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Frances Gibson Satterfield Papers
Personal papers concerning research on Octavio Walton Le Vert (1810-1877) and publication of Satterfield's biographical book, Madame Le Vert: A Biography of Octavio Walton Le Vert (1987). Papers include correspondence with family descendants, archivists, researchers, publishers, and agents; photocopies of research materials including primary materials such as letters and diaries and secondary sources such as journal articles and book excerpts; and final manuscript. Subjects include Le Vert, Walton, and Reab families, Henry Clay, Marquis de LaFayette. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, Mount Vernon Ladies Association, and Le Vert's 19th century locales of Mobile, Ala., Pensacola, Fla., Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Mo., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and New Orleans, La.
The Sweetness of Life
American slaveholders used the wealth and leisure that slave labor provided to cultivate lives of gentility and refinement. This study provides a vivid portrait of slaveholders at home and at play as they built a tragic world of both 'sweetness' and slavery.
Madame Le Vert
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The Mind of the Master Class
Presenting America's slaveholders as men and women who were intelligent, honourable, and pious, this text asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself and enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves.
Hemispheric American Studies
This landmark collection brings together a range of exciting new comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. Scholars working in the fields of Latin American studies, Asian American studies, American studies, American literature, African Diaspora studies, and comparative literature address the urgent question of how scholars might reframe disciplinary boundaries within the broad area of what is generally called American studies. The essays take as their starting points such questions as: What happens to American literary, political, historical, and cultural studies if we recognize the interdependency of nation-state developments throughout all the Americas? What happens ...
American Mediterranean
How did slave-owning Southerners make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era? Guterl shows that they looked beyond their borders for answers and examines how the Southern elite connected—by travel, print culture, even the prospect of future conquest—with communities of New World slaveholders as they redefined their world.
Lumber River Scots and Their Descendants
John McLean (d.1846), a native of the island of Mull in Scotland, immigrated in 1792 from Glasgow to Wilmington, North Carolina. He purchased land in upper Robeson (now Hoke) County, North Carolina, and married Effie McLean soon after his arrival. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and elsewhere.
The Book Lover's Guide to Florida
"Here is the book lover's literary tour of Florida, an exhaustive survey of writers, books, and literary sites in every part of the state. The state is divided into ten areas and each one is described from a literary point of view. You will learn what authors lived in or wrote about a place, which books describe the place, what important movies were made there, even the literary trivia which the true Florida book lover will want to know. You can use the book as a travel guide to a new way to see the state, as an armchair guide to a better understanding of our literary heritage, or as a guide to what to read next time you head to a bookstore or library."--Publisher.
Waltons of Old Virginia and Sketches of Families in Central Virginia
Here is a comprehensive genealogy of the Waltons-a patriotic Virginia family, and allied families. K3513HB - $43.00
