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Lynching in Virginia
Racial Terror and Its Legacy
Av W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Gianluca De Fazio
Häftad, 2024
402 kr
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Uncovering the history and examining the legacy of lynching in the state of VirginiaAlthough not as associated with lynching as other southern states, Virginia has a tragically extensive history with these horrific crimes. This important volume examines the more than one hundred people who were …
What Reconstruction Meant
Historical Memory in the American South
Inbunden, 2007
548 kr
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A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this challenging new book, Bruce Baker looks at a related, and equally important, aspect of southern memory that has been treated by historians only in …
What Reconstruction Meant
Historical Memory in the American South
Häftad, 2009
284 kr
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A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this challenging book Bruce E. Baker looks at a related, and equally important, aspect of southern memory that has been treated by historians only in passing: …
Facing Freedom
An African American Community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow
Häftad, 2019
387 kr
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The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region. In Facing Freedom, Daniel Thorp relates the complex experience of an African American community in southern Appalachia as it negotiated …
Princess of Albemarle
Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin De Siècle
Inbunden, 2022
355 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, Amélie Rives was one of the most famous women in America. A member of Virginia’s First Families—and granddaughter of a U.S. senator, she belonged to the southern aristocracy. Considered one of the great beauties of her time, Rives leveraged both her connections …
Driven to the Field
Sharecropping and Southern Literature
Inbunden, 2023
1249 kr
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Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping—crucial to understanding life in the southern United States—from Emancipation to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of literature in their historical context, David A. Davis demonstrates how sharecropping emerged, endured for …
Driven to the Field
Sharecropping and Southern Literature
Häftad, 2023
465 kr
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Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping—crucial to understanding life in the southern United States—from Emancipation to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of literature in their historical context, David A. Davis demonstrates how sharecropping emerged, endured for …
After Emancipation
Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia
Av Kirt von Daacke, Andrea Douglas
Häftad, 2024
349 kr
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Assessing a university’s legacy in the age of segregationThis anthology reckons with the University of Virginia’s post-emancipation history of racial exploitation. Its fifteen essays highlight the many forms of marginalization and domination at Virginia’s once all-white flagship university to …
Lynching in Virginia
Racial Terror and Its Legacy
Av W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Gianluca De Fazio
Inbunden, 2024
1353 kr
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Uncovering the history and examining the legacy of lynching in the state of VirginiaAlthough not as associated with lynching as other southern states, Virginia has a tragically extensive history with these horrific crimes. This important volume examines the more than one hundred people who were …
Justice for Ourselves
Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom After Slavery
Av John G. Deal, Marianne E. Julienne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
413 kr
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A new look at the Black Virginians who defined and realized their freedom after the collapse of slavery“Verily, the work does not end with the abolition of slavery,” wrote Frederick Douglass in 1862, “but only begins.” The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment altered a legal …
Race Man
The Rise and Fall of the "Fighting Editor," John Mitchell Jr.
Häftad, 2024
339 kr
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Although he has largely receded from the public consciousness, John Mitchell Jr., the editor and publisher of the Richmond Planet, was well known to many black, and not a few white, Americans in his day. A contemporary of Booker T. Washington, Mitchell contrasted sharply with Washington in …
Seeking Justice
The Extraordinary Freedom Suits of an Enslaved Virginia Family
Inbunden, 2025
1411 kr
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The amazing story of one illegally enslaved Virginia family's dauntless legal appeal for freedomBefore the Civil War brought emancipation to the South, some enslaved people managed to use the legal system - the same one that had concocted and long perpetuated their bondage - to sue for their …
Seeking Justice
The Extraordinary Freedom Suits of an Enslaved Virginia Family
Häftad, 2025
387 kr
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The amazing story of one illegally enslaved Virginia family's dauntless legal appeal for freedom Before the Civil War brought emancipation to the South, some enslaved people managed to use the legal system - the same one that had concocted and long perpetuated their bondage - to sue for their …
Bale After Bale
How Cotton Defined the Twentieth-Century South
Inbunden, 2026
1576 kr
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From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American cultureThere are few places on earth as thoroughly identified with a crop as the American South is with cotton. Burgundy is known for wine, and Java has coffee. In the South, for most of its history, cotton was king. Through much of the …
Bale After Bale
How Cotton Defined the Twentieth-Century South
Häftad, 2026
419 kr
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From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American cultureThere are few places on earth as thoroughly identified with a crop as the American South is with cotton. Burgundy is known for wine, and Java has coffee. In the South, for most of its history, cotton was king. Through much of the …
Freedom in the Age of Slavery
A History of Free People of Color in Virginia
Inbunden, 2026
1411 kr
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An authoritative study of the free people of color in the largest state of the Old SouthVirginia was the state with the most enslaved people prior to the Civil War. It was also at one time the state with the most resident free people of color—free from the legal disabilities specifically associated …
Freedom in the Age of Slavery
A History of Free People of Color in Virginia
Häftad, 2026
375 kr
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An authoritative study of the free people of color in the largest state of the Old South.Virginia was the state with the most enslaved people prior to the Civil War. It was also at one time the state with the most resident free people of color—free from the legal disabilities specifically …
In the True Blue's Wake
Slavery and Freedom Among the Families of Smithfield Plantation
Häftad, 2026
329 kr
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In 1759, William Preston purchased sixteen enslaved Africans brought to America aboard the True Blue, an English slave ship. Over the next century, the Preston family enslaved more than two hundred individuals and used their labor to establish and operate Smithfield Plantation in Blacksburg, …
Black, White, and Olive Drab
Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the Civil Rights Movement
Inbunden, 2006
601 kr
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One of the first Army bases to implement on a large scale President Truman's call for racial integration of the armed forces, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, quickly took its place in the Defense Department's official history of the process. What reporters, and later on, historians, overlooked was …
From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850-1915
Inbunden, 2008
674 kr
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In ""From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry"", Stephen A. West revises understandings of the American South by offering a new perspective on two iconic figures in the region's social landscape. ""Yeoman,"" a term of praise for the small landowning farmer, was commonly used during …
Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia
Baptist Community and Conflict, 1740-1840
Inbunden, 2008
626 kr
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Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia provides a new interpretation of the rise of evangelical Christianity in the early American South by reconstructing the complex, biracial history of the Baptist movement in southeastern Virginia. This region and its religious history became a subject …
Radical Reform
Interracial Politics in Post-Emancipation North Carolina
Inbunden, 2010
674 kr
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Radical Reform describes a remarkable chapter in the American pro-democracy movement. It portrays the largely unknown leaders of the interracial Republican Party who struggled for political, civil, and labor rights in North Carolina after the Civil War. In so doing, they paved the way for the …
Deed So Accursed
Lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881–1940
Inbunden, 2013
560 kr
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From the end of Reconstruction to the onset of the civil rights era, lynching was prevalent in developing and frontier regions that had a dynamic and fluid African American population. Focusing on Mississippi and South Carolina because of the high proportion of African Americans in each state …
Risen Phoenix
Black Politics in the Post–Civil War South
Av Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego
Inbunden, 2016
674 kr
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The Risen Phoenix charts the changing landscape of black politics and political culture in the postwar South by focusing on the careers of six black congressmen who served between the Civil War and the turn of the nineteenth century: John Mercer Langston of Virginia, James Thomas Rapier of Alabama, …
Uplift Generation
Cooperation Across the Color Line in Early Twentieth-Century Virginia
Inbunden, 2017
616 kr
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Offering a fresh look at interracial cooperation in the formative years of Jim Crow, The Uplift Generation examines how segregation was molded, not by Virginia’s white political power structure alone but rather through the work of a generation of Virginian reformers across the color line who from …
Capital and Convict
Race, Region, and Punishment in Post-Civil War America
Inbunden, 2017
616 kr
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Both in the popular imagination and in academic discourse, North and South are presented as fundamentally divergent penal systems in the aftermath of the Civil War, a difference mapped onto larger perceived cultural disparities between the two regions. The South’s post Civil War embrace of chain …
Facing Freedom
An African American Community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow
Inbunden, 2017
560 kr
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The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region. In Facing Freedom, Daniel Thorp relates the complex experience of an African American community in southern Appalachia as it negotiated …
In the True Blue’s Wake
Slavery and Freedom Among the Families of Smithfield Plantation
Inbunden, 2022
384 kr
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In 1759, William Preston purchased sixteen enslaved Africans brought to America aboard the True Blue, an English slave ship. Over the next century, the Preston family enslaved more than two hundred individuals and used their labor to establish and operate Smithfield Plantation in Blacksburg, …
After Emancipation
Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia
Av Kirt von Daacke, Andrea Douglas
Inbunden, 2024
1046 kr
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Assessing a university’s legacy in the age of segregationThis anthology reckons with the University of Virginia’s post-emancipation history of racial exploitation. Its fifteen essays highlight the many forms of marginalization and domination at Virginia’s once all-white flagship university to …
