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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Southern Planter and Farmer
Author: Southern Planter & Farmer, Devoted to Argiculture, Horticulture and the Mining, Mechanic and Household Arts
Author: Southern Planter & Farmer, Devoted to Argiculture, Horticulture and the Mining, Mechanic and Household Arts
Author: Virginia State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Plain Folk of the Old South
Author: Frank Lawrence OwsleyPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807133422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley’s Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes—planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials—firsthand accounts such as diaries and the published observations of travelers and journalists; church records; and county records, including wills, deeds, tax lists, and grand-jury reports—to accurately reconstruct the prewar South’s large and significant “yeoman farmer” middle class. He follows the history of this group, beginning with their migration from the Atlantic states into the frontier South, charts their property holdings and economic standing, and tells of the rich texture of their lives: the singing schools and corn shuckings, their courtship rituals and revival meetings, barn raisings and logrollings, and contests of marksmanship and horsemanship such as “snuffing the candle,” “driving the nail,” and the “gander pull.” A new introduction by John B. Boles explains why this book remains the starting point today for the study of society in the Old South.
The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer
Author: James L. HustonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807159190
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
JAMES L. HUSTON is professor of history at Oklahoma State University and the author of The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War; Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765-1900; Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War ; and Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality.
The Southern Planter
Author: Southern Planter
Author: The Big House After Slavery
Author: Amy Feely MorsmanPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813930030
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Using newspapers, periodicals, organization records, and numerous letters from Virginia planation families, Morsman captures how these frustrated elites made sense of embarrassing postwar changes, in the private but also in the public spheres they inhabited. Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried away from the crumbling plantations by their adult children into the urban house-holds of the New South. --Book Jacket.
Slavery by Another Name
Author: Douglas A. BlackmonPublisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1848314132
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
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