Author: Tennessee. Circuit Court (Gibson County)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Minute Book A, 1824-1832
Author: Tennessee. Circuit Court (Gibson County)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
W.P.A. Technical Series
Author: Tennessee, Records of Gibson County, Circuit Court Minute Book A, 1824-1832
Author: Mrs. John Trotwood MoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Artisan Workers in the Upper South
Author: Diane BarnesPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807134198
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Though deeply entrenched in antebellum life, the artisans who lived and worked in Petersburg, Virginia, in the 1800s -- including carpenters, blacksmiths, coach makers, bakers, and other skilled craftsmen -- helped transform their planter-centered agricultural community into one of the most industrialized cities in the Upper South. These mechanics, as the artisans called themselves, successfully lobbied for new railroad lines and other amenities they needed to open their factories and shops, and turned a town whose livelihood once depended almost entirely on tobacco exports into a bustling modern city. In Artisan Workers in the Upper South, L. Diane Barnes closely examines the relationships between Petersburg's skilled white, free black, and slave mechanics and the roles they played in southern Virginia's emerging market economy. Barnes demonstrates that, despite studies that emphasize the backwardness of southern development, modern industry and the institution of slavery proved quite compatible in the Upper South. Petersburg joined the industrialized world in part because of the town's proximity to northern cities and resources, but it succeeded because its citizens capitalized on their uniquely southern resource: slaves. Petersburg artisans realized quickly that owning slaves could increase the profitability of their businesses, and these artisans -- including some free African Americans -- entered the master class when they could. Slave-owning mechanics, both white and black, gained wealth and status in society, and they soon joined an emerging middle class. Not all mechanics could afford slaves, however, and those who could not struggled to survive in the new economy. Forced to work as journeymen and face the unpleasant reality of permanent wage labor, the poorer mechanics often resented their inability to prosper like their fellow artisans. These differing levels of success, Barnes shows, created a sharp class divide that rivaled the racial divide in the artisan community. Unlike their northern counterparts, who united as a political force and organized strikes to effect change, artisans in the Upper South did not rise up in protest against the prevailing social order. Skilled white mechanics championed free manual labor -- a common refrain of northern artisans -- but they carefully limited the term "free" to whites and simultaneously sought alliances with slaveholding planters. Even those artisans who didn't own slaves, Barnes explains, rarely criticized the wealthy planters, who not only employed and traded with artisans, but also controlled both state and local politics. Planters, too, guarded against disparaging free labor too loudly, and their silence, together with that of the mechanics, helped maintain the precariously balanced social structure. Artisan Workers in the Upper South rejects the notion of the antebellum South as a semifeudal planter-centered political economy and provides abundant evidence that some areas of the South embraced industrial capitalism and economic modernity as readily as communities in the North.
Journal of the Franklin Institute
Author: Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-1859. cf. Index to v. 1-120 of the Journal, p. [415]
A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830
Author: A. W. SkemptonPublisher: Thomas Telford
ISBN: 9780727729392
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
This biographical reference work looks specifically at the lives, works and careers of those individuals involved in civil engineering whose careers began before 1830.
Guide to County Records and Genealogical Resources in Tennessee
Author: Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806311754
Category : Guide
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This fabulous work is a county-by-county guide to the genealogical records and resources at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville. Based largely on the Tennessee county records microfilmed by the LDS Genealogical Library, it is an inventory of extant county records and their dates of coverage. For each county the following data is given: formation, county seat, names and addresses of libraries and genealogical societies, published records (alphabetical by author), W.P.A. typescript records, microfilmed records (LDS), manuscripts, and church records. The LDS microfilm covers almost every record that could be used by the genealogist, from vital records to optometry registers, from wills and inventories to school board minutes. There also is a comprehensive list of statewide reference works.
Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio
Author: Gerald E. PoyoPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292786085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Since its first publication in 1991, this history of early San Antonio has won a 1992 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society and a Presidio La BahÃa Award from the Sons of the Republic of Texas.
W. P. A. Technical Series
Author: United States. Work Projects AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Author: