Download or read book Passing Strange written by Martha A. Sandweiss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent Newport family: for thirteen years he lived a double life--as the celebrated white Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker. Unable to marry the black woman he loved, the fair-haired, blue-eyed King passed as a Negro, revealing his secret to his wife Ada only on his deathbed. Historian Martha Sandweiss is the first writer to uncover the life that King tried so hard to conceal. She reveals the complexity of a man who, while publicly espousing a personal dream of a uniquely American amalgam of white and black, hid his love for his wife and their five biracial children"--Publisher description
Download or read book The American Census Handbook written by Thomas Jay Kemp and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
Download or read book The 1850 Census of Georgia Slave Owners written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Format: Paper Pages: 348 pp. Published: 1999 Reprinted: 2006 Price: $35.00 $23.50 - Save: 33% ISBN: 9780806348377 Item #: CF9248 In 1850 and again in 1860, the U.S. government carried out a census of slave owners and their property. Transcribed by Mr. Cox, the 1850 U.S. slave census for Georgia is important for two reasons. First, some of the slave owners appearing here do not appear in the 1850 U.S. census of population for Georgia and are thus "restored" to the population of 1850. Second, and of considerable interest to historians, the transcription shows that less than 10 percent of the Georgia white population owned slaves in 1850. In fact, by far the largest number of slave owners were concentrated in Glynn County, a coastal county known for its rice production. The slave owners' census is arranged in alphabetical order according to the surname of the slave owner and gives his/her full name, number of slaves owned, and the county of residence. It is one of the great disappointments of the ante bellum U.S. population census that the slaves themselves are not identified by name; rather, merely as property owned. Nevertheless, now that Mr. Cox has made the names of these Georgia slave owners with their aggregations of slaves more widely available, it may be just possible that more persons with slave ancestors will be able to trace them via other records (property records, for example) pertaining to the 37,000 slave owners enumerated in this new volume.
Download or read book Finding Francis written by Elizabeth J. West and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 College Language Association Book Award Finding Francis, finding family, freeing history Francis is found. Beyond Francis, a family is found—in archival material that barely deigned to notice their existence. This is the story of Francis Sistrunk and her children, from enslavement into forced migration across South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. It spans decades before the Civil War and continues into post-emancipation America. A family story full of twists and turns, Finding Francis reclaims and honors those women who played an essential role in the historical survival and triumph of Black people during and after American slavery. Elizabeth West has created a remarkable "biohistoriography" of everyday Black resistance, grounded in a determination to maintain enduring connections of family, kinship, and community despite the inhumanity and rapacity of slavery. There is inevitable heartbreak in these histories, but there is also an empowering strength and inspiration—the truth of these lives will indeed set us all free.
Download or read book The Martin Family History Volume II Col James Martin 1742 1834 and Martha Martin Rogers 1744 1825 written by Francie Lane and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family and descendants of Col. James Martin (1742-1834) of Stokes County, North Carolina and his sister Martha [Martin] Rogers (1744-1825) of Rockingham County, North Carolina and Williamson & Montgomery Counties, Tennessee and the allied families of Henderson, Searcy, Hunter, Bradley, Alexander, Hughes, Dearing and Scales.
Download or read book The Genealogy of the Webster Martin Dozier Staples Starke Families of Wilkes Co Ga written by Michal Martin Farmer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Granberry Family and Allied Families written by Donald Lines Jacobus and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Granberry was born in about 1700. He married Elizabeth. They had eight children. He died in 1753 in Norfolk County, Virginia. Ancestors descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Virginia, Massachusetts and Georgia.
Download or read book Legal Executions in Georgia written by Daniel Allen Hearn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the state of Georgia, 1025 men and women are known to have been hanged or electrocuted for capital crimes in the century after the Civil War. Based on more than twenty years of investigative research, this chronological record of these legal executions was pieced together from diverse sources in and outside of the state, with many details never before made public. The author documents the facts as they occurred without delving into the politics of capital punishment.
Download or read book The Genealogist written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Griswoldville written by William Harris Bragg and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of the industrial village founded in central Georgia by Samuel Griswold, its antebellum prosperity and role in the war effort of the Confederate States of America, and its destruction during the march to the sea, together with accounts of the military operations conducted in Griswoldville's vicinity during the summer and fall of 1864."
