Download or read book Life at the White Sulphur Springs Or Pictures of a Pleasant Summer written by Mary Jane Windle and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Life at the White Sulphur Springs written by Mary J. Windle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life at the White Sulphur Springs: Or, Pictures of a Pleasant Summer So much has been published upon the Virginia Springs, that the subject has been completely exhausted by minds of every calibre. It therefore looks like a work of superero gation to endeavor to extract a new idea from so worn-out a theme, or attempt to add a word to that which has already been so often and so well said; but such is the incorrigibility of female human nature, that, with this fact staring one in the face and appearing silently to forbid it, we fancy we are bound to add our mite to the general fund of entertain ment, to correct some impression which may have escaped a mightier mind, or correct some mistake which may have been perpetrated by a more careless one. We left Washington at the uncomfortable hour of five in the morning, being startled from a languid chat by the voice of the hackman while partaking of an early breakfast. The aspect of Pennsylvania Avenue was decidedly solitary - ia deed, it might almost be described as dreary. A short drive brought us to the Alexandria boat, its broad, black chimney silently vomiting lazy volumes of smoke, while the narrow' steam-pipe by its side shot forth a viewless jet, whitening upward to fleecy cloud; and high above all - calm, grand, and sublime - rose the Washington Monument, looming up like a mighty giant above the crowded spires and roofs of the city. Soon the wheels began to turn, and the boat moved sluggishly from the wharf, gradually quickening its speed, and, with beautiful precision, dexterously threading its way from among the slow, sullen coal-barges, as a lion might spare to trample on a mouse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Black Huntington written by Cicero M Fain III and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1930, Huntington had become West Virginia's largest city. Its booming economy and relatively tolerant racial climate attracted African Americans from across Appalachia and the South. Prosperity gave these migrants political clout and spurred the formation of communities that defined black Huntington--factors that empowered blacks to confront institutionalized and industrial racism on the one hand and the white embrace of Jim Crow on the other. Cicero M. Fain III illuminates the unique cultural identity and dynamic sense of accomplishment and purpose that transformed African American life in Huntington. Using interviews and untapped archival materials, Fain details the rise and consolidation of the black working class as it pursued, then fulfilled, its aspirations. He also reveals how African Americans developed a host of strategies--strong kin and social networks, institutional development, property ownership, and legal challenges--to defend their gains in the face of the white status quo. Eye-opening and eloquent, Black Huntington makes visible another facet of the African American experience in Appalachia.
Download or read book Ladies and Gentlemen on Display written by Charlene M. Boyer Lewis and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each summer between 1790 and 1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of southern men and women left the diseases and boredom of their plantation homes and journeyed to the healthful and entertaining Virginia Springs. While some came in search of a cure, most traveled over the mountains to enjoy the fashionable society and participate in an array of social activities. At the springs, visitors, as well as their slaves, interacted with one another and engaged in behavior quite different from the picture presented by most historians. In the leisurely and pleasure-filled environment of the springs, plantation society's hierarchies became at once more relaxed and more contested; its rituals and rules sometimes changed and reformed; and its gender divisions often softened and blurred. In Ladies and Gentlemen on Display, Charlene Boyer Lewis argues that the Virginia Springs provided a theater of sorts, where contests for power between men and women, fashionables and evangelicals, blacks and whites, old and young, and even northerners and southerners played out -- away from the traditional roles of the plantation. In their pursuit of health and pleasure, white southerners created a truly regional community at the springs. At this edge of the South, elite southern society shaped itself, defining what it meant to be a "Southerner" and redefining social roles and relations.
Download or read book Representative American Short Stories written by Robert William Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fatal Self Deception written by Eugene D. Genovese and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders' paternalism had little to do with ostensible benevolence, kindness and good cheer. It grew out of the necessity to discipline and morally justify a system of exploitation. At the same time, this book also advocates the examination of masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants - a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew on the work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and black, suffered de facto slavery, and they championed the South's 'Christian slavery' as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern.
Download or read book West Virginia History written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book DRINKING WATERS written by Thomas A. Chambers and published by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth century men and women had few opportunities to socialize with those from other regions of the United States. The resorts of Virginia's western mountains and upstate New York's Saratoga Springs provided a rare meeting ground, one where the boundaries of class and region were defined, tested, solidified, broken, and repaired by the Civil War and its aftermath.
Download or read book The Springs of Virginia written by Perceval Reniers and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Women Writers written by Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes present essays offering critical, biographical, and bibliographical information on each writer.
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