The Georgia Frontier
Title | The Georgia Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Jeannette Holland Austin |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Com |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780806352749 |
Vol. 1 : Colonial families to the Revolutionary War period.-- Vol. 2 : Revolutionary War families to the mid-1800s. -- Vol. 3 : Descendants of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina families.
The Georgia Frontier: Revolutionary War families to the mid-1800s
Title | The Georgia Frontier: Revolutionary War families to the mid-1800s PDF eBook |
Author | Jeannette Holland Austin |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN |
Vol. 1 : Colonial families to the Revolutionary War period.-- Vol. 2 : Revolutionary War families to the mid-1800s. -- Vol. 3 : Descendants of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina families.
The Georgia Frontier: Colonial families to the Revolutionary War period
Title | The Georgia Frontier: Colonial families to the Revolutionary War period PDF eBook |
Author | Jeannette Holland Austin |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN |
Vol. 1 : Colonial families to the Revolutionary War period.-- Vol. 2 : Revolutionary War families to the mid-1800s. -- Vol. 3 : Descendants of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina families.
Georgia's Frontier Women
Title | Georgia's Frontier Women PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Marsh |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780820328829 |
Ranging from Georgia's founding in the 1730s until the American Revolution in the 1770s, Georgia's Frontier Women explores women's changing roles amid the developing demographic, economic, and social circumstances of the colony's settling. Georgia was launched as a unique experiment on the borderlands of the British Atlantic world. Its female population was far more diverse than any in nearby colonies at comparable times in their formation. Ben Marsh tells a complex story of narrowing opportunities for Georgia's women as the colony evolved from uncertainty toward stability in the face of sporadic warfare, changes in government, land speculation, and the arrival of slaves and immigrants in growing numbers. Marsh looks at the experiences of white, black, and Native American women-old and young, married and single, working in and out of the home. Mary Musgrove, who played a crucial role in mediating colonist-Creek relations, and Marie Camuse, a leading figure in Georgia's early silk industry, are among the figures whose life stories Marsh draws on to illustrate how some frontier women broke down economic barriers and wielded authority in exceptional ways. Marsh also looks at how basic assumptions about courtship, marriage, and family varied over time. To early settlers, for example, the search for stability could take them across race, class, or community lines in search of a suitable partner. This would change as emerging elites enforced the regulation of traditional social norms and as white relationships with blacks and Native Americans became more exploitive and adversarial. Many of the qualities that earlier had distinguished Georgia from other southern colonies faded away.
Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of the American Revolution
Title | Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of the American Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Scott Davis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Book contains information on pension, land, loyalist records, military accounts, petitions and other information about the citizens of Georgia that served in the Continental Army. Georgia was the only one of the thirteen colonies that was completely conquered by the British and restored to the status of a colony. Only some forty percent of the families living there before the war remained after the fighting was over.
Friends, Brothers, and Murderers
Title | Friends, Brothers, and Murderers PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Zane Moore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Creek Indians |
ISBN |
Native Americans featured prominently in the letters and military communications of revolutionary Georgians. Georgians called them friends and brothers during treaty talks, "savages" in appeals to the Continental Congress, and honorable and virtuous people when discussing the Natives' philosophical nature. Each name represented a specific purpose as the Georgians sought to invoke Native Americans in propaganda for the Whigs' own advantage during the Revolutionary War. The double-talk that spilled forth created a confusing world in which Native Americans played both friend of liberty and "butcher" of innocent women and children in the minds of Georgia Whigs. Throughout the turbulent war years, the role of the Native Americans' physical presence in the conflict varied between neutrality and outright hostility toward the rebellious Georgians; however, they consistently appeared in appeals to Congress for aid and in propaganda meant to turn the backcountry into Whigs. The use of Native Americans as scapegoats became a political trope, which Georgia mastered to the point of turning employing fearmongering Indian fighters bent on using the war to claim more land on the Georgia frontier. How to deal with the Indians ultimately rent Georgia Whigs into two camps between those in favor of Indian neutrality and those in favor of an outright Indian war. This thesis will show how the use of Native American-centered propaganda not only shaped military movements but should be valued because of how it molded the outcome of the war in Georgia and created a volatile world of confusion for both Native Americans and Georgians as they vied for independence from Great Britain.
Darkness Like the Morning
Title | Darkness Like the Morning PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy Kettleman |
Publisher | CrossBooks Publishing |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2010-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781615076291 |
With the American Revolutionary War a distant memory and the Civil War not yet on the horizon, three of the Anderson siblings have their eye on the future when they decide to settle in Habersham County, Georgia, in the early 1800s. The Andersons are a small, but diverse family, who face difficult choices and overcome adversity together. The Andersons soon discover that taking their families across the Mountains to carve out a life on the new frontier is no small task. Land carved out of Indian territory and given to the white man, is almost free for the taking and Lewis, the blacksmith, wants his share of it. Aaron, who has just finished law school and feels the injustices of man deep within his soul, wants to help right all the wrongs taking place on the frontier. Jane, their younger sister, feels the excitement of adventure and tags along, but is soon kidnapped by rogue agents and carried away to an abandoned shack. Will God intervene in time to save this family? Darkness Like the Morning contains drama in almost every chapter. It's about hardship, betrayal of trust and the taking of human life, but it's underlying message is one of love, hope, forgiveness, and a faith in God that brings families together through the toughest of times.