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    A Mind to Stay : White Plantation, Black Homeland (2017)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press
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    ISBN: 9780674977884
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 33 halftones, 5 maps
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    DDC: 306.3/620976143
    Keywords: African Americans Land tenure ; Freedmen ; Land tenure ; Rural African Americans History
    Abstract: The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind to Stay offers a counterpoint to the narrative of the Great Migration. Sydney Nathans tells the rare story of people who moved from being enslaved to becoming owners of the very land they had worked in bondage, and who have held on to it from emancipation through the Civil Rights era. The story began in 1844, when North Carolina planter Paul Cameron bought 1,600 acres near Greensboro, Alabama, and sent out 114 enslaved people to cultivate cotton and enlarge his fortune. In the 1870s, he sold the plantation to emancipated black families who worked there. Drawing on thousands of letters from the planter and on interviews with descendants of those who bought the land, Nathans unravels how and why the planter’s former laborers purchased the site of their enslavement, kept its name as Cameron Place, and defended their homeland against challengers from the Jim Crow era to the present day. Through the prism of a single plantation and the destiny of black families that dwelt on it for over a century and a half, A Mind to Stay brings to life a vivid cast of characters and illuminates the changing meaning of land and landowning to successive generations of rural African Americans. Those who remained fought to make their lives fully free—for themselves, for their neighbors, and for those who might someday return
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    A mind to stay : white plantation, black homeland (2017)
    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
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    ISBN: 9780674972148
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 313 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten , 25 cm
    DDC: 306.3/620976143
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Plantagenbesitzer ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Freigelassener ; Grundeigentum ; Alabama
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    To free a family : the journey of Mary Walker (2012)
    Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard University Press
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    ISBN: 9780674062122 , 0674062124
    Language: English
    Pages: 330 S. , Ill., Kt. , 21 cm
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    DDC: 306.362092
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    Keywords: Flüchtling ; Sklave ; Frau ; Biografie ; Afroamerikanerin ; USA ; Walker, Mary, d. 1872. ; Walker, Mary, d. 1872--Family. ; Fugitive slaves--Northeastern States--Biography. ; Women slaves--North Carolina--Orange County--Biography. ; African American women--Massachusetts--Cambridge--Biography. ; Family reunions--Massachusetts--Cambridge--History--19th century. ; Cambridge (Mass.)--Biography. ; Orange County (N.C.)--Biography. ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie
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    Daniel Webster and Jacksonian Democracy (2019)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Johns Hopkins University Press
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    ISBN: 9781421430089
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (266 p.)
    Keywords: History of the Americas
    Abstract: Originally published in 1973. Professor Nathans illuminates the changes wrought by Jacksonian democracy on the career of Daniel Webster, a major political figure, and on the destiny of a major political party, the Whigs. Daniel Webster was a creative anachronism in the Jacksonian era. His career illustrates the fate of a generation of American politicians, reared to rule in a traditional world of defined social classes where gentlemen led and the masses followed. With extensive research into primary sources, Nathans interprets Webster as a leader in the older political tradition, hostile to permanent organized political parties and fearful of social strife that party conflict seemed to promote. He focuses on Webster's response to the rise of entrenchment of voter-oriented partisan politics. He analyzes Webster's struggle to survive, comprehend, and finally manipulate the new politics during his early opposition to Jackson; his roles in the Bank War and the nullification crisis; and the contest for leadership within the Whig Party from 1828 to 1844. Webster and the Whigs resisted and then belatedly attempted to answer the demands of the new egalitarian mass politics. When Webster failed as an apologist for government by the elite, he became a rhapsodist of American commercial enterprise. Seeking a new power base, he adapted his public style to the standards of simplicity and humility that the voters seemed to reward. Nathans shows, however, that Webster developed a realistic vision of the common bonds of Jacksonian society-of the basis for community-that would warrant anew the trust needed for the kind of leadership he offered. The meaning of Webster's career lies in these attempts to bridge the old and new politics, but his attempt was doomed to ironic and revealing failure. Nathans studies Webster's impact on the Whig party, showing that his influence was strong enough to thwart the ambitions of his rivals Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun but not strong enough to achieve his own aspirations. Nathans argues that Webster, through his efforts to increase his authority within the party, merely revealed his true weakness as a sectional leader. His successful blocking of Clay and Calhoun brought about a deadlock that significantly hastened the transfer of power to men more committed to strong party organization and more talented at voter manipulation. Webster's dilemma was the crisis of an entire political generation reared for a traditional world and forced to function in a modern one
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    A Mind to Stay : White Plantation, Black Homeland (2017)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674977884
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 p.) , 33 halftones, 5 maps
    Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
    Edition: 2018
    DDC: 306.36209761
    Abstract: The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind to Stay offers a counterpoint to the narrative of the Great Migration. Sydney Nathans tells the rare story of people who moved from being enslaved to becoming owners of the very land they had worked in bondage, and who have held on to it from emancipation through the Civil Rights era. The story began in 1844, when North Carolina planter Paul Cameron bought 1,600 acres near Greensboro, Alabama, and sent out 114 enslaved people to cultivate cotton and enlarge his fortune. In the 1870s, he sold the plantation to emancipated black families who worked there. Drawing on thousands of letters from the planter and on interviews with descendants of those who bought the land, Nathans unravels how and why the planter's former laborers purchased the site of their enslavement, kept its name as Cameron Place, and defended their homeland against challengers from the Jim Crow era to the present day. Through the prism of a single plantation and the destiny of black families that dwelt on it for over a century and a half, A Mind to Stay brings to life a vivid cast of characters and illuminates the changing meaning of land and landowning to successive generations of rural African Americans. Those who remained fought to make their lives fully free-for themselves, for their neighbors, and for those who might someday return.
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674977884
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674977884
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    To Free a Family : The Journey of Mary Walker (2012)
    Cumberland : Harvard University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780674063297
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (360 pages)
    DDC: 306.3/62092
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    To free a family : the journey of Mary Walker (2012)
    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
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    ISBN: 9780674063297
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource ( Seiten)
    DDC: 306.362092
    Keywords: Walker, Mary -1872 ; Walker, Mary -1872 Family ; Walker, Mary d. 1872 ; Walker, Mary d. 1872 Family ; Fugitive slaves Biography ; Northeastern States ; Women slaves Biography ; North Carolina ; Orange County ; African American women Biography ; Massachusetts ; Cambridge ; Family reunions History ; 19th century ; Massachusetts ; Cambridge ; Cambridge (Mass.) Biography ; Orange County (N.C.) Biography ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie
    Abstract: "What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price- remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family's fate. This story is anchored in two extraordinary collections of letters and diaries, that of her former North Carolina slaveholders and that of the northern family- Susan and Peter Lesley- who protected and employed her. The author's sensitive and penetrating narrative reveals Mary Walker's remarkable persistence, as well as the sustained collaboration of the black and white abolitionists who assisted her. Mary Walker and the Lesleys ventured half a dozen attempts at liberation, from ransom to ruse to rescue, until the end of the Civil War reunited Mary Walker with her son and daughter. Unlike her more famous counterparts- Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs, and Sojourner Truth- who wrote their own narratives and whose public defiance made them heroines, Mary Walker's efforts were protracted, wrenching, and private. Her odyssey was more representative of women refugees from bondage who labored secretly and behind the scenes to reclaim their families from the South. In recreating Mary Walker's journey, this book gives voice to their hidden epic of emancipation and to an untold story of the Civil War era."--Jacket
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
    DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674063297
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