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ISBN 13 : 9781590911174
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (111 download)
Download or read book The Life and Legacy of Robert Smalls of South Carolina's Sea Islands written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Billingsley
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643362151
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Yearning to Breathe Free written by Andrew Billingsley and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sociological approach to appreciating the heroism and legacy of the Gullah statesman On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls (1839-1915) commandeered a Confederate warship, the Planter, from Charleston harbor and piloted the vessel to cheering seamen of the Union blockade, thus securing his place in the annals of Civil War heroics. Slave, pilot, businessman, statesman, U.S. congressman—Smalls played many roles en route to becoming an American icon, but none of his accomplishments was a solo effort. Sociologist Andrew Billingsley offers the first biography of Smalls to assess the influence of his families—black and white, past and present—on his life and enduring legend. In so doing, Billingsley creates a compelling mosaic of evolving black-white social relations in the American South as exemplified by this famous figure and his descendants. Born a slave in Beaufort, South Carolina, Robert Smalls was raised with his master's family and grew up amid an odd balance of privilege and bondage which instilled in him an understanding of and desire for freedom, culminating in his daring bid for freedom in 1862. Smalls served with distinction in the Union forces at the helm of the Planter and, after the war, he returned to Beaufort to buy the home of his former masters—a house that remained at the center of the Smalls family for a century. A founder of the South Carolina Republican Party, Smalls was elected to the state house of representatives, the state senate, and five times to the United States Congress. Throughout the trials and triumphs of his military and public service, he was surrounded by growing family of supporters. Billingsley illustrates how this support system, coupled with Smalls's dogged resilience, empowered him for success. Writing of subsequent generations of the Smalls family, Billingsley delineates the evolving patterns of opportunity, challenge, and change that have been the hallmarks of the African American experience thanks to the selfless investments in freedom and family made by Robert Smalls of South Carolina.
Author : Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230108938
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Slave in the White House written by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of a former slave to James and Dolley Madison, tracing his early years on their plantation, his service in the White House household staff and post-emancipation achievements as a memoirist.
Author : Cate Lineberry
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250101867
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Be Free Or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero written by Cate Lineberry and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a 23-year-old enslaved man named Robert Smalls boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbour and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces. Smalls' courageous and ingenious act freed him and his family from slavery and immediately made him a Union hero. It also challenged much of the country's view of what African Americans were willing to do for their freedom. In 'Be Free or Die, ' Cate Lineberry tells the remarkable story of Smalls' escape and his many accomplishments during the war, including becoming the first black captain of an Army vessel
Author : Kinshasha Holman Conwill
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063160668
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Make Good the Promises written by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion volume to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021 With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric Foner and a preface by veteran museum director and historian Spencer Crew An incisive and illuminating analysis of the enduring legacy of the post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction—a comprehensive story of Black Americans’ struggle for human rights and dignity and the failure of the nation to fulfill its promises of freedom, citizenship, and justice. In the aftermath of the Civil War, millions of free and newly freed African Americans were determined to define themselves as equal citizens in a country without slavery—to own land, build secure families, and educate themselves and their children. Seeking to secure safety and justice, they successfully campaigned for civil and political rights, including the right to vote. Across an expanding America, Black politicians were elected to all levels of government, from city halls to state capitals to Washington, DC. But those gains were short-lived. By the mid-1870s, the federal government stopped enforcing civil rights laws, allowing white supremacists to use suppression and violence to regain power in the Southern states. Black men, women, and children suffered racial terror, segregation, and discrimination that confined them to second-class citizenship, a system known as Jim Crow that endured for decades. More than a century has passed since the revolutionary political, social, and economic movement known as Reconstruction, yet its profound consequences reverberate in our lives today. Make Good the Promises explores five distinct yet intertwined legacies of Reconstruction—Liberation, Violence, Repair, Place, and Belief—to reveal their lasting impact on modern society. It is the story of Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Hiram Revels, Ida B. Wells, and scores of other Black men and women who reshaped a nation—and of the persistence of white supremacy and the perpetuation of the injustices of slavery continued by other means and codified in state and federal laws. With contributions by leading scholars, and illustrated with 80 images from the exhibition, Make Good the Promises shows how Black Lives Matter, #SayHerName, antiracism, and other current movements for repair find inspiration from the lessons of Reconstruction. It touches on questions critical then and now: What is the meaning of freedom and equality? What does it mean to be an American? Powerful and eye-opening, it is a reminder that history is far from past; it lives within each of us and shapes our world and who we are.
