Arkansas 1800 1860

Author : S. Charles Bolton
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557285195

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Arkansas, 1800-1860 by S. Charles Bolton Pdf

Often thought of as a primitive backwoods peopled by rough hunters and unsavory characters, early Arkansas was actually productive and dynamic in the same manner as other American territories and states. In this, the second volume in the Histories of Arkansas, S. Charles Bolton describes the emigration, mostly from other southern states, that carried Americans into Arkansas; the growth of an agricultural economy based on cotton, corn, and pork; the dominance of evangelical religion; and the way in which women coped with the frontier and made their own contributions toward its improvement. He closely compares the actual lifestyles of the settlers with the popularly held, uncomplimentary image. Separate chapters deal with slavery and the lives of the slaves and with Indian affairs, particularly the dispossession of the native Quapaws and the later-arriving Cherokees. Political chapters explore opportunism in Arkansas Territory, the rise of the Democratic Party under the control of the Sevier-Johnson group known as the Dynasty, and the forces that led Arkansas to secede from the Union. In addition, Arkansas’s role in the Mexican War and the California gold rush is treated in detail. In truth, geographic isolation and a rugged terrain did keep Arkansas underpopulated, and political violence and a disastrous experience in state banking tarnished its reputation, but the state still developed rapidly and successfully in this period, playing an important role on the southwestern frontier. Winner of the 1999 Booker Worthen Literary Prize

Author : S. Charles Bolton
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610755542

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Arkansas, 1800–1860 by S. Charles Bolton Pdf

Often thought of as a primitive backwoods peopled by rough hunters and unsavory characters, early Arkansas was actually quite productive and dynamic. Bolton describes migration, agricultural growth, religion, the roles of women, slavery, the dispossesion of the Cherokees and Quapaws, and many other facets of Arkansas's development.

Author : Orville Taylor
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557286130

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Negro Slavery in Arkansas by Orville Taylor Pdf

Long out of print and found only in rare-book stores, it is now available to a contemporary audience with this new paperback edition. When slavery was abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation, there were slaves in every county of the state, and almost half the population was directly involved in slavery as either a slave, a slaveowner, or a member of an owner’s family. Orville Taylor traces the growth of slavery from John Law’s colony in the early eighteenth century through the French and Spanish colonial period, territorial and statehood days, to the beginning of the Civil War. He describes the various facets of the institution, including the slave trade, work and overseers, health and medical treatment, food, clothing, housing, marriage, discipline, and free blacks and manumission. While drawing on unpublished material as appropriate, the book is, to a great extent, based on original, often previously unpublished, sources. Valuable to libraries, historians in several areas of concentration, and the general reader, it gives due recognition to the signficant place slavery occupied in the life and economy of antebellum Arkansas.

Author : S. Bolton
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1484816811

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Fugitives from Injustice: Freedom-Seeking Slaves in Arkansas, 1800-1860 by S. Bolton Pdf

Public Law 105-203, the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Act of 1988, directs the National Park Service (NPS) to commemorate, honor, and interpret the history of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad-the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War-refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage.

Author : S. Charles Bolton,National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program (U.S.),United States. National Park Service. Midwest Region,Organization of American Historians
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fugitive slaves
ISBN : OCLC:535814248

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Fugitives from Injustice by S. Charles Bolton,National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program (U.S.),United States. National Park Service. Midwest Region,Organization of American Historians Pdf

Author : S. Charles Bolton
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682261286

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Territorial Ambition by S. Charles Bolton Pdf

Both modern historians and early nineteenth-century observers have emphasized the wild and picturesque aspects of the Arkansas Territory, suggesting that the settlers here were more preoccupied with indolence or brawling than with economic progress. This study, first published in 1993, demonstrates that despite all its frontier roughness, Arkansas was characterized by a restless ambition that transformed the area from frontier and subsistence living to a highly productive agricultural society. This ambition – with its brutal Indian removal and expansion of slave labor – rendered Arkansas more similar to its southern neighbors than contemporary and modern portrayals would make it seem.

