Generations Of Somerset Place
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Generations Of Somerset Place
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Author : Dorothy Spruill Redford
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2012-09-18
Generations Of Somerset Place written by Dorothy Spruill Redford and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-18 with History categories.
When the institution of slavery ended in 1865, Somerset Place was the third largest plantation in North Carolina. Located in the rural northeastern part of the state, Somerset was cumulatively home to more than 800 enslaved blacks and four generations of a planter family. During the 80 years that Somerset was an active plantation, hundreds of acres were farmed for rice, corn, oats, wheat, peas, beans, and flax. Today, Somerset Place is preserved as a state historic site offering a realistic view of what it was like for the slaves and freemen who once lived and worked on the plantation, once one of the Upper South's most prosperous enterprises.
Somerset Homecoming
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Author : Dorothy Spruill Redford
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
Somerset Homecoming written by Dorothy Spruill Redford and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with Social Science categories.
In 1860, Somerset Place was one of the most successful plantations in North Carolina--and its owner one of the largest slaveholders in the state. More than 300 slaves worked the plantation's fields at the height of its prosperity; but nearly 125 years later, the only remembrance of their lives at Somerset, now a state historic site, was a lonely wooden sign marked "Site of Slave Quarters." Somerset Homecoming, first published in 1989, is the story of one woman's unflagging efforts to recover the history of her ancestors, slaves who had lived and worked at Somerset Place. Traveling down winding southern roads, through county courthouses and state archives, and onto the front porches of people willing to share tales handed down through generations, Dorothy Spruill Redford spent ten years tracing the lives of Somerset's slaves and their descendants. Her endeavors culminated in the joyous, nationally publicized homecoming she organized that brought together more than 2,000 descendants of the plantation's slaves and owners and marked the beginning of a campaign to turn Somerset Place into a remarkable resource for learning about the history of both African Americans and whites in the region.
Somerset Place And Its Restoration
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Author : William S. Tarlton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
Somerset Place And Its Restoration written by William S. Tarlton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Historic buildings categories.
The Place Names Of Somerset
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Author : James S. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Release Date : 2019-08-15
The Place Names Of Somerset written by James S. Hill and has been published by Alpha Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-15 with History categories.
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Generations
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Author : John Egerton
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 1983
Generations written by John Egerton and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Winner of the 1984 Lillian Smith Award The saga of the Ledfords of Lancaster, Kentucky, Generations transcends family biography to become a social history of our national experience, a metaphor of America. This twentieth anniversary edition brings the Ledfords' remarkable story up to date.
The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
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Author : Jean Fagan Yellin
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2015-12-01
The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers written by Jean Fagan Yellin and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with Social Science categories.
Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life. Her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, holds a central place in the canon of American literature as the most important slave narrative by an African American woman. Born in Edenton, North Carolina, Jacobs escaped from her owner in her mid-twenties and hid in the cramped attic crawlspace of her grandmother's house for seven years before making her way north as a fugitive slave. In Rochester, New York, she became an active abolitionist, working with all of the major abolitionists, feminists, and literary figures of her day, including Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Amy Post, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, William C. Nell, Charlotte Forten Grimke, and Nathan Parker Willis. Jean Fagan Yellin has devoted much of her professional life to illuminating the remarkable life of Harriet Jacobs. Over three decades of painstaking research, Yellin has discovered more than 900 primary source documents, approximately 300 of which are now collected in two volumes. These letters and papers written by, for, and about Jacobs and her activist brother and daughter provide for the thousands of readers of Incidents--from scholars to schoolchildren--access to the rich historical context of Jacobs's struggles against slavery, racism, and sexism beyond what she reveals in her pseudonymous narrative. Accompanied by a CD containing a searchable PDF file of the entire contents, this collection is a crucial launching point for future scholarship on Jacobs's life and times.
Literary Trails Of Eastern North Carolina
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Author : Georgann Eubanks
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2013-04-01
Literary Trails Of Eastern North Carolina written by Georgann Eubanks and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-01 with Travel categories.
This concluding volume of the Literary Trails of North Carolina trilogy takes readers into an ancient land of pale sand, dense forests, and expansive bays, through towns older than our country and rich in cultural traditions. Here, writers reveal lives long tied to the land and regularly troubled by storms and tell tales of hardship, hard work, and freedom. Eighteen tours lead readers from Raleigh to the Dismal Swamp, the Outer Banks, and across the Sandhills as they explore the region's connections to over 250 writers of fiction, poetry, plays, and creative nonfiction. Along the way, Georgann Eubanks brings to life the state's rich literary heritage as she explores these writers' connection to place and reveals the region's vibrant local culture. Excerpts invite readers into the authors' worlds, and web links offer resources for further exploration. Featured authors include A. R. Ammons, Gerald Barrax, Charles Chesnutt, Clyde Edgerton, Philip Gerard, Kaye Gibbons, Harriet Jacobs, Jill McCorkle, Michael Parker, and Bland Simpson. Literary Trails of North Carolina is a project of the North Carolina Arts Council.
Rays Of Genius Collected To Enlighten The Rising Generation
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Author : Thomas Tomkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1806
Rays Of Genius Collected To Enlighten The Rising Generation written by Thomas Tomkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1806 with English literature categories.
Plymouth And Washington County
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Author : Willie Drye
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2014-04-21
Plymouth And Washington County written by Willie Drye and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-21 with Photography categories.
Plymouth and Washington County, North Carolina, are entwined with the beginnings of American history. The area surrounding the Albemarle Sound was the birthplace of North Carolina. Plymouth began as a 17th-century trading post on the Roanoke River, which empties into the sound. When the nearby Dismal Swamp Canal opened in 1805, Plymouth was linked to the deepwater harbor of Norfolk, Virginia, and quickly grew into one of North Carolina’s busiest ports. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, young men from Washington County enlisted in both the Union and Confederate armies, and Plymouth was the scene of fierce fighting throughout the conflict. Today, Plymouth and Washington County attract visitors eager to enjoy boating, bass fishing, and bird-watching in an unspoiled coastal wilderness; visit Civil War sites; or absorb the fascinating maritime history.
Somerset Homecoming
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Author : Dorothy Spruill Redford
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-03-01
Somerset Homecoming written by Dorothy Spruill Redford and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-01 with Social Science categories.
The story of one woman's unflagging efforts to recover the history of her ancestors, slaves who had lived and worked at Somerset Place plantation.