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A Brief Moment In The Sun - Francis Cardozo And Reconstruction In South Carolina

by Neil Kinghan

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 The first scholarly biography of Francis Lewis Cardozo, one of the most talented and influential African Americans to hold elected office in the South between Reconstruction and the civil rights era. Cardozo led a life of extraordinary achievement as a pioneering educator, politician, and government official. However, today he is largely unknown.
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An American Planter - Stephen Duncan Of Antebellum Natchez And New York

by Martha Jane Brazy

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 Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of contacts in pre-Civil War America. In this first biography of Duncan, Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling portrait of antebellum life through exploration of Duncanâ€™s personal networks in both the South and the North.
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John Randolph Of Roanoke

by David Johnson

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 One of the most eccentric and accomplished politicians in all of American history, John Randolph (1773-1833) led a life marked by controversy. The first biography of Randolph in nearly a century, this book provides a full account of the powerful Virginia planterâ€™s hard-charging life and his impact on the formation of conservative politics.
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P. G. T. Beauregard - Napoleon In Gray

by T. Harry Williams

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 First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, T. Harry Williams' P. G. T. Beauregard is universally regarded as â€œthe first authoritative portrait of the Confederacy's always dramatic, often perplexingâ€ general (Chicago Tribune).
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Barber Of Natchez Reconsidered - William Johnson And Black Masculinity In The Antebellum South

by Timothy R. Buckner

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 Historians have long considered the diary of William Johnson to be among the most significant sources on free African Americans living in the antebellum South. Timothy Buckner reexamines Johnsonâ€™s life using recent scholarship on Black masculinity as an essential lens, demonstrating a complexity to Johnson previously overlooked in academic studies.
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Brief Moment In The Sun - Francis Cardozo And Reconstruction In South Carolina

by Neil Kinghan

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 Winner of the George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award A Brief Moment in the Sun is the first scholarly biography of Francis Lewis Cardozo, one of the most talented and influential African Americans to hold elected office in the South between Reconstruction and the civil rights era. Born to a formerly enslaved African American mother and white Jewish father in antebellum South Carolina, Cardozo led a life of extraordinary achievement as a pioneering educator, politician, and government official. However, today he is largely unknown in South Carolina and among students of nineteenth-century American history. Immediately after the Civil War, Cardozo succeeded in creating and leading a successful school for formerly enslaved children in the face of widespread racial hostility. Between 1868 and 1877, voters elected him secretary of state and state treasurer. In the Republican administrations that controlled the state during Reconstruction, Cardozo was a famously honest officeholder when many of his colleagues were notoriously corrupt. He played a major part in securing a viable educational system for Black and white children and land reform for thousands of landless families. Cardozo proved that Black men could govern at least as well as white. As a result, he became the target of white supremacist Democratic politicians after they reclaimed power through a campaign of violence and intimidation. They prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned Cardozo on a fabricated fraud charge. Pardoned in 1879, Cardozo moved to Washington DC, where he led an even more successful school for African American children. Neil Kinghan’s Brief Moment in the Sun is the first complete historical analysis of Francis Cardozo and his contribution to Reconstruction and African American history. It draws on original research on Cardozo’s early life and education in Scotland and England and pulls together for the first time the extant sources on his experiences in South Carolina and Washington, DC. Kinghan reveals all that Cardozo achieved as a Black educator and political leader and explores what else he might have realized if white racism and violence had not ended his efforts in South Carolina. Above all, Kinghan shows that Francis Cardozo deserves a place of honor and distinction in the history of nineteenth-century America.
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George Washington Carver - A Life

by Christina Vella

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 Offers a thorough biography of George Washington Carver, including in-depth details of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and supporters. In pursuit of the man behind the historical figure, Christina Vella discovers an unassuming intellectual with a quirky sense of humour, striking eccentricities, and an unwavering religious faith.
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Carter G. Woodson - A Life In Black History

by Jacqueline Goggin

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 Born in rural Virginia during Reconstruction, Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) was a central figure in black history and an important American scholar. This important intellectual biography reveals the complex and dedicated individual Woodson was and the lasting significance of his pioneering work in black history.
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Stephen A. Swails - Black Freedom Fighter In The Civil War And Reconstruction

by Gordon C. Rhea

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 Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry that he became the first African American commissioned as a combat officer in the United States military. After the war, Swails remained in South Carolina, where he held important positions in the Freedmen’s Bureau, helped draft a progressive state constitution, served in the state senate, and secured legislation benefiting newly liberated Black citizens. Swails remained active in South Carolina politics after Reconstruction until violent Redeemers drove him from the state. After Swails died in 1900, state and local leaders erased him from the historical narrative. Gordon C. Rhea’s biography, one of only a handful for any of the nearly 200,000 African Americans who fought in the Civil War or figured prominently in Reconstruction, restores Swails’s remarkable legacy. Swails’s life story is a saga of an indomitable human being who confronted deep-seated racial prejudice in various institutions but nevertheless reached significant milestones in the fight for racial equality, especially within the military. His is an inspiring story that is especially timely today.
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Stephen A. Swails - Black Freedom Fighter In The Civil War And Reconstruction

by Gordon C. Rhea

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 Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry that he became the first African American commissioned as a combat officer in the United States military. After the war, Swails remained in South Carolina, where he held important positions in the Freedmen’s Bureau, helped draft a progressive state constitution, served in the state senate, and secured legislation benefiting newly liberated Black citizens. Swails remained active in South Carolina politics after Reconstruction until violent Redeemers drove him from the state. After Swails died in 1900, state and local leaders erased him from the historical narrative. Gordon C. Rhea’s biography, one of only a handful for any of the nearly 200,000 African Americans who fought in the Civil War or figured prominently in Reconstruction, restores Swails’s remarkable legacy. Swails’s life story is a saga of an indomitable human being who confronted deep-seated racial prejudice in various institutions but nevertheless reached significant milestones in the fight for racial equality, especially within the military. His is an inspiring story that is especially timely today.
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Fair Labor Lawyer - The Remarkable Life Of New Deal Attorney And Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin

by Marlene Trestman

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 Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin (1909-1996) molded modern American labor policy while creating a space for female lawyers in the nation's high courts. In this comprehensive biography, Marlene Trestman reveals the forces that shaped Margolin's remarkable journey.
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John Randolph Of Roanoke

by David Johnson

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 One of the most eccentric and accomplished politicians in all of American history, John Randolph led a life marked by controversy. The first biography of Randolph in nearly a century, John Randolph of Roanoke provides a full account of the powerful Virginia planter's hard-charging life and his impact on the formation of conservative politics.
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American Planter - Stephen Duncan Of Antebellum Natchez And New York

by Martha Jane Brazy

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 Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of contacts in pre-Civil War America. In this first biography of Duncan, Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling portrait of antebellum life through exploration of Duncanâ€™s personal networks in both the South and the North.
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Genteel Rebel - The Life Of Mary Greenhow Lee

by Sheila R. Phipps

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 This elegantly written biography depicts the combined effect of social structure, character, and national crisis on a woman’s life. Mary Greenhow Lee (1819-1907) was raised in a privileged Virginia household. As a young woman, she flirted with President Van Buren’s son, drank tea with Dolley Madison, and frolicked in bedsheets through the streets of Washington with her sister-in-law, future Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow. Later in life, Lee debated with senators, fed foreign emissaries and correspondents, scolded generals, and nursed soldiers. As a Confederate sympathizer in the hotly contested small border town of Winchester, Virginia, she ran an underground postal service, hid contraband under her nieces’ dresses, abetted the Rebel cause, and was finally banished. Lee’s personal history is an intriguing story. It is also an account of the complex social relations that characterized nineteenth-century life. She was an elite southern woman who knew the rules but who also flouted and other times flaunted the prevailing gender arrangements. Her views on status suggest that the immeasurable markers of prestige were much more important than wealth in her social stratum. She had strong ideas about who was (or was not) her "equal," yet she married a man of quite modest means. Lee’s biography also enlarges our view of Confederate patriotism, revealing a war within a war and divisions arising as much from politics and geography as from issues of slavery and class. Mary Greenhow Lee was a woman of her time and place — one whose youthful rebellion against her society’s standards yielded to her desire to preserve that society’s way of life. Genteel Rebel illustrates the value of biography as history as it narrates the eventful life of a surprisingly powerful southern lady.
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Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis - The Political Life Of Henry S. Foote, Southern Unionist

