Plantations Of Virginia

Author : Charlene C. Giannetti,Jai Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493024803

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Plantations of Virginia by Charlene C. Giannetti,Jai Williams Pdf

Southern plantations are an endless source of fascination. That’s no surprise since these palatial homes are rich in history, representing a pivotal time in U.S. history that truly is “gone with the wind.” With the Civil War literally exploding all around, many of these homes were occupied either by Confederate or Union troops. Nowhere else in the south were plantations so affected by the nation’s bloodiest war than in Virginia. At times, families fled, leaving behind slaves to manage the property. There are still more than 60 plantations in Virginia today, most of them open to the public. Some have been restored, others undergoing that process. If only the walls could talk, the stories we might hear! That’s what we hope to bring into this book on The Plantations of Virginia. We’ll take the tours and talk to the guides and dig even further if there is more to discover. We hope that travelers will be enlightened before they travel to Virginia, their visits will thus be enriched, and that residents will equally love exploring this deep history of Virginia. Accompanying the text will be photographs, taken by one of the authors, showing, in all their splendor, the exteriors of these plantations, as well as areas of interest inside the buildings.

Author : Amy Feely Morsman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813930039

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The Big House After Slavery by Amy Feely Morsman Pdf

Using newspapers, periodicals, organization records, and numerous letters from Virginia planation families, Morsman captures how these frustrated elites made sense of embarrassing postwar changes, in the private but also in the public spheres they inhabited. Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried away from the crumbling plantations by their adult children into the urban house-holds of the New South. --Book Jacket.

Author : Bruce Roberts,Elizabeth Kedash
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0807842788

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Plantation Homes of the James River by Bruce Roberts,Elizabeth Kedash Pdf

Shows and describes the historical background of fourteen colonial plantations

Author : Richard S. Dunn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674735361

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A Tale of Two Plantations by Richard S. Dunn Pdf

Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families.

Author : William M. Kelso
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483274539

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Kingsmill Plantations, 1619—1800 by William M. Kelso Pdf

Kingsmill Plantations, 1619-1800: Archaeology of Country Life in Colonial Virginia covers the historical and archaeological aspects, along with reconstruction attempt of a typical setting of seven plantation sites at Kingmill, near Williambsburg, Virginia. This book contains five chapters that focus on the settlement and development of Kingsmill’s homesteads and estates. Other chapters provide the names and personalities for the plantation sites at Kingmill. Considerable archaeological findings concerning the sites’ manor, tenements, mansions, houses, quarters, and outbuildings are discussed. The remaining chapters deal with the evaluation of the sites’ gardens, wells, waste, pots, bones, and status. This book is intended primarily for architectural historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists.

Author : Letitia M. Burwell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547415718

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Plantation Reminiscences by Letitia M. Burwell Pdf

"Plantation Reminiscences" is the growing up memoirs of Letitia Burwell. Born into the wealthy and renowned Burwell family of Virginia in the United States, she grew up on the family's plantation where there were numerous slaves. The book speaks to the controversial subject of slave ownership in America and its legacy. Burwell offers a correction to what she sees as a wrong perception of slave ownership by the plantation owners.

Author : Mark R. Wenger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Carter's Grove (Va.)
ISBN : 0879351292

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Carter's Grove by Mark R. Wenger Pdf

Author : Kathryn Masson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015069374893

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Historic Houses of Virginia by Kathryn Masson Pdf

The treasures of American heritage showcased in this volume include such masterpieces as Colonial Williamsburg's Governor's Palace, George Washington's Mt. Vernon, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Robert E. Lee's Arlington House, and Stratford Hall Plantation--all presented in new photography commissioned for this book. (Architecture)

Author : Audrey Windsor Bergner
Publisher : Howell Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : 1574271423

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Old Plantations and Historic Homes Around Middleburg, Virginia by Audrey Windsor Bergner Pdf

Three centuries ago, German, Dutch, and English farmersas well as a few aristocratic colonistssettled an area of Virginia known as the Piedmont. The 1900s saw another influx of settlers; this time horse enthusiasts from the North. In the process, a small Southern town called Middleburg in Northern Virginia became known as the Heart of the Virginia Hunt Country. This second volume features twenty-eight historic properties around the Hunt Country, along with the families that built and preserved these veterans of the past. The book is lavishly illustrated with nearly 300 photographs, and includes a study on the origins of Piedmont family names.

Author : Barbara Heath,Jack Gary
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813042909

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Jefferson's Poplar Forest by Barbara Heath,Jack Gary Pdf

Thomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, "the most valuable of my possessions." For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a private retreat for him to escape the hordes of visitors and everyday pressures of his iconic estate, Monticello. Jefferson's Poplar Forest uses the knowledge gained from long-term and interdisciplinary research to explore the experiences of a wide range of people who lived and worked there between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Multiple archaeological digs reveal details about the lives of Jefferson, subsequent owners and their families, and the slaves (and descendants) who labored and toiled at the site. From the plantation house to the weeds in the garden, Barbara Heath, Jack Gary, and numerous contributors examine the landscapes of the property, investigating the relationships between the people, objects, and places of Poplar Forest. As the first book-length study of the archaeology of a president's estate, Jefferson's Poplar Forest offers a compelling and uniquely specific look into the lives of those who called Poplar Forest home.

Author : Malcolm H Harris
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0806352930

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Old New Kent County [Virginia] by Malcolm H Harris Pdf

Dr. Malcolm Harris' two-volume history and genealogy of "Old" New Kent County (the three present-day counties in the aggregate) is one of the great achievements of Virginia local history of the last century. Clearfield Company is honored to have been selected by the Harris family to produce this hardcover edition of "Old New Kent County." Privately published and out of print for many years, this work takes on even greater importance in light of the loss of county records in New Kent and in King & Queen counties and the survival of mere fragments for King William County prior to 1865.

Author : Thomas J. Wertenbaker
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4066338116932

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The History of Colonial Virginia: Planters by Thomas J. Wertenbaker Pdf

This is a historical account on formation of Virginian aristocracy. The author deals with the genesis of colonial landowners who managed to make a fortune in a relatively short period of time thanks to cheap land and slave work-power. Contents England in the New World The Indian Weed The Virginia Yeomanry Freemen and Freedmen The Restoration Period The Yeoman in Virginia History World Trade Beneath the Black Tide

Author : Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807847631

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Freedpeople in the Tobacco South by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie Pdf

Describes changes in tobacco-growing areas after emancipation, caused both by the end of slavery and by other economic currents

Author : Sir William Keith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1055745195

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The History of the British Plantations in America by Sir William Keith Pdf

Description: This first (and only) part outlines the history of Virginia and Maryland, providing a narrative of key events during early colonisation. Included are descriptions of cultivation, taxation and legislation.

Author : Rhys Isaac
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195189087

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Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom by Rhys Isaac Pdf

In this long-awaited work, Isaac mines the diary of a Revolutionary War-era Virginia planter--and many other sources--to reconstruct his interior world as it plunged into turmoil.