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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina
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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina

by Orville Vernon Burton. 480 pgs.

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books on: (Family South Carolina Edgefield History 19th Century) OR (Edgefield S C Social Conditions) OR (Edgefield S C Rural Conditions)  - 334 results

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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina
Book by Orville Vernon Burton; University of North Carolina Press, 1985
Subjects: Edgefield (S.C.)--Race Relations--History--19th Century, Edgefield (S.C.)--Rural Conditions, Edgefield (S.C.)--Social Conditions, Family--South Carolina--Edgefield--History--19th Century
...conditions. 3. Family -- South Carolina -- Edgefield -- History -- 19th century. 4. Edgefield S.C...relations -- History -- 19th century. 1. Title...Edgefield, South Carolina 14...The White Family and Antebellum...Handbook of South Carolina , pp. 524...Wallace, History South Carolina...but not in Edgefield . In contrast...
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'A Gentleman and an Officer': A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War
Book by Judith N. McArthur, Orville Vernon Burton; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Confederate States Of America--Army--Hampton Legion--Biography, Confederate States Of America--Army--Officers--Correspondence, Confederate States Of America--Social Conditions, Edgefield (S.C.)--Biography, Griffin, James B.--B. 1825--Correspondence, Soldiers--South Carolina--Edgefield--Correspondence, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cavalry Operations, Confederate, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal Narratives, Confederate
...experiences in the lives of the people of Edgefield as reflected in the letters. Griffins...they are a valuable primary source on family, kinship, friendship, class, and...Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1985 . 3 In his history of the Hampton Legion, Field quoted...Justice: Crime and Punishment in the 19th-Century American South New York: Oxford...
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Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860
Book by Lacy K. Ford Jr.; Oxford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Radicalism--South Carolina--History--19th Century, Secession, South Carolina--Politics And Government--1775-1865
...Radicalism--South Carolina--History--19th century. 3. Secession. I. Title. F273.F68...question of why the plain folk of the Old South, the white majority, willingly joined...secession is no easy task. With South Carolina poised on the brink of secession...border districts such as Lancaster and Edgefield, but no true sandhills district was...Nolen, eds., Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor...important, acknowledgment must go to my family, which has sustained me throughout...
4.
Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country
Book by Stephanie McCurry; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Political Culture--South Carolina--History--19th Century, Sex Role--South Carolina--History--19th Century, Slavery--South Carolina--History--19th Century, Social Classes--South Carolina--History--19th Century, South Carolina--History--1775-1865
...4. "Like a Great Family": Nullification Revivals and the Making...273 Masters of Small Worlds South Carolina Low Country in 1860 chapter 1 Boundaries...Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century New York: W. W. Norton, 1978...Economy of the United States," Radical History Review , no. 4 Winter 1977 , pp...Families in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries," The Journal of Economic...Thomas McKee v. Elizabeth Garrett , Edgefield, Fall Term, 1829, in Bailey...
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The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina
Book by Manisha Sinha; University of North Carolina Press, 2000
Subjects: Political Culture--South Carolina--History--19th Century, Secession--South Carolina, Slaveholders--South Carolina--Political Activity, Slavery--Political Aspects--South Carolina--History--19th Century, South Carolina--Politics And Government--1775-1865
...Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina MANISHA SINHA The University...Slavery Political aspects South Carolina History 19th century. 3. Slaveholders South Carolina Political...Finally, I would like to thank my family. My parents, to whom this book is...Memorials from Barnwell, Kershaw, Edgefield, Fairfield, Orangeburg, Lancaster...
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Religion, Gender, and the Lost Cause in South Carolina's 1876 Governor's Race: "Hampton or Hell!"
Journal article by W. Scott Poole; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 68, 2002
Subjects: Elections--19th century AD, Governors--Elections, State government--History, United States history, United States history--1865-
