Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368734458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the Years 1773-1828
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368734458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Slave against Slave
Author: Jeff ForretPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807161136
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 711
Book Description
In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until after Reconstruction, contemporary records bear witness to its regular presence among enslaved populations. Slave against Slave explores the roots of and motivations for such violence and the ways in which slaves, masters, churches, and civil and criminal laws worked to hold it in check. Far from focusing on violence alone, Forret’s work also adds depth to our understanding of morality among the enslaved, revealing how slaves sought to prevent violence and punish those who engaged in it. Forret mines a vast array of slave narratives, slaveholders’ journals, travelers’ accounts, and church and court records from across the South to approximate the prevalence of slave-against-slave violence prior to the Civil War. A diverse range of motives for these conflicts emerges, from tensions over status differences, to disagreements originating at work and in private, to discord relating to the slave economy and the web of debts that slaves owed one another, to courtship rivalries, marital disputes, and adulterous affairs. Forret also uncovers the role of explicitly gendered violence in bondpeople’s constructions of masculinity and femininity, suggesting a system of honor among slaves that would have been familiar to southern white men and women, had they cared to acknowledge it. Though many generations of scholars have examined violence in the South as perpetrated by and against whites, the internal clashes within the slave quarters have remained largely unexplored. Forret’s analysis of intraracial slave conflicts in the Old South examines narratives of violence in slave communities, opening a new line of inquiry into the study of American slavery.
The Church at Home and Abroad
Author: Inventory of the Church Archives of North Carolina
Author: The True Image
Author: Daniel W. PattersonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807837539
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches in the piedmont of the two Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania. Most are the vulnerable legacy of three generations of the Bigham family, Scotch Irish stonecutters whose workshop near Charlotte created the earliest surviving art of British settlers in the region. In The True Image, Daniel Patterson documents the craftsmanship of this group and the current appearance of the stones. In two hundred of his photographs, he records these stones for future generations and compares their iconography and inscriptions with those of other early monuments in the United States, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Combining his reading of the stones with historical records, previous scholarship, and rich oral lore, Patterson throws new light on the complex culture and experience of the Scotch Irish in America. In so doing, he explores the bright and the dark sides of how they coped with challenges such as backwoods conditions, religious upheavals, war, political conflicts, slavery, and land speculation. He shows that headstones, resting quietly in old graveyards, can reveal fresh insights into the character and history of an influential immigrant group.
Guide to Vital Statistics Records of Churches in New York State (exclusive of New York City)
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.). New York (State)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church archives
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Presbyterian Gathering on Clear Creek
Author: Russell Martin KerrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
James K. Polk, Vol 1. Jacksonian
Author: Charles Grier SellersPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400877881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
This full account is of Polk's important pre-presidential career. Since Polk was immersed in so many of the major political developments of his day-the rise of popular democracy, the conflicts over the national bank and other crucial issues of Jackson’s administrations, and after 1835 the fateful emergence of sectional animosities-his biography is also a history of his generation’s political experience. Professor Sellers has combined the elements with a sure hand, bringing out Polk’s character-his ambition, his determination, his faith in the electorate-and the nature of his friends, his enemies, and the times in which he moved. One feature of the work is the light it throws on the relation between national politics and those in Tennessee. Originally published in 1957. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
To Dwell Together in Unity
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Inventory of the Church Archives of Virginia
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This inventory of the Church Archives of Virginia, Negro Baptist Churches in Richmond, is the second publication in the church series of the Historical Records Survey of Virginia. It is based, as far as possible, on primary sources. These sources have been supplemented by statements made to our researchers by officers and members of the churches, whose archives were surveyed, and by officers of the associations to which the churches belong. -- Preface.