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Imperial Intimacies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 480

Imperial Intimacies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-24
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family to each other in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby's working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling...

Births, Deaths and Sponsors, 1717-1778
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

Births, Deaths and Sponsors, 1717-1778

Albemarle Parish was formed in 1738 and covered the southern portion of Surry County. It became part of Sussex County when that county was created from Surry County in 1753.

Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346
Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1888
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Report of the Directors of the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 576

Annual Report of the Directors of the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1838
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Together with a brief historical account of the Institution, a list of the pupils, donors, subscribers, and specimens of composition by the pupils--and other documents shewing the present state of the Institution.

Annual Report of the Directors of the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 668

Annual Report of the Directors of the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1835
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Together with a brief historical account of the Institution, a list of the pupils, donors, subscribers, and specimens of composition by the pupils--and other documents shewing the present state of the Institution.

Cornwall parish registers: Marriages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Cornwall parish registers: Marriages

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The Family History of a Lot of Pounds and Their Travels
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

The Family History of a Lot of Pounds and Their Travels

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

John Pownd (Pound) emigrated to America from his native England. His brother, Thomas Pond (Pound), immigrated to New England where he had a large posterity. John settled in Virginia and had a son named John Pound (1663-1717). This John married Elizabeth Joy and they became the parents of four children. Descendants live throughout the United States.

Journey in Learning and Teaching Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Journey in Learning and Teaching Science

The author tells her life story through journals and real life vignettes written in the first person. She describes her experiences while growing up in a segregated, mid-twentieth century African American community. Nurturing relationships and activities in her working class African American home, learning in segregated African American schools, and strong connections between her home, schools, and other community institutions are described. Family history and customs, community characteristics, and socio-economic and political circumstances and events that affected her early life and her upbringing are described. Included in her story are prominent people, places, events, and circumstances ...

Memorial Record of Alabama
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1162

Memorial Record of Alabama

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1893
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Signature of W.R. Painter in front of book.