Israel On The Appomattox

Author : Melvin Patrick Ely
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307773425

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Israel on the Appomattox by Melvin Patrick Ely Pdf

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' ChoiceThomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong. Israel on the Appomattox tells the story of these liberated blacks and the community they formed, called Israel Hill, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. There, ex-slaves established farms, navigated the Appomattox River, and became entrepreneurs. Free blacks and whites did business with one another, sued each other, worked side by side for equal wages, joined forces to found a Baptist congregation, moved west together, and occasionally settled down as man and wife. Slavery cast its grim shadow, even over the lives of the free, yet on Israel Hill we discover a moving story of hardship and hope that defies our expectations of the Old South.

Author : Caroline E. Janney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469663388

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Ends of War by Caroline E. Janney Pdf

The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands of wounded and exhausted men fell out of the ranks. When word spread that Lee planned to surrender, most remaining troops stacked their arms and accepted paroles allowing them to return home, even as they lamented the loss of their country and cause. But others broke south and west, hoping to continue the fight. Fearing a guerrilla war, Grant extended the generous Appomattox terms to every rebel who would surrender himself. Provost marshals fanned out across Virginia and beyond, seeking nearly 18,000 of Lee's men who had yet to surrender. But the shock of Lincoln's assassination led Northern authorities to see threats of new rebellion in every rail depot and harbor where Confederates gathered for transport, even among those already paroled. While Federal troops struggled to keep order and sustain a fragile peace, their newly surrendered adversaries seethed with anger and confusion at the sight of Union troops occupying their towns and former slaves celebrating freedom. In this dramatic new history of the weeks and months after Appomattox, Caroline E. Janney reveals that Lee's surrender was less an ending than the start of an interregnum marked by military and political uncertainty, legal and logistical confusion, and continued outbursts of violence. Janney takes readers from the deliberations of government and military authorities to the ground-level experiences of common soldiers. Ultimately, what unfolds is the messy birth narrative of the Lost Cause, laying the groundwork for the defiant resilience of rebellion in the years that followed.

Author : Gregory P. Downs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674241626

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After Appomattox by Gregory P. Downs Pdf

The Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. A second phase commenced which lasted until 1871—not Reconstruction but genuine belligerency whose mission was to crush slavery and create civil and political rights for freed people. But as Gregory Downs shows, military occupation posed its own dilemmas, including near-anarchy.

Author : Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807835050

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Forging Freedom by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers Pdf

For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, de

Author : Ralph Peters
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429962926

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The War After Armageddon by Ralph Peters Pdf

Shocking scenes of battle...unforgettable soldiers...heartbreaking betrayals.... In this stunning, fast-paced novel, a ruthless future war unfolds in a 21st century nightmare: Los Angeles is a radioactive ruin; Europe lies bleeding; and Israel has been destroyed...with millions slaughtered. A furious America fights to reclaim the devastated Holy Land. The Marines storm ashore; the U.S. Army does battle in a Biblical landscape. Hi-tech weaponry is useless and primitive hatreds flare. Lt. Gen. Gary "Flintlock" Harris and his courageous warriors struggle for America's survival--with ruthless enemies to their front and treachery at their rear. Islamist fanatics, crusading Christians, and unscrupulous politicians open the door to genocide. The War After Armageddon thrusts the reader into a terrifying future in which all that remains is the horror of war--and the inspiration of individual heroism. A master at bringing to life "the eternal soldier," Ralph Peters tells a riveting tale that honors those Americans who fight and sacrifice all for a dream of freedom. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Andrew Levy
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375761041

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The First Emancipator by Andrew Levy Pdf

“[Andrew Levy] brings a literary sensibility to the study of history, and has written a richly complex book, one that transcends Carter’s story to consider larger questions of individual morality and national memory.” –The New York Times Book Review In 1791, Robert Carter III, a pillar of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy, broke with his peers by arranging the freedom of his nearly five hundred slaves. It would be the largest single act of liberation in the history of American slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation. Despite this courageous move–or perhaps because of it–Carter’s name has all but vanished from the annals of American history. In this haunting, brilliantly original work, Andrew Levy explores the confluence of circumstance, conviction, war, and emotion that led to Carter’s extraordinary act. As Levy points out, Carter was not the only humane master, nor the sole partisan of emancipation, in that freedom-loving age. So why did he dare to do what other visionary slave owners only dreamed of? In answering this question, Levy reveals the unspoken passions that divided Carter from others of his class, and the religious conversion that enabled him to see his black slaves in a new light. Drawing on years of painstaking research and written with grace and fire, The First Emancipator is an astonishing, challenging, and ultimately inspiring book. “A vivid narrative of the future emancipator’s evolution.” –The Washington Post Book World “Highly recommended . . . a truly remarkable story about an eccentric American hero and visionary . . . should be standard reading for anyone with an interest in American history.” –Library Journal (starred review) “Absorbing. . . Well researched and thoroughly fascinating, this forgotten history will appeal to readers interested in the complexities of American slavery.” –Booklist (starred review)

