Book Description
Tales of the Georgia frontier by a founder of the Southwest Humour School.
Author : Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1879941066
Tales of the Georgia frontier by a founder of the Southwest Humour School.
Author : Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 1897
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN :
A series of newspaper sketches of humble life in the South and features realistic sketches of Southern humor.
Author : Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 1847
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN :
Author : Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Georgia
ISBN :
Author : Winifred Morgan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137344725
This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature.
Author : Mark Auslander
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0820340421
What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past? Part history, part anthropology, and part detective story, The Accidental Slaveowner traces, from the 1850s to the present day, how different groups of people have struggled with one powerful story about slavery. For over a century and a half, residents of Oxford, Georgia (“the birthplace of Emory University”), have told and retold stories of the enslaved woman known as “Kitty” and her owner, Methodist bishop James Osgood Andrew, first president of Emory's board of trustees. Bishop Andrew's ownership of Miss Kitty and other enslaved persons triggered the 1844 great national schism of the Methodist Episcopal Church, presaging the Civil War. For many local whites, Bishop Andrew was only “accidentally” a slaveholder, and when offered her freedom, Kitty willingly remained in slavery out of loyalty to her master. Local African Americans, in contrast, tend to insist that Miss Kitty was the Bishop's coerced lover and that she was denied her basic freedoms throughout her life. Mark Auslander approaches these opposing narratives as “myths,” not as falsehoods but as deeply meaningful and resonant accounts that illuminate profound enigmas in American history and culture. After considering the multiple, powerful ways that the Andrew-Kitty myths have shaped perceptions of race in Oxford, at Emory, and among southern Methodists, Auslander sets out to uncover the “real” story of Kitty and her family. His years-long feat of collaborative detective work results in a series of discoveries and helps open up important arenas for reconciliation, restorative justice, and social healing.
Author : San Francisco (Calif.). Free Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
ISBN :
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3382507129
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : J. Mills Thornton
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0807159166
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.