Download or read book The Upper Ten Thousand for 1876 written by Thom Adam Bisset and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Upper Ten Thousand for written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alabama Official and Statistical Register written by Alabama. Department of Archives and History and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1903 contains a list of Constitution conventions of Alabama, 1819-1901 with bibliography of each convention.

Download or read book Kelly s Handbook to the Upper Ten Thousand for 1878 written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Last Slave Ship written by Ben Raines and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains. Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide evidence of the crime, allowing the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution. Despite numerous efforts to find the sunken wreck, Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160 years. But in 2019, journalist Ben Raines made international news when he successfully concluded his obsessive quest through the swamps of Alabama to uncover one of our nation’s most important historical artifacts. Traveling from Alabama to the ancient African kingdom of Dahomey in modern-day Benin, Raines recounts the ship’s perilous journey, the story of its rediscovery, and its complex legacy. Against all odds, Africatown, the Alabama community founded by the captives of the Clotilda, prospered in the Jim Crow South. Zora Neale Hurston visited in 1927 to interview Cudjo Lewis, telling the story of his enslavement in the New York Times bestseller Barracoon. And yet the haunting memory of bondage has been passed on through generations. Clotilda is a ghost haunting three communities—the descendants of those transported into slavery, the descendants of their fellow Africans who sold them, and the descendants of their American enslavers. This connection binds these groups together to this day. At the turn of the century, descendants of the captain who financed the Clotilda’s journey lived nearby—where, as significant players in the local real estate market, they disenfranchised and impoverished residents of Africatown. From these parallel stories emerges a profound depiction of America as it struggles to grapple with the traumatic past of slavery and the ways in which racial oppression continue to this day. And yet, at its heart, The Last Slave Ship remains optimistic—an epic tale of one community’s triumphs over great adversity and a celebration of the power of human curiosity to uncover the truth about our past and heal its wounds.

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Download or read book A War of Sections written by Steve Suitts and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement, Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in Alabama came to shape both some of America's best achievements in voting rights and its continuing struggles over voter suppression. A War of Sections tells the unknown political history symbolized today by the annual pilgrimage of presidents and celebrities across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It is the story of how that crucial, tragic day in Selma in 1965 was only the flashpoint of a much longer history of failures and successes involving conflicts not only between blacks and whites in Alabama but between white political factions warring in the state over voting rights. Suitts recasts the context and much of the content of disfranchisement in Alabama as an unremitting, decades-long sectional battle in white-only politics between the state's rural Black Belt and north Alabama counties. He uncovers important Black and white heroes and villains who collectively shaped the arc of voting rights in Alabama and ultimately across the nation. A War of Sections offers a new understanding of the political dynamics of resistance and change through which a southern state's long-standing democratic failures ironically provided motivation for and instruction to a reluctant nation regarding unmatched ways to advance universal voting. Along the way, the book introduces from this unheard past some prophetic voices that speak to the paramount issues of America's commitment to the universal right to vote-then and now.

Download or read book The Disfranchisement Myth written by Glenn Feldman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study challenges decades of scholarship on an ever-topical but misunderstood impulse behind disfranchisement in America: racism. Drawing on court documents, voting statistics, civil rights and labor records, and many other sources, Feldman shows that the racist appeals of Alabama's white planters, industrialists, and other conservatives motivated poor whites in far greater numbers and for more-complex reasons than received knowledge concedes. The seemingly natural allies of blacks, poor whites constituted most of the white opposition to disfranchisement, says Feldman. Yet the number of poor whites who backed the new constitution was greater. Ultimately, many would be disfranchised by the very measures they had believed were aimed only at blacks. In that sense, says Feldman, poor whites were "more parties to their own demise than the mere victims of circumstance."

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Convention written by American Bankers Association and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reports of its various sections.

Download or read book Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin written by State Historical Society of Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Commissioners of the national centennial celebration of the early settlement of the territory north west of the river Ohio written by Ohio. Commissioners of the Old Northwest centennial celebration and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Commissioners of the National Centennial Celebration of the Early Settlement of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio and of the Establishment of Civil Government Therein written by Ohio. Commissioners of the Old Northwest Centennial Celebration, 1888 and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Africatown written by Nick Tabor and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution. In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon. That community, Africatown, has endured to the present day, and many of the community residents are the shipmates’ direct descendants. After many decades of neglect and a Jim Crow legal system that targeted the area for industrialization, the community is struggling to survive. Many community members believe the pollution from the heavy industry surrounding their homes has caused a cancer epidemic among residents, and companies are eyeing even more land for development. At the same time, after the discovery of the remains of the Clotilda in the riverbed nearby, a renewed effort is underway to create a living memorial to the community and the lives of the slaves who founded it.

Download or read book Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin written by State Historical Society of Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 1855 the society's annual reports were included in its Proceedings.