Download or read book The Alstons and Allstons of North and South Carolina written by Joseph Asbury Groves and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England Ireland and Scotland written by John Burke and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slaves and Highlanders written by David Alston and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries. Longlisted for the 2021 Highland Book Prize.
Download or read book A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians written by Lucian Lamar Knight and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison written by Ralph Ellison and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”
Download or read book Rice Planter and Sportsman written by Jacob Motte Alston and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate glimpses into the daily life of a South Carolina family Reprinted here for the first time in more than forty years is Rice Planter and Sportsman: The Recollections of J. Motte Alston, 1821-1909. This lively memoir offers a candid look into the daily life of a Low Country South Carolina family, as well as commentary and opinion about such matters as rice cultivation, slavery, and the sporting life. J. Motte Alston's memoirs, originally numbering more than five hundred pages, were never intended for official publication. Alston wrote for his grandson, who was fascinated by his family's personal history and how it fit into the larger context of South Carolina and the southern region. For the Alstons, family was more than a domestic affair. It was also a powerful economic consortium. The buying or selling of land and the building or leasing of houses; the management of each detail of the rice crop; the decision to marry, to have children, or to summer in the mountains--all were more than private or economic decisions. Alston included such details to help his grandson navigate the often tense waters of family affairs. Rice Planter and Sportsman also offers an entertaining look at the sport of the day. Much of the land on which Alston hunted with such success is now in privately owned game preserves, running from the rivers to the coast. Alston also included many details on the abundance of fish and game throughout the South Carolina Low Country and Blue Ridge Mountains. Franklin Burroughs' evocative and warm personal memoir conveys the story of the Alstons and places this memoir firmly in its broader historical context.
Download or read book A Willcox Family History 1689 1981 written by Martha S. Albertson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Willcox (1689-1779) immigrated from England to Concord, Pennsylvania, and married Elizabeth Cole (Kohl) in 1727. Descendants moved southward and then to the midwest.
Download or read book The Family in English Children s Literature written by Ann Alston and published by Children's Literature and Culture. This book was released on 2011 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Alston focuses on the ideological construction of the family in children's literature. She suggests that despite the tales of family woe portrayed in children's literature, the desire for the happy, contended nuclear family remains inherent within the ideological subtexts of children's literature.
Download or read book Aspects of Roman History 31 BC AD 117 written by Richard Alston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Aspects of Roman History 31 BC- AD 117 provides an easily accessible guide to the history of the early Roman Empire. Taking the reader through the major political events of the crucial first 150 years of Roman imperial history, from the Empire’s foundation under Augustus to the height of its power under Trajan, the book examines the emperors and key events that shaped Rome’s institutions and political form. Blending social and economic history with political history, Richard Alston’s revised edition leads students through important issues, introducing sources, exploring techniques by which those sources might be read, and encouraging students to develop their historical judgement. The book includes: chapters on each of the emperors in this period, exploring the successes and failures of each reign, and how these shaped the empire, sections on social and economic history, including the core issues of slavery, social mobility, economic development and change, gender relations, the rise of new religions, and cultural change in the Empire, an expanded timeframe, providing more information on the foundation of the imperial system under Augustus and the issues relating to Augustan Rome, a glossary and further reading section, broken down by chapter. This expanded and revised edition of Aspects of Roman History, covering an additional 45 years of history from Actium to the death of Augustus, provides an invaluable introduction to Roman Imperial history, surveying the way in which the Roman Empire changed the world and offering critical perspectives on how we might understand that transformation. It is an important resource for any student of this crucial and formative period in Roman history.
Download or read book The Longcrofts written by James Lewis Phillips-evans and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Longcrofts: 500 Years of a British Family' James Phillips-Evans, a genealogist who is himself a descendant of the eponymous family, charts the history of the Longcroft family. It spans half a millennium and begins with a humble Wiltshire farmer, Simon Longcraft, who lived in Wilsford in the Vale of Pewsey during the reigns of the Tudor monarchs in the early-to-mid 16th century. Through 13 chapters covering almost 400 pages, including 10 detailed family trees and 109 black & white illustrations, the book traces Simon's descendants into modern times, including many people alive today in the second decade of the 21st century. By about 1700 the spelling of the family name had itself evolved and settled as Longcroft, as it is borne by direct male-line members of the family today, but the name died out in the family's native county of Wiltshire, surviving only through a branch descended from an Oxford-educated clergyman who settled and flourished in the neighbouring county of Hampshire, whence the name and bloodline spread far and wide. Notable members of the family in the direct male line include the aviation pioneer, WWI veteran and squire of Plas Llanina Air Vice-Marshal Sir Charles Alexander Holcombe Longcroft, who was one of the founders of RAF Cranwell; Johann Zoffany's assistant-cum-pupil Thomas Longcroft, who became an artist and indigo planter in the early days of British India; and Cecil James Longcroft, who became a prominent figure in the City of London as chairman of the Sassoon mercantile and banking firm. In addition, the marriages of female members of the family into other notable families, and not-so-notable families, have produced various interesting individuals who possess Longcroft ancestry, including the grizzly bear hunter Montague Stevens, the scandalous solicitor Henry Smythies, the tragic WW2 heroine SOE Diana Hope Rowden, the long-serving Conservative MP Sir Ian Lloyd and his conservationist cousin David Lloyd, the much-loved Welsh actress Margaret John of 'Gavin & Stacey' fame and 'The Thick of It' actor Chris Langham, and the evolutionary biologist & acclaimed writer Professor Richard Dawkins. Ironically, the senior living branch of the family today no longer bears the name Longcroft but Bearcroft, owing to a change of name that took place in 1822 for legal reasons connected with the inheritance of Mere Hall, an historic country house and estate in Worcestershire. Other families and places included in the book because of their connection to the Longcroft family are the Twinings of London, who established their well-known tea brand in the Strand and gave us the 19th century social reformers Elizabeth & Louisa Twining, the Earls Castle Stewart of Old Lodge in Sussex and Stuart Hall in Ireland, the Burnett feudal barons of Kemnay House in Scotland, the Lloyd squires of Coedmore in Cardiganshire, the Lewis-Bowens of Clynfyw, the Foleys and Thursby-Pelhams of Ridgeway and Abermarlais, the Barons de Rutzen of Slebech Park and the Phillipps baronets of Picton Castle, all in Pembrokeshire, and the Dashwood baronets of West Wycombe Park in Buckinghamshire. Additionally, the book tells the stories of numerous less prominent but no less interesting families who have produced a plethora of compelling individuals over the years, both at home in Great Britain and throughout many if not most of the former colonies of the British Empire, and indeed many parts of the rest of the world, encompassing Ireland, the USA, Canada, Jamaica, Argentina, Malta, Egypt, Yemen, Kenya, Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe), South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Burma, and even far-flung places like Zanzibar, Nepal, Borneo and St Helena. The sheer scale of the diversity encountered amongst Simon Longcraft's descendants over the past 500 years is simply astonishing.
