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Author: Catherine Clinton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0684844141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the British stage star turned plantation mistress, whose abolitionist writings made her an unlikely heroine of the Union cause--and whose life intersected in bold and dramatic ways with the most tumultuous of American conflicts, the Civil War. 64 illustrations.
Author: Fanny Kemble
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fanny Kemble
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0674039475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHenry James called Fanny Kemble's autobiography "one of the most animated autobiographies in the language." Born into the first family of the British stage, Fanny Kemble was one of the most famous woman writers of the English-speaking world, a best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic. In addition to her essays, poetry, plays, and a novel, Kemble published six works of memoir, eleven volumes in all, covering her life, which began in the first decade of the nineteenth century and ended in the last. Her autobiographical writings are compelling evidence of Kemble's wit and talent, and they also offer a dazzling overview of her transatlantic world. Kemble kept up a running commentary in letters and diaries on the great issues of her day. The selections here provide a narrative thread tracing her intellectual development-especially her views on women and slavery. She is famous for her identification with abolitionism, and many excerpts reveal her passionate views on the subject. The selections show a life full of personal tragedy as well as professional achievements. An elegant introduction provides a context for appreciating Kemble's remarkable life and achievements, and the excerpts from her journals allow her, once again, to speak for herself.
Author: Anne C. Bailey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-10-09
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1108141218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, genealogical records, and oral histories, Anne C. Bailey weaves together a narrative that brings the auction to life. Demonstrating the resilience of African American families, she includes interviews from the living descendants of slaves sold on the auction block, showing how the memories of slavery have shaped people's lives today. Using the auction as the focal point, The Weeping Time is a compelling and nuanced narrative of one of the most pivotal eras in American history, and how its legacy persists today.
Author: Catherine Clinton
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 1984-02-12
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0394722531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master. "The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it.
Author: Frances Butler Leigh
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-02-10
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 3385338123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author: Ann Blainey
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA tale of two extraodinarily gifted sisters and their encounters with nineteenth-century society.
Author: Eliza Frances Andrews
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2019-12-18
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Wartime Journal of a Georgia Girl" is Eliza Frances Andrews' diary in which she describes in detail the situation in Georgia during the last year of the Civil War. Andrews wrote about the anger and despair of Confederate citizens, caused by the General Sherman's devastation.
Author: Malcolm Bell, Jr.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2004-12-01
Total Pages: 701
ISBN-13: 0820323950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaster of vast rice and cotton plantations in South Carolina and Georgia, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Major Pierce Butler bequeathed his family and nation a legacy of slavery--an inheritance of immense wealth sown with the seeds of Civil War. In Major Butler's Legacy, Malcolm Bell charts the unfolding of the Butler patrimony, an epic story that reaches from the eve of the Revolution to the first decades of this century and includes in its course such figures as George Washington, Aaron Burr, Fanny Kemble, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister.
Author: Catherine Clinton
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2005-05-24
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 0060504285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn July 1863, a significantbattle in the Civil War was fought. Sergeant William H. Carney, an officer of the newly formed Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment -- comprised entirely of African Americans -- led his soldiers over the ramparts of Fort Wagner, where Union soldiers charged the Confederates. As the soldiers fought, they gained strength from the stars and stripes of the American flag, Old Glory. It was Carney's vow to never let Old Glory touch the ground, and despite several gunshot wounds, he was able to rescue the flag from the fallen bearer. Carney held the flag high as a symbol that his regiment would never submit to the Confederacy. The battle of Fort Wagner decimated the Fifty-fourth Regiment, but Carney's heroism that night inspired all who survived. Catherine Clinton's historically precise text paired with Shane Evans's rich illustrations creates a remarkable account of one of the most memorable battles in Civil War history.
