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 Visions of the Black Belt written by Robin McDonald and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of the Black Belt offers a rich cultural overview of the emblematic core of Alabama known for its prairie soils, plantation manors, civil rights history, gothic churches, traditional foodways, and resilient and gracious people.
Download or read book ALABAMA BLACK BELT PART I written by Alabama Public Television and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few parts of the world can boast of land as fertile as the rich, dark soils found in Alabamas blackland prairie region, known as the Black Belt, but unfortunately, the region is often negatively associated with cotton plantations and slavery. This program examines the regions natural history and how it has helped shape its human and cultural history. Various leaders and local residents are featured as they consider past and present conditions and ponder prospects for the Black Belts future. CC.
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 The Management Rules of an Alabama Black Belt Plantation 1848 1862 written by Weymouth T. Jordan and published by . This book was released on with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes brief background information about Hugh Davis and the following texts from his farm book and his papers: General rules & directions every year [January 1, 1848]; Special rules to the overseer [January 1, 1848]; Rules & regulations to my overseer by which to give satisfaction & earn wages, daily [June 17, 1854]; Contract with overseer [October 20, 1848]; Regulations [January 3, 1861]; Special advice to the overseer [March 4, 1861]; System of farming at Bever Bend, its principles, its rules and its regulations [June 1, 1862].
Download or read book Black Belt Bounty written by Jim Casada and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and traditions of hunting and fishing in the Black Belt region of Alabama - including field trial history, fishing lure history, conservation practices, recipes, Face of the Black Belt, dog trainers, and other pertinent info.
Download or read book Lost Plantations of the South written by Marc R. Matrana and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diaries and letters, architectural renderings, and other rare documents to tell the story of sixty of these vanquished estates and the people who once called them home. From plantations that were destroyed by natural disaster such as Alabama's Forks of Cypress, to those that were intentionally demolished such as Seven Oaks in Louisiana and Mount Brilliant in Kentucky, Matrana resurrects these lost mansions. Including plantations throughout the South as well as border states, Matrana carefully tracks the histories of each from the earliest days of construction to the often-contentious struggles to preserve these irreplaceable historic treasures. Lost Plantations of the South explores the root causes of demise and provides understanding and insight on how lessons learned in these sad losses can help prevent future preservation crises. Capturing the voices of masters and mistresses alongside those of slaves, and featuring more than one hundred elegant archival illustrations, this book explores the powerful and complex histories of these cardinal homes across the South.
Download or read book 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey written by Kathryn Tucker Windham and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of six Jeffrey ghost story books centers on Jeffrey's favorite 13 ghostly tales set in Alabama.
Download or read book Haunted Alabama Black Belt written by David Higdon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the ghosts that wander this historic stretch of the South . . . photos included. There is a place in Alabama, a region that stretches across its lower middle from Georgia to Mississippi. It is a place steeped in history—a place where a people were enslaved, a nation was broken, and a new dream of freedom was born. It is a place where the past is always near at hand. And sometimes, that past takes a moment to whisper in your ear. They call this place the Black Belt. From the Cato-Thorn House in Barbour County to the Snow Hill Institute in Wilcox County, Alabama’s Black Belt has a great number of restless spirits that still haunt it. Join paranormal researcher David Higdon and Bram Stoker Award nominee Brett Talley as they uncover the ghosts and hauntings of one of Alabama’s most historic areas.
Download or read book Black Belt Aristocrats written by Renwick C. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Belt of Alabama written by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twenty Five Years in the Black Belt written by William James Edwards and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt" by William James Edwards. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Hammer and Hoe written by Robin D. G. Kelley and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals. After discussing the book's origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Kelley reflects on what a militantly antiracist, radical movement in the heart of Dixie might teach contemporary social movements confronting rampant inequality, police violence, mass incarceration, and neoliberalism.
Download or read book Hugh Davis and His Alabama Plantation written by Weymouth T. Jordan and published by Library of Alabama Classics. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 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 Reconstruction in Alabama written by Michael W. Fitzgerald and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social history of emancipation and the hopefulness that reunification would bring equality. Much of this revisionist work served to counter and correct the racist and pro-Confederate accounts of Reconstruction written in the early twentieth century. While there have been modern scholarly revisions of individual states, most are decades old, and Michael W. Fitzgerald’s Reconstruction in Alabama is the first comprehensive reinterpretation of that state’s history in over a century. Fitzgerald’s work not only revises the existing troubling histories of the era, it also offers a compelling and innovative new look at the process of rebuilding Alabama following the war. Attending to an array of issues largely ignored until now, Fitzgerald’s history begins by analyzing the differences over slavery, secession, and war that divided Alabama’s whites, mostly along the lines of region and class. He examines the economic and political implications of defeat, focusing particularly on how freed slaves and their former masters mediated the postwar landscape. For a time, he suggests, whites and freedpeople coexisted mostly peaceably in some parts of the state under the Reconstruction government, as a recovering cotton economy bathed the plantation belt in profit. Later, when charting the rise and fall of the Republican Party, Fitzgerald shows that Alabama's new Republican government implemented an ambitious program of railroad subsidy, characterized by substantial corruption that eventually bankrupted the state and helped end Republican rule. He shows, however, that the state’s freedpeople and their preferred leaders were not the major players in this arena: they had other issues that mattered to them far more, like public education, civil rights, voting rights, and resisting the Klan’s terrorist violence. After Reconstruction ended, Fitzgerald suggests that white collective memory of the era fixated on black voting, big government, high taxes, and corruption, all of which buttressed the Jim Crow order in the state. This misguided understanding of the past encouraged Alabama's intransigence during the later civil rights era. Despite the power of faulty interpretations that united segregationists, Fitzgerald demonstrates that it was class and regional divisions over economic policy, as much as racial tension, that shaped the complex reality of Reconstruction in Alabama.
Download or read book Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama written by Walter Lynwood Fleming and published by New York : Smith. This book was released on 1905 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the society and the institutions that went down during the Civil War and Reconstruction and the internal conditions of Alabama during the war. Emphasizes the social and economic problems in the general situation, as well as the educational, religious, and industrial aspects of the period.
Download or read book Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South written by J. Frazer Smith and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVRich survey ranges from pioneer cabins to French Provincial and Neoclassic revivals. Extensive commentary on each building, with over 100 detailed illustrations, including 36 floor plans. Bibliography. /div
