epub |eng | 2022-02-16 | Author:Stacy-Deanne [Stacy-Deanne]

CHAPTER TWELVE A Month Later On her way to delivering the fresh linens to the linen storage one afternoon, Penny passed Massa Falcon’s bedroom and, seeing his door open, she ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Emily West [West, Emily]

Gender Exploitation The exclusive oppression faced by female slaves has provoked considerable scholarly debate. Angela Davis claimed in 1971 that slavery could not infer privilege on black men vis-Ã -vis ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-20 | Author:Jami Taylor

Chapter Twenty “Listen carefully, everyone!” Mr. Mason shouted. “Please settle down so we can get to business.” Aside from a few coughs and shuffles, the crowd of about twenty farmers ...

pdf |en | | Author: Michael Todd Landis

pdf |en | | Author: George R. Lamplugh

pdf | | 2022-07-14 | Author:Viola Franziska Müller

epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Timothy J. Williams [Williams, Timothy J.]

Meeting and Courting Women in College Life In the antebellum period, young men believed that marriage was preferable to bachelorhood, but they were in no hurry to begin a serious ...

epub |eng | 2004-06-21 | Author:Kirsten E. Wood [Wood, Kirsten E.]

WHEN ADA BACOT left her father’s house in the spring of 1861 to return to her own plantation, she confronted the unhappy difference between her present and her past. She ...

epub |eng | 2021-04-13 | Author:Jenifer L. Barclay [Barclay, Jenifer L.]

“The Secret of Master’s Cruelty”: Disability in Fugitive Slave Narratives Fugitive slave narratives described harrowing journeys from slavery to freedom and were one of the most convincing strategies for promoting ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Larry G. Aaron

CHAPTER 9 THE OTHER PITTSYLVANIANS Pittsylvania is both black and white and has nearly always been so. And regardless of ancestral origins and the pain of the past, Pittsylvania citizens ...

epub |eng | 2017-07-05 | Author:John M. Belohlavek [Belohlavek, John M.]

6 The Señorita as Fantasy THE FAN, THE FEET, AND THE REBOZO In November 1845, fully five months before the first shots were fired along the Rio Grande, Lieutenant Napoleon ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-19 | Author:Sarah L. Hyde [Hyde, Sarah L.]

As in Louisiana, the same time period in Mississippi witnessed new agitation on behalf of public education. Throughout the 1840s, Mississippi governors lobbied the legislature to take action to spread ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-15 | Author:unknow

PART IV The Fugitive Slave Law and the Coming of the Civil War CHAPTER 7 The Tumultuous Politics of the Early 1850s On the evening of October 14, 1850, a ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:John J. Zaborney [Zaborney, John J.]

CHAPTER 6 SLAVE HIRING, HIRED SLAVES, AND URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY Because occupations in Virginia’s cities and industries differed from those in agricultural and other settings, slave hiring was often ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Kathryn Shively Meier [Meier, Kathryn Shively]

“Building Huts for the Army of the Potomac” (Harper’s Weekly, January 18, 1862) Not only did soldiers attempt to protect their bodies from the elements, but they also carefully observed ...