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ISBN:
Category : Patriotic societies
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The American Historical Register
Minutes of the Council of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America ...
Author: Register of the Maryland Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1891-1915
Author: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of MarylandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publication
Author: Two Charlestonians at War
Author: Barbara L. BellowsPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807169110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Tracing the intersecting lives of a Confederate plantation owner and a free black Union soldier, Barbara L. Bellows’ Two Charlestonians at War offers a poignant allegory of the fraught, interdependent relationship between wartime enemies in the Civil War South. Through the eyes of these very different soldiers, Bellows brings a remarkable, new perspective to the oft-told saga of the Civil War. Recounted in alternating chapters, the lives of Charleston natives born a mile a part, Captain Thomas Pinckney and Sergeant Joseph Humphries Barquet, illuminate one another’s motives for joining the war as well as the experiences that shaped their worldviews. Pinckney, a rice planter and scion of one of America’s founding families, joined the Confederacy in hope of reclaiming an idealized agrarian past; and Barquet, a free man of color and brick mason, fought with the Union to claim his rights as an American citizen. Their circumstances set the two men on seemingly divergent paths that nonetheless crossed on the embattled coast of South Carolina. Born free in 1823, Barquet grew up among Charleston’s tight-knit community of the “colored elite.” During his twenties, he joined the northward exodus of free blacks leaving the city and began his nomadic career as a tireless campaigner for black rights and abolition. In 1863, at age forty, he enlisted in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry—the renowned “Glory” regiment of northern black men. His varied challenges and struggles, including his later frustrated attempts to play a role in postwar Republican politics in Illinois, provide a panoramic view of the free black experience in nineteenth-century America. In contrast to the questing Barquet, Thomas Pinckney remained deeply connected to the rice fields and maritime forests of South Carolina. He greeted the arrival of war by establishing a home guard to protect his family’s Santee River plantations that would later integrate into the 4th South Carolina Cavalry. After the war, Pinckney distanced himself from the racist violence of Reconstruction politics and focused on the daunting task of restoring his ruined plantations with newly freed laborers. The two Charlestonians’ chance encounter on Morris Island, where in 1864 Sergeant Barquet stood guard over the captured Captain Pinckney, inspired Bellows’ compelling narrative. Her extensive research adds rich detail to our knowledge of the dynamics between whites and free blacks during this tumultuous era. Two Charlestonians at War gives readers an intimate depiction of the ideological distance that might separate American citizens even as their shared history unites them.
The Register of the New Jersey Society of the Colonial Dames of America
Author: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of New JerseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Hereditary Register of the United States of America
Author: Black Charlestonians
Author: Bernard E. PowersPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557285837
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Legacy of Reconstruction: A Postscript -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
The American Historical Register and Monthly Gazette of the Historic, Military and Patriotic-hereditary Societies of the United States of America
Author: A Gentleman of Color
Author: Julie WinchPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190282193
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia. Soon after Forten emerged as a leader in Philadelphia's black community and was active in a wide range of reform activities. Especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, he served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society and became close friends with William Lloyd Garrison to whom he lent money to start up the Liberator. His family were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the pantheon of African Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.