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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"postbellum"”.
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The Writing of Nation: Faulkner and the Postbellum South
… conversation in writers who are active in the postbellum period, and then I explore the ways in which Faulkner draws on this conversation to present his own complicated and changing depiction of nation. Central to this discussion is recognition of an anxiety about the role of the South in the …
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Law, Labor, and Land in the Postbellum Cotton South: The Peonage Cases in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, 1865--1940
In 1898 the U.S. Department of Justice prosecuted William Eberhart for violating the Peonage Statute of 1867. This was the first federal case of peonage (debt labor) in the South. During the next ten years, the federal government investigated and prosecuted hundreds of employers across the South …
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Understanding Strawberry Plains Through Landscape Archaeology
… of Woodland, Chickasaw, antebellum, and postbellum components. The focus of this thesis was placed on the postbellum time period. The information presented here is intended to give a comprehensive view into the lives of the sharecroppers that resided and worked on Strawberry Plains during …
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Citizen or Laborer? The Social Purposes of Black Schooling in Reconstruction Mississippi, 1862--1875
… the educational history of Mississippi's postbellum black masses between 1862--1875; the period commonly referred to as the Reconstruction era. It has a twofold purpose. First and foremost it highlights Mississippi blacks' educational progression within the state's turbulent postbellum …
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The Rise and Fall of Organised Political Freethought, 1870-1880
… upon the political and intellectual life of postbellum America.
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Honor, Supremacy, and the Lynching of Henry Smith
… light on the shadowed history of lynching in the postbellum South, keeping in mind the unique elements of East Texas’ economic, political, and social climates before, during, and after Henry Smith’s murder. The goal is to situate the specific events surrounding Henry Smith’s execution within the …
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"""I thought of you in her place"": representations of black womanhood in American literary realism, 1868-1900"
My dissertation explores postbellum texts that put African American womanhood at the heart of their narratives, both as an abstract symbol of race and gender and as embodied through female characters. I focus on realist texts that are specifically concerned with the representation of female …
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Remove Him to the Poorhouse: Poor-Relief in Montgomery County, VA, 1830-1880
… benign than national attitudes well into the postbellum era; poor relief in Montgomery County was available to black residents, both before and after the Civil War; and Montgomery County continued to offer outdoor relief well into the postbellum era. An analysis of why poor relief differed to …
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POPULAR GEOGRAPHY WRITING IN AMERICA, 1783–1888
… paradigm that understands antebellum and postbellum periods in United States history as fundamentally discontinuous. The study suggests that the published geographies of Jedidiah Morse, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Arnold Guyot, William Gilpin, George Perkins Marsh, Harriet …
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Governing The Peripheries: The Social Reconstruction Of The South And West After The American Civil War
… at the nation’s peripheries. In both the postbellum South and West, U.S. officials sought to govern indigenous peoples and the formerly enslaved by reorganizing their labor, land, and social relations, thereby undermining struggles for social and political autonomy. Yet this project faced …
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"Blessed be the critics of newspapers": journalistic criticism of journalism 1865-1930
… trends journalists witnessed. During the postbellum era, it mirrored the belief in the American Dream of wealth, well-being, and democracy. In the 1890s, criticism focused on the downsides of commercialism, expressing the fears people felt toward the new corporate giants. During the …
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The Making of an American Imperialist: Major Edward Austin Burke, Reconstruction New Orleans and the Road to Central America
… of Burke’s involvement in Central America in postbellum New Orleans. It demonstrates the importance of participation in Reconstruction and New South politics to the long political career of one of the most prominent U.S. imperialists in Central America in the late nineteenth century.</p>
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Henry Louis Rey, Spiritualism, and Creoles of Color in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
… both the Confederate and Union Native Guards. In postbellum years, he served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representative and in appointed city offices. Rey became heavily involved with spiritualism in the 1850s and established séance circles in New Orleans during the early 1870s. The …
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Does the Case of Mcneill v. Masterson Support the Abandonment Hypothesis of the Former Slave Quarters at the Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site in Brazoria County, Texas?
… Jordan plantation has connected the proposed postbellum, sudden departure of the formerly enslaved people from their residence in the former slave quarters with legal actions between the descendants of Levi Jordan. This thesis has revisited the many (but probably not all) legal records of the …
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From Servitude to Freedom: Gender, Labor, and Domestic Relations
… bodies, relationships, and children in the postbellum era as they were legally free from slavery's constraints. By building upon both Richard Follett's and John Rodrigue's studies of Louisiana's sugar parishes, this thesis places African American women's experiences at the forefront of the …
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Obscure, unclassed and undefinable: social immobility for mixed races in the nineteenth century presented in Jude the Obscure and Of One Blood
… on class-based societies through looking at postbellum United States and Victorian England through a transatlantic lens. I prove how the classification system produces a group of “unclassed” peoples based on a racial and intellectual status, by looking at Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and …
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Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century
… as a recurring image across the antebellum and postbellum periods. “Insurrection in Black” argues that these images of rebellious violence functioned speculatively, imagining for readers new identities, social movements, and communities. The dissertation explores black rebellion’s cultural work …
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Propheteering : a cultural history of prediction in the Gilded Age
… economic, and cultural practice. As a postbellum crisis of certainty destabilized ways of thinking about the future-in science, social science, and religion-predictions, whether accurate or not, offered illusions of control over one's future to citizens of a rapidly modernizing America. …
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