavery in White and Black
Author: Elizabeth Fox-GenovesePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139475045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class in the world. Now, did it not follow that the lives of laborers of all races across the world would be immeasurably improved by their enslavement? In the Old South but in no other slave society a doctrine emerged among leading clergymen, politicians, and intellectuals - 'Slavery in the Abstract', which declared enslavement the best possible condition for all labor regardless of race. They joined the Socialists, whom they studied, in believing that the free-labor system, wracked by worsening class warfare, was collapsing. A vital question: to what extent did the people of the several social classes of the South accept so extreme a doctrine? That question lies at the heart of this book.
The Bench and Bar of Georgia: Memoirs and Sketches
Author: Stephen Franks MillerPublisher:
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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