Author : C. Fred Williams,S. Charles Bolton,Carl H. Moneyhon,LeRoy T. Williams
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557286345

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A Documentary History of Arkansas by C. Fred Williams,S. Charles Bolton,Carl H. Moneyhon,LeRoy T. Williams Pdf

A Documentary History of Arkansas, Second edition, provides a comprehensive look at Arkansas history from the state's earliest events to the present. Here are newspaper articles, government bulletins, legislative acts, broadsides, letters, and speeches that give a firsthand glimpse at how the twenty-fifth state's history was made. The book is divided into five chronological sections that cover the state's political, social, economic, educational, and environmental history. Each section begins with an original essay that provides an overview of the period and introduces the documents. Brought up to date and enhanced with additional material, this edition of A Documentary History of Arkansas will continue to be the standard source for essential primary documents illustrating the state's history. -- from back cover.

Author : Sarah Fountain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051132895

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Authentic Voices by Sarah Fountain Pdf

An anthology of letters, diaries, journals, and other materials recording the development of Arkansas from the sixteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century.

Author : T. Harri Baker,Jane Browning
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1557287236

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An Arkansas History for Young People by T. Harri Baker,Jane Browning Pdf

ADOPTED BY THE STATE OF ARKANSAS FOR 2003. Once again, the State of Arkansas has adopted An Arkansas History for Young People as an official textbook for junior-high-school-Arkansas-history classes. This third edition incorporates the fruits of new research and of extensive consultations with teachers, curriculum supervisors, and students themselves. It includes many new features while preserving popular and useful aspects of previous editions. This edition has an entirely new format, clear and friendly to the student reader. The text has been re-set in double-column pages, with wider margins and more white space setting off text and illustrations. A preview section at the beginning of each chapter (What to Look For) and study questions at the end now guide students' reading. Vocabulary words appear in boldface in the text and then are listed with definitions at the end of each chapter. The updated text incorporates new material on the Clinton presidency, the Huckabee governorship, term limits, the 2000 census, demographic changes, recent scholarship on Arkansas history, updated terminology, and corrections of factual errors. Sidebars still highlight special material, and the many illustrations appear in full color and in black and white.

Author : Jeannie M. Whayne,Thomas A. DeBlack,George Sabo,Morris S. Arnold
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557289933

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Arkansas by Jeannie M. Whayne,Thomas A. DeBlack,George Sabo,Morris S. Arnold Pdf

Arkansas: A Narrative History is a comprehensive history of the state that has been invaluable to students and the general public since its original publication. Four distinguished scholars cover prehistoric Arkansas, the colonial period, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and incorporate the newest historiography to bring the book up to date for 2012. A new chapter on Arkansas geography, new material on the civil rights movement and the struggle over integration, and an examination of the state’s transition from a colonial economic model to participation in the global political economy are included. Maps are also dramatically enhanced, and supplemental teaching materials are available. “No less than the first edition, this revision of Arkansas: A Narrative History is a compelling introduction for those who know little about the state and an insightful survey for others who wish to enrich their acquaintance with the Arkansas past.” —Ben Johnson, from the Foreword

Author : S. Charles Bolton
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610756693

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Fugitivism by S. Charles Bolton Pdf

