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Black Slaveowners
Drawing on the federal census, wills, mortgage bills of sale, tax returns, and newspaper advertisements, this authoritative study describes the nature of African-American slaveholding, its complexity, and its rationales. It reveals how some African-American slave masters had earned their freedom and how some free Blacks purchased slaves for their own use. The book provides a fresh perspective on slavery in the antebellum South and underscores the importance of African Americans in the history of American slavery. The book also paints a picture of the complex social dynamics between free and enslaved Blacks, and between Black and white slaveowners. It illuminates the motivations behind Africa...
My Mother's Family
Elizabeth Hemingway was born 14 March 1895 in Fort Valley, Georgia. Her parents were Wilson Hemingway (1863-1958) and Elizabeth A. Giles (1859-1933). Her grandparents were Collins Hemingway (1813-1864), Marie Sofge (1836-1879), John Mason Giles (1818-1866) and Harriet N. Jenkins (1825-1911). Elizabeth married Luther Lafayette Clyburn 30 December 1914 in Georgetown, Mississippi. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, England and Germany.
Marriages of Bute and Warren Counties, North Carolina 1764-1868
Bute County was discontinued in 1779. Franklin and Warren counties were formed from the area of Bute County.
The History of the American Indians
James Adair was an Englishman who lived and traded among the southeastern Indians for more than 30 years, from 1735 to 1768. Adair's written work, first published in England in 1775, is considered one of the finest histories of the Native Americans.
Grahams of Rowan & Iredell Counties, North Carolina
The book has a lot of historical content along with some poetry and humor. The main part is falily history including some of the sescenants of James Gram born in Scotland in 1670 along with documentation on the descendants
The Papers of Andrew Johnson
The correspondence in this volume is related to Johnson's presidency during the Reconstruction era.
Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton
This detailed biography of a man who flourished in two very different worlds opens a new doorway into the societies of prerevolutionary France and postrevolutionary Georgia. Christophe Poulain DuBignon (1739-1825) was the son of an impoverished Bréton aristocrat. Breaking social convention to engage in trade, he began his long career first as a cabin boy in the navy of the French India Company and later as a sea captain and privateer. After retiring from the sea, DuBignon lived in France as a "bourgeois noble" with income from land, moneylending, and manufacturing. Uprooted by the French Revolution, DuBignon fled to Georgia late in 1790, settling among other refugees from France and the Car...
