Author: Angela Boswell Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 9781585441280 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 220
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Deeds, wills, divorce decrees, and other evidence of the public lives of nineteenth-century women belie the long-held beliefs of their public invisibility. Angela Boswell's Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 follows the threads of Southern women's lives as they weave through the public records of one Texas county during the middle of the nineteenth century. Her unique approach to exploring women's roles in a South that spanned the frontier, antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras illuminates the truths of the feminine world of those periods, and her analysis of this set of complete public records for those years challenges the theory of men's and women's separate spheres of influence, as advanced by many scholars. The world Boswell reconstructs allows readers a more egalitarian, multicultural look at life: working class and poor women, both black and white, join their more affluent sisters in the pages of the Colorado County, Texas, courthouse records. Those same records reveal that the men of that world--most of them planters or farmers, the majority of them owning at least a few slaves--are a force for women to reckon with, both in public and at home. The almost constant presence of men in the home and their need to uphold the dominant, slave-holding hierarchy produced a patriarchy more pervasive than that experienced by women in the urban north. Eminently readable and accessible to scholars and general readers alike, Her Act and Deed represents a welcome addition to the classroom, to the scholar's library, and to Texas history collections.
Author: Robert T. Devlin Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781333454203 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 748
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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Deeds, Vol. 2 of 3: Their Form, Requisites, Execution, Acknowledgment, Registration, Construction and Effect; Covering the Alienation of Title to Real Property by Voluntary Transfer; Together With Chapters on Tax Deeds and Sheriff's Deeds Dec. 516; Graham v. Long, 65 Pa. St. 383; Little v. Dodge, 32 Ark. 453; Shryock v. Cannon, 39 Ark. 434; Dengenhart v. Cracraft, 36 Ohio St. 549; Purcell v. Goshorn, 17 Ohio, 105; 49 Am. Dec. 448; Chesnut v. Shane. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Emily Pearson Publisher: Gibbs Smith ISBN: 1423614313 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 50
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This illustrated children’s book celebrates the extraordinary potential of ordinary deeds—showing how one child’s act of kindness can change the world One ordinary day, Ordinary Mary stumbles upon some ordinary blueberries. When she decides to pick them for her neighbor, Mrs. Bishop, her thoughtful act starts a chain reaction that multiplies around the world. Mrs. Bishop makes blueberry muffins and gives them to her paperboy and four others—one of whom is Mr. Stevens, who then helps five different people with their luggage—one of whom is Maria, who then helps five other people—and so on, until the deed comes back to Mary.
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