Download or read book Historic Plantations of Alabama s Black Belt written by Jennifer Hale and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the center of agricultural prosperity in Alabama, the rich soil of the Black Belt still features beautiful homes that stand as a testimony to the regions proud heritage. Join author Jennifer Hale as she explores the history of seventeen of the finest plantation homes in Alabamas Black Belt. This book chronicles the original owners and slaves of the homes, and traces their descendants who continued to call these plantations home throughout the past two centuries. Discover why the families of an Indian chief and a chief justice feuded for over a century about the land on which Belvoir stands. Follow Gaineswoods progress as it grew from a humble log cabin into an opulent mansion. Learn how the original builder and subsequent owners of the Kirkwood Mansion are linked together by a legacy of exceptional and dedicated reservation. Historic Plantations of Alabamas Black Belt recounts the elegant past and hopeful future of a well-loved region of the South.
Download or read book Clearing the Thickets written by Herbert James Lewis and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2013-03-02 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and interesting survey of the rise of the state of Alabama from frontier society to the Civil War.
Download or read book Notorious Antebellum North Alabama written by John O’Brien and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Civil War, North Alabama was infamous for lawlessness. The era saw courts filled with defendants who spanned the socioeconomic gamut--farmers, merchants and politicians. In 1811, John B. Haynes tore apart William Badger's house with his bare hands. Rodah Barnett ran a series of ill-reputed brothels in the early 1820s. In 1818, Rebecca Layman "accidentally" gave her husband sulfuric acid instead of rum. There is even a case of assault with frozen corn. Author John O'Brien relays these and more stories of the shady side of North Alabama during the antebellum period.
Download or read book Antebellum Alabama written by Weymouth T. Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1957-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ante Bellum Alabama written by Weymouth T. Jordan and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GIFT LOCAL 04-12-2006 $23.99.
Download or read book Cotton City written by Harriet E. Amos Doss and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2001-07-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amos's study delineates the basis for Mobile's growth and the ways in which residents and their government promoted growth and adapted to it.
Download or read book A Mind to Stay written by Sydney Nathans and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sydney Nathans offers a counterpoint to the narrative of the Great Migration, a central theme of black liberation in the twentieth century. He tells the story of enslaved families who became the emancipated owners of land they had worked in bondage.
Download or read book Hugh Davis and His Alabama Plantation written by Weymouth T. Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ante-bellum"" Alabama: Town and Country "was originally published in 1957 to give the reader insight into important facets of Alabama's antebellum history. Presented in the form of case studies from the pre-Civil War period, the book deals with a city, a town, a planter's family, rural social life, attitudes concerning race, and Alabama's early agricultural and industrial development. Antebellum Alabama's primary interest was agriculture; the chief crop was King Cotton; and most of her people were agriculturists. Her towns and cities came into existence for the express purpose of supplying the agricultural needs of the state and helping to process and distribute farm commodities. Similarly, Alabama's industrial development began with the manufacture of implements for farm use in response to the state's agricultural needs. Rural-agricultural influences dominated the American scene; and in this respect Alabama was typical of both her region and most of the United States. An urbanized-industrial America was for the most part still in the future, though not the too-far-distant-future.
Download or read book Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society written by Alabama Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics and Power in a Slave Society written by J. Mills Thornton and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three decades after its initial publication, J. Mills Thornton's Politics and Power in a Slave Society remains the definitive study of political culture in antebellum Alabama. Controversial when it first appeared, the book argues against a view of prewar Alabama as an aristocratic society governed by a planter elite. Instead, Thornton claims that Alabama was an aggressively democratic state, and that this very egalitarianism set the stage for secession. White Alabamians had first-hand experiences with slavery, and these encounters warned them to guard against the imposition of economic or social reforms that might limit their equality. Playing upon their fears, the leaders of the southern rights movement warned that national consolidation presented the danger that fanatic northern reformers would force alien values upon Alabama and its residents. These threats gained traction when national reforms of the 1850s gave state government a more active role in the everyday life of Alabama citizens; and ambitious young politicians were able to carry the state into secession in 1861. Politics and Power in a Slave Society continues to inspire scholars by challenging one of the fundamental articles of the American creed: that democracy intrinsically produces good. Contrary to our conventional wisdom, slavery was not an un-American institution, but rather coexisted with and supported the democratic beliefs of white Alabama.
Download or read book Respectable and Disreputable written by Jeffrey Benton and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Respectable and Disreputable describes how Montgomerians spent their increasing leisure time during the four decades preceding the Civil War. Everyday activities included gambling, drinking, sporting, hunting, and voluntary associations -- military, literary, self-improvement, fraternal, and civic. The book also includes seasonal activities -- religious and national holidays, fairs, balls, horse racing, and summering at mineral springs. Commercial entertainment, which became more prominent in the late antebellum period, included theater, opera, circuses, and minstrel shows. Historian Jeffrey Benton describes not only those everyday, seasonal, and commercial activities, but also shows how antebellum society debated the moral and philosophical questions of how leisure time should be spent. Woven throughout the book are comparisons between Montgomery and other cities and towns in antebellum America. Although the United States may have been increasingly divided economically, on rural-urban experiences, and of course on the issue of slavery, it seems that antebellum Americans -- at least those living in or with easy access to urban areas -- shared very similar leisure time activities.
Download or read book Publications of the Alabama Historical Society Miscellaneous Collections written by Alabama Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Canebrake Planters of Alabama written by Cecil Stanford Harrell and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seeing Historic Alabama written by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1996-06-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists and describes battlefields, forts, historic mansions, pioneer settlements, civil rights monuments, and other historic sites
Download or read book Historic Architecture in Alabama written by Robert S. Gamble and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitol Books Local 10-16-2009 $16.99.
Download or read book Slavery in Alabama written by James Benson Sellers and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1994-06-30 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the social and economic aspects of slavery in Alabama. After a discussion of slavery under the imperial rulers of the colonial and territorial periods, Sellers focuses on the transplantation of the slavery system from the Atlantic seaboard states to Alabama.
Download or read book Ante bellum Mansions of Alabama written by Ralph Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 51 ante-bellum mansions are described and illustrated with black and white photographs and in some cases, floor plans. Maps show the locations of the mansions with seven regions of Alabama.