Author : Christopher Hager
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674981812

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I Remain Yours by Christopher Hager Pdf

For men in the Union and Confederate armies and their families at home, letter writing was the sole means to communicate. Taking pen to paper was a new and daunting task, but Christopher Hager shows how ordinary people made writing their own, and how they in turn transformed the culture of letters into a popular, democratic mode of communication.

Author : Grace Blakeley
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781912248407

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Stolen by Grace Blakeley Pdf

A must-read polemic about why the 'recovery' from the 2007-08 crash mostly benefited the 1%, and how democratic socialism can save us from a new crash and climate catastrophe. For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. In the decade leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, booming banks, rising house prices and cheap consumer goods propped up living standards in the rich world. Thirty years of rocketing debt and financial wizardry had masked the deep underlying fragility of finance-led growth, and in 2008 we were forced to pay up. The decade since has witnessed all kinds of morbid symptoms, as all around the rich world, wages and productivity are stagnant, inequality is rising, and ecological systems are collapsing. Stolen is a history of finance-led growth and a guide as to how we might escape it. We've sat back as financial capitalism has stolen our economies, our environment and even the future itself. Now, we have an opportunity to change course. What happens next is up to us.

Author : Sojourner Truth,Harriet Jacobs,Mary Prince
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486136103

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Three Narratives of Slavery by Sojourner Truth,Harriet Jacobs,Mary Prince Pdf

Straightforward, yet often poetic, accounts of the battle for freedom, these memoirs by three courageous black women vividly chronicle their struggles in the bonds of slavery, their rebellion against injustice, and their determination to attain equality.

Author : Ray Stannard Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : African Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035245351

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Following the Color Line by Ray Stannard Baker Pdf

Author : Richard Penn Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440684425

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On to the Alamo by Richard Penn Smith Pdf

David "Davy" Crockett (1786–1836) was born in Tennessee, fought alongside Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812, and later served three terms in the House of Representatives before heading to Texas, where he died defending the Alamo. Col. Crockett’s Exploits and Adventures in Texas, first published after Crockett’s death and disingenuously attributed to him, was written by Richard Penn Smith as a narrative that promoted a sanitized account of the Alamo as a heroic effort by Americans to stem the Mexican "invasion" of Texas. The story, which was a huge success in its day, created a myth of the battle that pervaded the collective American memory for more than 150 years and reinforced the image of Davy Crockett as the "King of the Frontier."

Author : J. Hatheway
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403974006

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The Gilded Age Construction of Modern American Homophobia by J. Hatheway Pdf

The Gilded Age Construction of American Homophobia is an analysis of the negative response to the discovery of the homosexual in late Nineteenth century America. In this period of social distress, many Americans came to doubt the underlying assumptions of national progress. If the United States were to remain true to its promise of earthly perfection, then the forces of social disharmony had to be overcome. Homosexuality, however, challenged the very notions of order and progress. This book investigates the responses of the emergent medical community to this problem, and concludes with a discussion of how the negative reception of the homosexual impacted the future social conception of gay men and women.

Author : Kirt Von Daacke
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813933092

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Freedom Has a Face by Kirt Von Daacke Pdf

Argues that the inhabitants of Albemarle County (in rural Piedmont Virginia), white, black, and mixed-race treated each other more on the basis of a person's reputations than on the basis of state laws requiring restrictions on black freedom. Examples are drawn from law proceedings, (blacks did testify in courts despite its being against the law), marriages, residence, and other matters.

Author : Mary Prince
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486146935

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The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince Pdf

Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England.

Author : Stephen Budiansky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0670018406

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The Bloody Shirt by Stephen Budiansky Pdf

A narrative account of Reconstruction-era violence documents vigilante attacks on African Americans and their white allies, in a fast-paced analysis that traces the period as reflected by the careers of two Union officers, a Confederate general, a northern entrepreneur, and a former slave.