Black Slaveowners
Title | Black Slaveowners PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Koger |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2011-12-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0786469315 |
Drawing on the federal census, wills, mortgage bills of sale, tax returns, and newspaper advertisements, this authoritative study describes the nature of African-American slaveholding, its complexity, and its rationales. It reveals how some African-American slave masters had earned their freedom and how some free Blacks purchased slaves for their own use. The book provides a fresh perspective on slavery in the antebellum South and underscores the importance of African Americans in the history of American slavery. The book also paints a picture of the complex social dynamics between free and enslaved Blacks, and between Black and white slaveowners. It illuminates the motivations behind African-American slaveholding--including attempts to create or maintain independence, to accumulate wealth, and to protect family members--and sheds light on the harsh realities of slavery for both Black masters and Black slaves. • BLACK SLAVEOWNERS--Shows how some African Americans became slave masters • MOTIVATIONS FOR SLAVEHOLDING--Highlights the motivations behind African-American slaveholding • SOCIAL DYNAMICS--Sheds light on the complex social dynamics between free and enslaved Blacks • ANEBELLUM SOUTH--Provides a perspective on slavery in the antebellum South
Long Green
Title | Long Green PDF eBook |
Author | Eldred E. Prince Jr. |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820344842 |
The first comprehensive history of Bright Leaf tobacco culture of any state to appear in fifty years, this book explores tobacco's influence in South Carolina from its beginnings in the colonial period to its heyday at the turn of the century, the impact of the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II, and on to present-day controversies about health risks due to smoking. The book examines the tobacco growers' struggle against the monopolistic practices of manufacturers, explains the failures of the cooperative reform movement and the Hoover administration's farm policies, and describes how Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal rescued southern agriculture from the Depression and forged a lasting and successful partnership between tobacco farmers and government. The technological revolutions of the post-World War II era and subsequent tobacco economy hardships due to increasingly negative public perception of tobacco use are also highlighted.The book details the roles and motives of key individuals in the development of tobacco culture, including firsthand experiences related by farmers and warehousemen, and offers informed speculations on the future of tobacco culture. Long Green allows readers to better understand the full significance of this cash crop in the history and economy of South Carolina and the American South.
The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina
Title | The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | George C. Rogers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 606 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
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MacRaes to America!!
Title | MacRaes to America!! PDF eBook |
Author | Cornelia Wendell Bush |
Publisher | Cornelia Wendell Bush |
Pages | 640 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9781597150255 |
Persons with the surname McRae, or several variations thereof, are listed by state. Information was taken mainly from U.S. censuses from 1790 to 1850.
Free Blacks and Mulattos in South Carolina 1850 Census
Title | Free Blacks and Mulattos in South Carolina 1850 Census PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Peckham Motes |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Com |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 0806350261 |
A listing from the 1850 census of approximately 8,160 free blacks and mulattos between the ages of 1 month and 112 years, providing name, age, sex, occupation, color, place of birth, household and dwelling number, and county.
Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915
Title | Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915 PDF eBook |
Author | Loren Schweninger |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780252066344 |
Property ownership has been a traditional means for African Americans to gain recognition and enter the mainstream of American life. This landmark study documents this significant, but often overlooked, aspect of the black experience from the late eighteenth century to World War I.
Lowcountry Agricultural and Convivial Societies
Title | Lowcountry Agricultural and Convivial Societies PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher C. Boyle |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2022-03-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1476686262 |
By the Antebellum period, rice had dominated the local economic, political, and social patterns of South Carolina's Lowcountry for nearly two hundred years. This book explores the purpose of the social organizations as well as the moral, economic, cultural, and political challenges of the Georgetown rice planters. Within the protected confines of their organizations, planters felt safe discussing local and national politics, advancements to their educational system, and agricultural and livestock improvements to better compete with the Industrial North. The alliance of "brothers of the soil" helped solidify South Carolina's Lowcountry politically. The agricultural alliances of the region promoted Southern Nationalism and provided one pillar for Southerners to the American Civil War.