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Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780842029254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
Author: United States. Census Office. 7th census, 1850
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 1172
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Publisher: Easley, S.C. : Southern Historical Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains abstracts of legal records for Baldwin, Burke, Cherokee, Jackson, and Richmond Counties. It contains the names of approximately 16,000 persons listed in these records.
Author: Thomas Baldwin
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 1372
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Duane F. Alwin
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2009-10-12
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 1984575414
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Author: Roy H. Wampler
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David T. Gleeson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002-11-25
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0807875635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture. The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self-identification as temporary exiles from famine and British misrule. They countered this isolation by creating vibrant, tightly knit ethnic communities in the cities and towns across the South where they found work, usually menial jobs. Finding strength in their communities, Irish immigrants developed the confidence to raise their voices in the public arena, forcing native southerners to recognize and accept them--first politically, then socially. The Irish integrated into southern society without abandoning their ethnic identity. They displayed their loyalty by fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War and in particular by opposing the Radical Reconstruction that followed. By 1877, they were a unique part of the "Solid South." Unlike the Irish in other parts of the United States, the Irish in the South had to fit into a regional culture as well as American culture in general. By following their attempts to become southerners, we learn much about the unique experience of ethnicity in the American South.
Author: Kathleen P. Chamberlain
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2013-02-15
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0826352804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe events of July 19, 1878, marked the beginning of what became known as the Lincoln County War and catapulted Susan McSween and a young cowboy named Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, into the history books. The so-called war, a fight for control of the mercantile economy of southeastern New Mexico, is one of the most documented conflicts in the history of the American West, but it is an event that up to now has been interpreted through the eyes of men. As a woman in a man’s story, Susan McSween has been all but ignored. This is the first book to place her in a larger context. Clearly, the Lincoln County War was not her finest hour, just her best known. For decades afterward, she ran a successful cattle ranch. She watched New Mexico modernize and become a state. And she lived to tell the tales of the anarchistic territorial period many times.
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Archives Trust Fund Board
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGuide to using the resources in the National Archives for conducting geneological research.
Author: David G. Smith
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 0823263967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking Civil War history illuminates the unique development of antislavery sentiment in the border region of south central Pennsylvania. During the antebellum decades every single fugitive slave escaping by land east of the Appalachian Mountains had to pass through south central Pennsylvania, where they faced both significant opportunities and substantial risks. While the hundreds of fugitives traveling through Adams, Franklin, and Cumberland counties were aided by an effective Underground Railroad, they also faced slave catchers and informers. In On the Edge of Freedom, historian David G. Smith traces the victories of antislavery activists in south central Pennsylvania, including the achievement of a strong personal liberty law and the aggressive prosecution of kidnappers who seized African Americans as fugitives. He also documents how their success provoked Southern retaliation and the passage of a strengthened Fugitive Slave Law in 1850. Smith explores the fugitive slave issue through fifty years of sectional conflict, war, and reconstruction in south central Pennsylvania and provocatively questions what was gained by emphasizing fugitive protection over immediate abolition and full equality. Smith argues that after the war, social and demographic changes in southern Pennsylvania worked against African Americans’ achieving equal opportunity. Although local literature portrayed this area as a vanguard of the Underground Railroad, African Americans still lived “on the edge of freedom.” Winner of the Hortense Simmons Prize
