Author: Bruce Myers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944619230
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842029254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.

Author: Curtis J. Evans
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807156833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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The Conquest of Labor offers the first biography of Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), a New Hampshire native who became one of the South's most important industrialists. After moving to Alabama in 1833, Pratt started a cotton gin factory near Montgomery that by the eve of the Civil War had become the largest in the world. Pratt became a household name in cotton-growing states, and Prattville-the site of his operations-one of the antebellum South's most celebrated manufacturing towns. Based on a rich cache of personal and business records, Curtis J. Evans's study of Daniel Pratt and his "Yankee" town in the heart of the Deep South challenges the conventional portrayal of the South as a premodern region hostile to industrialization and shows that, contrary to current popular thought, the South was not so markedly different from the North.

Author: Cornelia Wendell Bush
Publisher: Cornelia Wendell Bush
ISBN: 9781597150255
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Persons with the surname McRae, or several variations thereof, are listed by state. Information was taken mainly from U.S. censuses from 1790 to 1850.

Author: Henry Goings
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813932386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author eventually procured freedom papers from a man he resembled and took the man’s name, Henry Goings. His life story takes us on an epic journey, traveling from his Virginia birthplace through the cotton kingdom of the Lower South, and upon his escape from slavery, through Tennessee and Kentucky, then on to the Great Lakes region of the North and to Canada. His Rambles show that slaves were found not only in fields but also on the nation’s roads and rivers, perpetually in motion in massive coffles or as solitary runaways. A freedom narrative as well as a slave narrative, this compact yet detailed book illustrates many important developments in antebellum America, such as the large-scale forced migration of enslaved people from long-established slave societies in the eastern United States to new settlements on the cotton frontier, the political-economic processes that framed that migration, and the accompanying human anguish. Goings’s life and reflections serve as important primary documents of African American life and of American national expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This edition features an informative and insightful introduction by Calvin Schermerhorn.

Author: Kevin Paul Thompson
Publisher: Kevin P. Thompson
ISBN: 0944619991
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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Author: Robin Sterling
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304330494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Mary Gordon Duffee wrote in 1892: "When the drums beat, and the bugles called for men to march to the front, I tell you old Blount responded nobly, and sent hundreds of her gallant sons to march, fight, suffer and die for the flag that now lies furled forever." This series of books identifies Confederate soldiers who enlisted from the Blount County area, plus those who moved to Blount County after the Civil War. Company rosters are captured and service records, pension applications, birth dates, spouses and marriage dates, newspaper clippings and obituaries, and pictures are contained in these volumes. This is the first time ever all this information has been available in a single reference book. Cavalry companies examined here include: 12th Alabama Cavalry, Companies B and C; 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Company G; Lewis Battalion Alabama Cavalry, Companies B and E; Graves, Barbiere, and Stewart's Alabama Cavalry; Holloway's Escort; and the 3rd Confederate Cavalry, Company D.

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Category : Middle West
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: Robin Sterling
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304218317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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includes the list of questions asked of the original claimants, and the line by line transcription of all existing claims for Winston County made to the Southern Claims Commission.