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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The American Genealogist
Author: Virginians Reborn
Author: Jewel L. SpanglerPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813926797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Ultimately, the book chronicles a dual process of rebirth, as Virginians simultaneously formed a republic and became evangelical Christians.Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin
Author: Race and Liberty in the New Nation
Author: Eva Sheppard WolfPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807131946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
"By examining how ordinary Virginia citizens grappled with the vexing problem of slavery in a society dedicated to universal liberty, Eva Sheppard Wolf broadens our understanding of such important concepts as freedom, slavery, emancipation, and race in the early years of the American republic. She frames her study around the moment between slavery and liberty - emancipation - shedding new light on the complicated relations between whites and blacks in a slave society." "Wolf argues that during the post-Revolutionary period, white Virginians understood both liberty and slavery to be racial concepts more than political ideas. Through an in-depth analysis of archival records, particularly those dealing with manumission between 1782 and 1806, she reveals how these entrenched beliefs shaped both thought and behavior. In spite of qualms about slavery, white Virginians repeatedly demonstrated their unwillingness to abolish the institution." "The manumission law of 1782 eased restrictions on individual emancipation and made possible the liberation of thousands, but Wolf discovers that far fewer slaves were freed in Virginia than previously thought. Those who were emancipated posed a disturbing social, political, and even moral problem in the minds of whites. Where would ex-slaves fit in a society that could not conceive of black liberty? As Wolf points out, even those few white Virginians who proffered emancipation plans always suggested sending freed slaves to some other place. Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831 led to a public debate over ending slavery, after which discussions of emancipation in the Old Dominion largely disappeared as the eastern slaveholding elite tightened its grip on political power in the state." "This well-informed and carefully crafted book outlines important and heretofore unexamined changes in whites' views of blacks and liberty in the new nation. By linking the Revolutionary and antebellum eras, it shows how white attitudes hardened during the half-century that followed the declaration that "all men are created equal.""--BOOK JACKET.
The Effects of the French and Indian War on Civilian Life in the Frontier Counties of Virginia, 1754-1763
Author: Chester Raymond YoungPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Reformatted and Index added by Wesley E. Pippenger on behalf of the Virginia Genealogical Society.
Anywhere I Wander I Find Facts and Legends Relating to the Creel Family
Author: James Adolphus OwensPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Our American Adventure
Author: James Weeks TillerPublisher:
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
This book, a family history of Albert Carroll Tiller, is an effort to both reconnect and remind those specially and historically removed from their ancestral home and cultural roots, just who they are and where they came from. The emphasis is not on genealogy, but on the story of seven generations of a family, set in the historical and cultural context of their times.
Hamilton Family of Prince George's County, Maryland, to Monongalia and Preston Counties, (West) Virginia, Fayette County, Penna and Beyond
Author: John D. BaldwinThe Settle-Suttle Family
Author: William Emmet ReesePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Given by Joel S. Watkin.
Presbyterians, Baptists, and the Making of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1740-1820
Author: Jewel L. SpanglerPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description