Download or read book The County of Warren North Carolina 1586 1917 written by Manly Wade Wellman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a region at once representative and unique in the history of Southern culture, which was from its earliest colonial beginnings a focus of strength, intellect, and proud individuality. Warren County, North Carolina, heart of the Roanoke Region, early built for grace and vigor. It bred people who were great in the affairs of the state and the nation. Resolutely it fought for freedom from England, was a harbor of antebellum grace and vigor, sent its sons into the forefront of Civil War battles, weathered Reconstruction's woes, and strove to sustain its ancient tradition of greatness while keeping step with modernity in the world. Here are remembered the beginnings in a primitive wilderness, the pioneer region that grew into a rich empire of luxury and intellectualism, the county that weathered disasters and won deserved rewards. The events of its life as a locality, with the men and women who created those events, are here retold. Warren County's special record of mannered culture and robust folkways, its parade of hunters, builders, scholars, statesmen, soldiers, belles and beaux, wits and merrymakers, its progress and change as noted in five different centuries, are set forth from authentic sources.
Download or read book Warren County and Its People written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warren County New York written by and published by Donning Company Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warren County Indiana and Its People written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Warren County N J written by George Wyckoff Cummins and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Carolina s Free People of Color 1715 1885 written by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as “negroes,” “mulattoes,” “mustees,” “Indians,” “mixed-bloods,” or simply “free people of color.” From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and privileges of these non-enslaved residents, from prohibiting their testimony against whites to barring them from the ballot box. While such laws suggest that most white North Carolinians desired to limit the freedoms and civil liberties enjoyed by free people of color, Milteer reveals that the two groups often interacted—praying together, working the same land, and occasionally sharing households and starting families. Some free people of color also rose to prominence in their communities, becoming successful businesspeople and winning the respect of their white neighbors. Milteer’s innovative study moves beyond depictions of the American South as a region controlled by a strict racial hierarchy. He contends that although North Carolinians frequently sorted themselves into races imbued with legal and social entitlements—with whites placing themselves above persons of color—those efforts regularly clashed with their concurrent recognition of class, gender, kinship, and occupational distinctions. Whites often determined the position of free nonwhites by designating them as either valuable or expendable members of society. In early North Carolina, free people of color of certain statuses enjoyed access to institutions unavailable even to some whites. Prior to 1835, for instance, some free men of color possessed the right to vote while the law disenfranchised all women, white and nonwhite included. North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885 demonstrates that conceptions of race were complex and fluid, defying easy characterization. Despite the reductive labels often assigned to them by whites, free people of color in the state emerged from an array of backgrounds, lived widely varied lives, and created distinct cultures—all of which, Milteer suggests, allowed them to adjust to and counter ever-evolving forms of racial discrimination.
Download or read book Our County and Its People written by George Baker Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soul City written by Thomas Healy and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
Download or read book Dumping In Dixie written by Robert D. Bullard and published by Avalon Publishing - (Westview Press). This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country’s environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, Dumping in Dixie chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice. In the third edition, Bullard speaks to us from the front lines of the environmental justice movement about new developments in environmental racism, different organizing strategies, and success stories in the struggle for environmental equity.
Download or read book Onion John written by Joseph Krumgold and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1984-04-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a friendship between a 12-year-old boy and an immigrant handyman, almost wrecked by the good intentions of the townspeople.
Download or read book Vicksburg and Warren County A History of People and Place written by Pamela Lea Grillis and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vicksburg and Warren County A History of People and Place is a chronological, fact-filled history of this area from the days of the explorers to 1992. Originally published in hardback in 1992, this 25th anniversary Second Edition is now available in ebook format and in paperback. The Second Edition includes new material and corrections to the original.Well researched and written for a general audience, the book has 79 black and white photographs, maps, and illustrations and includes a selected bibliography and an index. Excellent for homeschoolers, middle schools, and high schools, college supplemental reading, armchair historians, and those planning to travel to or move to the area or those who already live there, it is written for anyone who seeks to know more about the city of Vicksburg and Warren County.Vicksburg and Warren County A History of People and Place includes information not only about the general history of the area, but also the growth and development of Vicksburg, social relations, immigrant and ethnic groups, religion, business and commercial growth, community activities, education, population changes, well known area natives and residents, slavery, the influence of the Civil War in the area, and countless other facts that reveal the history that makes this iconic Southern city and its county what they are.
Download or read book Beyond Slavery s Shadow written by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet nearly half a million of these individuals, including over 250,000 in the South, were free. In Beyond Slavery's Shadow, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. draws from a wide array of sources to demonstrate that from the colonial period through the Civil War, the growing influence of white supremacy and proslavery extremism created serious challenges for free persons categorized as "negroes," "mulattoes," "mustees," "Indians," or simply "free people of color" in the South. Segregation, exclusion, disfranchisement, and discriminatory punishment were ingrained in their collective experiences. Nevertheless, in the face of attempts to deny them the most basic privileges and rights, free people of color defended their families and established organizations and businesses. These people were both privileged and victimized, both celebrated and despised, in a region characterized by social inconsistency. Milteer's analysis of the way wealth, gender, and occupation intersected with ideas promoting white supremacy and discrimination reveals a wide range of social interactions and life outcomes for the South's free people of color and helps to explain societal contradictions that continue to appear in the modern United States.
Download or read book The History of Warren County Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Special People of Warren County written by Jim Keller and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Past and Present of Warren County Containing a History of the County its Cities Towns Etc Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Time Tales of Warren County written by Arch Bristow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
