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Occasional paper volume no. 41
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
As the foundations of the modern world were being laid at the beginning of the 19th century, Annapolis, Maryland, identified itself as the Ancient City. This unusual appellation has served Annapolis into the present as a city that has consistently defined and redefined for itself what being ancient means. The process of historical recognition and preservation that has played out in Annapolis provides valuable insights into the way modern Americans...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A Mind to Stay is a unique and extraordinary historical narrative of generations of a Black family with roots in slavery and in the South. This family won their freedom with emancipation but, instead of fleeing the poverty and oppression of the White plantation, decided to stay on the homeland of their White masters and then to purchase it for themselves within a decade. In a true counterpoint to the predominant tale of the Black exodus north in the...
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Publisher description: Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class, acting to further its emerging economic interests, intentionally brought racial slavery to Virginia. Parent bases his argument...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century - but they've never been as intense as they are in the 2010s and 2020s. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest,...
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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Underground Railroad wasn't underground. Nor was it a railroad. It was, however, an awe-inspiring piece of history, and one that speaks of hope even today. Two hundred years ago, slavery had the Southern United States firmly in its evil grip. Around four million African Americans languished in the most appalling of living conditions, their lives controlled by people who saw them as objects. They were starved, whipped, and put to work despite being...
Author
Publisher
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The history of North America, from Christopher Columbus to the present day, is a chaotic struggle for ownership of the land. This text will address questions such as the history of native communities that were displaced or conquered, and even further back to how Native North, Central and South Americans came to these continents in the first place. Historical facts are mainly supported through archaeological findings."--Publisher information.
30) The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Case studies of the importance and meaning of mass-produced material culture in Britain during the Industrial Revolution"--
"Britain was the industrial and political powerhouse of the nineteenth century--the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the center of the largest empire of the time. With its broad imperial reach--and even broader indirect influence--Britain had a major impact on nineteenth-century material culture worldwide. Because...
Author
Publisher
Maryland Historical Society
Language
English
Description
" ... Some eleven hundred black Americans-men, women, and children; some slave, some freedmen, some freeborn; most from Maryland-did emigrate to Cape Palmas between 1833 and 1856 ... They went to Africa for precisely the same reasons that inspired the westward movement of European settlers across North America: cheap or free land, economic opportunity, the chance to live, think, and worship in freedom, and the prospect that succeeding generations...
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Finding Charity's Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and historical documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward's book skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. Millward opens with...
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Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Driven to emigrate by England's devastating anti-Catholic policies, the first Carroll brought with him to Maryland an iron determination to reconstitute his family and fortune. But instead of a more tolerant environment, he found an increasingly militant Protestant society that ultimately disenfranchised Catholics and threatened their wealth and property. Confronting religious antagonisms like those that had destroyed their Irish ancestors, this...
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