by Ben Wynne

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 Regarded as one of the most vocal and controversial statesmen of the nineteenth century, Henry Stuart Foote played a central role in a vast array of pivotal events. Despite Foote's unique mark on history, until now no comprehensive biography existed. Ben Wynne fills this gap in his examination of the life of this gifted and volatile public figure.
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A Jackson Man - Amos Kendall And The Rise Of American Democracy

by Donald B. Cole

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 A rare, fascinating personality emerges in Donald B. Cole's biography of Amos Kendall (1789-1869), the reputed intellectual engine behind Andrew Jackson's administration and an influential figure in the transformation of young America from an agrarian republic to a capitalist democracy.
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Lucy Somerville Howorth - New Deal Lawyer, Politician, And Feminist From The South

by Dorothy S. Shawhan e Martha H. Swain

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 Mississippi native Lucy Somerville Howorth (1895-1997) championed for the rights of women long before feminism was a widely recognised movement. Dorothy Shawhan and Martha Swain tell her remarkable life story, from her small-town upbringing to her career as an attorney, to her role as a New Deal activist in Washington DC.
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Democracy'S Lawyer - Felix Grundy Of The Old Southwest

by J. Roderick Heller Iii

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 A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy epitomized the â€œAmerican democratâ€. In Democracy's Lawyer, the first comprehensive biography of Grundy since 1940, J. Roderick Heller reveals how Grundy's life typifies the archetypal, post-founding fathers generation that forged America's culture and institutions.
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Frontiersman - Daniel Boone And The Making Of America

by Meredith Mason Brown

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 The name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate patriot who settled Kentucky and killed countless Indians. In this welcome book, Meredith Mason Brown separates the real Daniel Boone from the many fables that surround him, revealing a man far more complex - and far more interesting - than his legend.
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Mary Boykin Chesnut - A Biography

by Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld

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 Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-1886) is known today for her excellent firsthand account of life in the Confederate States of America. Elisabeth Muhlenfeld's expert biography utilises Mrs. Chesnut's autobiographical writings, her papers, and those of her family, as well as published sources.
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Alexander H. Stephens Of Georgia - A Biography

by Thomas E. Schott

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 Rising from humble origins in the middle Georgia cotton belt, Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883) became one of the South's leading politicians and lawyers. Thomas Schottâ€™s scholarly biography analyses the interplay between the public and private Stephens and between state and national politics during his contradictory career.
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Champion Of Civil Rights - Judge John Minor Wisdom

by Joel William Friedman

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 One of the least publicly recognised heroes of the civil rights, John Minor Wisdom served as a member of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and wrote many of the landmark decisions instrumental in desegregating the American South. In this biography, Joel William Friedman explores Judge Wisdom's legal contributions and political work.
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James Henry Hammond And The Old South - A Design For Mastery

by Drew Gilpin Faust

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 From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of the Old South. A long-awaited biography, Drew Gilpin Faust's James Henry Hammond and the Old South reveals the South Carolina planter who was at once characteristic of his age and unique among men of his time.
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Maverick Republican In The Old North State - A Political Biography Of Daniel L. Russell

by Jeffrey J. Crow e Robert F. Durden

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 Daniel Russell is a good example of what Carl Degler has termed â€œthe other Southâ€. The son of an aristocratic North Carolina family of staunch Whig-Unionists, he entered politics when the Republican party first appeared in the state after the Civil War. For more than forty years he fought the solid South mentality of the Bourbon Democrats.
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