Savannah River Plantations
Author: Georgia Writers' Project
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 526
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 526
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frank T. Wheeler
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738500300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Savannah is as Southern a place as has ever existed, and the Savannah River Plantations were the pinnacle of Southern heritage. Place names such as Richmond Oakgrove, Mulberry Grove, Drakies, Whitehall, and Colerain signified extensive land holdings, moss-draped oaks, and a culture not found anywhere else in the world.
Author: Georgia Writers' Project
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780871520791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mary Granger
Publisher: Oglethorpe Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9781891495021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leslie M. Harris
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2014-02-15
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 082034706X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city's founding to the early twentieth century. Written by leading historians of Savannah, Georgia, and the South, the volume includes a mix of longer thematic essays and shorter sidebars focusing on individual people, events, and places. The story of slavery in Savannah may seem to be an outlier, given how strongly most people associate slavery with rural plantations. But as Harris, Berry, and the other contributors point out, urban slavery was instrumental to the slave-based economy of North America. Ports like Savannah served as both an entry point for slaves and as a point of departure for goods produced by slave labor in the hinterlands. Moreover, Savannah's connection to slavery was not simply abstract. The system of slavery as experienced by African Americans and enforced by whites influenced the very shape of the city, including the building of its infrastructure, the legal system created to support it, and the economic life of the city and its rural surroundings. Slavery and Freedom in Savannah restores the urban African American population and the urban context of slavery, Civil War, and emancipation to its rightful place, and it deepens our understanding of the economic, social, and political fabric of the U.S. South. This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. This volume is published in cooperation with Savannah's Telfair Museum and draws upon its expertise and collections, including Telfair's Owens-Thomas House. As part of their ongoing efforts to document the lives and labors of the African Americans--enslaved and free--who built and worked at the house, this volume also explores the Owens, Thomas, and Telfair families and the ways in which their ownership of slaves was foundational to their wealth and worldview.
Author: Q. K. Philander Doesticks
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Published: 1863
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First-hand account of a slave sale, with vivid descriptions of buyers and slaves and of the workings of the sale.
Author: Ulrich B. Phillips
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2008-12-31
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1605204722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →American historian Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877 1934) made a career of studying slavery and the economics of the American South through the 19th century, and he was often criticized by his successors for his emphasis on painting slave masters and plantation owners in a positive light. But even Phillips detractors acknowledge the valuable work he did in bringing to light the priceless original source material from which we can better understand the period. In this two-volume work, first published in 1909, Phillips creates a portrait of the economic life of the South drawn from the details and minutiae found in legal contracts, personal letters and diaries, newspaper articles and editorials, advertisements, plantation records, court records, warrants and affidavits, public notices, city ordinances, and other hard-to-find documents. From the everyday realities of the usage of slave labor to the working conditions of poor whites to the daily routines and management of plantations, what emerges is a unique, on-the-ground perspective of the slaveholding era. Excepts from the table of contents of Volume II: Slaveholding hard to avoid The breaking in of fresh Africans Discipline and riddance of refractory slaves Negro labor slow and careless The chase and capture of a slave stealer Motives and talents of runaway slaves The barbarism of slavery in the case of light mulattoes Violence toward masters and overseers Public opinion regarding free negroes The negro problem as affected by immigrants Texan attractions advertised Association of white and negro labor Jealousy of white artisans toward negro competition
Author: Nancy Bostick De Saussure
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 140
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