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Author: Robert E. May Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813942152 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 389
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How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed, or is the story far more complex and troubling? In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes chilling account, Robert E. May chides the conventional wisdom for simplifying black perspectives, uncritically accepting southern white literary tropes about the holiday, and overlooking evidence not only that countless southern whites passed Christmases fearful that their slaves would revolt but also that slavery’s most punitive features persisted at holiday time. In Yuletide in Dixie, May uncovers a dark reality that not only alters our understanding of that history but also sheds new light on the breakdown of slavery in the Civil War and how false assumptions about slave Christmases afterward became harnessed to myths undergirding white supremacy in the United States. By exposing the underside of slave Christmases, May helps us better understand the problematic stereotypes of modern southern historical tourism and why disputes over Confederate memory retain such staying power today. A major reinterpretation of human bondage, Yuletide in Dixie challenges disturbing myths embedded deeply in our culture.
Author: Robert E. May Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813942152 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 389
Book Description
How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed, or is the story far more complex and troubling? In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes chilling account, Robert E. May chides the conventional wisdom for simplifying black perspectives, uncritically accepting southern white literary tropes about the holiday, and overlooking evidence not only that countless southern whites passed Christmases fearful that their slaves would revolt but also that slavery’s most punitive features persisted at holiday time. In Yuletide in Dixie, May uncovers a dark reality that not only alters our understanding of that history but also sheds new light on the breakdown of slavery in the Civil War and how false assumptions about slave Christmases afterward became harnessed to myths undergirding white supremacy in the United States. By exposing the underside of slave Christmases, May helps us better understand the problematic stereotypes of modern southern historical tourism and why disputes over Confederate memory retain such staying power today. A major reinterpretation of human bondage, Yuletide in Dixie challenges disturbing myths embedded deeply in our culture.
Author: Gary Warner Publisher: Hyperion ISBN: 9780786863686 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 366
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Relive the beauty and magic of daytime television's most romantic weddings with this pictorial history of ABC's greatest marital moments from "All My Children, General Hospital" and "One Life to Live". 200 color photos.
Author: Judy Christenberry Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1460367057 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 176
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Workaholic attorney Richard Anderson’s life was turned upside down when he became guardian to his orphaned nephew. He tried his best, but it was up to Molly Soderling, the boy’s beautiful nurse, to make this a very special Christmas. In Richard’s mansion Molly could pretend to have the family Christmas she’d always craved. She already loved the boy, but his broodingly handsome uncle was downright dangerous! Molly resisted temptation—till she made one mistake: she got caught under mistletoe….
Author: Kimberly Grell Publisher: Kimberly Grell ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
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Get ready to indulge on sweet romance! Sweet Romance Novellas Collection Two includes five romantic novellas that'll sure to warm your heart. Each novella contains the perfect amount of sweetness and remains clean for those who enjoy pure tenderness. This collection includes: Secret Valentine The Spy I Loved Secret Santa A Christmas Wedding Christmas by Design
Author: Kaci Lane Publisher: Kaci Lane Creations, LLC ISBN: 9781088012819 Category : Languages : en Pages : 232
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation meets Sweet Home Alabama when Christmas goes south in this redneck romantic comedy. I really want a ring before subjecting Collins to my redneck relatives. So I'm relieved when he has to work over the holidays. All I want is a low-key Christmas in Alabama with my family. Well, that and the snow I believe is coming. My perfect holiday is ruined the moment Collins shows up in my mama's kitchen ... escorted by my county sheriff ex-boyfriend. I can honestly say I haven't been this surprised since my cousin went to jail. Collins might be a successful surgeon in Atlanta, but I doubt he can last a few days in the small town of Wisteria, Alabama. However, if our love can withstand my gun-slinging, hog-killing family, then I'm sure we're destined to be together. We just have to make it through Christmas.
Author: J. Laura Chandler Publisher: LifeRich Publishing ISBN: 1489712933 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 196
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Belle can never outrun her guilt. One irrational act when her emotions were at their most vulnerable has placed her on a collision course with not only the law and the lives of strangers but the hearts of those she loved. Belle realizes her old life has to be placed in the past and her new life lived in total dependence upon God one day at a time or she will ruin the life of her child. She would die for this child, so why shouldnt she live for him? She struggles to protect their privacy when recognition and publicity promote her son as a child star. He becomes known as the Ghost Rider on national rodeo circuits. As Belles life evolves and meshes with a new husband and a daughter of their own, the battles in her head torment her until that dreaded day when her son forces her to face the truth of the past, a past that will release him to choose a new life. From the dark alleys of drugs and crime to the boardrooms of business moguls, you will catch a glimpse of Gods sovereignty and his thread of mercy and grace woven throughout the characters you will come to love.
Author: Amy Patricia Meade Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd ISBN: 1448305934 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 242
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Could a body found in a graveyard be linked to a tragic murder twenty-five years ago? Tish Tarragon is plunged into a new case when a fundraising dinner in the local church hall leads to a dark discovery. Literary caterer Tish Tarragon’s ‘heroines of literature’ fundraising dinner at St. Jude’s Episcopal Church is a resounding success. But as Tish walks through the graveyard to lock up the church hall, she takes a tumble . . . over a dead body. Retired Sheriff Gadsden Carney has been murdered. Not only that, he’s lying upon the Honeycutt family plot. Six-year-old Daisy Honeycutt was killed twenty-five years ago in a case that rocked Hobson Glen. Sheriff Carney was in charge of the investigation – and his murder looks suspiciously similar to young Daisy’s. Tish and Sheriff Reade discover that Gadsden was looking into the Honeycutt case again. Could his death be linked to Daisy’s murder all those years ago? Her killer died behind bars. Or so everyone thought . . .
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