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Author : Kirk Mariner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982043639
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Slave and Free on Virginia's Eastern Shore written by Kirk Mariner and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. H. Breen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195175379
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book "Myne Owne Ground" written by T. H. Breen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free blacks purchased freedom for family members, amassed property, established plantations, and acquired laborers. T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes reconstruct a community in which ownership of property was as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations did not survive makes this a critical and urgent work of history.
Author : Marianne Burgess Scarborough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Free Negro on the Eastern Shore of Virginia written by Marianne Burgess Scarborough and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kirk Mariner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982043653
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Free Blacks of Accomack County, Virginia written by Kirk Mariner and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Free Blacks of Accomack County, Virginia' is a happy by-product of Kirk Mariner's meticulous scholarship. In researching his ground-breaking 'Slave and Free on Virginia's Eastern Shore from the Revolution to the Civil War,' Mariner combed antebellum court order books, wills and inventories, federal censuses, newspapers, manuscripts, and other sources, all the while taking the time to note every free black who appeared in the record. The result is a list of more than 10,000 names. Each entry in the list provides a citation to the source document and a brief summary of why the name appeared in the document." - back cover.
Author : Douglas Deal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book A constricted world written by Douglas Deal and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439656487
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Hoopers Island's Changing Face written by Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back to Hoopers Island's beginnings in the 1600s and discover how much different it is today. One of the oldest settlements in Maryland is a small tidewater community on the Eastern Shore named Hoopers Island. Land was patented there in 1659, and families who owned the original plantations have continued to reside there for generations. Economic changes in the 18th century contributed to both isolation and a unique style of life. By the late 19th century, farmers had turned to the sea to make their living and the community became known for its seafood. Island watermen continue to harvest the products of the Chesapeake, and local factories deliver seafood daily throughout the region. Hoopers Island today, however, has a different look than it did even 50 years ago. The high school has been transformed into a fine restaurant, and an old marine railway has become a modern boatyard and marina. While the native population has declined, others have retired to the area, and the island is becoming a vacation destination.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Register of Free Negroes, Northampton County, Virginia, 1853 to 1861 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before 1670 position of African immigrants coming into the Eastern Shore of Virginia was not unlike that of most whites; they were "in bondage." Although in the case of the Africans the bondage had not set time-limit, and was thus in fact slavery, they were "very often able to purchase their freedom (...) acquire land, marry, have families and live an existence not unlike the freed white indentured servant." After 1670, however, a move began "to discard indentured servitude and have slavery as the only method to supply the work force."
Author : Carole C. Marks
Publisher : Delaware Heritage Press
ISBN 13 : 9780924117121
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (171 download)
Download or read book A History of African Americans of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore written by Carole C. Marks and published by Delaware Heritage Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennings Cropper Wise
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ye Kingdome of Accawmacke, Or, The Eastern Shore of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century written by Jennings Cropper Wise and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eastern Shore covers the counties of Accomack and Northampton.
Author : Christopher Tilghman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146680226X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Right-Hand Shore written by Christopher Tilghman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful novel that confronts the dilemmas of race, family, and forbidden love in the wake of America's Civil War Fifteen years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mason's Retreat, Christopher Tilghman returns to the Mason family and the Chesapeake Bay in The Right-Hand Shore. It is 1920, and Edward Mason is making a call upon Miss Mary Bayly, the current owner of the legendary Mason family estate, the Retreat. Miss Mary is dying. She plans to give the Retreat to the closest direct descendant of the original immigrant owner that she can find. Edward believes he can charm the old lady, secure the estate and be back in Baltimore by lunchtime. Instead, over the course of a long day, he hears the stories that will forever bind him and his family to the land. He hears of Miss Mary's grandfather brutally selling all his slaves in 1857 in order to avoid the reprisals he believes will come with Emancipation. He hears of the doomed efforts by Wyatt Bayly, Miss Mary's father, to turn the Retreat into a vast peach orchard, and of Miss Mary and her brother growing up in a fractured and warring household. He learns of Abel Terrell, son of free blacks who becomes head orchardist, and whose family becomes intimately connected to the Baylys and to the Mason legacy. The drama in this richly textured novel proceeds through vivid set pieces: on rural nineteenth-century industry; on a boyhood on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; on the unbreakable divisions of race and class; and, finally, on two families attempting to save a son and a daughter from the dangers of their own innocent love. The result is a radiant work of deep insight and peerless imagination about the central dilemma of American history. The Right-Hand Shore is a New York Times Notable Book of 2012.
