Slavery In Wilkes County North Carolina

Author : Larry J. Griffin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467135836
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery in Wilkes County, North Carolina written by Larry J. Griffin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery is a tragic chapter in the history of Wilkes County with a lasting legacy. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County.

Author : John C. Inscoe
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499333
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountain Masters written by John C. Inscoe and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antebellum Southern Appalachia has long been seen as a classless and essentially slaveless region - one so alienated and isolated from other parts of the South that, with the onset of the Civil War, highlanders opposed both secession and Confederate war efforts. In a multifaceted challenge to these basic assumptions about Appalachian society in the mid-nineteenth century, John Inscoe reveals new variations on the diverse motives and rationales that drove Southerners, particularly in the Upper South, out of the Union. Mountain Masters vividly portrays the wealth, family connections, commercial activities, and governmental power of the slaveholding elite that controlled the social, economic, and political development of western North Carolina. In examining the role played by slavery in shaping the political consciousness of mountain residents, the book also provides fresh insights into the nature of southern class interaction, community structure, and master-slave relationships.

Author : Rosser Howard Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaveholding in North Carolina written by Rosser Howard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosser Howard Taylor
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaveholding in North Carolina written by Rosser Howard Taylor and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1969 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an economic standpoint, North Carolina exhibited a greater variety of slaveholding interests, as compared to other states. The situation was unique in that both cotton and tobacco were grown on a considerable scale, along with rice cultivation in the coastal plain and the production of tar, pitch, and turpentine from the pine forests of the sand hills. North Carolina was thus divided into well defined economic districts in which practices in the work and management of slaves differed widely. This volume presents the development of slavery in relation to the prevailing industries in these several districts with a view to showing how industry was conditioned by the slave regime and vice versa.

Author : Wilma A. Dunaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521012164
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation written by Wilma A. Dunaway and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : John Spencer Bassett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery in the State of North Carolina written by John Spencer Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bill Cecil-Fronsman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813162394
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Whites written by Bill Cecil-Fronsman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class and culture in Antebellum North Carolina have been largely forgotten. In the past few years, several important studies have examined common whites in individual counties or groups of counties, but they have focused on family life, the economy, or other specific features of the common-white life. C ommon Whites: Class and Culture in Antebellum North Carolina is the first comprehensive examination of these nonslaveholders and small slaveholders in over forty years. Using North Carolina as a case in point, Bill Cecil-Fronsman has sketched a broad portrait of the world made by this group. Drawing on travelers' accounts, newspapers, folksongs and folktales, quantitative analysis of census reports, and, above all, the common whites' own words, he has woven the individual threads of their culture into an in-depth analysis of their world and their responses to it. This work focuses on the issues of class and culture. Here, Cecil-Fronsman explores why the common whites accepted the slave system even though it worked to their disadvantage. He demonstrates how the market economy of the outside world played a negligible role in their lives and how their unique traditional attitudes toward family and community evolved. Finally, he recounts how, although most common whites supported the Confederate cause during the Civil War, many of the old loyalties broke down during the war years. The common whites, though they outnumbered the slaves and the elites, make up the least studied group in the Old South. This book takes us beyond the stereotypes and misconceptions to a better understanding of a group of people virtually ignored by traditional history.

Author : Marvin L. Michael Kay
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080786238X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775 written by Marvin L. Michael Kay and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African pasts to make sense of their new world. The authors illustrate this process by analyzing slave languages, naming practices, family structures, religion, and patterns of resistance. Kay and Cary clearly demonstrate that slaveowners erected a Draconian code of criminal justice for slaves. This system played a central role in the masters' attempt to achieve legal, political, and physical hegemony over their slaves, but it impeded a coherent attempt at acculturation. In fact, say Kay and Cary, slaveowners often withheld white culture from slaves rather than work to convert them to it. As a result, slaves retained significant elements of their African heritage and therefore enjoyed a degree of cultural autonomy that freed them from reliance on a worldview and value system determined by whites.

Author : John Spencer Bassett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina written by John Spencer Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : JOHN SPENCER. BASSETT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033321782
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book SLAVERY IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA written by JOHN SPENCER. BASSETT and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: