Download or read book The Indomitable George Washington Fields written by Kevin M. Clermont and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates the fortuitous discovery of a significant historical figure: George Washington Fields (1854-1932). Fields was known to have entered with the first law class of Cornell University and earned his LL.B. degree there in 1890. But his back story before college was unknown, and hence the significance of his life after graduation was unappreciated. It turns out, although the university's records were previously silent on this, that Fields not only was the new law school's first African-American graduate, but also was in the first graduating group of African Americans from Cornell University as a whole. Even more distinctively, he was the only ex-slave ever to graduate from that august university. Fields' significance is not so locally confined, however. Born into slavery in Hanover County, Virginia, he started at the bottom. But he, along with his remarkable family, made a historic escape to Hampton at the height of the Civil War. He next worked to support the family, and still pursued an education at the storied Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. Later going North, he worked for nearly a decade, including stints as manservant for various luminaries, before completing his legal studies. He then went home to Hampton where——though blinded in 1896——he continued to overcome, eventually becoming a leading attorney of the region. Most important, in his later years, he wrote an autobiography. This book presents in full form that hitherto unpublished work, rediscovered in the archives of a Hampton museum. The autobiography ranks as a major slave narrative. It is an incredible document, telling a riveting tale of escape and triumph, while conveying a sense of this great and greatly likeable person. He recounts his story with a special blend of humor and wisdom, laying out in no uncertain terms the set of values that guided him through his fascinating times. Before and after that autobiographical centerpiece, the other parts of this book provide context and fill gaps in the five-act life story: the wrenching antebellum life of a slave family, the dramatic escape during wartime, the rebuilding of family life during the South's Reconstruction, the necessary move up to the North for more work and schooling, and finally the return to Hampton for a largely happy and very productive life. The resulting book has potential for use by history, Africana, and law students, and should have appeal for Civil War and Virginia history buffs. Yet it is, if nothing else, a great read for just about anyone.
Download or read book Charming Field for an Encounter written by Gordon Press Publishers and published by . This book was released on 1997-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forsaken written by Ross Howell Jr. and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1912 in Hampton, Virginia, white eighteen-year-old reporter Charles Mears covers his first murder case, a trial that roiled racial tensions. An uneducated African American girl, Virginia Christian, was tried for killing her white employer. "Virgie" died in the electric chair one day after her seventeenth birthday, the only female juvenile executed in Virginia history. Charlie tells the story of the trial and its aftermath. Woven into his narrative are actual court records, letters, newspaper stories, and personal accounts, reflecting the arc of history in characters large and small, in events local and global. Charlie falls in love with Harriet, a girl orphaned by the murder; meets Virgie's blind attorney George Fields, a former slave; and encounters physician Walter Plecker, a state official who pursues racial purity laws later emulated in Nazi Germany. There is much to admire in the pages of Forsaken, especially the vivid sense of time and place, Hampton Roads after the Civil War and Reconstruction. The novel's premise is ambitious, its events striking and tragic, and fiction and nonfiction are deftly blended in this powerful read on the themes of injustice, corruption, and racial conflict set in the poisonous epoch known as Jim Crow.
Download or read book A Charming Field for an Encounter written by Robert C. Alberts and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charming Field for an Encounter written by Robert C. Elberts and published by . This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of George Washington written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Martha Washington written by Patricia Brady and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated the youthful George Washington. Here are the able landowner, the indomitable patriot (who faithfully joined her husband each winter at Valley Forge), and the shrewd diplomat and emotional mainstay. And even as it brings Martha Washington into sharper and more accurate focus, this sterling life sheds light on her marriage, her society, and the precedents she established for future First Ladies.
Download or read book George Washington written by Andrew Olesen and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did George Washington become our first president? Using clear, engaging prose and an event-by-event account, this book takes readers through the story of this amazing man’s election. Students will learn about Washington’s life from his childhood on a Virginia farm to being chosen as a representative at the First Continental Congress. Details of Washington’s heroics in the Revolutionary War and his position as the country’s first president, as well as illustrations and historical images, bring this portrait of a Founding Father to life.
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Download or read book Orderly Book of General George Washington Commander in Chief of the American Armies Kept at Valley Forge 18 May 11 June 1778 written by United States. Continental Army and published by Boston [etc.] ; and London : Lamson, Wolffe and Company. This book was released on 1898 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of George Washington written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Washington written by Laurie Calkhoven and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and accomplishments of the American hero, who was the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and who became the first president of the United States.
Download or read book The Life of George Washington written by John Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book All Cloudless Glory written by Harrison Clark and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Two takes the nation's first president from the end of his career as a great general, through his final days at Mount Vernon, to the often tumultuous years of his presidency.
Download or read book George Washington written by John S. C. Abbott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book The Life of George Washington written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
