Search Results - "Antebellum South"

The counterrevolution of slavery politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina / by Sinha, Manisha

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Slave religion the "invisible institution" in the antebellum South / by Raboteau, Albert J.

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Chains of love slave couples in antebellum South Carolina / by West, Emily, 1971-

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Fathers of conscience mixed-race inheritance in the antebellum South / by Jones, Bernie D.

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Redeeming the southern family evangelical women and domestic devotion in the Antebellum South / by Stephan, Scott, 1969-

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Sex, sickness, and slavery illness in the antebellum South / by Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-

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Exchanging our country marks the transformation of African identities in the colonial and antebellum South / by Gomez, Michael Angelo, 1955-

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To have and to hold slave work and family life in antebellum South Carolina / by Hudson, Larry E., 1952-

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The ideology of slavery proslavery thought in the antebellum South, 1830-1860 /

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The architecture of William Nichols : building the antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi / by Kapp, Paul Hardin, Sanders, Todd

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Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South

Table of Contents: “…Markets and manufacturing: industry and agriculture in the antebellum South and Midwest /…”
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"To love the wind and the rain" : African Americans and environmental history /

Table of Contents: “…Slave hunting and fishing in the antebellum South /…”
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Becoming bourgeois merchant culture in the South, 1820-1865 / by Byrne, Frank J., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Merchant culture and the political economy of the old South -- The antebellum merchant in southern society -- The merchant family in the antebellum South -- Secession, merchant-soldiers and the Civil War, 1860-1863 -- Merchants and their families in the Confederacy, 1861-1863 -- The merchant family and the fall of the Confederacy, 1864-1865 -- Conclusion: merchant culture in the slave south and beyond.…”
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Amazing grace African American grandmothers as caregivers and conveyers of traditional values / by Ruiz, Dorothy S. (Dorothy Smith)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Slavery, family, and religion : the traditional roles of older African American women in the antebellum south during the nineteenth cerntury -- Related research : grandparent caregiving -- Methodolgy : the custodial African American grandmother study -- Social and demographic characteristics -- Factors influencing life satisfaction among -- Social facrors, health status, and depression -- Voices of custodial grandmothers : dominant themes.…”
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Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men : Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945 /

Table of Contents: “…Slave men, honor, violence, and masculinity in the antebellum South / Jeff Forret -- A crucible of masculinity : William Johnson's barbershop and the making of free black men in the antebellum South / Timothy R. …”
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A separate Civil War communities in conflict in the mountain South / by Sarris, Jonathan Dean, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Mountain neighbors : two communities on the frontier of the antebellum South -- "This unpatriotic imputation" : mountain images in secession and war -- Rebels, traitors, and Tories : loyalty and community in north Georgia, 1862-1863 -- Hellish deeds in a Christian land : the social dynamics of violence in north Georgia's guerrilla war, 1864-1865 -- The war they knew : reconstructing community and memory in north Georgia, 1865-1900.…”
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Faith and politics in America from Jamestown to the Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Bray, colonial Maryland -- And the role of religion in public life / Joseph Prud'homme -- Jefferson's opposition to the Judeo-Christian tradition / Stephen Strehle -- Religion in the thought of James Madison / Garrett Sheldon -- John Quincy Adams and a republic of virtue / Gary Smith -- Slavery in America: an institution defined by faith / Dawn Hutchinson -- Evangelical ministers in the antebellum south and guilt -- Over slavery: the incoherence of evangelical pro-slavery thought / Joseph Prud'homme.…”
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World cinema and the visual arts

Table of Contents: “…Choy -- The postnational and the aesthetics of the spectral: Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Flight of the red balloon / Je Cheol Park -- The art object as text in the practice of comparative visuality / Jane Chin Davidson -- Exploring in-humanity: Gertrude Stein's Tender buttons and still-life painting / Nandini Ramesh Sankar -- Re-defining art: Manuel Rivas' Mujer en el baño / Ana-María Medina -- Re-envisioning the haunting past: Kara Walker's art and the re-appropriation of the visual codes of the antebellum South / Minna Niemi.…”
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Self-taught African American education in slavery and freedom / by Williams, Heather Andrea

Table of Contents: “…In secret places : acquiring literacy in slave communities -- A coveted possession : literacy in the first days of freedom -- The men are actually clamoring for books : African American soldiers and the educational mission -- We must get education for ourselves and our children : advocacy for education -- We are striving to do business on our own hook : organizing schools on the ground -- We are laboring under many difficulties : African American teachers in freedpeople's schools -- A long and tedious road to travel for knowledge : textbooks and freedpeople's schools -- If anybody wants an education, it is me : students in freedpeople's schools -- First movings of the waters : the creation of common school systems for Black and White students -- Epilogue -- Appendix : African Americans, literacy, and the law in the antebellum South.…”
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Modern and postmodern narratives of race, gender, and identity the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings / by Ishida, Yoriko

Table of Contents: “…-- Historical context of the Sally Hemings story: racial prejudice in the United States of America disclosed by the Jefferson-Hemings scandal -- Figurations of the female body as gothic technique: race relations and gender conventions in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings -- Pampered body, outraged flesh: the ambivalence of Sally Hemings in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings as a neo-slave narrative -- Tradition of the tragic mulatta in the antebellum South: the Sally Hemings story and William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, The president's daughter -- Miscegenation, passing, and the tragic mulatta in Barbara Chase-Riboud's The president's daughter: racial politics of the nineteenth century in the United States -- Body and soul of Harriet Hemings as a Hemings woman: gender representation in Barbara Chase-Riboud's The president's daughter -- Thomas (Hemings) Woodson in the Woodson family oral history: the bonds, pride, and identity of the Woodson family in Minnie Shumate Woodson's The sable curtain -- Epilogue: with love and respect for Sally Hemings and her descendents.…”
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