A Question of Freedom
A Question of Freedom

Author: William G. Thomas

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-11-24

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 0300256272

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The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George’s County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court. Between 1787 and 1861, these lawsuits challenged the legitimacy of slavery in American law and put slavery on trial in the nation’s capital. Piecing together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in the archives, William Thomas tells an intricate and intensely human story of the enslaved families (the Butlers, Queens, Mahoneys, and others), their lawyers (among them a young Francis Scott Key), and the slaveholders who fought to defend slavery, beginning with the Jesuit priests who held some of the largest plantations in the nation and founded a college at Georgetown. A Question of Freedom asks us to reckon with the moral problem of slavery and its legacies in the present day.

Family Secrets
Family Secrets

Author: Marly Dukes Thomas

Publisher: Thomas Family Memorial Assn

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780961478704

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Contains 750 favorite recipes from a Southern family noted for its fine food. Its pages feature some old-fashioned recipes, along with some of the most modern, with tips & cooking "secrets" to insure success in preparation. The carefully formated recipes are type set in an eye-pleasing blue that matches the Lexotone cover & 14 divider pages with original line drawings. The complete cross-referenced index makes this book convenient for cooks, & the family history & humorous anecdotes add charm for those who like to read & collect cookbooks.

Life Worth Living
Life Worth Living

Author: William H. Thomas

Publisher: Publisher:VanderWyk&Burnham

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780964108967

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The grassroots handbook for Edenizing nursing homes.

A Golden Weed
A Golden Weed

Author: Drew A. Swanson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-08-12

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 030020681X

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Drew A. Swanson has written an “environmental” history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco. A preferred agricultural product for much of the South, the tobacco plant would ultimately degrade the land that nurtured it, but as the author provocatively argues, the choice of crop initially made perfect agrarian as well as financial sense for southern planters. Swanson, who brings to his narrative the experience of having grown up on a working Virginia tobacco farm, explores how one attempt at agricultural permanence went seriously awry. He weaves together social, agricultural, and cultural history of the Piedmont region and illustrates how ideas about race and landscape management became entangled under slavery and afterward. Challenging long-held perceptions, this innovative study examines not only the material relationships that connected crop, land, and people but also the justifications that encouraged tobacco farming in the region.

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green
The Blue, the Gray, and the Green

Author: Brian Allen Drake

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0820347140

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An unusual collection of Civil War essays as seen through the lens of noted environmental scholars, this book's provocative historical commentary explores how nature--disease, climate, flora and fauna, etc.--affected the war and how the war shaped Americans' perceptions, understanding, and use of nature.

What This Cruel War Was Over
What This Cruel War Was Over

Author: Chandra Manning

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0307277321

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Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise and narrative verve, Manning explores how the Union and Confederate soldiers came to identify slavery as the central issue of the war and what that meant for a tumultuous nation. This is a brilliant and eye-opening debut and an invaluable addition to our understanding of the Civil War as it has never been rendered before.

An Ordinary Family - Extra-Ordinary Times
An Ordinary Family - Extra-Ordinary Times

Author: Roy L. Bebee

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-03-24

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1514473399

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Bound for the New World, an English father of seven dies at sea in 1650. Only the children fulfill their fathers dream in the beginning of the New London colonial settlement. While one descendant goes west to a settlement in Pennsylvania, the Revolutionary War further divides the family. One frontiersman becomes a Loyalist serving with the Butlers Rangers while most cousins fight for the Patriot cause. This narrative follows the Beebe family who survive the vortex of the Wyoming Valley Massacre (Pennsylvania) and its aftermath at the cost of the breadwinners own life. Mary Secord Beebe, mother of seven, escapes the oncoming reprisals of the Continental forces by fleeing to Fort Niagara, NY, British Headquarters. Starting over in a remote village within the Province of Quebec, Canada, one descendant returns to Pennsylvania and eventually homesteads in the Sandhills of Nebraska. Follow this intriguing story of an ordinary family living in extra-ordinary times.

The Failure of Our Fathers
The Failure of Our Fathers

Author: Victoria E. Ott

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0817321470

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"Examines the evolving position of non-elite whites in 19th Alabama society--from the state's creation through the end of the Civil War--through the lens of gender and family"--

Morrill - Poe & Related Family History
Morrill - Poe & Related Family History

Author: Elizabeth Grove Hughes

Publisher: D Michael Hughes

Published: 2023-02-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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A genealogical history of the descendants of Abraham Morrill (b c1615) in Hatfield, Broad Oak, Uttlesford, Essex, England.