Download or read book Fallen Founder written by Nancy Isenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of White Trash and The Problem of Democracy, a controversial challenge to the views of the Founding Fathers offered by Ron Chernow and David McCullough Lin-Manuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited interest in the founding fathers; and it features Aaron Burr among its vibrant cast of characters. With Fallen Founder, Nancy Isenberg plumbs rare and obscure sources to shed new light on everyone's favorite founding villain. The Aaron Burr whom we meet through Isenberg's eye-opening biography is a feminist, an Enlightenment figure on par with Jefferson, a patriot, and—most importantly—a man with powerful enemies in an age of vitriolic political fighting. Revealing the gritty reality of eighteenth-century America, Fallen Founder is the authoritative restoration of a figure who ran afoul of history and a much-needed antidote to the hagiography of the revolutionary era.
Download or read book History of Anson County North Carolina 1750 1976 written by Mary L. Medley and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1976 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About a third of Mr. Gold's account deals with the general history of the county, with the balance devoted to the Civil War. The author provides an overview of the various troop movements throughout the county during the war, such as those under the command of Confederate General Jubal Early. The bulk of the volume examines the roles of Clarke County natives in the conflict.
Download or read book Your Corner Dark written by Desmond Hall and published by Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Street meets Long Way Down in this searing and gritty debut novel that takes an unflinching look at the harsh realities of gang life in Jamaica and how far a teen is willing to go for family. Things can change in a second: The second Frankie Green gets that scholarship letter, he has his ticket out of Jamaica. The second his longtime crush, Leah, asks him on a date, he’s in trouble. The second his father gets shot, suddenly nothing else matters. And the second Frankie joins his uncle’s gang in exchange for paying for his father’s medical bills, there’s no going back...or is there? As Frankie does things he never thought he’d be capable of, he’s forced to confront the truth of the family and future he was born into—and the ones he wants to build for himself.
Download or read book History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography written by Thomas McAdory Owen and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theodosia Burr Alston written by Richard Côté and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Vice President Aaron Burr, providing his daughter, Theodosia, with an extraordinary education was much more than just a lifelong obsession. By the time she could walk, Burr had envisioned an incredible goal for her and crafted a master plan to achieve it. He was not interested in turning out just a smart, pretty girl; a father's pride; or a husband's delight. Burr was no petty theorist. He was a brilliant, passionate, egotistical visionary on scale that made the gods cringe. Theodosia was not trained to serve hearth, husband, or plantation. In the 1790s, Burr embraced the radical feminist theories of Mary Wollstonecraft, who argued that girls should receive the same education as boys. From her teens through her marriage in 1802, Theodosia was groomed and educated to become a female Aaron Burr and take her intended station in life: nothing less than president, queenor empress. From her birth into Aaron Burr's illustrious New England family -- her childhood amidst the leaders and the high society of the new nation; her marriage to Joseph Alston, a South Carolina slave-owning aristocrat; her voyage down the Ohio River to become the Empress of Mexico -- to her tragic and mysterious death at sea, this is the true story of Theodosia Burr Alston. Directly from the letters she exchanged with her father, husband, and friends emerges the portrait of an amazing woman and a true American prodigy -- and for twenty-one days, the First Lady of South Carolina. The meticulously researched book also explores whether Burr's intensely close relationship with his daughter may have triggered the legendary Aaron Burr - Alexander Hamilton duel.
Download or read book Remembering Generations written by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery is America's family secret, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our national imagination. Remembering Generations explores how three contemporary African American writers artistically represent this notion in novels about the enduring effects of slavery on the descendants of slaves in the post-civil rights era. Focusing on Gayl Jones's Corregidora (1975), David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident (1981), and Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), Ashraf Rushdy situates these works in their cultural moment of production, highlighting the ways in which they respond to contemporary debates about race and family. Tracing the evolution of this literary form, he considers such works as Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family (1998), in which descendants of slaveholders expose the family secrets of their ancestors. Remembering Generations examines how cultural works contribute to social debates, how a particular representational form emerges out of a specific historical epoch, and how some contemporary intellectuals meditate on the issue of historical responsibility--of recognizing that the slave past continues to exert an influence on contemporary American society.
Download or read book A Standard History of Oklahoma written by Joseph Bradfield Thoburn and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
