The Nature Of Resistance In South Carolina S Works Progress Administration Ex Slave Narratives

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The Federal Writers? Project, part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration of the 1930s, collected interviews from over 3500 ex-slaves throughout the United States, including 365 former South Carolina slaves. These narratives are an invaluable resource to those interested in resistance by the last generation of South Carolinians held in bondage. This thesis tells us about the separate worlds inhabited by the Palmetto State's slaves and their owners, and describes, often in the slaves? own words, the resistance precipitated by the friction between these worlds.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Gerald J. Pierson
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Release : 2002
File : 160 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781581121599


Many Voices One Nation

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Many Voices, One Nation explores U.S. history through a powerful collection of artifacts and stories from America’s many peoples. Sixteen essays, composed by Smithsonian curators and affiliated scholars, offer distinctive insight into the peopling of the United States from the Europeans’ North American arrival in 1492 to the near present. Each chapter addresses a different historical era and considers what quintessentially American ideals like freedom, equality, and belonging have meant to Americans of all backgrounds, races, and national origins through the centuries. Much more than just an anthology, this book is a vibrant, cohesive presentation of everyday objects and ideas that connect us to our history and to one another. Using these objects and personal stories as a transmitter, the book invites readers to hear the voices of our many voices, and contemplate the complexity of our one nation. The stories and artifacts included in this volume bring our seemingly disparate pasts together to inspire possibilities for a shared future as we constantly reinterpret our e pluribus unum – our nation of many voices.

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Genre : History
Author : Margaret Salazar-Porzio
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Release : 2017-05-30
File : 457 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781944466114


Chained In Silence

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In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this vivid work of history, Talitha L. LeFlouria draws from a rich array of primary sources to piece together the stories of these women, recounting what they endured in Georgia's prison system and what their labor accomplished. LeFlouria argues that African American women's presence within the convict lease and chain-gang systems of Georgia helped to modernize the South by creating a new and dynamic set of skills for black women. At the same time, female inmates struggled to resist physical and sexual exploitation and to preserve their human dignity within a hostile climate of terror. This revealing history redefines the social context of black women's lives and labor in the New South and allows their stories to be told for the first time.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Talitha L. LeFlouria
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Release : 2015-04-27
File : 275 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781469622484


American Indian Quarterly

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Genre : Electronic journals
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Release : 2005
File : 420 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015066010813


America History And Life

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Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.

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Genre : Canada
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Release : 2003
File : 464 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015065432976


African Arts

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Genre : Art, African
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Release : 2001
File : 434 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015042446909


The American South

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"This two-volume work ... with its almost 8,900 abstracts and annotations of articles drawn from an international list of over 500 periodicals dealing with history and related disciplines published between 1974 and 1984 ... "Introduction, p. viii.

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Genre : History
Author : Jessica S. Brown
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Release : 1986
File : 554 Pages
ISBN-13 : UVA:X030198499


Resources In Education

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Genre : Education
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Release : 1984
File : 1016 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:30000004837179


The New World

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Author : Park Benjamin
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Release : 1841
File : 430 Pages
ISBN-13 : CHI:74714346


The Examiner

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Genre : English literature
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Release : 1845
File : 848 Pages
ISBN-13 : SRLF:E0000240010