Disunion, War, Defeat, and Recovery in Alabama: The Journal of Augustus Benners, 1850-1885Mercer University Press, 2007 - 357 halaman ""Disunion, War, Defeat, and Recovery in Alabama offers a rare look into the life of a Civil War character many would say they love to hate: the plantation owner. A slave-owning cotton grower, Augustus Benners recorded decades of his mostly gritty and unglamorous plantation life ... Deft editing, annotation, and explanatory notes by Glenn and Virginia Linden complement and elucidate Benners's historical accounts"--From publisher's description. |
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... Negroes were working slowly and it seemed impossible to produce a good crop . Also his favorite horse , Sunbeam , had been illegally impressed . Times had changed and the future looked very uncertain . Over the next few years ...
... Negroes were working slowly and it seemed impossible to produce a good crop . Also his favorite horse , Sunbeam , had been illegally impressed . Times had changed and the future looked very uncertain . Over the next few years ...
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... Negroes , which bothered him . In an effort to help the Tilden - Hendricks ticket , he made a speech in their behalf on 16 October . On 7 November 1876 , the election was held . Early results favored Tilden , but soon news came that his ...
... Negroes , which bothered him . In an effort to help the Tilden - Hendricks ticket , he made a speech in their behalf on 16 October . On 7 November 1876 , the election was held . Early results favored Tilden , but soon news came that his ...
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... negroes being furnished with spirits — my argument was by many considered a successful refutation of his positions on Wednesday we spoke to a small company at Oak Grove — and here Mr Huckabee dwelt prominently on the fact that he was a ...
... negroes being furnished with spirits — my argument was by many considered a successful refutation of his positions on Wednesday we spoke to a small company at Oak Grove — and here Mr Huckabee dwelt prominently on the fact that he was a ...
Halaman 39
... negroes were and there delivered them to said Bray as agent for Mayfield — He told Beckham to keep them for Mayfield till he called for them . Sent the bill of sale at Brays request to W. P. Webb to have registered and returned to him ...
... negroes were and there delivered them to said Bray as agent for Mayfield — He told Beckham to keep them for Mayfield till he called for them . Sent the bill of sale at Brays request to W. P. Webb to have registered and returned to him ...
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... negroes & Ed and Ned drove the wagons , one the six mule the other the two mule wagon and Virgil drove the carriage — I rode in my buggy — The summer had been oppressively hot — and it still continued so . We got off about 7 o clock ...
... negroes & Ed and Ned drove the wagons , one the six mule the other the two mule wagon and Virgil drove the carriage — I rode in my buggy — The summer had been oppressively hot — and it still continued so . We got off about 7 o clock ...
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The Reconstruction Years May 18651877 | 138 |
The Later Years 18781885 | 263 |
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