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

de Ann Field Alexander

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 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

de 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

de 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

de Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.

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

de Daniel B. Thorp

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

de Daniel B. Thorp

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

de Daniel B. Thorp

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

de 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

de 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

de 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

de 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

de 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

de 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

de 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

de 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

de 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

de 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

24,40€

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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

de Amy Feely Morsman

55,30€

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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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Radical Reform - Interracial Politics In Post-Emancipation North Carolina

de Deborah Beckel

55,30€

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 Describes a remarkable chapter in the American pro-democracy movement. It portrays the largely unknown leaders of the interracial Republican Party who struggled for political, civil, and labour rights in North Carolina after the Civil War. In so doing, they paved the way for the victorious coalition that briefly toppled the white supremacist Democratic Party regime in the 1890s.
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Facing Freedom - An African American Community In Virginia From Reconstruction To Jim Crow

de Daniel B. Thorp

43,71€

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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. In Facing Freedom, 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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