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Book Henry William Ravenel Family Papers

Download or read book Henry William Ravenel Family Papers written by Henry William Ravenel and published by . This book was released on 1716 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers consist of financial and estate records, genealogical material, and other items.

Book Ravenel Family Papers

Download or read book Ravenel Family Papers written by Ravenel family and published by . This book was released on 1757 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogical information, 5 items,1791-1894, includes epitaphs from Morristown, N.J. and elsewhere; baptismal records; and two-page translation [ca. 1890s] of marriage certificate, 24 Oct. 1687, of Rene Ravenel, aged 21, and Charlotte de St. Julian, aged 18, who were married at Pumpkin Hill Plantation in South Carolina.

Book Henry William Ravenel Papers

Download or read book Henry William Ravenel Papers written by Henry William Ravenel and published by . This book was released on 1739 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty four volumes, 1859-1887, Pooshee Plantation, Hampton Hill, Columbia, Aiken, S.C., and elsewhere, H.W. Ravenel's private journals and diaries re educational studies, horticulture, family, and current events; 5 volumes, 1853, Fungi of Carolina, containing pressed and dried fungi samples from across South and North Carolina.

Book Henry William Ravenel  1814 1887

Download or read book Henry William Ravenel 1814 1887 written by Tamara Miner Haygood and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides an engaging and illuminating view of the culture of the South and the study of natural history. . . . Ravenel's achievements, Haygood argues, refute Clement Eaton's contention that slavery stifled creative thought; they also modify the more extravagant claim for southern equality with northern science made in Thomas Cary Johnson's Scientific Interests in the Old South (1936)." --American Historical Review "Convincingly argues for the importance of these middle years to understanding American science and vividly illustrates the effect of the Civil War on science. . . . Ravenel, a geographically isolated planter with a college degree but no scientific training, managed to serve as one of America's leading mycologists, despite continual financial and medical problems and the disruption of the Civil War. This lively account of his life and work is at once inspiring and tragic." Journal of the History of Biology "A thoroughly enjoyable biography of one of the important American naturalists, botanists, and mycologists of the 1800s. . . . Truly an outstanding contribution to the history of American science." --Brittonia

Book Henry Ravenel Papers

Download or read book Henry Ravenel Papers written by Henry Ravenel and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers consist of two bonds (1752, 1775) of Henry Ravenel and James Ravenel; accounts (1755-1756) of Henry Ravenel with Dr. William Keith for medicines and medical treatments; and accounts (1777) of Henry Ravenel with Dr. Hugh Rose for medicines and medical treatments.

Book Henry William Ravenel and John Torrey Correspondence  1848 1869

Download or read book Henry William Ravenel and John Torrey Correspondence 1848 1869 written by Henry William Ravenel and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Hard Fight for We

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  • Author : Leslie A. Schwalm
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2023-02-03
  • ISBN : 0252054687
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book A Hard Fight for We written by Leslie A. Schwalm and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-American women fought for their freedom with courage and vigor during and after the Civil War. Leslie Schwalm explores the vital roles of enslaved and formerly enslaved women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, both in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery. From there, she chronicles their efforts as freedwomen to recover from the impact of the war while redefining their lives and labor. Freedwomen asserted their own ideas of what freedom meant and insisted on important changes in the work they performed both for white employers and in their own homes. As Schwalm shows, these women rejected the most unpleasant or demeaning tasks, guarded the prerogatives they gained under the South's slave economy, and defended their hard-won freedoms against unwanted intervention by Northern whites and the efforts of former owners to restore slavery's social and economic relations during Reconstruction. A bold challenge to entrenched notions, A Hard Fight for We places African American women at the center of the South's transition from a slave society.

Book Fifty Years in Chains

Download or read book Fifty Years in Chains written by Charles Ball and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave (1859) was an abridged and unauthorized reprint of the earlier Slavery in the United States (1836). In the narratives, Ball describes his experiences as a slave, including the uncertainty of slave life and the ways in which the slaves are forced to suffer inhumane conditions. He recounts the qualities of his various masters and the ways in which his fortune depended on their temperament. As slave narrative scholar William L. Andrews has noted, Ball's oft-repeated narrative directly influenced the manner and matter of later fugitive slave.

Book Carolina s Golden Fields

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  • Author : Hayden R. Smith
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-10-31
  • ISBN : 110842340X
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Carolina s Golden Fields written by Hayden R. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The basis for this book began twenty years ago when I enrolled in the College of Charleston's summer archaeological field school. After spending the first half of the semester honing our technique by digging five-foot by five-foot units, identifying soil stratigraphy, and collecting artifacts at the Charleston Museum's Stono Plantation, the archaeologists reoriented us students to a new site. For the remainder of the field school we investigated Willtown Bluff on the Edisto River, an early-eighteenth century township surrounded by plantations. My interest in inland rice cultivation grew from our work at the James Stobo site, a 1710 plantation located on the edge of the Willtown township and one mile from the tidal river. For three archaeological seasons between 1997 and 1999, I participated in excavations of the Stobo Plantation house foundation located on a hardwood knoll surrounded by a sea of low-lying Cypress wetlands. During this time, I had a unique opportunity to walk off the dry terra firma and explore miles of inland rice embankments sprawling to the east and to the south of the house site. Major embankments traverse the wetlands on a magnetic north/south and east/west axis, intersected by smaller check banks and drainage canals as far as the eye can see under the dense cypress and hardwood canopy"--

