Brokenburn

Author : John Q. Anderson
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807120170

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Brokenburn by John Q. Anderson Pdf

This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in northeastern Louisiana. When Grant moved against Vicksburg, the family fled before the invading armies, eventually found refuge in Texas, and finally returned to a devastated home. Kate began her journal in May, 1861, and made regular entries up to November, 1865. She included briefer sketches in 1867 and 1868. In chronicling her everyday activities, Kate reveals much about a way of life that is no more: books read, plantation management and crops, maintaining slaves in the antebellum period, the attitude and conduct of slaves during the war, the fate of refugees, and civilian morale. Without pretense and with almost photographic clarity, she portrays the South during its darkest hours.

Author : Janet Allured,Judith F. Gentry
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820329468

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Louisiana Women by Janet Allured,Judith F. Gentry Pdf

Moving chronologically from the colonial period to the present, this collection of seventeen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieu of women's lives in the state. Within the context of the historical forces that have shaped Louisiana, the contributors look at ways in which the women they profile either abided by prevailing gender norms or negotiated new models of behavior for themselves and other women.Louisiana Womenconcludes with an essay that examines women's active responses to problems that emerged in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The women whose absorbing life stories are collected here include Marie Therese Coincoin, who was born a slave but later became a successful entrepreneur, and Oretha Castle Haley, civil rights activist and leader of the New Orleans chapter of CORE. From such well-known figures as author Kate Chopin and Voudou priestess Marie Laveau, to lesser known women such as Cajun musician Cleoma Breaux Falcon, this volume reveals a compelling cross section of historical figures. The women profiled vary by race, class, political affiliation, and religious persuasion, but they all share an unusual grit and determination that allowed them to turn trying circumstances into opportunity. Lively yet rigorous, these essays introduce readers to the courageous, dedicated, and inventive women who have been an essential part of Louisiana's history. Historical figures included: Marie Th?r?se Coincoin The Baroness Pontalba Marie Laveau Sarah Katherine (Kate) Stone Eliza Jane Nicholson Kate Chopin Grace King Louisa Williams Robinson, Her Daughters, and Her Granddaughters Clementine Hunter Dorothy Dix True Methodist Women Cleoma Breaux Falcon Caroline Dormon Mary Land Rowena Spencer Oretha Castle Haley Louisiana Women and Hurricane Katrina

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375703836

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This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Author : Giselle Roberts
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826263582

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The Confederate Belle by Giselle Roberts Pdf

"While historians have examined the struggles and challenges that confronted the Southern plantation mistress during the American Civil War, until now no one has considered the ways in which the conflict shaped the lives of elite young women, otherwise known as belles. In The Confederate Belle, Giselle Roberts uses diaries, letters, and memoirs to uncover the unique wartime experiences of young ladies in Mississippi and Louisiana. In the plantation culture of the antebellum South, belles enhanced their family's status through their appearance and accomplishments and, later, by marrying well." "During the American Civil War, a new patriotic womanhood superseded the antebellum feminine ideal. It demanded that Confederate women sacrifice everything for their beloved cause, including their men, homes, fine dresses, and social occasions, to ensure the establishment of a new nation and the preservation of elite ideas about race, class, and gender. As menfolk answered the call to arms, southern matrons had to redefine their roles as mistresses and wives. Southern belles faced a different, yet equally daunting task. After being prepared for a delightful "bellehood," young ladies were forced to reassess their traditional rite of passage into womanhood, to compromise their understanding of femininity at a pivotal time in their lives. They found themselves caught between antebellum traditions of honor and of gentility, a binary patriotic feminine ideal and wartime reality."--BOOK JACKET. Book jacket.

Author : John Q. Anderson
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807151570

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Brokenburn by John Q. Anderson Pdf

This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in northeastern Louisiana. When Grant moved against Vicksburg, the family fled before the invading armies, eventually found refuge in Texas, and finally returned to a devastated home. Kate began her journal in May, 1861, and made regular entries up to November, 1865. She included briefer sketches in 1867 and 1868. In chronicling her everyday activities, Kate reveals much about a way of life that is no more: books read, plantation management and crops, maintaining slaves in the antebellum period, the attitude and conduct of slaves during the war, the fate of refugees, and civilian morale. Without pretense and with almost photographic clarity, she portrays the South during its darkest hours.