Author : Laura Matilda Towne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne written by Laura Matilda Towne and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence Sanders Rowland
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570030901
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: 1514-1861 written by Lawrence Sanders Rowland and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounting more than three centuries of Spanish and French exploration, English and Huguenor agriculture, and African slave labour, this text traces the history of one of North America's oldest settlements, covering what are now Jasper, Hampton, and part of Alllendale countries.
Author : Richard S. Newman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814758266
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Freedom's Prophet written by Richard S. Newman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through exhaustive research and graceful writing, Newman shows all the sides of Richard Allen: activist, institution-builder of the AME church, theologian and writer, and pulpit politician.
Author : Edward A. Miller, Jr.
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643362976
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Gullah Statesman written by Edward A. Miller, Jr. and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political biography of the first African American hero of the Civil War A native of Beaufort, South Carolina, Robert Smalls was born into slavery but—through acts of remarkable courage and determination—became the first African American hero of the Civil War and one of the most influential African American politicians in South Carolina history. In this largely political biography of Smalls's inspirational story, Edward A. Miller, Jr., traces the triumphs and setbacks of the celebrated U.S. congressman and advocate of compulsory, desegregated public education to illustrate how the life and contributions of this singular individual were indicative of the rise and fall of political influence for all African Americans during this rough transitional period in American history.
Author : Robert K. Sutton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510716513
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Stark Mad Abolitionists written by Robert K. Sutton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality. In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, had just ordered a young African American man who had escaped from slavery in Virginia and settled in Boston to be returned to bondage in the South. An estimated fifty thousand citizens rioted in protest. Observing the scene was Amos Adams Lawrence, a wealthy Bostonian, who “waked up a stark mad Abolitionist.” As quickly as Lawrence waked up, he combined his fortune and his energy with others to create the New England Emigrant Aid Company to encourage abolitionists to emigrate to Kansas to ensure that it would be a free state. The town that came to bear Lawrence’s name became the battleground for the soul of America, with abolitionists battling pro-slavery Missourians who were determined to make Kansas a slave state. The onset of the Civil War only escalated the violence, leading to the infamous raid of William Clarke Quantrill when he led a band of vicious Confederates (including Frank James, whose brother Jesse would soon join them) into town and killed two hundred men and boys. Stark Mad Abolitionists shows how John Brown, Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, Sam Houston, and Abraham Lincoln all figure into the story of Lawrence and “Bleeding Kansas.” The story of Amos Lawrence’s eponymous town is part of a bigger story of people who were willing to risk their lives and their fortunes in the ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.
Author : Douglas W. Bostick
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162584901X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of James Island: Jewel of the Sea Islands written by Douglas W. Bostick and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging volume, local historian Douglas Bostick reveals the unacknowledged history of the second community in South Carolina, settled in 1671. Whether investigating prehistoric clues about Native American life before European settlement, detailing the history of agriculture and the reign of King Cotton, following armies from multiple wars or chronicling the triumph of equality on the greens of Charleston's Municipal Golf Course, Bostick tells the story of James Island as only a native son can. Join Bostick as he brings this small jewel of an island out of Charleston's shadow and into the light of its own rich, historic assets.
Author : Thomas C. Barnwell, Jr.
Publisher : Blair
ISBN 13 : 9781949467079
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Gullah Days written by Thomas C. Barnwell, Jr. and published by Blair. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring post-Civil War history of the Gullah people on Hilton Head Island, as told by their descendants.
Author : Guion Griffis Johnson
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Social History of the Sea Islands written by Guion Griffis Johnson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1969 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea Cheng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781600608933
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Etched in Clay written by Andrea Cheng and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Dave the Potter, an enslaved man and talented potter who carved poetry on his pottery.
Author : Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Folk-lore of the Sea Islands, South Carolina written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James M. McPherson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807837326
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book War on the Waters written by James M. McPherson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation. Commerce raiders sank Union ships and drove the American merchant marine from the high seas. Southern ironclads sent several Union warships to the bottom, naval mines sank many more, and the Confederates deployed the world's first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. But in the end, it was the Union navy that won some of the war's most important strategic victories--as an essential partner to the army on the ground at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher, and all by itself at Port Royal, Fort Henry, New Orleans, and Memphis.
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Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Prologue written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
