Описание: On September 9, 1739, twenty Kongolese slaves armed themselves by breaking into a storehouse near the Stono River south of Charleston, South Carolina. They killed twenty-three white colonists, joined forces with other slaves, and marched toward Spanish Florida. The Stono Rebellion serves as a touchstone for Calling Out Liberty, an exploration of human rights in early America.
Описание: In this challenging 1990 study, Donna Landry shows how an understanding of the remarkable but neglected laboring-class women poets in the eighteenth century provokes a reassessment of our ideas concerning the literature of the period. The innovative poetic achievements of these plebeian women writers constitute an exciting literary discovery.
Описание: The eighteen volumes of Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America (reproduced in sixteen discrete books) contain the diaries and letters of Lutheran pastors who ministered to the Salzburgers, German-speaking Protestant refugees, in Georgia. Samuel Urlsperger collected and edited these writings into the Urlsperger Reports printed at Orphanage Press, Halle, Germany, from 1735 to 1760. The original German publication, Ausführliche Nachricht von den saltzburgischen Emigranten, is available through the Internet Archive, but this English-language translation has not been available online until now.
In the mid-eighteenth century, Samuel Urlsperger of the Lutheran Ministry in Augsburg edited the German edition of the Detailed Reports after having distributed the many reports to the faithful in Germany. He made major deletions for both diplomatic and economic reasons and suppressed proper names. His son, Johann August Urlsperger, succeeded him. He took even greater liberties with the text, deleting large sections and rearranging others. The English version, translated and edited by George Fenwick Jones, a German scholar, restores the deleted sections and the proper names and provides the original sequencing of the material.
The Detailed Reports offer insight into daily life in colonial Georgia and provide precious details and vignettes on subjects that receive less attention in other sources, notably African Americans, women, silk production, and the cost of goods in a frontier colony. The Reports are an underutilized resource for the study of this period and an unparalleled source for the evolution of a rural community during the early years of the colony.
The term guardian accounts can be misleading. These records span a greater range of human activity than one might envision. The fact that a child has lost his father creates records which reveal older siblings, widows and their new husbands, uncles, aunts, division of land, questions of guardian abuse, spouses of the older children -- all the stuff that genealogy is made of These records are filled with genealogical information covering a period in which there is a scarcity of data -- from the 1750s to the 1850s. Information on relationships between parties is often revealed (stated or implied). Ages are evident, sometimes exact and other times approximate. Approximate dates of death can also be inferred. Clues to relative wealth are interspersed throughout. Names of court officials in the proceedings have been omitted for purposes of economy. Records are grouped by the decedent's surname. Mary Marshall Brewer has gleaned a myriad of records, condensing and re-arranging them in a most useable package. An index to full-names and places adds to the value of this work.