Author: Laura Matilda TownePublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498151382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.
Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne
Author: Laura Matilda TownePublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498151382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.
Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne
Author: Laura Matilda TownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Climbing Up to Glory
Author: Wilbert L. JenkinsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842028172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Civil War was undeniably an integral event in American history, but for African Americans, whose personal liberties were dependent upon its outcome, it was an especially critical juncture. In Climbing Up to Glory, Wilbert L. Jenkins explores this defining period in a story that documents the journey of average African Americans as they struggled to reinvent their lives following the abolition of slavery. In this highly readable book, Jenkins examines the unflagging determination and inner strength of African Americans as they sought to construct a solid economic base for themselves and their families by establishing their own businesses and banks and strove to own their own land. He portrays the racial violence and other obstacles blacks endured as they pooled meager resources to institute and maintain their own schools and attempted to participate in the political process. Compelling and informative, Climbing Up to Glory is an unforgettable tribute to a glowing period in African-American history sure to enrich and inspire American and African-American history enthusiasts.
At the Feet of the Elders: A Journey into a Lowcountry Family History
Author: Darius M. BrownPublisher: Darius M. Brown
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The disintegration of slavery in the Lowcountry of South Carolina began with the federal occupation of Beaufort in 1861. After the Battle of Port Royal, slave owners fled their plantations, simultaneously freeing thousands of enslaved people who labored on cotton plantations throughout the Sea Islands of Beaufort County, South Carolina. Despite slavery destroying the knowledge of family histories in many African American families, Darius Brown illustrates the journey of his ancestors from the colonial period, American Civil War, and thereafter. In this book, the lives of his ancestors are illuminated with the use of archival records that shed light on their arrival from Africa, experiences during slavery, and their lives as freedmen. At the Feet of the Elders is an astonishing account that shows the resilience and perseverance of a people who were held tightly in the grip of chattel slavery. It honors the tradition of preserving oral histories, genetic genealogy, and serves as a template on how to reconstruct the lives of enslaved people.
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction
Author: Mary Ellen SnodgrassPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317457900
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1911
Book Description
The encyclopedia takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the history of the period. It includes general and specific entries on politics and business, labor, industry, agriculture, education and youth, law and legislative affairs, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, health and medicine, science and technology, exploration, life on the Western frontier, family life, slave life, Native American life, women, and more than a hundred influential individuals.
Emancipation
Author: Peter KolchinPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300273665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
In this sequel to his landmark study, historian Peter Kolchin compares the transition to freedom after American emancipation with the Russian Great Reforms The two largest transitions from unfree to free labor of the many that occurred in Europe and the Americas during the nineteenth century took place in the United States and in Russia. Both occurred in the 1860s, and in both the former slaves and serfs strove to maximize their autonomy and freedom while the former masters worked to preserve as many of their prerogatives as possible. Both were partially--but only partially--successful. In this magisterial and long-awaited work, historian Peter Kolchin shows that a more radical break with the past was possible in the United States than in Russia, with the Southern freedpeople coming to enjoy republican citizenship, whereas Russian peasants remained subjects rather than citizens. Both countries saw conservative reactions triumph in the late nineteenth century. While this conservatism was common in most emancipations, it was especially strong in Russia and the American South, in part as a reaction against the major efforts to restructure the social order that went by the name of Reconstruction in the United States and the Great Reforms in Russia.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1538
Book Description
Turning Points in American Church History
Author: Elesha J. CoffmanPublisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493445391
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"An excellent resource for those eager to learn more about the evolution of American Christianity."--Publishers Weekly American history has profoundly shaped, and been shaped by, Christianity. This engaging introduction provides a brisk and lively yet deeply researched survey of these intertwined forces from the colonial period to the present. Elesha Coffman tells the story of Christianity in the United States by focusing on 13 key events over four centuries of history. The turning points are as varied as the movements they track, including a naval battle, a revival, a schism, a court case, an outpouring of the Spirit, an act of terrorism, the election of a bishop, and the election of a president. Coffman highlights women and men from a range of traditions and shows how, throughout these events, Christians endeavored to discern what it meant to live faithfully in the diverse and rapidly changing place that became the United States. This book helps readers understand their own faith and the landscape of American religion. Each chapter includes a hymn, a prayer, relevant historical images, excerpts from primary sources, and resources for further reading. Foreword by Mark A. Noll.