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Black and Slave
Studies of the Curse of Ham, the belief that the Bible consigned blacks to everlasting servitude, confuse and conflate two separate origins stories (etiologies), one of black skin and the other of black slavery. This work unravels the etiologies and shows how the Curse, an etiology of black slavery, evolved from an earlier etiology explaining the existence of dark-skinned people. We see when, where, why, and how an original mythic tale of black origins morphed into a story of the origins of black slavery, and how, in turn, the second then supplanted the first as an explanation for black skin. In the process we see how formulations of the Curse changed over time, depending on the historical a...
History of the Gaddis/Geddes Family
History of the Gaddis (Geddes) families of Scotland, and their allied families of Monts, Ervin, Mitchell, and Strange (including variant spellings of each). Focus is on (but not limited to) the ancestors and descendants of author, Luman Lynn Gaddis (b. 1916) who married Mary Lou Haffa. His immigrant ancestor, James Archibald Geddes left Scotland in 1737, settled in Georgia, then moved to North Carolina in 1752. James died in 1812. In the 1600-1700's, some of their allied families also immigrated from England, France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and settled in North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Direct descendants of James A. Geddes migrated from North Carolina to Georgia, then into Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas. Later families also lived in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin, Washington D.C., and elsewhere in the United States.
The Road to Yorktown: Jefferson, Lafayette and the British Invasion of Virginia
In 1781, Virginia was invaded by formidable British forces that sought to subdue the Old Dominion. Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis, led thousands of enemy troops from Norfolk to Charlottesville, burning and pillaging. Many of Virginia's famed Patriots--including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and Nathanael Greene'struggled to defend the commonwealth. Only by concentrating a small band of troops under energetic French general the Marquis de Lafayette were American forces able to resist British operations. With strained support from Governor Jefferson's administration, Lafayette fought a campaign against the veteran soldiers of Lord Cornwallis that eventually led to the famed showdown at Yorktown. Historian John R. Maass traces this often overlooked Revolutionary struggle for Virginia and details each step on the road to Yorktown.
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Evil after Postmodernism
These six essays form a stimulating and lucid investigation of the meaning of evil in the light of postmodern thought, and of the cultural and social changes of the modern age. They consider subjects such as the war in Bosnia, AIDS, and the Holocaust.