Download or read book Unworthy Republic The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory written by Claudio Saunt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Bancroft Prize and the 2021 Ridenhour Book Prize Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction Named a Top Ten Best Book of 2020 by the Washington Post and Publishers Weekly and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2020 A masterful and unsettling history of “Indian Removal,” the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands. In May 1830, the United States launched an unprecedented campaign to expel 80,000 Native Americans from their eastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River. In a firestorm of fraud and violence, thousands of Native Americans lost their lives, and thousands more lost their farms and possessions. The operation soon devolved into an unofficial policy of extermination, enabled by US officials, southern planters, and northern speculators. Hailed for its searing insight, Unworthy Republic transforms our understanding of this pivotal period in American history.
Download or read book A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States written by Thomas Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1864 Census for Re Organizing the Georgia Militia written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1864 Census for Re-organizing the Georgia Militia is a statewide census of all white males between the ages of 16 and 60 who were not at the time in the service of the Confederate States of America. Based on a law passed by the Georgia Legislature in December 1863 to provide for the protection of women, children, and invalids living at home, it is a list of some 42,000 men--many of them exempt from service--who were able to serve in local militia companies and perform such homefront duties as might be required of them. In accordance with the law, enrollment lists were drawn up by counties and within counties by militia districts. Each one of the 42,000 persons enrolled was listed by his full name, age, occupation, place of birth, and reason (if any) for his exemption from service. Sometime between 1920 and 1940 the Georgia Pension and Record Department typed up copies of these lists. Names on the typed lists, unlike most of the originals, are in alphabetical order, and it is these typed lists which form the basis of this new work by Mrs. Nancy Cornell. Checking the typed lists against the original handwritten records on microfilm in the Georgia Department of Archives & History, Mrs. Cornell was able to add some information and correct certain misspellings. She also points out that no lists were found for the counties of Burke, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dooly, Emanuel, Irwin, Johnson, Pulaski, and Wilcox.
Download or read book Georgia Genealogical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House of Forrester written by Wallace R. Forrester and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1966 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least nine Forrester individuals immigrated from England, Scotland, or Ireland to the English colonies in the new world in the 1600s and 1700s. The names and particulars about these nine Forrester indivi- duals are listed (v. 1, p. 42-43), and they settled in various places in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Georgia. Descen- dants and relatives also lived in Mississippi River states plus Indiana, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, Arizona, California and elsewhere. Includes ancestry in England, Scotland, Ireland, Flanders to 836 A.D. or earlier. Also includes organization and some officers of the Forrester Genealogical Association, Inc., which became the Clan Forrester Society, Inc., with U.S. headquarters at Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Download or read book Ambiguous Lives written by Adele Logan Alexander and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1992 Myers Center Outstanding Book on Human Rights Historians have produced scores of studies on white men, extraordinary white women, and even the often anonymous mass of enslaved Black people in the United States. But in this innovative work, Adele Logan Alexander chronicles there heretofore undocumented dilemmas of one of nineteenth-century America’s most marginalized groups—free women of color in the rural South. Ambiguous Lives focuses on the women of Alexander’s own family as representative of this subcaste of the African-American community. Their forbears, in fact, included Africans, Native Americans, and whites. Neither black nor white, affluent nor impoverished, enslaved nor truly free, these women of color lived and died in a shadowy realm situated somewhere between the legal, social, and economic extremes of empowered whites and subjugated blacks. Yet, as Alexander persuasively argues, these lives are worthy of attention precisely because of these ambiguities—because the intricacies, gradations, and subtleties of their anomalous experience became part of the tangled skein of American history and exemplify our country’s endless diversity, complexity, and self-contradictions. Written as a “reclamation” of a long-ignored substratum of our society, Ambiguous Lives is more than the story of one family—it is a well-researched and fascinating profile of America, its race and gender relations, and its complex cultural weave.
Download or read book Nunns of the South written by Alexander Nunn and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Nunn lived in Craven Co., North Carolina in 1729, and died about 1738.
