Author: Abiel Abbot LivermorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilten (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
History of the Town of Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Author: Abiel Abbot LivermorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilten (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The Conquest of Labor
Author: Curtis J. EvansPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807156825
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Conquest of Labor offers the first biography of Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), a New Hampshire native who became one of the South's most important industrialists. After moving to Alabama in 1833, Pratt started a cotton gin factory near Montgomery that by the eve of the Civil War had become the largest in the world. Pratt became a household name in cotton-growing states, and Prattville-the site of his operations-one of the antebellum South's most celebrated manufacturing towns. Based on a rich cache of personal and business records, Curtis J. Evans's study of Daniel Pratt and his "Yankee" town in the heart of the Deep South challenges the conventional portrayal of the South as a premodern region hostile to industrialization and shows that, contrary to current popular thought, the South was not so markedly different from the North.
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Author: Somerville Public Library (Mass.).Publisher:
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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A History of Whitby, and Streoneshalh Abbey
Author: George YoungPublisher:
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Category : Whitby (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Connecticut 169 Club:
Author: Martin PodskochPublisher: Podskoch Press
ISBN: 9780997101928
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Colonial America and the War for Independence
Author: US Army Military History Research CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...
Author: History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut
Author: Edward Rodolphus LambertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Underground Railroad in Connecticut
Author: Horatio T. StrotherPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819572969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This account of fugitive slaves traveling through Connecticut “includes many stories from descendants of the underground agents . . . a definitive work.” —Hartford Courant Here are the engrossing facts about one of the least-known aspects of Connecticut’s history—the rise, organization, and operations of the Underground Railroad, over which fugitive slaves from the South found their way to freedom. Drawing his data from published sources and, perhaps more importantly, from the still-existing oral tradition of descendants of Underground agents, Horatio Strother tells the detailed story in this book, originally published in 1962. He traces the routes from entry points such as New Haven harbor and the New York state line, through important crossroads like Brooklyn and Farmington. Revealing the dangers fugitives faced, the author also identifies the high-minded lawbreakers who operated the system—farmers and merchants, local officials and judges, at least one United States Senator, and many dedicated ministers of the Gospel. These narratives are set against the larger background of the development of slavery and abolitionism in America—conversations still relevant today.
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