Old Southampton

Author : Daniel W. Crofts
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813913858
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Southampton written by Daniel W. Crofts and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nat Turner's 1831 slave insurrection made Virginia's Southampton County notorious. Gradually, however, the bloody spectacle receded from national memory. Although the timeless rhythms of rural life resumed after the insurrection, Southampton could not escape the forces of change. From the Age of Jackson through to secession, wartime, and Reconstruction, it shared the fate of the Old South. Many who had witnessed the insurrection lived to see Tuner's cause triumph as war destroyed the slave system, inaugurating an intense struggle to shape the new postwar order. Old Southampton links local and national history. It explains how partian loyalties developed, how white democracy flourished in the late antebellum years, how secession sharply divded neighborhoods with few slaves from those with large plantations, and how, following emancipation, former slaves challenged the prerogatives of former slaveholders. Crofts draws on two volumnious diaries and other rich records, plus rare poll lists that show how individuals voted. He vividly re-creates the experiences of planters and plain folk, slave owners and slaves, the powerful and the obscure. This deft combination of political and social history is must reading for anyone interested in the Old South and the Civil War era.

Author : David F. Allmendinger
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421414791
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County written by David F. Allmendinger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white people—men, women, and children—shocking the South. Nearly as many black people, all told, perished in the rebellion and its aftermath. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County presents important new evidence about the violence and the community in which it took place, shedding light on the insurgents and victims and reinterpreting the most important account of that event, The Confessions of Nat Turner. Drawing upon largely untapped sources, David F. Allmendinger Jr. reconstructs the lives of key individuals who were drawn into the uprising and shows how the history of certain white families and their slaves—reaching back into the eighteenth century—shaped the course of the rebellion. Never before has anyone so patiently examined the extensive private and public sources relating to Southampton as does Allmendinger in this remarkable work. He argues that the plan of rebellion originated in the mind of a single individual, Nat Turner, who concluded between 1822 and 1826 that his own masters intended to continue holding slaves into the next generation. Turner specifically chose to attack households to which he and his followers had connections. The book also offers a close analysis of his Confessions and the influence of Thomas R. Gray, who wrote down the original text in November 1831. Allmendinger draws new conclusions about Turner and Gray, their different motives, the authenticity of the confession, and the introduction of terror as a tactic, both in the rebellion and in its most revealing document. Students of slavery, the Old South, and African American history will find in Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County an outstanding example of painstaking research and imaginative family and community history. "The exhaustive research Allmendinger presents greatly enriches our historical understanding of the Southampton Rebellion through the eyes of its key victims. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County reveals important dimensions of the rebellion's local history and contextualizes the event, as Nat Turner did, within the context of slavery in Southampton County."—Reviews in History "Allmendinger’s great achievement is that he made full use of ‘new’ primary sources related to the uprising of 1831—new sources hitherto hidden in plain sight. Most importantly, he understood the significance of this material and knew exactly how to mine it for valuable new insights into virtually every aspect of Nat Turner’s rebellion."—Reviews in American History "No one has done more to corroborate and sync the details, nor to illuminate Turner’s inspirations and goals. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County is a model of historical methodology, and goes further than any other previous work in helping readers understand Turner’s motives and meaning."—African American Intellectual History Society "We are all in David Allmendinger's debt for the labor of research that has given The Rising in Southampton County its absent material context."—Law and History Review "Though the subject of countless histories, novels, videos, and websites, Nat Turner, the leader of the largest slave insurrection in U.S. history, remains an enigma; yet, in this new and challenging study, the life and times of the legendary revolutionary come into much better focus. A must-read for historians of slave resistance and all others interested in the history of antebellum Virginia and in particular Southampton County."—Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "Allmendinger approaches a well-trodden historical event from a distinctive perspective. [He] provides the most complete historical context surrounding the rebellion. Ultimately, Allmendinger succeeds in providing a more complete understanding of the community of Southampton, Virginia, and offers a better explanation for the motivations that led Turner and his followers down such a bloody path in 1831."—Choice David F. Allmendinger Jr. is professor emeritus of history at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Paupers and Scholars: The Transformation of Student Life in Nineteenth-Century New England and Ruffin: Family and Reform in the Old South.

Author : Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London, Past and Present written by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon the Handbook of London, by the late Peter Cunningham.

Author : New York Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
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Author : Stanley Hughes Le Fleming
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
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Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Melancthon Tredwell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long Island written by Daniel Melancthon Tredwell and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Hamilton Cunningham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
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Download or read book London written by George Hamilton Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 840 pages
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Download or read book The Leisure Hour written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Percival Masterman Pannell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Download or read book Old Southampton Shores written by John Percival Masterman Pannell and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: