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Book African American Genealogical Research

Download or read book African American Genealogical Research written by Paul R. Begley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Southern Scoundrels

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeff Forret
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2021-04-21
  • ISBN : 0807175331
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Southern Scoundrels written by Jeff Forret and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of capitalist development in the United States is long, uneven, and overwhelmingly focused on the North. Macroeconomic studies of the South have primarily emphasized the role of the cotton economy in global trading networks. Until now, few in-depth scholarly works have attempted to explain how capitalism in the South took root and functioned in all of its diverse—and duplicitous—forms. Southern Scoundrels explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the region: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave traders, war profiteers, thieves, and marginal men who seized available opportunities to get ahead and, in doing so, left their mark on the southern economy. Eschewing conventional economic theory, this volume features narrative storytelling as engaging and seductive as the cast of shifty characters under examination. Contributors cover the chronological sweep of the nineteenth-century South, from the antebellum era through the tumultuous and chaotic Civil War years, and into Reconstruction and beyond. The geographic scope is equally broad, with essays encompassing the Chesapeake, South Carolina, the Lower Mississippi Valley, Texas, Missouri, and Appalachia. These essays offer a series of social histories on the nineteenth-century southern economy and the changes wrought by capitalist transformation. Tracing that story through the kinds of oily individuals who made it happen, Southern Scoundrels provides fascinating insights into the region’s hucksters and its history. Contents Introduction, Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker “Preachers and Peddlers: Credit and Belief in the Flush Times,” John Lindbeck “A Gentleman and a Scoundrel? Alexander McDonald, Financial Reputation, and Slavery’s Capitalism,” Alexandra J. Finley “‘How Deeply They Weed into the Pockets’: Slave Traders, Bank Speculators, and the Anatomy of a Chesapeake Wildcat, 1840–1843,” Jeff Forret “Bernard Kendig: Orchestrating Fraud in the Market and the Courtroom,” Maria R. Montalvo “William A. Britton v. Benjamin F. Butler: Occupied New Orleans, Confiscation, and the Disruption of the Cotton Trade in Wartime Natchez,” Jeff Strickland “Devils at the Doorstep: Confederate Judges, Masters of Sequestration,” Rodney J. Steward “‘Irresistibly Impelled toward Illegal Appropriation’: The Civil War Schemes of William G. Cheeney,” Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr. “Das Kapital on Tchoupitoulas Street: The Marketing of Stolen Goods and the Reserve Army of Labor in Reconstruction-Era New Orleans,” Bruce E. Baker “The Violent Lives of William Faucett,” Elaine S. Frantz “Eureka! Law and Order for Sale in Gilded Age Appalachia,” T. R. C. Hutton

Book The Searcher

Download or read book The Searcher written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deep South Dynasty

Download or read book Deep South Dynasty written by Kari A. Frederickson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Family biography as regional history -- Ascension. Becoming the Bankheads of Alabama ; A slaveholder's son in the postwar South, 1865-1885 ; "He was a getter, and he got" : the making of a New South congressman ; Establishing the new order ; Political challenges, 1904-1907 ; Roads and redemption ; Party men, city women -- Succession. New directions ; Senator from Alabama ; Burning bridges, taking chances ; Mr. Speaker ; "A good soldier in politics" : the last campaign ; At the crossroads.

Book MacRaes to America

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  • Author : Cornelia Wendell Bush
  • Publisher : Cornelia Wendell Bush
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781597150255
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book MacRaes to America written by Cornelia Wendell Bush and published by Cornelia Wendell Bush. This book was released on 2006 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persons with the surname McRae, or several variations thereof, are listed by state. Information was taken mainly from U.S. censuses from 1790 to 1850.

Book Sorting Some of the Wrights of Southern Virginia  Sources

Download or read book Sorting Some of the Wrights of Southern Virginia Sources written by Robert Noel Grant and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Local and Family History in South Carolina

Download or read book Local and Family History in South Carolina written by Richard N. Côté and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Names of libraries are included with each title unless the item is deemed as "COMMON" to four or more libraries.

