Author: John VogtPublisher: Borgo Press
ISBN: 9780809582433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Albemarle County, Virginia Marriages, 1780-1853
Author: John VogtPublisher: Borgo Press
ISBN: 9780809582433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Albemarle County in Virginia
Author: Edgar WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Albemarle County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Sallie's Story
Author: Jan HensleyPublisher:
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Category : Albemarle County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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From Slave to Statesman
Author: Robert HeinrichPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807162663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
In the 1980s, Willis McGlascoe Carter’s handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of a midwestern antiques dealer. Its twenty-two pages told a fascinating story of a man born into slavery in Virginia who, at the onset of freedom, gained an education, became a teacher, started a family, and edited a newspaper. Even his life as a slave seemed exceptional: he described how his owners treated him and his family with respect, and he learned to read and write. Tucked into its back pages, the memoir included a handwritten tribute to Carter, written by his fellow teachers upon his death. Robert Heinrich and Deborah Harding’s From Slave to Statesman tells the extraordinary story of Willis M. Carter’s life. Using Carter’s brief memoir--one of the few extant narratives penned by a former slave--as a starting point, Heinrich and Harding fill in the abundant gaps in his life, providing unique insight into many of the most important events and transformations in this period of southern history. Carter was born a slave in 1852. Upon gaining freedom after the Civil War, Carter, like many former slaves, traveled in search of employment and education. He journeyed as far as Rhode Island and then moved to Washington, DC, where he attended night school before entering and graduating from Wayland Seminary. He continued on to Staunton, Virginia, where he became a teacher and principal in the city’s African American schools, the editor of the Staunton Tribune, a leader in community and state civil rights organizations, and an activist in the Republican Party. Carter served as an alternate delegate to the 1896 Republican National Convention, and later he helped lead the battle against Virginia’s new state constitution, which white supremacists sought to use as a means to disenfranchise blacks. As part of that campaign, Carter traveled to Richmond to address delegates at the constitutional convention, serving as chairman of a committee that advocated voting rights and equal public education for African Americans. Although Carter did not live to see Virginia adopt its new Jim Crow constitution, he died knowing that he had done all in his power to stop it. From Slave to Statesman fittingly resurrects Carter’s all-but-forgotten story, adding immeasurably to our understanding of the journey that he and men like him took out of slavery into a world of incredible promise and powerful disappointment.
Notorious in the Neighborhood
Author: Joshua D. RothmanPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807863122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In Notorious in the Neighborhood, Joshua Rothman examines the full spectrum of interracial sexual relationships under slavery--from Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the intertwined interracial families of Monticello and Charlottesville to commercial sex in Richmond, the routinized sexual exploitation of enslaved women, and adultery across the color line. He explores the complex considerations of legal and judicial authorities who handled cases involving illicit sex and describes how the customary toleration of sex across the color line both supported and undermined racism and slavery in the early national and antebellum South. White Virginians allowed for an astonishing degree of flexibility and fluidity within a seemingly rigid system of race and interracial relations, Rothman argues, and the relationship between law and custom regarding racial intermixture was always shifting. As a consequence, even as whites never questioned their own racial supremacy, the meaning and significance of racial boundaries, racial hierarchy, and ultimately of race itself always stood on unstable ground--a reality that whites understood and about which they demonstrated increasing anxiety as the nation's sectional crisis intensified.
They Went Thataway
Author: Charles Hughes HamlinPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806305886
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Composed almost entirely of abstracts of wills, deeds, marriage records, powers of attorney, court orders, church records, cemetery records, tax records, guardianship accounts, etc., this unique work provides substantive evidence of the migration of individuals and families to Virginia or from Virginia to other states, countries, or territories. Although primarily concerned with Virginians, the data are of wide-ranging interest. England, France, Germany, Scotland, Barbados, Jamaica, and twenty-three American states are represented, all entries splendidly tied to court sources and authorities. Each record provides prima facie evidence of places of origin and removal, irrefutably linking individuals to both their old and their new homes, and incidentally naming parents and kinsmen, all 10,000 of whom are listed in alphabetical order in the indexes. It is a safe observation that half of the records, having been exhumed from the most improbable sources (some augmented by the compiler's personal files), are the only ones in existence which can prove the ancestor's identity and origin.
The Overseers of Early American Slavery
Author: Laura R. SandyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000048969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequently dismissed as brutal and incompetent, they defy easy categorisation. Some were rogues, yet others were highly skilled professionals, farmers, and artisans. Some were themselves enslaved. They and their wives, with whom they often formed supervisory partnerships, were caught between disdainful planters and defiant enslaved labourers, as they sought to advance their ambitions. Their history, revealed here in unprecedented detail, illuminates the complex power struggles and interplay of class and race in a volatile slave society.
Col. Jefferson F. Jones of the Kingdom of Callaway
Author: Lyde Black JonesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Col. Jefferson Franklin Jones (1817-1879), son of Thomas G. Jones and Rececca Buxton Snedicor, was born in Montgomery Co., Ky., and died in Callaway Co., Missori. He was married to Sally Ann Jameson (1828-1888) in 1844 in Callaway County. She was born in Fulton, Callaway Co., to Samuel Jameson and Malinda Harris. They were parents of sixteen children. Descendants live in Alabama, Missouri, Ohio, New York and elsewhere. The earliest Jones ancestor, Mosias Jones (d. bef. 1728), died in New Kent Co., Va. and married ca. 1719 Lucy Foster (1697-1750) of New Kent Co., Virginia.
Virginia Ancestors and Adventurers
Author: Charles Hughes HamlinPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806306424
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Information was transcribed or abstracted from many counties in Virginia. Some information is included for North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.
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