Author: Don Joiner
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
Keywords: georgia, churches, antebellum
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 143570245X
ISBN-13: 9781435702455

A brief history and photographs of the oldest still standing churches in the State of Georgia. Many were used as hospitals, recruiting stations, stables or warehouses during the Civil War

Author: Amy S. Greenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: empire, american, antebellum, manhood, manifest
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2005-06-06
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521600804
ISBN-13: 9780521600804

The U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848) brought two centuries of dramatic territorial expansionism to a close, and apparently fulfilled America’s Manifest Destiny. Or did it? Even as politicians schemed to annex new lands in Latin America and the Pacific, other Americans aggressively pursued expansionism independently. In fact, an epidemic of unsanctioned attacks by private American mercenaries (known as filibusters) occurred between 1848 and 1860 throughout the Western Hemisphere. This book documents the potency of Manifest Destiny in the antebellum era, and analyzes imperial lust in the con

Author: David King Gleason
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
Keywords: georgia, homes, antebellum
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1987-10
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0807114324
ISBN-13: 9780807114322

Author: Ernest C. Hynds
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: georgia, county, clarke, athens, antebellum
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0820334464
ISBN-13: 9780820334462

Published in 1974, Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia is a chronicle of sixty years of change in Clarke County and the city of Athens. In 1801, Clarke County, newly created from Jackson County, was virtually all Georgia farmland, and Athens was a portion of land set aside for the establishment of a state university. In those first years of the century, the university began with thirty or forty students. They received instruction from Josiah Meigs—president and faculty of the university—in a twenty-by-twenty-foot log cabin. By 1846, the population of the county was over four thou

Author: Albert J. Raboteau
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: antebellum, south, institution, invisible, religion, slave
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-10-07
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0195174135
ISBN-13: 9780195174137

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years, and how he would write it differently today. Using a variety of first and second-hand sources-- some objective, some personal, all riveting-- Raboteau analyzes the transformation of the African religions into evangelical Christianity. He presents the narratives of the slaves themselves, as well as

Author: Thomas P. Slaughter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: violence, antebellum, north, racial, riot, dawn, christiana, bloody
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1994-10-20
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 019504634X
ISBN-13: 9780195046342

When four young men, slaves on Edward Gorsuch’s Maryland farm, escaped to rural Pennsylvania in 1849, the owner swore he’d bring them back. Two years later, Gorsuch lay dead outside the farmhouse in Christiana where he’d tracked them down, as his federal posse retreated pell-mell before the armed might of local blacks--and the impact of the most notorious act of resistance against the federal Fugitive Slave Law was about to be felt across a divided nation. Bloody Dawn vividly tells this dramatic story of escape, manhunt, riot, and the ensuing trial, detailing its import

Author: Ashworth Joh
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: volume, commerce, compromise, republic, antebellum, capitalism, politics, slavery
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 1996-01-26
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521479940
ISBN-13: 9780521479943

This is the first of a two-volume treatment of slavery, capitalism and politics in the forty years before the Civil War. It is both a novel reinterpretation, from a Marxist perspective, of American political and economic development and a synthesis of existing scholarship on the economics of slavery, the origins of abolitionism, the proslavery argument and the second party system. With its sequel, this book will locate the political struggles of the antebellum period in the international context of the dismantling of unfree labor systems. It will also show that the Civil War should be seen as