Author: Worth Stickley RayPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806302852
Category : Caswell County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Given by Eugene Edge III.
Colonial Granville County and Its People
Author: Worth Stickley RayPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806302852
Category : Caswell County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Given by Eugene Edge III.
John Chavis
Author: Helen Chavis OthowPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786408184
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
John Chavis had a profound impact upon the history of North Carolina, the life of African Americans, and the course of religion in America. Born in 1763, Chavis fought in the American Revolution and studied at Princeton, becoming the first black person ordained as a missionary minister in the Presbyterian church. Many of those who learned from his teachings were white, and many of the students in his Latin grammar school were the sons of prominent North Carolinians. His lifelong relationship with his students created connections with some of the most powerful individuals of the nineteenth century, and his religious writings can still stir the soul more than 150 years after his death. Chavis's story illustrates the power of faith, intelligence, and determination to overcome the precariousness of life for a free black man in this era. This account of Chavis's life, the result of research by one of his descendants, presents a thorough examination of his life, his work, and the world in which he lived. Also included is the full text of John Chavis's Letter Upon the Doctrine of the Extent of the Atonement of Christ (1837), long considered lost by many of his biographers.
Carolina Cradle
Author: Robert W. RamseyPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469616793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This account of the settlement of one segment of the North Carolina frontier -- the land between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers -- examines the process by which the piedmont South was populated. Through its ingenious use of hundreds of sources and documents, Robert Ramsey traces the movement of the original settlers and their families from the time they stepped onto American shores to their final settlement in the northwest Carolina territory. He considers the economic, religious, social, and geographical influences that led the settlers to Rowan County and describes how this frontier community was organized and supervised.
North Carolina Genealogy
Author: Ray's Index and Digest to Hathaway's North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register
Author: Worth Stickley RayPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806304790
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Reprint of: The Lost Tribes of North Carolina, Part I. Originally published: Austin, Texas: 1945.
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases
The Family Tree of Clois Miles Rainwater and Nancy Jane McIlhaney
Author: Susan RainwaterPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304719022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A genealogical work covering the origins of one Texas family; Clois Miles Rainwater and Nancy Jane McIlhaney. Includes genealogical research, historical photos, personal anecdotes, and register reports.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
The North Carolina Historical Review
Author: The Evils of Necessity
Author: Eric Robert PapenfusePublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871698711
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825), a prominent attorney congressman from South Carolina & Maryland, was one of the most influential Federalists of the early national period. Harper is traditionally remembered as an extreme example of unthinking, reactionary conservatism in an era of intense partisanship & bitter sectional conflict. In this lively, revisionist account, Eric Robert Papenfuse reinterprets Harper's political philosophy in light of his personal struggle with the moral dilemma of slavery. Papenfuse uses newly discovered documents to show how Harper rose to power among back country South Carolinians as both an advocate of innate racial equality & a proponent of the gradual end to slavery's westward expansion. Though deeply troubled by slavery's irremediable moral & political evils, Harper accepted the system as a temporary necessity, & turned his efforts to achieving social progress through the education of lower-class white Americans & the "emancipation" of European peasants from Napoleonic tyranny. The establishment of the American Colonization Society in 1816 renewed Harper's commitment to resolving the problem of slavery by educating blacks & transporting them to an environment free from white racial prejudice, where they might one day become a "great nation." By conveniently reproducing & indexing four of Harper's most important speeches & letters, Papenfuse invites readers to examine for themselves a fundamental paradox of the age: how an abiding conviction that all races were inherently equal could allow for such forced rationalizations, painful self-deceptions, & maddening compromises.