Rockdale
Rockdale

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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9780803298538

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A celebrated triumph of historiography, Rockdale tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania. The lives of workers, managers, inventors, owners, and entrepreneurs are brilliantly illuminated by Anthony F. C. Wallace, who also describes the complex technology that governed all of Rockdale?s townspeople. Wallace examines the new relationships between employer and employee as work and workers moved out of the fields into the closed-in world of the spinning mule, the power loom, and the mill office. He brings to light the impassioned battle for the soul of the mill worker, a struggle between the exponents of the Enlightenment and Utopian Socialism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the ultimately triumphant champions of evangelical Christianity.

A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections
A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections

Author: Richard Upsher Smith

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1611463459

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This book contains letters from the Civil War of a Union officer, his fiancée, and some of their connections. The letters witness to their conviction that the pain of their four-year separation and other deprivations would help purify the country from the sin of slavery.

The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 1
The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 1

Author: Ronald S. Beatty

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010-06

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 1449083129

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Peter Gunnarson Rambo, son of Gunnar Petersson, was born in about 1612 in Hisingen, Sweden. He came to America in 1640 and settled in Christiana, New Sweden (now Delaware). He married Brita Mattsdotter 7 April 1647. They had eight children. He died in 1698. HIs daughter, Gertrude Rambo, was born 19 October 1650. She married Anders Bengtsson. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina and Ohio.

Genealogy of the Baily Family
Genealogy of the Baily Family

Author: G. Cope

Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published: 1909

Total Pages: 745

ISBN-13: 5875396318

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And More Particularly of the Descendants of Joel Baily, Who Came from Bromham About 1682 and Settled in Chester County, Pa

Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America
Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

Author: Nancy Isenberg

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0807866830

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With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women's rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas--before and after 1848--that, in her view, marked the real birth of feminism. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she demonstrates that women's rights activists of the antebellum era crafted a coherent feminist critique of church, state, and family. In addition, Isenberg shows, they developed a rich theoretical tradition that influenced not only subsequent strains of feminist thought but also ideas about the nature of citizenship and rights more generally. By focusing on rights discourse and political theory, Isenberg moves beyond a narrow focus on suffrage. Democracy was in the process of being redefined in antebellum America by controversies over such volatile topics as fugitive slave laws, temperance, Sabbath laws, capital punishment, prostitution, the Mexican War, married women's property rights, and labor reform--all of which raised significant legal and constitutional questions. These pressing concerns, debated in women's rights conventions and the popular press, were inseparable from the gendered meaning of nineteenth-century citizenship.