Plantation Life On The Mississippi

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Plantation Life On The Mississippi

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Author : W. E. Clement
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 2000-04-30

Plantation Life On The Mississippi written by W. E. Clement and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-30 with History categories.

One day in 1852, The Princess, one of the finest steamboats afloat on the Mississippi River one hundred years ago was rounding the bend a Duncan�s Point about ten miles below Baton Rouge, when the boilers exploded with a frightful loss of life. The disaster occurred in front of the Conrad cottage where a descendant, the late G. Mather Conrad, of New Orleans, was born and lived as a youth. Lyle Saxon in his Old Louisiana tells of having known an old gentleman who remembered the awful holocaust. Then a little boy, this old gentleman was awaiting the return of his mother and father from New Orleans. He saw the Princess come around the bend and then turn in toward the bank. As he watched he heard a terrific explosion and saw the steamboat burst into flames. Mr. F. D. Conrad, plantation owner of that generation, so Saxon tells us, sent his slaves out in skiffs to rescue the men and women who crew struggling in the water. Many of them were frightfully scalded by steam from the broken boilers. Sheets were spread on the ground under the oak trees on the lawn and barrels of flour were broken open and the contents poured on the sheets. As the scalded people were pulled from the river, they were stripped and rolled in the flour, where they writhed and shrieked in agony. The little boy went from one sufferer to another seeking his father and mother. They were not there. They returned from New Orleans on a later boat, but he never forgot the anguish of his search.

Confederate Greenbacks

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Author : Julia Tigner Noland Noland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940

Confederate Greenbacks written by Julia Tigner Noland Noland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940 with Mississippi categories.

Stories of Mrs. Noland's girlhood at "Homestead," near Woodville.

Black Life On The Mississippi

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Author : Thomas C. Buchanan
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2006-03-08

Black Life On The Mississippi written by Thomas C. Buchanan 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 2006-03-08 with History categories.

All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South. Offering a counternarrative to Twain's well-known tale from the perspective of the pilothouse, Thomas C. Buchanan paints a more complete picture of the Mississippi, documenting the rich variety of experiences among slaves and free blacks who lived and worked on the lower decks and along the river during slavery, through the Civil War, and into emancipation. Buchanan explores the creative efforts of steamboat workers to link riverside African American communities in the North and South. The networks African Americans created allowed them to keep in touch with family members, help slaves escape, transfer stolen goods, and provide forms of income that were important to the survival of their communities. The author also details the struggles that took place within the steamboat work culture. Although the realities of white supremacy were still potent on the river, Buchanan shows how slaves, free blacks, and postemancipation freedpeople fought for better wages and treatment. By exploring the complex relationship between slavery and freedom, Buchanan sheds new light on the ways African Americans resisted slavery and developed a vibrant culture and economy up and down America's greatest river.

Plantation Life In Mississippi Before The War

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Author : Dunbar Rowland
language : en
Publisher:
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Plantation Life In Mississippi Before The War written by Dunbar Rowland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Mississippi categories.

Plantation Life On The Mississippi By William Edwards Clement In Collaboration With Stuart Omer Landry

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Author : William Edwards Clement
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952

Plantation Life On The Mississippi By William Edwards Clement In Collaboration With Stuart Omer Landry written by William Edwards Clement and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with categories.

Down On The Old Plantation

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Author : Samuel Martha Scogin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1908

Down On The Old Plantation written by Samuel Martha Scogin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1908 with Mississippi categories.

Life On The Mississippi

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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2009-11-05

Life On The Mississippi written by Mark Twain and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read.

A Southern Planter

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Author : Susan Dabney Smedes
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2012-06-07

A Southern Planter written by Susan Dabney Smedes and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-07 with History categories.

Published in 1887, these are the memories of Susan Dabney Smedes of her father as a slave owner and how well he treated his slaves, along with her memories of life on a southern plantation. Includes Mississippi, holiday times on the plantation, refugees, slaves and war times.

Mississippi In Africa

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Author : Alan Huffman
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2011-01-03

Mississippi In Africa written by Alan Huffman and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-03 with History categories.

When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross's heirs contested the will for more than a decade, prompting a deadly revolt in which a group of slaves burned Ross's mansion to the ground. But the will was ultimately upheld. The slaves then emigrated to their new home, where they battled the local tribes and built vast plantations with Greek Revival-style mansions in a region the Americo-Africans renamed “Mississippi in Africa.” In the late twentieth century, the seeds of resentment sown over a century of cultural conflict between the colonists and tribal people exploded, begetting a civil war that rages in Liberia to this day. Tracking down Prospect Hill's living descendants, deciphering a history ruled by rumor, and delivering the complete chronicle in riveting prose, journalist Alan Huffman has rescued a lost chapter of American history whose aftermath is far from over.

Life On The Mississippi

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Author : Samuel Langhorne Clemens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903

Life On The Mississippi written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with Mississippi River categories.