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Book Synopsis Norris and Thomson Families' Papers by : Lesley family
Download or read book Norris and Thomson Families' Papers written by Lesley family and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family correspondence, cipher books, account books, and business papers. Includes correspondence and other papers, relating to Jesse Ward Norris (1817-1899) while a student at University of Virginia (1839-1840), his wife, Anna Louise Lesley (b. 1828), and the Lesley family of Abbeville County, S.C., his son-in-law, John White Thomson (1843-1924), and Martha Lesley Norris (1854-1926) while a student at Due West Female College, Due West, S.C. (1869-1871); minutes and financial and membership records (1873-1882) of Anderson County Grange No. 71; financial records (1854-1872) of Varennes Presbyterian Church, Varennes, S.C.; and records (1851-1863) of South Carolina Militia, 4th Infantry Regiment, Beat No. 2. Other places represented include Alabama, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas.
Book Synopsis Papers of the Norris and Thomson Families by : Jesse Ward Norris
Download or read book Papers of the Norris and Thomson Families written by Jesse Ward Norris and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bound volumes include cyphering books, 1829-1830 and undated, of J.W. Norris; account book, 1840-1869, for Thomson's Store, Varennes, Anderson District; and volume, 1851-1863, containing militia records of Beat No. 2, 2nd Battalion, 4th Regiment, South Carolina Militia, including a list of those exempt from duty, a map showing boundaries, and an 1861 census roll of males living within boundaries.
Download or read book Norris Family Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters written by and to Kathleen and Charles Gilman Norris; a few manuscripts of her stories and articles; edited draft of the transcript of her oral history interview done for the University of California. Berkeley; biographical and bibliographical data; contracts and publishing agreements for both, with related papers; some financial records; clippings; genealogical information for the Norris, Thompson and Benét families; and a few papers of Kathleen Norris' parents and other family members. Several letters in the collection addressed to Rosemary Benét Dawson, Mrs. Norris's niece.
Book Synopsis Kathleen Norris and Charles Gilman Norris Family Papers by : Kathleen Thompson Norris
Download or read book Kathleen Norris and Charles Gilman Norris Family Papers written by Kathleen Thompson Norris and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal and professional correspondence of Charles and Kathleen Norris, including a series of letters they wrote to each other prior to their marriage; manuscripts of articles, short stories, novels, plays, biographical materials, and other writings; miscellaneous documents, including financial and estate papers, copyright certificates, literary contracts, reviews, clippings, notebooks, biographical and family information, and the Norris's wedding announcement (April 30, 1909). Also includes materials related to the Thompson, Benét, and Dawson families.
Book Synopsis Norris Family Papers and Official Records Concerning the Fair Hill Estate by : Joseph Parker Norris
Download or read book Norris Family Papers and Official Records Concerning the Fair Hill Estate written by Joseph Parker Norris and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Sympathy written by Caleb Crain and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A friend in history,” Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “looks like some premature soul.” And in the history of friendship in early America, Caleb Crain sees the soul of the nation’s literature. In a sensitive analysis that weaves together literary criticism and historical narrative, Crain describes the strong friendships between men that supported and inspired some of America’s greatest writing--the Gothic novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the novels of Herman Melville. He traces the genealogy of these friendships through a series of stories. A dapper English spy inspires a Quaker boy to run away from home. Three Philadelphia gentlemen conduct a romance through diaries and letters in the 1780s. Flighty teenager Charles Brockden Brown metamorphoses into a horror novelist by treating his friends as his literary guinea pigs. Emerson exchanges glances with a Harvard classmate but sacrifices his crush on the altar of literature--a decision Margaret Fuller invites him to reconsider two decades later. Throughout this engaging book, Crain demonstrates the many ways in which the struggle to commit feelings to paper informed the shape and texture of American literature.
