Runaways Coffles And Fancy Girls

Author : Bill Carey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972568043
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Runaways, Coffles and Fancy Girls written by Bill Carey and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that details aspects of slavery in Tennessee and its relationship with the economy, newspapers and the government. Based largely on newspaper advertisements and first-person accounts, this book is full of revelations that prove that slavery was a much bigger part of Tennessee's culture than people realize today.

Author : Frederic Bancroft
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Trading in the Old South written by Frederic Bancroft and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1959 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through correspondence with people involved in the slave trade and interviews with former slaves, Bancroft exposed the commercial aspects of the American slave trade, including the breeding of slaves for future sale, the separation of slave families, the profitability of the trade, and the integration of slave traders into the highest ranks of southern society.

Author : Elihu Embree
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932807854
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emancipator written by Elihu Embree and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elihu Embree and his family were Quakers who were committed to the cause of abolishing slavery in the American South. Over a few short years, he raised the public consciousness in East Tennessee and achieved wide recognition with the publication ofThe Emancipator, the first periodical in the United States devoted solely to the abolitionist cause. The seven issues of the monthly publication are reproduced here, together with a brief history of Elihu and the Embree family’s migration from France to Washington County, Tennessee.

Author : Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Life in Georgia written by Brown and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bill Carey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439677638
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Tales of Tennessee written by Bill Carey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beginnings of the Volunteer State Tennessee was a remote place in 1810. By 1850, some of the most influential people in America had come from Tennessee, such as Sequoyah, David Crockett, the filibuster William Walker and the slave trader Isaac Franklin. Learn about the state's first steamboats and its initial telegraph message. Read newly discovered accounts from the Trail of Tears. Hop along the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad and relive the glory and tragedy. Author and columnist Bill Carey details these stories and more on early history in The Volunteer State.

Author : Robert K. D. Colby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197578268
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Unholy Traffic written by Robert K. D. Colby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, enslavers bought and sold thousands of people, extending a traffic in humanity that had long underpinned American slavery. Despite the pressures of blockades, economic collapse, and unfolding emancipation, the slave trade survived to the war's end. This book provides a vivid look at life within the trade in slaves and tells the story of the wartime slave trade from the perspective of both participants in it and those subjected to it.

Author : Bill Carey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781577361787
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortunes, Fiddles & Fried Chicken written by Bill Carey and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A business history that is both accurate and interesting is a rare find. In this comprehensive volume, Bill Carey tells the inside stories of the most important businesses in Nashville history, mixing fascinating anecdotes with bottom-line analyses to give a perspective of Nashville that has never been captured before. It's a complete history of Genesco, an apparel giant led by Maxey Jarman that fell on hard times in the 1970s. Carey chronicles the National Life & Accident Insurance Co., a business so important that it helped Nashville become the home of country music and a major tourist destination. He also tells the bizarre saga of Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken, a company founded by brothers John Jay and Henry Hooker that went from stock market darling to legendary failure in only a few months.

Author : Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300192002
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860 written by Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focuses on networks of people, information, conveyances, and other resources and technologies that moved slave-based products from suppliers to buyers and users." (page 3) The book examines the credit and financial systems that grew up around trade in slaves and products made by slaves.

Author : Joseph Sturge
Publisher : London : Hamilton, Adams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Visit to the United States in 1841 written by Joseph Sturge and published by London : Hamilton, Adams. This book was released on 1842 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Baker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416567410
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation written by John Baker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's thirty-year research into his slave ancestry, describing the history of the massive tobacco plantation where his ancestors worked and his family's extensive genealogical legacy.