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Author : Philip Barrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith written by Philip Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virginius Dabney
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813934303
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Richmond written by Virginius Dabney and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the growth of this historic community over nearly four centuries from its founding to its most recent urban and suburban developments.
Author : Meredith Henne Baker
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807143766
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Richmond Theater Fire written by Meredith Henne Baker and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of a melodramatic tale of bandits, ghosts, and murder, a small fire kindled behind the backdrop. Within minutes, it raced to the ceiling timbers and enveloped the audience in flames. The tragic Richmond Theater fire would inspire a national commemoration and become its generation's defining disaster. A vibrant and bustling city, Richmond was synonymous with horse races, gambling, and frivolity. The gruesome fire amplified the capital's reputation for vice and led to an upsurge in antitheater criticism that spread throughout the country and across the Atlantic. Clerics in both America and abroad urged national repentance and denounced the stage, a sentiment that nearly destroyed theatrical entertainment in Richmond for decades. Local churches, by contrast, experienced a rise in attendance and became increasingly evangelical. In The Richmond Theater Fire, the first book about the event and its aftermath, Meredith Henne Baker explores a forgotten catastrophe and its wide societal impact. The story of transformation comes alive through survivor accounts of slaves, actresses, ministers, and statesmen. Investigating private letters, diaries, and sermons, among other rare or unpublished documents, Baker views the event and its outcomes through the fascinating lenses of early nineteenth-century theater, architecture, and faith, and reveals a rich and vital untold story from America's past.
Author : Rachel Beanland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982186151
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The House Is on Fire written by Rachel Beanland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told from the perspectives of four people whose actions changed the course of history, this masterful work of historical fiction takes readers back to 1811 Richmond, Virginia, where, on the night after Christmas, the city's only theater burned to the ground, tearing apart a community.
Author : Lisa A. Freeman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812248732
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Antitheatricality and the Body Public written by Lisa A. Freeman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an exploration of antitheatrical incidents from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, Lisa A. Freeman demonstrates that at the heart of antitheatrical disputes lies a struggle over the character of the body politic that governs a nation and the bodies public that could be said to represent that nation.
Author : Marie Tyler-McGraw
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807844762
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (447 download)
Download or read book At the Falls written by Marie Tyler-McGraw and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of nearly four hundred years in the history of Richmond, Virginia, ranges from the first encounters between English colonists and Powhatan to the inauguration of Douglas Wilder, America's first elected African-American governor
Author : Philip Barret
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Deaf Shoemaker written by Philip Barret and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252054636
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book To Tell a Free Story written by William L. Andrews and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of Black autobiography from the colonial era through Emancipation. Beginning with the 1760 narrative by Briton Hammond, William L. Andrews explores first-person public writings by Black Americans. Andrews includes but also goes beyond slave narratives to analyze spiritual biographies, criminal confessions, captivity stories, travel accounts, interviews, and memoirs. As he shows, Black writers continuously faced the fact that northern whites often refused to accept their stories and memories as sincere, and especially distrusted portraits of southern whites as inhuman. Black writers had to silence parts of their stories or rely on subversive methods to make facts tellable while contending with the sensibilities of the white editors, publishers, and readers they relied upon and hoped to reach.
Author : Philip Barrett
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752402997
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Deaf Shoemaker and Other Stories written by Philip Barrett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Deaf Shoemaker and Other Stories by Philip Barrett
Author : Teresa Zackodnik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110869019X
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865: Volume 4, 1850–1865 written by Teresa Zackodnik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to ostensibly 'free' nation. This volume reframes mid-century African American literature and challenges our current understandings of both African American and American literature. It presents a fluid tradition that includes history, science, politics, economics, space and movement, the visual, and the sonic. Black writing was highly conscious of transnational and international politics, textual circulation, and revolutionary imaginaries. Chapters explore how Black literature was being produced and circulated; how and why it marked its relation to other literary and expressive traditions; what geopolitical imaginaries it facilitated through representation; and what technologies, including print, enabled African Americans to pursue such a complex and ongoing aesthetic and political project.
Author : Marie Tyler-McGraw
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145874535X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book An African Republic written by Marie Tyler-McGraw and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. Given that reality, who supported African colonization and why? No...
Author : Ryan K. Smith
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421439271
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Death and Rebirth in a Southern City written by Ryan K. Smith and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant example of public history, Death and Rebirth in a Southern City reveals how cemeteries can frame changes in politics and society across time.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Saillant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113562657X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Afro-Virginian History and Culture written by John Saillant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection offer new evidence and new conclusions on topics in the history of African Americans in Virginia such as the demography of early slave imports, the means used to regulate slave labor, the situation of female hired slaves in the backcountry, African American women in the Civil War era, and the Garveyite grassroots organizations of the 1920s.
Author : Eugene D. Genovese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501631
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Fatal Self-Deception written by Eugene D. Genovese and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders' paternalism had little to do with ostensible benevolence, kindness and good cheer. It grew out of the necessity to discipline and morally justify a system of exploitation. At the same time, this book also advocates the examination of masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants - a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew on the work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and black, suffered de facto slavery, and they championed the South's 'Christian slavery' as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern.
Author : Philip Barrett
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781511876438
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (764 download)
Download or read book Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith written by Philip Barrett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-04-26 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITHIN the narrow limits of a small wooden tenement, on one of the most retired and unfrequented lanes of the city of Richmond, lives and labors our hero--blacksmith. For more than threescore years has he been pursuing, in our city, his humble calling. And though his head is "silver'd o'er with age," even now the merry ring of Gilbert's anvil may be heard at early dawn, saying to many a tardy young man--Be diligent in business. At his door hangs a sign painted in rude, uncouth letters. It is made of sheet iron; perhaps to save expense, perhaps to gratify the love of the old blacksmith for the metal which has so long yielded him a support. Here is the sign--
Author : Charles F. Irons
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888893
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Proslavery Christianity written by Charles F. Irons and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with those of African descent, they nonetheless emerged as the most effective defenders of race-based slavery. As Charles Irons persuasively argues, white evangelicals' ideas about slavery grew directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals. Set in Virginia, the largest slaveholding state and the hearth of the southern evangelical movement, this book draws from church records, denominational newspapers, slave narratives, and private letters and diaries to illuminate the dynamic relationship between whites and blacks within the evangelical fold. Irons reveals that when whites theorized about their moral responsibilities toward slaves, they thought first of their relationships with bondmen in their own churches. Thus, African American evangelicals inadvertently shaped the nature of the proslavery argument. When they chose which churches to join, used the procedures set up for church discipline, rejected colonization, or built quasi-independent congregations, for example, black churchgoers spurred their white coreligionists to further develop the religious defense of slavery.
