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Book Synopsis The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company by : Charles Royster
Download or read book The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company written by Charles Royster and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1999 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this absorbing narrative Charles Royster traces the rise and fall of the eighteenth-century transatlantic culture that was built on the insatiable demand in Europe for Virginia tobacco and the equally insatiable American demand for European manufactured goods. Moving from the plantations of Virginia and Antigua to the warehouses of London and Glasgow, from the Gold Coast of Africa to the valleys of the Allegheny Mountains, from the iron furnaces of southern Wales to the subscribers' room of Lloyd's of London, Professor Royster gives us the story of the Dismal Swamp Company, a fantastically delusional enterprise that proposed draining and developing a vast morass along the Virginia-North Carolina border. Examining the interconnected lives of the company's partners, Royster reveals a colonial order built on a system of cronyism, conspicuous consumption, and debt that seems hauntingly familiar. He writes about the many schemers and dreamers (including George Washington, Robert "King" Carter, two William Byrds, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert Morris) who failed to amass their desired fortunes, and a few realists (Samuel Gist, Dr. Thomas Walker, and Anthony Bacon) who succeeded, but at the dire expense of others. And we see the breakdown of this culture and the transition to a more democratic, though similar, system after the Revolution. Throughout Royster's narrative we seepossessors possessed by their possessions, slaveholders possessed by slavery, and heirs possessed by litigation. Connecting all their stories are their unceasing efforts to make something substantial out of the insubstantial--chief among them the almost unbelievable delusion that fortunes could bemade from the Dismal Swamp.
Book Synopsis Tales of the Dismal Swamp by : A. Everette James, Jr.
Download or read book Tales of the Dismal Swamp written by A. Everette James, Jr. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dred written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written partly in response to the criticisms of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by both white Southerners and black abolitionists, Stowe's second novel, "Dred," attempts to explore the issue of slavery from an African American perspective. Through the compelling stories of Nina Gordon, the mistress of a slave plantation, and Dred, a black revolutionary, Stowe brings to life conflicting beliefs about race, the institution of slavery, and the possibilities of violent resistance.
Download or read book Dred written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Download or read book Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp is a popular novel from American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Nina Gordon is a hotheaded young inheritrix to a big southern plantation. It is run by a Harry, a slave who suffers a rivalry with a drunken, cruel slave master.
Download or read book Dred written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Book Synopsis Dred by : Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Download or read book Dred written by Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dred written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dred written by Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dred a Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher-Stowe by :
Download or read book Dred a Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher-Stowe written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Tales of the Great Dismal Swamp by : Waverly Traylor
Download or read book Tales of the Great Dismal Swamp written by Waverly Traylor and published by . This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dred written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis City of Refuge by : Marcus Peyton Nevius
Download or read book City of Refuge written by Marcus Peyton Nevius and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sectors and engaged in petit marronage, a type of escape and fugitivity prevalent throughout the Atlantic world. An alternative to the dangers of flight by way of the Underground Railroad, maroon communities often neighbored slave-labor camps, the latter located on the swamp's periphery and operated by the Dismal Swamp Land Company and other companies that employed slave labor to facilitate the extraction of the Dismal's natural resources. Often with the tacit acceptance of white company agents, company slaves engaged in various exchanges of goods and provisions with maroons-networks that padded company accounts even as they helped to sustain maroon colonies and communities. In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus P. Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. City of Refuge uses a wide variety of primary sources-including runaway advertisements; planters' and merchants' records, inventories, letterbooks, and correspondence; abolitionist pamphlets and broadsides; county free black registries; and the records and inventories of private companies-to examine how American maroons, enslaved canal laborers, white company agents, and commission merchants shaped, and were shaped by, race and slavery in an important region in the history of the late Atlantic world.
