Download or read book A History of Brazoria County Texas the Old Plantations and Their Owners of Brazoria County Texas Steamboats on the Brazos written by Mary Nixon Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Brazoria County Texas The Old Plantations and Their Owners of Brazoria County Texas written by Mary Nixon Rogers and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Brazoria County Texas Old Plantations and Their Owners written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Plantations and Their Owners of Brazoria County Texas written by Abner J. Strobel and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Plantations and Their Owners of Brazoria County Texas written by Angela Villareal and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Plantations of the South written by Marc R. Matrana and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diaries and letters, architectural renderings, and other rare documents to tell the story of sixty of these vanquished estates and the people who once called them home. From plantations that were destroyed by natural disaster such as Alabama's Forks of Cypress, to those that were intentionally demolished such as Seven Oaks in Louisiana and Mount Brilliant in Kentucky, Matrana resurrects these lost mansions. Including plantations throughout the South as well as border states, Matrana carefully tracks the histories of each from the earliest days of construction to the often contentious struggles to preserve these irreplaceable historic treasures. Lost Plantations of the South explores the root causes of demise and provides understanding and insight on how lessons learned in these sad losses can help prevent future preservation crises. Capturing the voices of masters and mistresses alongside those of slaves, and featuring more than one hundred elegant archival illustrations, this book explores the powerful and complex histories of these cardinal homes across the South.
Download or read book Historic Brazoria County written by Margaret Swett Henson and published by Hpn Books. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Illustrated History of Brazoria County, Texas.
Download or read book Old Oyster Creek and Brazos Plantations written by Mary Nixon Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1974* with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Oyster Creek and Brazos Plantations written by Mary Nixon Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Window to the Past written by Brazoria County Museum (Tex.) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of photographs tells the story of the development of Brazoria County up to 1945.
Download or read book Plantation Life in Texas written by Elizabeth Silverthorne and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps, illustrations, and text help chronicle the everyday lives of Texas plantation residents in the 1800s.
Download or read book Los Brazos de Dios written by Sean M. Kelley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long believed that the "frontier" shaped Texas plantation society, but in this detailed examination of Texas's most important plantation region, Sean M. Kelley asserts that the dominant influence was not the frontier but the Mexican Republic. The Lower Brazos River Valley -- the only slave society to take root under Mexican sovereignty -- made replication of eastern plantation culture extremely difficult and complicated. By tracing the synthesis of cultures, races, and politics in the region, Kelley reveals a distinct variant of southern slavery -- a borderland plantation society. Kelley opens by examining the four migration streams that defined the antebellum Brazos community: Anglo-Americans and their African American slaves who constituted the first two groups to immigrate; Germans who came after the Mexican government barred immigrants from the U.S. while encouraging those from Europe; and African-born slaves brought in through Cuba who ultimately made up the largest concentration of enslaved Africans in the antebellum South. Within this multicultural milieu, Kelley shows, the disparity between Mexican law and German practices complicated southern familial relationships and master-slave interaction. Though the Mexican policy on slavery was ambiguous, alternating between toleration and condemnation, Brazos slaves perceived the Rio Grande River as the boundary between white supremacy and racial egalitarianism. As a result, thousands fled across the border, further destabilizing the Brazos plantation society. In the1850s, nonslaveholding Germans also contributed to the upheaval by expressing a sense of ethnic solidarity in politics. In an attempt to undermine Anglo efforts to draw a sharp boundary between black and white, some Germans hid runaway slaves. Ultimately, Kelley demonstrates how the Civil War brought these issues to the fore, eroding the very foundations of Brazos plantation society. With Los Brazos de Dios, Kelley offers the first examination of Texas slavery as a borderland institution and reveals the difficulty with which southern plantation society was transplanted in the West.
Download or read book A History of Brazoria County Texas written by Mary Nixon Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Brazoria County Texas written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Texas Lowcountry written by John R. Lundberg and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822–1895, author John R. Lundberg examines slavery and Reconstruction in a region of Texas he terms the lowcountry—an area encompassing the lower reaches of the Brazos and Colorado Rivers and their tributaries as they wend their way toward the Gulf of Mexico through what is today Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, and Wharton Counties. In the two decades before the Civil War, European immigrants, particularly Germans, poured into Texas, sometimes bringing with them cultural ideals that complicated the story of slavery throughout large swaths of the state. By contrast, 95 percent of the white population of the lowcountry came from other parts of the United States, predominantly the slaveholding states of the American South. By 1861, more than 70 percent of this regional population were enslaved people—the heaviest such concentration west of the Mississippi. These demographics established the Texas Lowcountry as a distinct region in terms of its population and social structure. Part one of The Texas Lowcountry explores the development of the region as a borderland, an area of competing cultures and peoples, between 1822 and 1840. The second part is arranged topically and chronicles the history of the enslavers and the enslaved in the lowcountry between 1840 and 1865. The final section focuses on the experiences of freed people in the region during the Reconstruction era, which ended in the lowcountry in 1895. In closely examining this unique pocket of Texas, Lundberg provides a new and much needed region-specific study of the culture of enslavement and the African American experience.
Download or read book Old Oyster Creek and Brazos plantations written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peach Point Plantation written by Marie Jones and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Stephen F. Austin realized that his commitments and holdings in Texas would mean spending the rest of his life there, he began making plans to gather is family at Peach Point, in what is now Brazoria County, Texas. One of the oldest properties in Texas still owned and operated for agricultural purposes by the same family, Peach Point Plantation is in the forefront of historic importance as a result of Austin's involvement in its early history.