Winner, 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize During the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis. Those who ended up in Louisiana found themselves in an environment of swamplands, sugar plantations, French-speaking creoles, and the exotic metropolis of New Orleans. Those sold to planters in the newly-opened Mississippi Delta cleared land and cultivated cotton for owners who had moved west to get rich as quickly as possible, driving this labor force to harsh extremes. Like enslaved people all over the South, those in the Lower Mississippi Valley left home at night for clandestine parties or religious meetings, sometimes “laying out” nearby for a few days or weeks. Some of them fled to New Orleans and other southern cities where they could find refuge in the subculture of slaves and free blacks living there, and a few attempted to live permanently free in the swamps and forests of the surrounding area. Fugitives also tried to returnto eastern slave states to rejoin families from whom they had been separated. Some sought freedom on the northern side of the Ohio River; othersfled to Mexico for the same purpose. Fugitivism provides a wealth of new information taken from advertisements, newspaper accounts, and court records. It explains how escapees made use of steamboat transportation, how urban runaways differed from their rural counterparts, how enslaved people were victimized by slave stealers, how conflicts between black fugitives and the white people who tried to capture them encouraged a culture of violence in the South, and how runaway slaves from the Lower Mississippi Valley influenced the abolitionist movement in the North. Readers will discover that along with an end to oppression, freedom-seeking slaves wanted the same opportunities afforded to most Americans.

Author : Donald P. McNeilly
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557286192

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The Old South Frontier by Donald P. McNeilly Pdf

In this deeply researched and well-written study, Donald P. McNeilly examines how moderately wealthy planters and sons of planters immigrated into the virtually empty lands of Arkansas, seeking their fortune and to establish themselves as the leaders of a new planter aristocracy west of the Mississippi River. These men, sometimes alone, sometimes with family, and usually with slaves, sought the best land possible, cleared it, planted their crops, and erected crude houses and other buildings. Life was difficult for these would-be leaders of society and their families, and especially hard for the slaves who toiled to create fields in which they labored to produce a crop. McNeilly argues that by the time of Arkansas's statehood in 1836, planters and large farmers had secured a hold over their frontier home, and that between 1840 and the Civil War, planters solidified their hold on politics, economics, and society in Arkansas. The author takes a topical approach to the subject, with chapters on migration, slavery, non-planter whites, politics, and the secession crisis of 1860-1861. McNeilly offers a first-rate analysis of the creation of a white, cotton-based society in Arkansas, shedding light not only on the southern frontier, but also on the established Old South before the Civil War.

Author : Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253219329

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Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Third Edition by Malcolm J. Rohrbough Pdf

The first American frontier lay just beyond the Appalachian Mountains and along the Gulf Coast. Here, successive groups of pioneers built new societies and developed new institutions to cope with life in the wilderness. In this thorough revision of his classic account, Malcolm J. Rohrbough tells the dramatic story of these men and women from the first Kentucky settlements to the closing of the frontier. Rohrbough divides his narrative into major time periods designed to establish categories of description and analysis, presenting case studies that focus on the county, the town, the community, and the family, as well as politics and urbanization. He also addresses Spanish, French, and Native American traditions and the anomalous presence of African slaves in the making of this story.

Author : Ronald R. Switzer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476677019

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Arkansas, Forgotten Land of Plenty by Ronald R. Switzer Pdf

In the first decades of the 1800s, white Americans entered the rugged lands of Arkansas, which they had little explored before. They established new towns and developed commercial enterprises alongside Native Americans indigenous to Arkansas and other tribes and nations that had relocated there from the East. This history is also the story of Arkansas's people, and is told through numerous biographies, highlighting early life in frontier Arkansas over a period of 200 years. The book provides a categorical look at commerce and portrays the social diversity represented by both prominent and common Arkansans--all grappling for success against extraordinary circumstances.

Author : Frances Mitchell Ross
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781557286949

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United States District Courts and Judges of Arkansas, 1836–1960 by Frances Mitchell Ross Pdf

The book begins with statehood and continues with Congress's decision to expand jurisdiction of the original 1836 District Court of Arkansas to include the vast Indian Territory to the west. The territory's formidable size and rampant lawlessness brought in an overwhelming number of cases. The situation was only somewhat mitigated in 1851, when Congress split the state into eastern and western districts, which were still served by just one judge who travelled between the two courts. A new judgeship for the Western District was created in 1871, and new seats for that court were established, but it wasn't until 1896 that Congress finally ended all jurisdiction of Arkansas's Western District Court over the Indian Territory.