Author : Erik S. Root
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739141732
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Sons of the Fathers written by Erik S. Root and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erik Root's book, Sons of the Fathers explores the Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831D1832, conducted in the House of Delegates. This is possibly the greatest debate to have occurred in any southern state before the Civil War. The speeches in this book provide, for the first time ever, an unedited version of that debate where many of the sons of America's Founders deliberated over the necessity of emancipating the slaves in Old Dominion. In August 1831, Nat Turner led the most successful slave rebellion in America's history, killing some 60 men, women, and children. This insurrection provided the historical backdrop to the proposal for a gradual emancipation plan. The forces for emancipation, led by Thomas Jefferson's grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, were defeated in the course of the debate as the members of the House of Delegates rejected that it was a necessity to free the slaves. As a result, rift between what is now Virginia and Western Virginia developed, never to heal. Some in the debates believed slaves had the same rights as every human being. Those who balked at emancipation diminished slavery as an 'evil' and came closer to the view that the slaves were mere property. They affirmed that the slave was property and rejected the natural rights grounding of the Founding. In this collection of primary source material-which consists of the speeches made public to the press and the people-the reader will be able to decide just how close the emancipation forces attached themselves to the 'laws of Nature and Nature's God.' The reader will also be able to decipher how far many Virginians departed from not only the Declaration of Independence, but the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
Author : Joseph Douglas Deal
Publisher : Garland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Race and Class in Colonial Virginia written by Joseph Douglas Deal and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eva Sheppard Wolf
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807131946
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Race and Liberty in the New Nation written by Eva Sheppard Wolf and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By examining how ordinary Virginia citizens grappled with the vexing problem of slavery in a society dedicated to universal liberty, Eva Sheppard Wolf broadens our understanding of such important concepts as freedom, slavery, emancipation, and race in the early years of the American republic. She frames her study around the moment between slavery and liberty - emancipation - shedding new light on the complicated relations between whites and blacks in a slave society." "Wolf argues that during the post-Revolutionary period, white Virginians understood both liberty and slavery to be racial concepts more than political ideas. Through an in-depth analysis of archival records, particularly those dealing with manumission between 1782 and 1806, she reveals how these entrenched beliefs shaped both thought and behavior. In spite of qualms about slavery, white Virginians repeatedly demonstrated their unwillingness to abolish the institution." "The manumission law of 1782 eased restrictions on individual emancipation and made possible the liberation of thousands, but Wolf discovers that far fewer slaves were freed in Virginia than previously thought. Those who were emancipated posed a disturbing social, political, and even moral problem in the minds of whites. Where would ex-slaves fit in a society that could not conceive of black liberty? As Wolf points out, even those few white Virginians who proffered emancipation plans always suggested sending freed slaves to some other place. Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831 led to a public debate over ending slavery, after which discussions of emancipation in the Old Dominion largely disappeared as the eastern slaveholding elite tightened its grip on political power in the state." "This well-informed and carefully crafted book outlines important and heretofore unexamined changes in whites' views of blacks and liberty in the new nation. By linking the Revolutionary and antebellum eras, it shows how white attitudes hardened during the half-century that followed the declaration that "all men are created equal.""--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Kate Clifford Larson
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0307514765
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Bound for the Promised Land written by Kate Clifford Larson and published by One World. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*The New York Times Book Review). Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Now, in this magnificent biography, historian Kate Clifford Larson gives us a powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed portrait of Tubman and her times. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical data, Larson presents Harriet Tubman as a complete human being—brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom. A true American hero, Tubman was also a woman who loved, suffered, and sacrificed. Praise for Bound for the Promised Land “[Bound for the Promised Land] appropriately reads like fiction, for Tubman’s exploits required such intelligence, physical stamina and pure fearlessness that only a very few would have even contemplated the feats that she actually undertook. . . . Larson captures Tubman’s determination and seeming imperviousness to pain and suffering, coupled with an extraordinary selflessness and caring for others.”—The Seattle Times “Essential for those interested in Tubman and her causes . . . Larson does an especially thorough job of . . . uncovering relevant documents, some of them long hidden by history and neglect.”—The Plain Dealer “Larson has captured Harriet Tubman’s clandestine nature . . . reading Ms. Larson made me wonder if Tubman is not, in fact, the greatest spy this country has ever produced.”—The New York Sun
Author : Kirk Mariner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Off 13 written by Kirk Mariner and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Duffy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735674155
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Tubman Travels written by Jim Duffy and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring stories of the Underground Railroad come alive for our times in "Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva." Join award-winning author Jim Duffy as he wanders the Delmarva Peninsula in search of sites and scenes that put modern-day travelers in touch with unforgettable tales from the courageous journeys of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and an array of lesser-known heroes who set out through this region in search of freedom from slavery. This second edition has been updated for the Tubman Bicentennial year with newly recognized sites, fresh insights, and the latest in archeological and historical discoveries.
Author : Christopher Tilghman
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 125001607X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Mason's Retreat written by Christopher Tilghman and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mason family returns to America from England where they try to recoup their economic losses by moving to Edward Mason's ancestral home in Maryland where he plans to take up farming.