...the point of view of some of South Carolinas white leaders. The 1872 governors...Witherspoon Gary and his compatriot from Edgefield, former Confederate general Matthew...to reopen a shooting war between South Carolina and her enemies. In contrast...methodology of power in the political history of the West. Late in the fourteenth century the cities of northern Europe celebrated...over the former slaves of the Hampton family and believed that other southern whites...
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Slaves, Poor Whites, and the Underground Economy of the Rural Carolinas
Journal article by Jeff Forret; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70, 2004
Subjects: Agricultural industry--Industry forecasts, Slaves--Social aspects, South Carolina--Economic aspects
...Class and Culture in Antebellum North Carolina (Lexington, Ky., 1992), 92-94; Charles...Bolton, Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North...Savannah, 1790-1860," Journal of Southern History, 66 (February 2000), 25-48; Timothy...000 = 18,500). Similarly, his slave family increased from thirty-seven in 1850...Disorderly: Slave Women in the Eighteenth-Century Charleston Marketplace," in David...Census of the United States, 1840, Edgefield District, South Carolina, Population...
3.
Battle Time: Gender, Modernity, and Confederate Hospitals
Journal article by Cheryl A. Wells; Journal of Social History, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: Battle casualties--Care and treatment, Hospitals, Military--Management, Sex role--History, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, Women--Social aspects
...Reconstruction: Part I of the Total History of Reconstruction of Edgefield Country, South Carolina (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1976...of Sorrow: Black Women, Work the Family from Slavery to Present (New York...June 20,1869,319. Most nineteenth century southern newspapers published a schedule...Courier, October 9,1870 and November 19th, 1870; and The Charleston News Cour...
4.
Hell in Small Places: Agrarian Elites and Collective Violence in the Western Transvaal, 1900-1907
Journal article by John Higginson; Journal of Social History, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: Agriculture--Economic aspects, Land use--South Africa, Race relations--South Africa, Segregation--South Africa, South African War, 1899-1902--History, Transvaal--History, Violence--South Africa
...Tumult All of history does not appear...Anglo-Boer or South African War of...be recited at family and religious...the turn of the century. 11 As a result...Riot or War in Edgefield County, South Carolina, the 1899 insurrection...and Economic History of the Witwatersrand...Shirts" in North Carolina. Cell claimed...Rebellion in South Africa see A...Citizens in Aiken," Edgefield Advertiser, August...March 1901: Family History Archives...in Twentieth Century South Africa...
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"Neither Is Memory Always Thus Avenging": Longing for Kinship in Julia C. Collins's the Curse of Caste and the Christian Recorder
Journal article by Edlie Wong; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: African American literature--Criticism and interpretation, African American literature--Works, African American women authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American women authors--Works, African American women writers--Criticism and interpretation, African American women writers--Works, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--Works, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--Criticism and interpretation, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--History, Collins, Julia C.--Criticism and interpretation, Collins, Julia C.--Influence, Collins, Julia C.--Works, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Authorship, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Influence
...Civil War. Popular 19th-century novelists Frances Ellen...and again to this "history of the past" as they...seeking information on family members dislocated...vision of North and South joined together by...Letter from South Carolina" 30d). (4) In 1881...family was parted at Edgefield Court House, South...19c. Collins, Julia C. The Curse of Caste...P, 2001. Hightower, S. M. "Information Wanted...4b. Malcolm, Thomas S. "Finding Lost Relatives...Pennington, James W. C. "Preface." The Fugitive...
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Potted History: Learning More about Slave Life in South Carolina from a Legendary Potter-Poet
Magazine article by Scott Reynolds Nelson; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Autumn 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave (Biography)--Book reviews
...accounts written by visitors to the South, and only two dozen or so autobiographies...sense, and the text used for his book Carolina Clay is the strangest kind you might...graphic designer. Carolina Clay is a history of a South Carolina slave named Dave...designer in Manhattan, Todd moved to Edgefield, South Carolina, and interviewed potters...scores of county records, reread his family letters, pored over privately held...nontextual records gives us a portrait of a 19th-century pottery factory. He imagines who might...


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