Author: Henry Sinclair BrashearPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Brashear-Brashears Family, 1449-1919
Author: Henry Sinclair BrashearPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Brashear Story, a Family History
Author: Troy L. BackGoodspeed's Catalogue of Genealogy and Local History
Author: Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Author: Netti Schreiner-YantisPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Previous editions titled: Genealogical books in print
Biographical Books, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker CompanyPublisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN: 9780835216036
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1826
Book Description
"This book is a companion volume to Biographical books, 1950-1980, completing a comprehensive one hundred and five year bibliography of biographical and autobiographical works published or distributed in the United States"--Preface.
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge, Olde East New Jersey, 1664-1714
Author: Orra Eugene MonnettePublisher:
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation
Author: John BakerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416570330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook—two of them were his grandmother's grandparents. He began the lifelong research project that would become The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation, the fruit of more than thirty years of archival and field research and DNA testing spanning 250 years. A descendant of Wessyngton slaves, Baker has written the most accessible and exciting work of African American history since Roots. He has not only written his own family's story but included the history of hundreds of slaves and their descendants now numbering in the thousands throughout the United States. More than one hundred rare photographs and portraits of African Americans who were slaves on the plantation bring this compelling American history to life. Founded in 1796 by Joseph Washington, a distant cousin of America's first president, Wessyngton Plantation covered 15,000 acres and held 274 slaves, whose labor made it the largest tobacco plantation in America. Atypically, the Washingtons sold only two slaves, so the slave families remained intact for generations. Many of their descendants still reside in the area surrounding the plantation. The Washington family owned the plantation until 1983; their family papers, housed at the Tennessee State Library and Archives, include birth registers from 1795 to 1860, letters, diaries, and more. Baker also conducted dozens of interviews—three of his subjects were more than one hundred years old—and discovered caches of historic photographs and paintings. A groundbreaking work of history and a deeply personal journey of discovery, The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation is an uplifting story of survival and family that gives fresh insight into the institution of slavery and its ongoing legacy today.
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