"This document can be useful in assisting the researcher in identifying the possible slave owners, which will take the researcher backwards in time, into the period of slavery. By learning the name of the slave owner, the researcher will be able to research tax records, wills, deeds, bills of sale and other documents pertaining to the identity of slaves."--Introduction.
This index abstracts information mentioning enslaved persons found in the Richmond County books of estate, guardian, and trust accounts. This includes the Year's Support, Inventory & Appraisement, Account Sales books through Book I. The original records are reports to the court of how the assets were dispersed. In many instances, the assets were distributed to heirs of the deceased and their names are included in the reports to the courts. The index includes the slaves name, the name of the deceased owner whose estate is being settled, the name of the new owner, the date, the value of the slave, and the book/page number from which the information was abstracted.In this book, the records are arranged alphabetically by the name of the enslaved person. In addition, all the slaves' records with the same name are organized alphabetically by the owner's surname. In the back of the book, there is an owner's name cross-index where records may be accessed alphabetically by the owner's name.
. This index will consist of abstracts of the information on the over 21,000 slaves that were mentioned in the Richmond County Superior Court Slave Importation Affidavit Register ledger books from 1818 to 1854. By law, Owners of slaves were required to register their slaves with the Superior Court. Augusta Genealogical Society has indexed all slaves mentioned on the Register forms in in the Richmond County ledger books. The index includes the slave's name, the owner's name, the date, and the ledger book/page number where the information appears in the original volume. In this book, the records are arranged alphabetically first by the owner's surname, then first name. The enslaved persons listed on each affidavit are grouped together and presented alphabetically by name of the enslaved person. In the back of the book, there is a cross-index alphabetical listing of agents, guardians, executors and trustees mentioned in the book.
The purpose of this book is to index the names of slaves registered with the Richmond County, Georgia, Clerk of the Superior Court, as well as individuals who brought the enslaved into the States. The information was taken from the extant Richmond County Superior Court Slave Importation Affidavit Registration forms during the following time periods: 1818 to 1830, 1835 to 1837, 1847 to 1854.
These essays look at southern social customs within a single city in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the volume focuses on paternalism between masters and slaves, husbands and wives, elites and the masses, and industrialists and workers. How Augusta's millworkers, homemakers, and others resisted, exploited, or endured the constraints of paternalism reveals the complex interplay between race, class, and gender. One essay looks at the subordinating effects of paternalism on women in the Old South--slave, free black, and white--and the coping strategies available to each group. Another focuses on the Knights of Labor union in Augusta. With their trappings of chivalry, the Knights are viewed as a response by Augusta's white male millworkers to the emasculating "maternalism" to which they were subjected by their own wives and daughters and those of mill owners and managers. Millworkers are also the topic of a study of mission work in their communities, a study that gauges the extent to which religious outreach by elites was a means of social control rather than an outpouring of genuine concern for worker welfare. Other essays discuss Augusta's "aristocracy of color," who had to endure the same effronteries of segregation as the city's poorest blacks; the role of interracial cooperation in the founding of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church as a denomination, and of Augusta's historic Trinity CME Church; and William Jefferson White, an African American minister, newspaper editor, and founder of Morehouse College. The varied and creative responses to paternalism discussed here open new ways to view relationships based on power and negotiated between men and women, blacks and whites, and the prosperous and the poor.
This is a biography of John Wesley Gilbert, a man famous as 'the first black archaeologist.' The text uses previously unstudied sources to reveal the triumphs and challenges of an overlooked pioneer in American archaeology.
The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell. It is the toughest ticket in sports, with black-market tickets selling for $10,000 and more. Success at Augusta National breeds legends, while failure can overshadow even the most brilliant of careers. But as Curt Sampson, author of the bestselling Hogan, reveals in The Masters, a cold heart beats behind the warm antebellum façade of this famous Augusta course. And that heart belongs to the man who killed himself on the grounds two decades ago. Club and tournament founder Clifford Roberts, a New York stockbroker, still seems to run the place from his grave. An elusive and reclusive figure, Roberts pulled the strings that made the Masters the greatest golf tournament in the world. His story--including his relationship with presidents, power brokers, and every golf champion from Bobby Jones to Arnold Palmer to Jack Nicklaus--has never been told. Until now. The Masters is an amazing slice of history, taking us inside the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Augusta's most famous member. It is a look at how the new South coexists with the old South: the relationships between blacks and whites, between Southerners and Northerners, between rich and poor--with such characters as James Brown, the Godfather of Soul; the great boxer Beau Jack; and Frank Stranahan, the playboy golfer and the only white pro ever banned from the tournament. The Masters is a spellbinding portrait of a tournament unlike any other. From the Trade Paperback edition.
