Author : Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780842029254
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 9780893081553
Wilkes County was organized in 1777 from the northern part of Saint Paul's parish. Originally Wilkes County included all of Elbert, Oglethorpe, and Lincoln counties and part of Warren, Greene, and Talliaferro counties. Elbert County was created in December 1790.
Author : Chris J. Hartley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0786486902
When Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart said "North Carolina has done nobly in this army," he had one of his own men to thank: Brigadier General James Byron Gordon. A protege of Stuart, Gordon was the consummate nineteenth-century landowner, politician, and businessman. Despite a lack of military training, he rose rapidly through the ranks and, as the commander of all North Carolina cavalrymen in the Army of Northern Virginia, he helped bring unparalleled success to Stuart's famed Confederate cavalry. This updated biography, originally published in 1996, chronicles Gordon's early life and military career and, through his men, takes a fresh look at the vaunted Army of Northern Virginia--its battles, controversies, and troops. This second edition includes additional source material that has come to light and a roster of Gordon's 1st North Carolina Cavalry.
Author : Larry J. Griffin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1439661251
Slavery is a tragic chapter in the history of Wilkes County with a lasting legacy. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County.
Author : Jeannette Holland Austin
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Georgia
ISBN : 0806310812
"This is a collection of 283 genealogies which I have compiled over a period of twenty years as a professional genealogist. ... While I have dealt with some of Oglethorpe's settlers, the vast majority of the genealogies included in this collection deal with Georgians who descend from settlers from other states."--Note to the Reader.
Author : Joan E. Cashin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 1991-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 019536385X
This book is about the different ways that men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier. Based upon extensive research in planter family papers, Cashin studies how the sexes went to the frontier with diverging agendas: men tried to escape the family, while women tried to preserve it. On the frontier, men usually settled far from relatives, leaving women lonely and disoriented in a strange environment. As kinship networks broke down, sex roles changed, and relations between men and women became more inequitable. Migration also changed race relations, because many men abandoned paternalistic race relations and abused their slaves. However, many women continued to practice paternalism, and a few even sympathized with slaves as they never had before. Drawing on rich archival sources, Cashin examines the decision of families to migrate, the effects of migration on planter family life, and the way old ties were maintained and new ones formed.
Author : John C. Inscoe
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870499333
Antebellum Southern Appalachia has long been seen as a classless and essentially slaveless region - one so alienated and isolated from other parts of the South that, with the onset of the Civil War, highlanders opposed both secession and Confederate war efforts. In a multifaceted challenge to these basic assumptions about Appalachian society in the mid-nineteenth century, John Inscoe reveals new variations on the diverse motives and rationales that drove Southerners, particularly in the Upper South, out of the Union. Mountain Masters vividly portrays the wealth, family connections, commercial activities, and governmental power of the slaveholding elite that controlled the social, economic, and political development of western North Carolina. In examining the role played by slavery in shaping the political consciousness of mountain residents, the book also provides fresh insights into the nature of southern class interaction, community structure, and master-slave relationships.
Author : National Genealogical Society
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Genealogy
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Author : Jeannette Holland Austin
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
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ISBN : 9780806352756
Author : Daina Ramey Berry
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Community life
ISBN : 0252031466
"Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe" compares the work, family, and economic experiences of enslaved women and men in upcountry and lowland Georgia during the nineteenth century. Mining planters' daybooks, plantation records, and a wealth of other sources, Daina Ramey Berry shows how slaves' experiences on large plantations, which were essentially self-contained, closed communities, contrasted with those on small plantations, where planters' interests in sharing their workforce allowed slaves more open, fluid communications. By inviting readers into slaves' internal lives through her detailed examination of domestic violence, separation and sale, and forced breeding, Berry also reveals important new ways of understanding what it meant to be a female or male slave, as well as how public and private aspects of slave life influenced each other on the plantation.
