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Author : Mary Jane Windle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433076058241
Author : Mary Jane Windle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.)
ISBN : LCCN:nuc87816596
Author : Mary J. Windle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0483234567
Excerpt from Life at the White Sulphur Springs: Or, Pictures of a Pleasant Summer So much has been published upon the Virginia Springs, that the subject has been completely exhausted by minds of every calibre. It therefore looks like a work of superero gation to endeavor to extract a new idea from so worn-out a theme, or attempt to add a word to that which has already been so often and so well said; but such is the incorrigibility of female human nature, that, with this fact staring one in the face and appearing silently to forbid it, we fancy we are bound to add our mite to the general fund of entertain ment, to correct some impression which may have escaped a mightier mind, or correct some mistake which may have been perpetrated by a more careless one. We left Washington at the uncomfortable hour of five in the morning, being startled from a languid chat by the voice of the hackman while partaking of an early breakfast. The aspect of Pennsylvania Avenue was decidedly solitary - ia deed, it might almost be described as dreary. A short drive brought us to the Alexandria boat, its broad, black chimney silently vomiting lazy volumes of smoke, while the narrow' steam-pipe by its side shot forth a viewless jet, whitening upward to fleecy cloud; and high above all - calm, grand, and sublime - rose the Washington Monument, looming up like a mighty giant above the crowded spires and roofs of the city. Soon the wheels began to turn, and the boat moved sluggishly from the wharf, gradually quickening its speed, and, with beautiful precision, dexterously threading its way from among the slow, sullen coal-barges, as a lion might spare to trample on a mouse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Cicero M Fain III
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252051432
By 1930, Huntington had become West Virginia's largest city. Its booming economy and relatively tolerant racial climate attracted African Americans from across Appalachia and the South. Prosperity gave these migrants political clout and spurred the formation of communities that defined black Huntington--factors that empowered blacks to confront institutionalized and industrial racism on the one hand and the white embrace of Jim Crow on the other. Cicero M. Fain III illuminates the unique cultural identity and dynamic sense of accomplishment and purpose that transformed African American life in Huntington. Using interviews and untapped archival materials, Fain details the rise and consolidation of the black working class as it pursued, then fulfilled, its aspirations. He also reveals how African Americans developed a host of strategies--strong kin and social networks, institutional development, property ownership, and legal challenges--to defend their gains in the face of the white status quo. Eye-opening and eloquent, Black Huntington makes visible another facet of the African American experience in Appalachia.
Author : Charlene M. Boyer Lewis
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813920795
Each summer between 1790 and 1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of southern men and women left the diseases and boredom of their plantation homes and journeyed to the healthful and entertaining Virginia Springs. While some came in search of a cure, most traveled over the mountains to enjoy the fashionable society and participate in an array of social activities. At the springs, visitors, as well as their slaves, interacted with one another and engaged in behavior quite different from the picture presented by most historians. In the leisurely and pleasure-filled environment of the springs, plantation society's hierarchies became at once more relaxed and more contested; its rituals and rules sometimes changed and reformed; and its gender divisions often softened and blurred. In Ladies and Gentlemen on Display, Charlene Boyer Lewis argues that the Virginia Springs provided a theater of sorts, where contests for power between men and women, fashionables and evangelicals, blacks and whites, old and young, and even northerners and southerners played out -- away from the traditional roles of the plantation. In their pursuit of health and pleasure, white southerners created a truly regional community at the springs. At this edge of the South, elite southern society shaped itself, defining what it meant to be a "Southerner" and redefining social roles and relations.
Author : James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow,R. G. Barnwell,Edwin Bell,William MacCreary Burwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Southern States
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020336731
Author : James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow,R. G. Barnwell,Edwin Bell,William MacCreary Burwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Industries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216921275
Author : C. S. Monaco
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807130958
Moses Elias Levy (1782–1854) was one of the antebellum South’s most influential and interesting Jewish citizens. Only recently, however, have historians begun to appreciate his role as a social activist. C. S. Monaco discovered Levy’s Plan for the Abolition of Slavery in the late 1990s, and now, in the first full-scale biography of Levy, Monaco completes the picture of his life and work. Long known only as the father of David L. Yulee, the first Jew elected to the U.S. Senate, Levy appears here in all his many, sometimes contradictory roles: abolitionist and slave owner, utopian colonizer and former arms-dealer, religious reformer and biblical conservative. Each aspect of Levy’s life and character comes into sharp relief as Monaco follows him from his affluent upbringing in a Sephardic Jewish household in Morocco—where his father was a courtier to the sultan—through his career as a successful merchant shipper, to his radical reform activities in Florida. With his many residences abroad—in Morocco, Gibraltar, Danish Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Curacao, England—Levy virtually epitomized the Atlantic world, and Monaco escorts readers from country to country, considering Levy’s accomplishments in each. The sole Jewish voice during the British abolitionist crusade, Levy was so extraordinary in his activism in London that some Protestants believed he heralded the millennium. In his search for equilibrium between Enlightenment thinking and pre-modern religion, Levy founded the United States’ first Jewish communitarian settlement in the wilds of the East Florida frontier. As one of the region’s largest landowners, he also reintroduced sugarcane as a viable crop, organized the first Florida development corporation, helped establish the earliest free public school, and served as the territory’s first education commissioner. In Moses Levy of Florida, C. S. Monaco offers a radical reappraisal of this complex and formerly underestimated figure, bringing to light for the first time the full and fascinating extent of his remarkable contributions to nineteenth-century America.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : West Virginia
ISBN : UVA:X000594002
Author : Eugene D. Genovese,Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139501637
Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders' paternalism had little to do with ostensible benevolence, kindness and good cheer. It grew out of the necessity to discipline and morally justify a system of exploitation. At the same time, this book also advocates the examination of masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants - a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew on the work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and black, suffered de facto slavery, and they championed the South's 'Christian slavery' as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern.
Author : Thomas A. Chambers
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055918406
Nineteenth century men and women had few opportunities to socialize with those from other regions of the United States. The resorts of Virginia's western mountains and upstate New York's Saratoga Springs provided a rare meeting ground, one where the boundaries of class and region were defined, tested, solidified, broken, and repaired by the Civil War and its aftermath.
Author : Perceval Reniers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Health resorts
ISBN : PURD:32754002968786
Author : Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1558624333
These volumes present essays offering critical, biographical, and bibliographical information on each writer.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082916159
Author : Donald K. Hartman
Publisher : Epoch Books, Incorporated
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015053095736
A complement to Historical Figures in Fiction, which covers novels published after 1940; plans are afoot to fill the inside straight with a third volume. To help readers, librarians, teachers, and literary researchers identify and use biographical fiction, Hartman lists nearly 1,000 historical figures that appear in over 1,800 novels. In the main list by historical figure, the entries include vital dates and a brief occupation or character description before citing fully each novel. The reading level of the novels is also indicated. The indexes are by author, occupation, and title. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR