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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... seem that he treated them with cruelty , but he did not hesitate to buy , sell , and rent them . His neighbors respected and trusted him , so they made him their political representative . He was a farmer who observed soil , rain , cold ...
... seem that he treated them with cruelty , but he did not hesitate to buy , sell , and rent them . His neighbors respected and trusted him , so they made him their political representative . He was a farmer who observed soil , rain , cold ...
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... seems no prospect of such a desirable event — The South cant stop and the North wont . May God overrule it for the good of the country . " Throughout the war , Benners spent considerable time in Montgomery , the capital of Alabama . As ...
... seems no prospect of such a desirable event — The South cant stop and the North wont . May God overrule it for the good of the country . " Throughout the war , Benners spent considerable time in Montgomery , the capital of Alabama . As ...
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... seems to be will the Mobile Banks suspend — and in either case of doing so or refraining there can be but little doubt that much trouble is ahead . It is said they are able to pay all their notes in specie — but while specie is in so ...
... seems to be will the Mobile Banks suspend — and in either case of doing so or refraining there can be but little doubt that much trouble is ahead . It is said they are able to pay all their notes in specie — but while specie is in so ...
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... seems to be moving very rapidly in a Southerly direction . It is supposed to be the one that returns at intervals of 300 years tho this is rather conjecture than certainty .... A continuing problem for Benners was the poor health of his ...
... seems to be moving very rapidly in a Southerly direction . It is supposed to be the one that returns at intervals of 300 years tho this is rather conjecture than certainty .... A continuing problem for Benners was the poor health of his ...
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... seems imminent every mail comes freighted with exciting intelligence and mens minds are filled with gloomy apprehensions for the future — The forts at Charleston have been taken , fort Sumter is besieged by S. Carolina and the forts of ...
... seems imminent every mail comes freighted with exciting intelligence and mens minds are filled with gloomy apprehensions for the future — The forts at Charleston have been taken , fort Sumter is besieged by S. Carolina and the forts of ...
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The Reconstruction Years May 18651877 | 138 |
The Later Years 18781885 | 263 |
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