Book The Genealogical Acorn

Download or read book The Genealogical Acorn written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ku Klux

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  • Author : Elaine Frantz Parsons
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2015-11-09
  • ISBN : 1469625431
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Ku Klux written by Elaine Frantz Parsons and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. By parsing the earliest descriptions of the Klan, Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals that it was only as reports of the Tennessee Klan's mysterious and menacing activities began circulating in northern newspapers that whites enthusiastically formed their own Klan groups throughout the South. The spread of the Klan was thus intimately connected with the politics and mass media of the North. Shedding new light on the ideas that motivated the Klan, Parsons explores Klansmen's appropriation of images and language from northern urban forms such as minstrelsy, burlesque, and business culture. While the Klan sought to retain the prewar racial order, the figure of the Ku-Klux became a joint creation of northern popular cultural entrepreneurs and southern whites seeking, perversely and violently, to modernize the South. Innovative and packed with fresh insight, Parsons' book offers the definitive account of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.

Book The Georgians

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  • Author : Jeannette Holland Austin
  • Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 0806310812
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book The Georgians written by Jeannette Holland Austin and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1984 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a collection of 283 genealogies which I have compiled over a period of twenty years as a professional genealogist. ... While I have dealt with some of Oglethorpe's settlers, the vast majority of the genealogies included in this collection deal with Georgians who descend from settlers from other states."--Note to the Reader.

Book The Blassingame Families

Download or read book The Blassingame Families written by W. Doak Blassingame and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blassingame (and variant spellings) families came to America in the 1600's, and settled in Virginia. In the 1700's, some settled in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Carolina. During the 1800's, some moved to Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Later descendants and relatives also lived in Albania, Canada, Germany, Indian Territory, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, and in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Washington, Washington D.C., Wisconsin, Wyoming, and elsewhere. Some had Cherokee, Choctaw, and Osage Indian bloodlines. Some had African American bloodlines. Some information available concerning names of slaves.

Book Pierre Chastain and His Descendants  First five generations in America

Download or read book Pierre Chastain and His Descendants First five generations in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I Made this Jar

Download or read book I Made this Jar written by Dave and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jordan s Journey

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  • Author : Jordan M. Scoggins
  • Publisher : bd-studios.com
  • Release : 2012-01-23
  • ISBN : 061558179X
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Jordan s Journey written by Jordan M. Scoggins and published by bd-studios.com. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan's Journey is something new to the world of ancestry. It's a genealogical mashup incorporating photography, writing, design, research, and more. Gone are the boring register reports and dry descriptions found in genealogical tomes of old. This book takes a new approach, fusing together the creative and academic in a way that breathes new life into family history. Equal parts genealogical memoir, art photography, and local history, Jordan's Journey pulls you in with a rich and immersive experience. With more than 75 original photos by the author, as well as over 150 vintage images, Jordan's Journey invites you on a trip into the rural south of yesteryear. The book traces the major family lines of Pope, Jordan, Scoggins, and Holcomb, along with the associated families of Clement, Love, Robbs, Goodson, Visinand/Whisenant, Anderson, Chapman, Lawrence, Rambo, Hawkins, Ward, Keown, and Cavender. Other allied families are discussed, as well as general local history of the Armuchee Valley region of northwest Georgia.

Book The Source

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  • Author : Loretto Dennis Szucs
  • Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781593312770
  • Pages : 1000 pages

Download or read book The Source written by Loretto Dennis Szucs and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogists and other historical researchers have valued the first two editions of this work, often referred to as the genealogist's bible."" The new edition continues that tradition. Intended as a handbook and a guide to selecting, locating, and using appropriate primary and secondary resources, The Source also functions as an instructional tool for novice genealogists and a refresher course for experienced researchers. More than 30 experts in this field--genealogists, historians, librarians, and archivists--prepared the 20 signed chapters, which are well written, easy to read, and include many helpful hints for getting the most out of whatever information is acquired. Each chapter ends with an extensive bibliography and is further enriched by tables, black-and-white illustrations, and examples of documents. Eight appendixes include the expected contact information for groups and institutions that persons studying genealogy and history need to find. ""