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Slave Trading In The Old South

by Frederic Bancroft

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 Overwhelming evidence against the historical view of slavery as a benevolent "peculiar institution"Posting what he called "a most deadly array of facts," Frederic Bancroft exploded deeply entrenched myths about antebellum slavery when Slave Trading in the Old South was first published in 1931. As fresh and informative today as it was then, the classic study returns to print, giving a new generation of historians, students, and history enthusiasts access to Bancroft's pioneering examination of the domestic slave trade.Drawing largely on research that could not be duplicated todaycorrespondence with individuals involved in the slave trade and interviews with former slavesBancroft exposed the commercial aspects of the enterprise, including the "breeding" and "rearing" of slaves for future sale to western states and territories, the separation of slave families, and the profitability of the practice. By showing that the slave trade so thoroughly dominated the South, Bancroft demonstrated antebellum slavery to be an essentially commercial, exploitative, and cruel industry rather than, as many historians have claimed, a benevolent "peculiar institution" in which the selling of slaves was a relatively rare exchange between neighbors. He also discredited the notion that slave traders were social outcasts, finding instead that they came from even the highest ranks of Southern society.Michael Tadman's new introduction offers a comprehensive, thoughtful analysis of the evolving historical literature on the subject, reminding readers of the devastating effects the slave trade had both on Southern society as a whole and on its principal victims.
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South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900

by George Brown Tindall

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 The history of African Americans in South Carolina after Reconstruction and before Jim CrowFirst published in 1952, South Carolina Negroes, 18771900 rediscovers a time and a people nearly erased from public memory. In this pathbreaking book, George B. Tindall turns to the period after Reconstruction before a tide of reaction imposed a new system of controls on the black population of the state. He examines the progress and achievements, along with the frustrations, of South Carolina's African Americans in politics, education, labor, and various aspects of social life during the short decades before segregation became the law and custom of the land. Chronicling the evolution of Jim Crow white supremacy, the book originally appeared on the eve of the Civil Rights movement when the nation's system of disfranchisement, segregation, and economic oppression was coming under increasing criticism and attack.Along with Vernon L. Wharton's The Negro in Mississippi, 18651890 (1947) which also shed new light on the period after Reconstruction, Tindall's treatise served as an important source for C. Vann Woodward's influential The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955). South Carolina Negroes now reappears fifty years later in an environment of reaction against the Civil Rights movement, a a situation that parallels in many ways the reaction against Reconstruction a century earlier. A new introduction by Tindall reviews the book's origins and its place in the literature of Southern and black history.
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The Confederacy As A Revolutionary Experience

by Emory M. Thomas

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 This volume, first published in 1971, has made us look again at the events surrounding the Civil War. The Confederate Southerners likened themselves to the American revolutionaries of 1776. Although both revolutions sought independence and the overthrow of an existing political system, the Confederates battled for a political separation to conserve rather than to create. The result, however, was a transformation of the antebellum traditions they were fighting to preserve.
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Yazoo; Or, On The Picket Line Of Freedom In The South - A Personal Narrative

by Albert T. Morgan

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 A revealing account of Reconstruction by a Wisconsin carpetbagger and devout abolitionist who moved to Mississippi in pursuit of wealth and social reform. In 1884, Albert T. Morgan published "Yazoo" to explain the difficulties he and his compatriots faced in the South.
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Woman Rice Planter

by Elizabeth Allston Pringle; Illustration: Alice R. Huger Smith

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 A self-portrait of an admirable plantation mistress spanning a period from antebellum days until World War I.
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Ersatz In The Confederacy - Shortages And Substitutes On The Southern Homefront

by Mary Elizabeth Massey

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 Confederates faced with the deprivation of the Civil War.
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Red Hills And Cotton - An Upcountry Memory

