Sanctioning Matrimony

Sanctioning Matrimony

Author: Sal Acosta

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2016-03-31

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0816532370

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"This book examines intermarriage among Mexicans in the Tucson area between 1860 and 1930, shifting the focus away from marriages by the landed elite and onto the working class"--Provided by publisher.


1852-1867

1852-1867

Author: Boston (Mass.). Office of the Mayor

Publisher:

Published: 1896

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13:

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Journey to Freedom

Journey to Freedom

Author: Gail Shaffer Blankenau

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2024-03

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1496238613

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In late November of 1858 two enslaved Black women—Celia Grayson, age twenty-two, and Eliza Grayson, age twenty—escaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls household in southeastern Nebraska. John Williamson, a man of African American and Cherokee descent from Iowa, guided them through the dark to the Missouri River, where they boarded a skiff and crossed the icy waters, heading for their first stop on the Underground Railroad at Civil Bend, Iowa. In Journey to Freedom Gail Shaffer Blankenau provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape of these two enslaved Black women from Nebraska City. Poised on the “frontier,” the Graysons’ escape demonstrated that unique opportunities beckoned at the confluence of Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, and Kansas, and their actions challenged slavery’s tentative expansion into the West and its eventual demise in an era of territorial fluidity. Their escape and the violence that followed prompted considerable debate across the country and led to the Nebraska legislature’s move to prohibit slavery. Drawing on multiple collections, records, and slave narratives, Journey to Freedom sheds light on the Graysons’ courage and agency as they became high-profile figures in the national debate between proslavery and antislavery factions in the antebellum period.


A Genealogy of the Reyniersen Family

A Genealogy of the Reyniersen Family

Author: Peter Rinearson

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13:

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"Arent Theunisen Van Hengel, with his wife, Tryntie Reynders, and three children, Reynier, Mary, and Hendrick, came from Hengel in the county of Zutphen (now in Gelderland), Holland, in 1653, and settled on Staten Island [New York]. It is probable that he was killed during the Indian uprising on Staten Island"--Page 27