Download or read book Slave Against Slave written by Jeff Forret and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until after Reconstruction, contemporary records bear witness to its regular presence among enslaved populations. Slave against Slave explores the roots of and motivations for such violence and the ways in which slaves, masters, churches, and civil and criminal laws worked to hold it in check. Far from focusing on violence alone, Forret’s work also adds depth to our understanding of morality among the enslaved, revealing how slaves sought to prevent violence and punish those who engaged in it. Forret mines a vast array of slave narratives, slaveholders’ journals, travelers’ accounts, and church and court records from across the South to approximate the prevalence of slave-against-slave violence prior to the Civil War. A diverse range of motives for these conflicts emerges, from tensions over status differences, to disagreements originating at work and in private, to discord relating to the slave economy and the web of debts that slaves owed one another, to courtship rivalries, marital disputes, and adulterous affairs. Forret also uncovers the role of explicitly gendered violence in bondpeople’s constructions of masculinity and femininity, suggesting a system of honor among slaves that would have been familiar to southern white men and women, had they cared to acknowledge it. Though many generations of scholars have examined violence in the South as perpetrated by and against whites, the internal clashes within the slave quarters have remained largely unexplored. Forret’s analysis of intraracial slave conflicts in the Old South examines narratives of violence in slave communities, opening a new line of inquiry into the study of American slavery.

Download or read book Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot apostle to the Indians 1598 1905 written by Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Shelton Wininger and Pace Families written by Alvin Harold Casey and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descendants of John Shelton born in late 1700's. He married Catherine Messer in 1805 in Hawkins County, Tennessee.

Download or read book Early American History written by William Everett Brockman and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Hume (1698-1760), second son of Sir George Hume, immigrated in 1721 from Scotland to Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and married Elizabeth Proctor. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry and genealogical data in Scotland, England and elsewhere.

Download or read book The Origins of Proslavery Christianity written by Charles F. Irons and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with those of African descent, they nonetheless emerged as the most effective defenders of race-based slavery. As Charles Irons persuasively argues, white evangelicals' ideas about slavery grew directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals. Set in Virginia, the largest slaveholding state and the hearth of the southern evangelical movement, this book draws from church records, denominational newspapers, slave narratives, and private letters and diaries to illuminate the dynamic relationship between whites and blacks within the evangelical fold. Irons reveals that when whites theorized about their moral responsibilities toward slaves, they thought first of their relationships with bondmen in their own churches. Thus, African American evangelicals inadvertently shaped the nature of the proslavery argument. When they chose which churches to join, used the procedures set up for church discipline, rejected colonization, or built quasi-independent congregations, for example, black churchgoers spurred their white coreligionists to further develop the religious defense of slavery.

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Download or read book A History of Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory written by David Emmons Johnston and published by Pantianos Classics. This book was released on 1906 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history covers the middle New River area from 1654 to 1905 with an emphasis on Mercer County, West Virginia. Mercer County was created in 1837 from Giles and Tazewell counties, Virginia, and was part of Virginia until 1863.

Download or read book History of the Hume Family written by John Robert Hume and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Gardner Ballard and Allied Families written by Oscar William Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family of Oscar Wright Gardner (1901-1979), son of William Thomas Gardner and Katherine Cauthen. He was born in Spalding Co., Ga., and died in Fayetteville, Ga. He was married to Mary Katherine Ballard (b. 1910) in 1926 in Orchard Hill, Ga. She was the daughter of William Kimsey Ballard and Flora Daniel. She was born in Atlanta, Ga. They were parents of nine children. The Gardner ancestry has been traced to abt. 1675 in Virginia and from there to North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Monroe Co., Georgia and elsewhere. The Ballard family has been traced to ca. 1606 in Warwick, England and from there to Virginia, North Carolina and on to Georgia. Family members live in Georgia, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and elsewhere.

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