Plain Folks

Author : Charles Chauncey Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preachers, Patriots & Plain Folks written by Charles Chauncey Wells and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the art and personabes buried in Boston's downtown burying grounds of King's Chapel, Granary, and Central along with information on Freemasonry, women and African Americans in Boston History.

Author : Frank Lawrence Owsley
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807133422
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plain Folk of the Old South written by Frank Lawrence Owsley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley’s Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes—planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials—firsthand accounts such as diaries and the published observations of travelers and journalists; church records; and county records, including wills, deeds, tax lists, and grand-jury reports—to accurately reconstruct the prewar South’s large and significant “yeoman farmer” middle class. He follows the history of this group, beginning with their migration from the Atlantic states into the frontier South, charts their property holdings and economic standing, and tells of the rich texture of their lives: the singing schools and corn shuckings, their courtship rituals and revival meetings, barn raisings and logrollings, and contests of marksmanship and horsemanship such as “snuffing the candle,” “driving the nail,” and the “gander pull.” A new introduction by John B. Boles explains why this book remains the starting point today for the study of society in the Old South.

Author : David Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813025704
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War written by David Williams and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A significant voice in a significant debate . . . full of marvelous quotes."--William W. Freehling, University of Kentucky "Shows clearly that the Solid South was not solid at all [and] demonstrates that the war encompassed much more than military strategy and tactics . . . it was fought at home as well as on the battlefield."--Wayne K. Durrill, University of Cincinnati This compelling and engaging book sheds new light on how planter self-interest, government indifference, and the very nature of southern society produced a rising tide of dissent and disaffection among Georgia's plain folk during the Civil War. The authors make extensive use of local newspapers, court records, manuscript collections, and other firsthand accounts to tell a story of latent class resentment that emerged full force under wartime pressures and undermined southern support for the Confederacy. More directly than any previous historians, the authors make clear the connections between the causes of class resentment and their impact. Planters produced far too much cotton and avoided the draft at will. Speculators hoarded scarce goods and brought on spiraling inflation. Government officials turned a blind eye to the infractions of the rich, and were often bribed to do so. Women left to go hungry took matters into their own hands, stealing livestock in rural areas and rioting for food in every major city in Georgia. The hardships of families back home weighed heavily on soldiers in the field, contributing to rampant desertion. Deserters banded together, sometimes with draft dodgers and blacks escaping enslavement, to defend themselves or to go on the offensive against Confederate authorities. Some whites even planned and participated in slave resistance, a joining of forces that previous historians have long dismissed as highly improbable. So violent did Georgia's inner civil war become that one resident commented, "We are fighting each other harder than we ever fought the enemy." This work stresses more forcefully than any before it that plain folk in the Deep South were far from united behind the Confederate war effort. That lack of unity, brought on largely by class resentment, helped to ensure that the Confederacy's cause would, in the end, be lost. David Williams is professor and acting chair of the Department of History at Valdosta State University.

Author : Charles Octavius Boothe
Publisher : Lexham Press
ISBN 13 : 168359066X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plain Theology for Plain People written by Charles Octavius Boothe and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday Christians need practical and accessible theology. In this handbook first published in 1890, Charles Octavius Boothe simply and beautifully lays out the basics of theology for common people. "Before the charge 'know thyself,'" Boothe wrote, "ought to come the far greater charge, 'know thy God.'" He brought the heights of academic theology down to everyday language, and he helps us do the same today. Plain Theology for Plain People shows that evangelicalism needs the wisdom and experience of African American Christians. Walter R. Strickland II reintroduces this forgotten masterpiece for today. Lexham Classics are beautifully typeset new editions of classic works. Each book has been carefully transcribed from the original texts, ensuring an accurate representation of the writing as the author intended it to be read.

Author : William Charles Sherman
Publisher : North Dakota State University, Institute for Regional Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plains Folk written by William Charles Sherman and published by North Dakota State University, Institute for Regional Studies. This book was released on 1986 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Cecil Whitehouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plain Folks written by Francis Cecil Whitehouse and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark V. Wetherington
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807877043
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plain Folk's Fight written by Mark V. Wetherington and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an examination of the effects of the Civil War on the rural Southern home front, Mark V. Wetherington looks closely at the experiences of white "plain folk--mostly yeoman farmers and craftspeople--in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia before, during, and after the war. Although previous scholars have argued that common people in the South fought the battles of the region's elites, Wetherington contends that the plain folk in this Georgia region fought for their own self-interest. Plain folk, whose communities were outside areas in which slaves were the majority of the population, feared black emancipation would allow former slaves to move from cotton plantations to subsistence areas like their piney woods communities. Thus, they favored secession, defended their way of life by fighting in the Confederate army, and kept the antebellum patriarchy intact in their home communities. Unable by late 1864 to sustain a two-front war in Virginia and at home, surviving veterans took their fight to the local political arena, where they used paramilitary tactics and ritual violence to defeat freedpeople and their white Republican allies, preserving a white patriarchy that relied on ex-Confederate officers for a new generation of leadership.

Author : James Armstrong
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524615773
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics for Plain Folks written by James Armstrong and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with the role of government in our lives; with the cultural arrogance of Manifest Destiny and with Cuba as "a case in point"; with the storms of war that have pelted humankind; and with the cussedness and promise of human beings. The book probes the place of religion in public life. Finally, it will come to a halt as readers consider politics as practiced in the places where they live.

Author : Mary Whately
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447483472
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters From Egypt To Plain Folks At Home written by Mary Whately and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Whately's letters offer a fascinating insight into life in Egypt in 1879, and will prove to be an invaluable addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the people, customs, culture and climate of Egypt in this period. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plain Facts for Plain Folks, Addressed to the Good Sense and Other Feelings of Englishmen, Upon the Proposed Scheme for New Modeling the Constitution and Bringing Royality Into Disrepute written by and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: