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Princess Of Albemarle - Amélie Rives, Author And Celebrity At The Fin De Siècle

by Jane Turner Censer

39,68€ + 10% CARD

 Draws from Amelie Rives's early diaries, correspondence, and publications as well as the massive newspaper coverage she received during her lifetime to provide insights into the limits imposed on and actions taken by ambitious, elite young women in the late nineteenth-century South.
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Deed So Accursed - Lynching In Mississippi And South Carolina, 1881-1940

by Terence Finnegan

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 <DIV><P><P>From the end of Reconstruction to the onset of the civil rights era, lynching was prevalent in developing and frontier regions that had a dynamic and fluid African American population. Focusing on Mississippi and South Carolina because of the high proportion of African Americans in each state during "the age of lynching," Terence Finnegan explains lynching as a consequence of the revolution in social relations—assertiveness, competition, and tension—that resulted from emancipation. A comprehensive study of lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, A Deed So Accursed reveals the economic and social circumstances that spawned lynching and explores the interplay between extralegal violence and political and civil rights. </P><P>Finnegan''s research shows that lynching rates depended on factors other than caste conflict and the interaction of race and southern notions of honor. Although lynching supported the ends of white supremacy, many mobs lynched more for private retaliation than for communal motives, which explains why mobs varied greatly in size, organization, behavior, and purpose. </P><P>The resistance of African Americans was vigorous and sustained and took on a variety of forms, but depending on the circumstances, black resistance could sometimes provoke rather than deter lynching. Ultimately, Finnegan shows how out of the tragedy of lynching came the triumph of the civil rights movement, which was built upon the organizational efforts of African American anti-lynching campaigns.</P></P></DIV>
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Race Man - The Rise And Fall Of The "Fighting Editor," John Mitchell Jr

by Ann Field Alexander

52,34€ + 10% CARD

 John Mitchell Jr. was the editor and publisher of the "Richmond Planet". Best known for his crusade against lynching in the 1880s, he was also involved in other civil rights crusades. This title seeks to bring Mitchell to life in all his complexity and contradiction.
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Ladies And Gentlemen On Display - Planter Society At The Virginia Springs, 1790–1860

by Charlene M. Boyer Lewis

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 Each summer from 1790-1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of men and women left the boredom of their plantation homes and journeyed to the healthful Virginia Springs. This work states that Virginia Springs enabled men and women to play roles opposite to those associated with the plantation.
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Freedom In The Age Of Slavery - A History Of Free People Of Color In Virginia

by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.

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Bale After Bale - How Cotton Defined The Twentieth-Century South

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Bale After Bale - How Cotton Defined The Twentieth-Century South

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Freedom In The Age Of Slavery - A History Of Free People Of Color In Virginia

by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.

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In The True Blue'S Wake - Slavery And Freedom Among The Families Of Smithfield Plantation

by Daniel B. Thorp

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Seeking Justice - The Extraordinary Freedom Suits Of An Enslaved Virginia Family

by Daniel B. Thorp

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Seeking Justice - The Extraordinary Freedom Suits Of An Enslaved Virginia Family

by Daniel B. Thorp

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Race Man - The Rise And Fall Of The "Fighting Editor," John Mitchell Jr.

by Ann Field Alexander

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 Aims to bring John Mitchell Jr. to life as someone who epitomises the African American experience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Lynching In Virginia - Racial Terror And Its Legacy

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 Although not as associated with lynching as other southern states, Virginia has a tragically extensive history with these horrific crimes. This important volume examines the more than one hundred people who were lynched in Virginia between 1866 and 1932.
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Lynching In Virginia - Racial Terror And Its Legacy

by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

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 Although not as associated with lynching as other southern states, Virginia has a tragically extensive history with these horrific crimes. This important volume examines the more than one hundred people who were lynched in Virginia between 1866 and 1932.
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Justice For Ourselves - Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom After Slavery

by Brent Tarter e Marianne E. Julienne

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 Tells the stories of remarkable Black men and women in post-Civil War Virginia who persevered in the face of overwhelming barriers to seek their freedom and create a new world for themselves and future generations.
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Driven To The Field - Sharecropping And Southern Literature

by David A. Davis

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 Traces the culture of sharecropping - crucial to understanding life in the southern United States - from Emancipation to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of literature in their historical context, David Davis demonstrates how sharecropping emerged, endured for a century, and continues to resonate in American culture.
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Driven To The Field - Sharecropping And Southern Literature

by David A. Davis

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 Traces the culture of sharecropping - crucial to understanding life in the southern United States - from Emancipation to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of literature in their historical context, David Davis demonstrates how sharecropping emerged, endured for a century, and continues to resonate in American culture.
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Facing Freedom - An African American Community In Virginia From Reconstruction To Jim Crow

by Daniel B. Thorp

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 The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region. Daniel Thorp relates the complex experience of an African American community in southern Appalachia as it negotiated a radically new world in the four decades following the Civil War.
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The Princess Of Albemarle - Amelie Rives, Author And Celebrity At The Fin De Siecle

by Jane Turner Censer

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 Draws from Amelie Rives's early diaries, correspondence, and publications as well as the massive newspaper coverage she received during her lifetime to provide insights into the limits imposed on and actions taken by ambitious, elite young women in the late nineteenth-century South.
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Against Better Judgment - Irrational Action And Literary Invention In The Long Eighteenth Century

by Thomas Salem Manganaro

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 Traces how English novelists, essayists, and poets of the period sought to represent akrasia in ways philosophy cannot, leading them to develop techniques and ideas distinctive to literary writing, including new uses of irony, interpretation, and contradiction.
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In The True Blueâ€™S Wake - Slavery And Freedom Among The Families Of Smithfield Plantation

by Daniel B. Thorp

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 Between 1774 and 1865, the Preston family enslaved more than two hundred individuals and used their labour to establish and operate Smithfield Plantation in Blacksburg, Virginia. Daniel Thorp uncovers the stories of the men and women who were enslaved at Smithfield, one of the first plantations west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Against The Hounds Of Hell - A Life Of Howard Thurman

by Peter Eisenstadt

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 "A biography of the American theologian and educator Howard Thurman. Thurman was a prominent African American civil rights leader who influenced many in his work for social justice, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr"--
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This Glorious Struggle - George Washington'S Revolutionary War Letters

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 George Washington wrote an astonishing number of letters, both personal and professional. The majority - about 140,000 documents - are from his years as commander in chief during the Revolutionary War. This Glorious Struggle presents a selection of Washington's most important and interesting letters from that time, including many that have never before been published.
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The Big House After Slavery - Virginia Plantation Families And Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment

by Amy Feely Morsman

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 Examines the economic, social, and political challenges that Virginia planter families faced following Confederate defeat and emancipation. Amy Feely Morsman addresses how men and women of the planter class responded to postwar problems and how their adaptations to life without slavery altered their marital relationships and their conceptions of gender roles.
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