Author : Stephanie M. H. Camp
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807875766

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Closer to Freedom by Stephanie M. H. Camp Pdf

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, Camp extends our recognition of slave resistance into new arenas and reveals an important and hidden culture of opposition. Camp discusses the multiple dimensions to acts of resistance that might otherwise appear to be little more than fits of temper. She brings new depth to our understanding of the lives of enslaved women, whose bodies and homes were inevitably political arenas. Through Camp's insight, truancy becomes an act of pursuing personal privacy. Illegal parties ("frolics") become an expression of bodily freedom. And bondwomen who acquired printed abolitionist materials and posted them on the walls of their slave cabins (even if they could not read them) become the subtle agitators who inspire more overt acts. The culture of opposition created by enslaved women's acts of everyday resistance helped foment and sustain the more visible resistance of men in their individual acts of running away and in the collective action of slave revolts. Ultimately, Camp argues, the Civil War years saw revolutionary change that had been in the making for decades.

Author : Marcie Cohen Ferris
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781469617688

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The Edible South by Marcie Cohen Ferris Pdf

Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region

Author : Ac Calloway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1087401860

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The Broken Burn by Ac Calloway Pdf

Wildly wonderful and wicked, this collection of poetry by A.C. Calloway takes us on a journey to places few other poets ever dream. Bright and beautiful, dark and mysterious, these works are not for the faint of heart. Blazing memories on farms and ranches, massing the desert and the California coast, you start off and end in a bedroom where a force of nature appears to beg for the chance to read these poems of promise that have been locked away in a secret box. There is heartbreak, emotional upheaval, anguished thoughts of suicide that trickle the fearful reaches of your psyche as you drift through a world where something apocalyptic has or is about to happen, but you are never far from the beauty of grace. Calloway has a way of seeing the ugly with the fantastic understanding that life is to be lived.

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807855731

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Mothers of Invention by Drew Gilpin Faust Pdf

Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.

Author : Marilyn Mayer Culpepper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476603926

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All Things Altered by Marilyn Mayer Culpepper Pdf

Few readers of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind remained unmoved by how the strong-willed Scarlett O'Hara tried to rebuild Tara after the Civil War ended. This book examines the problems that Southern women faced during the Reconstruction Era, in Part I as mothers, wives, daughters or sisters of men burdened with financial difficulties and the radical Republican regime, and in Part II with specific illustrations of their tribulations through the letters and diaries of five different women. A lonely widow with young children, Sally Randle Perry is struggling to get her life back together, following the death of her husband in the war. Virginia Caroline Smith Aiken, a wife and mother, born into affluence and security, struggles to emerge from the financial and psychological problems of the postwar world. Susan Darden, also a wife and mother, details the uncertainties and frustrations of her life in Fayette, Mississippi. Jo Gillis tells the sad tale of a young mother straining to cope with the depressed circumstances enveloping most ministers in the aftermath of the war. As the wife of a Methodist Episcopal minister in the Alabama Conference she sacrifices herself into an early grave in an attempt to further her husband's career. Inability to collect a debt three times that of the $10,000 debt her father owed brought Anna Clayton Logan, her eleven brothers and sisters, and her parents face-to-face with starvation.

Author : J. Q. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:854768427

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Brokenburn by J. Q. Anderson Pdf

Author : Rebecca Fraser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137291851

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Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America by Rebecca Fraser Pdf

Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North.

Author : Laura F. Edwards
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0252072189

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Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore by Laura F. Edwards Pdf

Establishing the household as the central institution of southern society, Edwards delineates the inseparable links between domestic relations and civil and political rights in ways that highlight women's active political role throughout the nineteenth century. She draws on diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, government records, legal documents, court proceedings, and other primary sources to explore the experiences and actions of individual women in the changing South, demonstrating how family, kin, personal reputation, and social context all merged with gender, race, and class to shape what particular women could do in particular circumstances.

Author : Joseph Edward Stevens
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780553378368

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1863 by Joseph Edward Stevens Pdf

Drawing from personal letters, official documents, and rare photographs, the author offers a look at the "tumultuous" 1863 and all the personalities of the year.

Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781453274149

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Pdf

The “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal). First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians between 1860 and 1890. He tells of the many tribes and their renowned chiefs—from Geronimo to Red Cloud, Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse—who struggled to combat the destruction of their people and culture. Forcefully written and meticulously researched, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee inspired a generation to take a second look at how the West was won. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.