Author: George Lewis MarisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Maris Family in the United States
Author: George Lewis MarisQuakers and the American Family : British Settlement in the Delaware Valley
Author: Amherst Barry Levy Assistant Professor of History University of MassachusettsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198021674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Americans have an unusually strong family ideology. We believe that morally self-sufficient nuclear households must serve as the foundation of a republican society. In this brilliant history, Barry Levy traces this contemporary view of family life all the way back to the Quakers. _____ Levy argues that the Quakers brought a new vision of family and social life to America--one that contrasted sharply with the harsh, formal world of the Puritans in New England. The Quaker emphasis was on affection, friendship and hospitality. They stressed the importance of women in the home, and of self-disciplined, non-coercive childrearing. _____ This book explains how and why the Quakers' had such a profound cultural impact (and why more so in Pennsylvania and America than in England); and what the Quakers' experience with their own radical family system can tell us about American family ideology. ______ Who were the Northwest British Quakers and why did their family system so impress English, French, and New England reformers--Voltaire, Crevecouer, Brissot, Emerson, George Bancroft, Lydia Maria Child, and Lousia May Alcott, to name just a few? To answer this question, Levy tells the story of a large group of Quaker farmers from their development of a new family and communal life in England in the 1650s to their emigration and experience in Pennsylvania between 1681 and 1790. The book is thus simultaneously a trans-Atlantic community study of the migration and transplantation of ordinary British peoples in the tradition of Sumner Chilton Powell's Puritan Village; the story of the formation and development of a major Anglo-American faith; and an exploration of the origins of American family ideology.
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Author: The American Genealogist, Being a Catalogue of Family Histories
Author: The American Genealogist
Author: American and English Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
American and English genealogies in the Library of Congress. Preliminary catalogue. Compiled under the direction of the chief of the catalogue division
Author: A List of Some American Genealogies which Have Been Printed in Book Form
Author: Family Bonds
Author: Ted Maris-WolfPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620081
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved ones behind for freedom elsewhere or seek a way to remain in their communities, even by renouncing legal freedom. Maris-Wolf paints an intimate portrait of these people whose lives, liberty, and use of Virginia law offer new understandings of race and place in the upper South. Maris-Wolf shows how free African Americans quietly challenged prevailing notions of racial restriction and exclusion, weaving themselves into the social and economic fabric of their neighborhoods and claiming, through unconventional or counterintuitive means, certain basic rights of residency and family. Employing records from nearly every Virginia county, he pieces together the remarkable lives of Watkins Love, Jane Payne, and other African Americans who made themselves essential parts of their communities and, in some cases, gave up their legal freedom in order to maintain family and community ties.
A History of the Henry and Hackley Families
Author: Bessie HenryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Michael Wesley Hackley (1834-1922) was born in Columbiana, Ohio and was the son of Michael Henry and Susannah Lewis. He married Nancy Jane Hackley 28 February 1861. They had eight children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ireland, Scotland, Virginia and Ohio.