Author: Frances CowlesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mayflower (Ship)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Misc. Notes on White Families of North Carolina, Virginia, New York and Massachusetts
Author: Frances CowlesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mayflower (Ship)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Guide to Bible Records in the Archives Branch, Virginia State Library
Author: Virginia State Library. Archives BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Virginia State Library is now known as The Library of Virginia.
Part 2. County Records, Church Records, Letters and Other Miscellaneous Notes Regarding the Massey Family of Virginia and North Carolina
Author: Voices from within the Veil
Author: William H. AlexanderPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443811769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"And then--the Veil. It drops as drops the night on southern seas--vast, sudden, unanswering. There is Hate behind it, and Cruelty and Tears. As one peers through its intricate, unfathomable pattern of ancient, old, old design, one sees blood and guilt and misunderstanding. And yet it hangs there, this Veil, between Then and Now, between Pale and Colored and Black and White -- between You and Me." W.E.B. DuBois, Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil, 1920 "As the promoters of Jamestown 2007 began to speak of the accomplishment of greater diversity in the nation, and to market the myth of the seamless confluence of Indian, European, and African traditions in the early colony, many reflected not only about how the United States' colonial origins were based on the entrepreneurial ambitions of English settlers, the conquest and degradation of native populations, and the subsequent uprooting and enslavement of untold numbers of Africans, but also about how the more recent legacy of decades of discrimination and marginalization continue to shape our world today. Despite the assimilation, acculturation, and dehumanization that have occurred in the Americas, African Americans have continued to refashion their cultures to fit their own social needs and aesthetic preferences." From Introduction Voices from within the Veil explores the 400-year prelude to the inclusion of African Americans in the commemoration of this nation's origins. With innovative approaches and pioneering research, these essays address both the conditions of African Americans' marginalization and some of the paths toward their empowerment: marronage, the Underground Railroad, social organization, and massive protest movements, among others.
Part 3. County Records, Church Records, Letters and Other Miscellaneous Notes Regarding the Massey Family of Virginia and North Carolina
Author: The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, a White Slave Trader Married to a Free Woman of Color
Author: Hank TrentPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807165220
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Historians have long discussed the interracial families of prominent slave dealers in Richmond, Virginia, and elsewhere, yet, until now, the story of slave trader Bacon Tait remained untold. Among the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Richmond, Bacon Tait embarked upon a striking and unexpected double life: that of a white slave trader married to a free black woman. In The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, Hank Trent tells Tait’s complete story for the first time, reconstructing the hidden aspects of his strange and often paradoxical life through meticulous research in lawsuits, newspapers, deeds, and other original records. Active and ambitious in a career notorious even among slave owners for its viciousness, Bacon Tait nevertheless claimed to be married to a free woman of color, Courtney Fountain, whose extended family were involved in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. As Trent reveals, Bacon Tait maintained his domestic sphere as a loving husband and father in a mixed-race family in the North while running a successful and ruthless slave-trading business in the South. Though he possessed legal control over thousands of other black women at different times, Trent argues that Tait remained loyal to his wife, avoiding the predatory sexual practices of many slave traders. No less remarkably, Courtney Tait and their four children received the benefits of Tait’s wealth while remaining close to her family of origin, many of whom spoke out against the practice of slavery and even fought in the Civil War on the side of the Union. In a fascinating display of historical detective work, Trent illuminates the worlds Bacon Tait and his family inhabited, from the complex partnerships and rivalries among slave traders to the anxieties surrounding free black populations in Courtney and Bacon Tait’s adopted city of Salem, Massachusetts. Tait’s double life illuminates the complex interplay of control, manipulation, love, hate, denigration, and respect among interracial families, all within the larger context of a society that revolved around the enslavement of black Americans by white traders.
Part 1. County Records, Church Records, Letters and Other Miscellaneous Notes Regarding the Massey Family of Virginia and North Carolina
Author: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Author: Richard Henry GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Miscellaneous Publication
Author: Historical Dictionary of the Old South
Author: William L. RichterPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810865254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Being considerably different from other regions of the country, most notably regarding its fervent practice of slavery, the land South of the Mason-Dixon line, because of slavery, enjoyed an exceptional prominence in politics, and after the invention of the cotton gin, a high degree of prosperity. However, also because of slavery, it was alienated from the rest of the nation, attempted to secede from the union, and was forced back in only after it lost the Civil War. Numerous cross-referenced entries on prominent individuals, including Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as others on policies of the time that have since slipped into oblivion are all covered in this book. Economic, social and religious backgrounds trace the seemingly inevitable path to secession, war and defeat. This reference also includes an introductory essay, a chronology and a bibliography of the epoch.