Author: Katherine GallowayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historical markers
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
Owensville, a Seat of Robertson County (Texas) Government
Author: Katherine GallowayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historical markers
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Laws Passed by the ... Legislature of the State of Texas
Author: TexasThe Laws of Texas 1822-1897
Author: TexasThe Laws of Texas, 1822-1909
Author: Counterfeit Justice
Author: Dale BaumPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807134961
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly after the Civil War ended, he publicly acknowledged his relationship with Azeline and bequeathed his entire estate to their twenty-year-old mulatto son, with the provision that he take care of his mother. When their son died early in 1868, Azeline inherited one of the most profitable cotton plantations in Texas and became one of the wealthiest ex-slaves in the former Confederacy. In Counterfeit Justice, Dale Baum traces Azeline's remarkable story, detailing her ongoing legal battles to claim and maintain her legacy. As Baum shows, Azeline's inheritance quickly made her a target for predatory whites determined to strip her of her land. A familiar figure at the Robertson County District Court from the late 1860s to the early 1880s, Azeline faced numerous lawsuits -- including one filed against her by her own lawyer. Samuel Hearne's family took steps to dispossess her, and other unscrupulous white men challenged the title to her plantation, using claims based on old Spanish land grants. Azeline's prolonged and courageous defense of her rightful title brought her a certain notoriety: the first freedwoman to be a party to three separate civil lawsuits appealed all the way to the Texas Supreme Court and the first former slave in Robertson County indicted on criminal charges of perjury. Although repeatedly blocked and frustrated by the convolutions of the legal system, she evolved from a bewildered defendant to a determined plaintiff who, in one extraordinary lawsuit, came tantalizingly close to achieving revenge against those who defrauded her for over a decade. Due to gaps in the available historical record and the unreliability of secondary accounts based on local Reconstruction folklore, many of the details of Azeline's story are lost to history. But Baum grounds his speculation about her life in recent scholarship on the Reconstruction era, and he puts his findings in context in the history of Robertson County. Although history has not credited Azeline Hearne with influencing the course of the law, the story of her uniquely difficult position after the Civil War gives an unprecedented view of the era and of one solitary woman's attempt to negotiate its social and legal complexities in her struggle to find justice. Baum's meticulously researched narrative will be of keen interest to legal scholars and to all those interested in the plight of freed slaves during this era.
A History of Texas and Texans
Author: Frank White JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares
Author: Merline PitrePublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623494834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares, originally published in 1985, was the first book to make an in-depth examination of the cadre of African American lawmakers in Texas after the Civil War. Those few books that addressed the subject at all treated black legislators en masse and offered little or nothing about their individual histories. Early scholars tended to present isolated events of the violence and political deterrents inflicted upon black voters but said very little about how these obstacles affected black lawmakers. Author Merline Pitre has departed from this traditional method and relied upon the untapped original materials found on these black lawmakers. This third edition features a new preface and extended, updated appendixes, ensuring that this study will remain useful to political scientists, sociologists, and historians of Texas political history, Afro-American history, and revisionists of Reconstruction.
The Adventures of a Prisoner of War, 1863–1864
Author: Decimus et Ultimus BarzizaPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477304002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Original t. p. reads: The adventures of a prisoner of war, and life and scenes in Federal prisons: Johnson's Island, Fort Delaware, and Point Lookout / by an escaped prisoner of Hood's Texas Brigade. Houston, Texas: Richardson & Owen's Printing Establishment, 1865.
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