Download or read book Slave Patrols written by Sally E. Hadden and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Obscured from our view of slaves and masters in America is a critical third party: the state, with its coercive power. This book completes the grim picture of slavery by showing us the origins, the nature, and the extent of slave patrols in Virginia and the Carolinas from the late seventeenth century through the end of the Civil War. Here we see how the patrols, formed by county courts and state militias, were the closest enforcers of codes governing slaves throughout the South. Mining a variety of sources, Sally Hadden presents the views of both patrollers and slaves as she depicts the patrols, composed of “respectable” members of society as well as poor whites, often mounted and armed with whips and guns, exerting a brutal and archaic brand of racial control inextricably linked to post–Civil War vigilantism and the Ku Klux Klan. City councils also used patrollers before the war, and police forces afterward, to impose their version of race relations across the South, making the entire region, not just plantations, an armed camp where slave workers were controlled through terror and brutality."
Book Synopsis African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900 by : W. J. Megginson
Download or read book African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900 written by W. J. Megginson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on little-used state and county denominational records, privately held research materials, and sources available only in local repositories, W. J. Megginson brings to life African American society before, during, and after the Civil War. He portrays relationships - variously cordial, patronizing, and harsh - between African Americans and whites; the lives of free people of color; the primal place of sharecropping in the post-Civil War world; and the push for education and ownership of property as the only means of overcoming economic dependency."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book Synopsis Becoming Bourgeois by : Frank J. Byrne
Download or read book Becoming Bourgeois written by Frank J. Byrne and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-10-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the group falling between the mass of yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the political economy of the antebellum South. Historian Frank J. Byrne investigates the experiences of urban merchants, village storekeepers, small-scale manufacturers, and their families, as well as the contributions made by this merchant class to the South's economy, culture, and politics in the decades before, and the years of, the Civil War. These merchant families embraced the South but were not of the South. At a time when Southerners rarely traveled far from their homes, merchants annually ventured forth on buying junkets to northern cities. Whereas the majority of Southerners enjoyed only limited formal instruction, merchant families often achieved a level of education rivaled only by the upper class -- planters. The southern merchant community also promoted the kind of aggressive business practices that New South proponents would claim as their own in the Reconstruction era and beyond. Along with discussion of these modern approaches to liberal capitalism, Byrne also reveals the peculiar strains of conservative thought that permeated the culture of southern merchants. While maintaining close commercial ties to the North, southern merchants embraced the religious and racial mores of the South. Though they did not rely directly upon slavery for their success, antebellum merchants functioned well within the slave-labor system. When the Civil War erupted, southern merchants simultaneously joined Confederate ranks and prepared to capitalize on the war's business opportunities, regardless of the outcome of the conflict. Throughout Becoming Bourgeois, Byrne highlights the tension between these competing elements of southern merchant culture. By exploring the values and pursuits of this emerging class, Byrne not only offers new insight into southern history but also deepens our understanding of the mutable ties between regional identity and the marketplace in nineteenth-century America.
Download or read book Never Surrender written by W. Scott Poole and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near Appomattox, during a cease-fire in the final hours of the Civil War, Confederate general Martin R. Gary harangued his troops to stand fast and not lay down their arms. Stinging the soldiers' home-state pride, Gary reminded them that "South Carolinians never surrender." By focusing on a reactionary hotbed within a notably conservative state--South Carolina's hilly western "upcountry"--W. Scott Poole chronicles the rise of a post-Civil War southern culture of defiance whose vestiges are still among us. The society of the rustic antebellum upcountry, Poole writes, clung to a set of values that emphasized white supremacy, economic independence, masculine honor, evangelical religion, and a rejection of modernity. In response to the Civil War and its aftermath, this amorphous tradition cohered into the Lost Cause myth, by which southerners claimed moral victory despite military defeat. It was a force that would undermine Reconstruction and, as Poole shows in chapters on religion, gender, and politics, weave its way into nearly every dimension of white southern life. The Lost Cause's shadow still looms over the South, Poole argues, in contemporary controversies such as those over the display of the Confederate flag. Never Surrender brings new clarity to the intellectual history of southern conservatism and the South's collective memory of the Civil War.
Book Synopsis John Thompson Norris Papers by : John Thompson Norris
Download or read book John Thompson Norris Papers written by John Thompson Norris and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter, 9 July 1871, from Flora Keith [Overman], Oak Grove, Anderson County, S.C., re the illness of her grandmother; obituaries of Elizabeth Halfacre Norris; photograph of First Lieutenant W.C. Norris, Orr's Regiment of Rifles, S.C. Volunteers; copy photographs of John T. Norris and Elizabeth Halfacre Norris taken by W.H. Wiseman, Newberry, S.C.
