Author: Netti Schreiner-Yantis
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: Louise Leslie
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9781570720314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 806

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Incredible in its attention to detail, this history of Tazewell County, Virginia—its people, towns, development, and progress—will prove a valuable addition to the libraries of natives, historians, and genealogists alike. The work delves into the original settling of the region and the discovery of vast coal deposits, especially the Pocahontas Coal Field.

Author: John C. Inscoe
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813171227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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African Americans have had a profound impact on the economy, culture, and social landscape of southern Appalachia but only after a surge of study in the last two decades have their contributions been recognized by white culture. Appalachians and Race brings together 18 essays on the black experience in the mountain South in the nineteenth century. These essays provide a broad and diverse sampling of the best work on race relations in this region. The contributors consider a variety of topics: black migration into and out of the region, educational and religious missions directed at African Americans, the musical influences of interracial contacts, the political activism of blacks during reconstruction and beyond, the racial attitudes of white highlanders, and much more. Drawing from the particulars of southern mountain experiences, this collection brings together important studies of the dynamics of race not only within the region, but throughout the South and the nation over the course of the turbulent nineteenth century.

Author: John Newton Harman
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Category : Tazewell County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Michael O. Tabor
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Category : Pioneers
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: William Cecil Pendleton
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 728

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Author: Henry H. Cole
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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Previous editions titled: Genealogical books in print

Author: Alexander Smyth
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813169534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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On January 14, 1806, Sidney Hanson was raped by John Deskins on a rough gravel path in the woods in Tazewell County, Virginia. In the early nineteenth century, trials for rape were rare. Scanty court records typically lacked the detail needed to reconstruct the lives of those involved and evaluate the social and physical setting of the crime. Yet the events on that fateful day in 1806 would be the exception. In A Rape in the Early Republic, Randal L. Hall reproduces the complete trial testimony of Alexander Smyth, the prosecutor for Hanson's trial. Smyth's detailed record offers a revealing glimpse into how early rape cases moved through the legal system, first at the local level and then in the state's recently created district court system. It also shows that Deskins was not the only one on trial -- Hanson's character was being scrutinized as well. Hall's introduction, rather than offering an analysis of Smyth's documents, provides important context and highlights historical themes that Hanson's situation illustrates. Featuring classroom discussion ideas and a list of suggested reading, A Rape in the Early Republic will be a valuable resource for students and scholars as well as anyone interested in gender, law, and society in the early republic.

Author: Mary Ellen Howe
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Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Richard Bailey was a descendant of James Bailey who lived in Henrico County, Virginia in 1736. Descendants lived in Virginia, California, Kentucky, Nebraska, West Virginia, and elsewhere.