Book Federalism  Secession  and the American State

Download or read book Federalism Secession and the American State written by Lawrence M. Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One important tradition in political science conceives of the Civil War in the United States serving as the functional equivalent of the English and French Revolutions, bringing with it the victory of liberal democratic industrialism over aristocratic agriculturalism. From this perspective, the Civil War is notable for its impact on the American state. Surprisingly however, little attention has been paid to the distinguishing features of this historic rupture in American politics. Through primary source research and the re-analysis of the rich historical literature about the antebellum era and the causes of the Civil War, Lawrence A. Anderson explores the relationship between federalism and the movement for secession in the United States during the pre-civil war era. Focusing primarily on South Carolina, Anderson carefully revisits theory on institutional analysis of political development to expose what caused secession in the United States.

Book Rebels in the Making

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  • Author : William L. Barney
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0190076089
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Rebels in the Making written by William L. Barney and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rebels in the Making narrates and interprets secession in the fifteen slave states in 1860-1861. It is a political history informed by the socio-economic structures of the South and the varying forms they took across the region. It explains how a small minority of Southern radicals exploited the hopes and fears of Southern whites over slavery after Lincoln's election in November of 1860 to create and lead a revolutionary movement with broad support, especially in the Lower South. It reveals a divided South in which the commitment to secession was tied directly to the extent of slave ownership and the political influence of local planters. White fears over the future of slavery were at the center of the crisis, and the refusal of Republicans to sanction the expansion of slavery doomed efforts to reach a sectional compromise. In January six states in the Lower South joined South Carolina in leaving the Union, and delegates from the seceded states organized a Confederate government in February. Lincoln's call for troops to uphold the Union after the Confederacy fired upon Fort Sumter in April 1861 finally pushed the reluctant states of the Upper South to secede in defense of slavery and white supremacy"--

Book Doctoring the South

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  • Author : Steven M. Stowe
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2011-01-20
  • ISBN : 0807876267
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book Doctoring the South written by Steven M. Stowe and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the nineteenth century, Steven M. Stowe provides an in-depth study of the midcentury culture of everyday medicine in the South. Reading deeply in the personal letters, daybooks, diaries, bedside notes, and published writings of doctors, Stowe illuminates an entire world of sickness and remedy, suffering and hope, and the deep ties between medicine and regional culture. In a distinct American region where climate, race and slavery, and assumptions about "southernness" profoundly shaped illness and healing in the lives of ordinary people, Stowe argues that southern doctors inhabited a world of skills, medicines, and ideas about sickness that allowed them to play moral, as well as practical, roles in their communities. Looking closely at medical education, bedside encounters, and medicine's larger social aims, he describes a "country orthodoxy" of local, social medical practice that highly valued the "art" of medicine. While not modern in the sense of laboratory science a century later, this country orthodoxy was in its own way modern, Stowe argues, providing a style of caregiving deeply rooted in individual experience, moral values, and a consciousness of place and time.

Book Evolution Education in the American South

Download or read book Evolution Education in the American South written by Christopher D. Lynn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reaches beyond the controversy surrounding the teaching and learning of evolution in the United States, specifically in regard to the culture, politics, and beliefs found in the Southeast. The editors argue that despite a deep history of conflict in the region surrounding evolution, there is a wealth of evolution research taking place—from biodiversity in species to cultural evolution and human development. In fact, scientists, educators, and researchers from around the United States have found their niche in the South, where biodiversity is high, culture runs deep, and the pace is just a little bit slower.

Book Crisis of Fear

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  • Author : Steven A. Channing
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN : 9780393007305
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Crisis of Fear written by Steven A. Channing and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1974 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic account of the actions and attitudes behind the even that began the Civil War. Vast research in private papers, legislative records, and newspapers has produced this important new perspective on the origins of the Civil War. Crisis of Fear was awarded the Allan Nevins History Prize by the Society of American Historians.

Book To Try Men s Souls

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  • Author : Harold M. Hyman
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2022-08-19
  • ISBN : 0520345665
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book To Try Men s Souls written by Harold M. Hyman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

Book Conjectures of Order

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  • Author : Michael O'Brien
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2004-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780807828007
  • Pages : 800 pages

Download or read book Conjectures of Order written by Michael O'Brien and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magisterial history of intellectual life, Michael O'Brien analyzes the lives and works of antebellum Southern thinkers and reintegrates the South into the larger tradition of American and European intellectual history. O'Brien finds that the evolution of Southern intellectual life paralleled and modified developments across the Atlantic by moving from a late Enlightenment sensibility to Romanticism and, lastly, to an early form of realism. Volume 1 describes the social underpinnings of the Southern intellect by examining patterns of travel and migration; the formation of ideas on race, gender, ethnicity, locality, and class; and the structures of discourse, expressed in manuscripts and print culture. In Volume 2, O'Brien looks at the genres that became characteristic of Southern thought. Throughout, he pays careful attention to the many individuals who fashioned the Southern mind, including John C. Calhoun, Louisa McCord, James Henley Thornwell, and George Fitzhugh. Placing the South in the larger tradition of American and European intellectual history while recovering the contributions of numerous influential thinkers and writers, O'Brien's masterwork demonstrates the sophistication and complexity of Southern intellectual life before 1860.