Book Synopsis National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections by : Library of Congress
Download or read book National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on reports from American repositories of manuscripts.
Book Synopsis Long Before Stonewall by : Thomas A. Foster
Download or read book Long Before Stonewall written by Thomas A. Foster and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Although the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while others endured verbal, physical, and legal harassment for publicly expressing homosexual interest through words or actions. Long Before Stonewall seeks to uncover the many iterations of same-sex desire in colonial America and the early Republic, as well as to expand the scope of how we define and recognize homosocial behavior. Thomas A. Foster has assembled a pathbreaking, interdisciplinary collection of original and classic essays that explore topics ranging from homoerotic imagery of black men to prison reform to the development of sexual orientations. This collection spans a regional and temporal breadth that stretches from the colonial Southwest to Quaker communities in New England. It also includes a challenge to commonly accepted understandings of the Native American berdache. Throughout, connections of race, class, status, and gender are emphasized, exposing the deep foundations on which modern sexual political movements and identities are built.
Book Synopsis Planting a Capitalist South by : Tom Downey
Download or read book Planting a Capitalist South written by Tom Downey and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a pathbreaking book, well grounded in the appropriate documentary record. Downey makes especially good use of the reports of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company and of other corporations, which are so tedious to read, to offer an exciting and fresh perspective on an old problem of vital importance, the relationship between businessmen and planters in the Old South" -- American Historical Review "Downey's book has many merits. First of all, it successfully presents a comprehensive and harmonious picture of the development of the region. Second, it helps to better define the contours of the long misunderstood southern political economy and its transformations during the latter part of the antebellum era. It is indeed a well-written and well-thought piece of historiography showing in microcosm how a new synthesis of antebellum southern history should be conceived." -- Enterprise and SocietyIn Planting a Capitalist South, Tom Downey effectively challenges the idea that commercial and industrial interests did little to alter the planter-dominated political economy of the Old South. By analyzing the interplay of planters, merchants, and manufacturers, Downey characterizes the South as a sphere of contending types of capitalists: agrarians with land and slaves versus commercial and industrial owners of banks, railroads, stores, and factories. His book focuses on the central Savannah River Valley of western South Carolina, an influential political and economic region and the home of some of the South's leading states' rights and proslavery ideologues; which also spawned a number of inland commercial towns, one of the nation's first railroads, and a robust wage-labor community. As such, western South Carolina provides a unique opportunity for looking at contrasting economic forces but solely within the boundaries of the South -- slavery vs. free labor, industrial vs. agricultural, urban vs. rural. A revisionary study, Planting a Capitalist South offers clear evidence of a burgeoning transition to capitalist society in the Old South. "Downey's book is a welcome new addition to the growing corpus of studies seeking to understand the lives of white merchants and manufacturers. Well written and researched, Downey's excellent work will add greater nuance to our picture of the social and economic life of the Old South, particularly our picture of the emerging southern middle class." -- Georgia Historical Quarterly"Planting a Capitalist South makes several important contributions. The idea that commerce and industry challenged tenets of republican ideology may be a familiar one, but Downey pursues it in directions seldom explored by previous historians of the Old South, examining conflicts over issue like railroad routes, water rights, and the power of town governments. Moreover, he links those subjects to historians' debates about the capitalist character of the region, and he stakes out an innovative position with his argument that the late antebellum South was in the midst of a transition to capitalism." -- Business History Review
Book Synopsis Proceedings and Papers by : Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Download or read book Proceedings and Papers written by Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Norris Family History (1890-1969) by : Geil J Norris (d. 1979)
Download or read book Norris Family History (1890-1969) written by Geil J Norris (d. 1979) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Various newspaper clippings from unknown newspapers relating to deaths in the Norris family, particularly that of Mr Samuel F. Giel who died of paralytic stroke. Mention of Mexican-US war and Spanish Communities in California.