by Ben Robertson

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 Red Hills and Cotton is suffused with Ben Robertson's deep affection for his native Upcountry South Carolina. An internationally known and respected journalist, Robertson had a knack for finding the interesting and exotic in seemingly humble or ordinary folk and a keen eye for human interest stories. His power of description and disarmingly straightforward narrative were the hallmarks of his writing.A loyal Southern son, Robertson cherished what he judged to be the South's best traditions: personal independence and responsibility, the rejection of crass materialism, a deep piety, and a love of freedom. He repeatedly lamented the region's many shortcomings: poverty, racial hierarchy, political impotence, lack of inttellectual curiosity, and its tendency to blame all of its twentieth-century problems on the defeat of the Confederacy.An informative and entertaining new introduction by Lacy K. Ford, Jr., associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina, provides fascinating new facts about Robertson's life and recasts his achievements in Red Hills and Cotton as social commentary. Ford captures the essence of Robertson's restless and questioning, but unfailingly Southern, spirit.
Life And Labor In The Old South

by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

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 A celebrated social history, this work represents the culmination of three decades of research and reflection on the social and economic systems of the antebellum South by a leading historian of the first half of the twentieth century. It includes an introduction that frames the volume within Progressive Era scholarship.
Africanisms In The Gullah Dialect

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 This text presents a reference point for today's discussions about ever-present language varieties, Ebonics, and education, offering important reminders about the subtleties and power of racial and cultural predjudice. The introduction places the work in its sociolinguistic context.
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I Came Out Of The Eighteenth Century

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I Came Out Of The Eighteenth Century

by John Andrew Rice

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 Back in print, a rich first-person account of race and class in the Jim Crow South
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Plantation

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Plantation

by Edgar Tristram Thompson

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 A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, â€œThe Plantationâ€, broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system. This first complete publication of Thompson's study makes available to modern readers one of the earliest attempts to reinterpret the history of the American South as an integral part of global processes.
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The Magical Campus - University Of North Carolina Writings, 1917-1920

by Thomas Wolfe

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 Collects Thomas Wolfe's earliest published works - including poems, plays, short fiction, news articles, speeches, and essays - both signed and unsigned, assembled in chronological order. This work includes poems "A Field in Flanders", and "The Challenge,". It also features his folk plays, such as "The Return of Buck Gavin" and "Deferred Payment".
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The Southern Literary Messenger, 1834-1864 - Benjamin Blake Minor

by Benjamin B Minor

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 Published in Richmond, Virginia, ""The Southern Literary Messenger"" was originally edited by Edgar Allan Poe. In 1905, Benjamin Blake Minor wrote a study of this magazine. This book presents Minor's account of the journal's history, along with an introduction by Wells which places Minor's account in a historical context.
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Hard Times On A Southern Chain Gang - Originally Published As The Novel Georgia Nigger (1932)

by John L. Spivak

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 "Originally published as the novel Georgia Nigger (1932)."
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Commotion In The Ocean

by Sarah Borg e Watson Paul

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A Memoir Of James De Veaux, Of Charleston, S.C. - Member Of The National Academy Of Design, New-York

by Robert W. Gibbes

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Know That What You Eat You Are - The Best Food Writing From Harper'S Magazine

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Seeing Myself Seeing The World - A Woman'S Journey Around The World On A Bicycle

by Sally L Vantress-Lodato

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Woe From Wit

by Alexander Griboyedov

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Learning To Sight Read Jazz, Rock, Latin, And Classical Styles

by Bob Montgomery e Willie Hill

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Still In Print - The Southern Novel Today

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My Wilderness - An Alaskan Adventure

by Claudia Megehee

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 Dramatic illustrations and poetic prose highlight the beauty and power of the Alaskan landscape-seen through a boy's eyes. McGehee's lyrical and gripping creative historical nonfiction recounts the 1918-1919 winter spent on Alaska's Fox Island from the point of view of 9-year-old Rocky, son of the painter Rockwell Kent II.
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Little Red Riding Hood In The Red Light District

by Manlio Argueta

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 This is Manlio Argueta's most popular novel in El Salvador. The story revolves around the relationship of two young lovers in a time of political upheaval Manlio Argueta's novels have earned him an international reputation and have endeared him to the Salvadoran people.
The Plantation

by Edgar Tristram Thompson

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 A rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, â€œThe Plantationâ€, broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system. This first complete publication of Thompson's study makes available to modern readers one of the earliest attempts to reinterpret the history of the American South as an integral part of global processes.
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