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The Free State of Winston"
University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository Doctoral Dissertations Student Scholarship Spring 2019 Rebel Rebels: Race, Resistance, and Remembrance in "The Free State of Winston" Susan Neelly Deily-Swearingen University of New Hampshire, Durham Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation Recommended Citation Deily-Swearingen, Susan Neelly, "Rebel Rebels: Race, Resistance, and Remembrance in "The Free State of Winston"" (2019). Doctoral Dissertations. 2444. https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/2444 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. REBEL REBELS: RACE, RESISTANCE, AND REMEMBRANCE IN THE FREE STATE OF WINSTON BY SUSAN NEELLY DEILY-SWEARINGEN B.A., Brandeis University M.A., Brown University M.A., University of New Hampshire DISSERTATION Submitted to the University of New Hampshire In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History May 2019 This dissertation has been examined and approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Ph.D. in History by: Dissertation Director, J. William Harris, Professor of History Jason Sokol, Professor of History Cynthia Van Zandt, Associate Professor of History and History Graduate Program Director Gregory McMahon, Professor of Classics Victoria E. Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, Texas State University, San Marcos On April 18, 2019 Original approval signatures are on file with the University of New Hampshire Graduate School. -
Philadelphia and the Southern Elite: Class, Kinship, and Culture in Antebellum America
PHILADELPHIA AND THE SOUTHERN ELITE: CLASS, KINSHIP, AND CULTURE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA BY DANIEL KILBRIDE A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 1997 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In seeing this dissertation to completion I have accumulated a host of debts and obligation it is now my privilege to acknowledge. In Philadelphia I must thank the staff of the American Philosophical Society library for patiently walking out box after box of Society archives and miscellaneous manuscripts. In particular I must thank Beth Carroll- Horrocks and Rita Dockery in the manuscript room. Roy Goodman in the Library’s reference room provided invaluable assistance in tracking down secondary material and biographical information. Roy is also a matchless authority on college football nicknames. From the Society’s historian, Whitfield Bell, Jr., I received encouragement, suggestions, and great leads. At the Library Company of Philadelphia, Jim Green and Phil Lapansky deserve special thanks for the suggestions and support. Most of the research for this study took place in southern archives where the region’s traditions of hospitality still live on. The staff of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History provided cheerful assistance in my first stages of manuscript research. The staffs of the Filson Club Historical Library in Louisville and the Special Collections room at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond were also accommodating. Special thanks go out to the men and women at the three repositories at which the bulk of my research was conducted: the Special Collections Library at Duke University, the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the Virginia Historical Society. -
The Democratic Party and the Transformation of American Conservatism, 1847-1860
PRESERVING THE WHITE MAN’S REPUBLIC: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN CONSERVATISM, 1847-1860 Joshua A. Lynn A dissertation submitted to the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History. Chapel Hill 2015 Approved by: Harry L. Watson William L. Barney Laura F. Edwards Joseph T. Glatthaar Michael Lienesch © 2015 Joshua A. Lynn ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ABSTRACT Joshua A. Lynn: Preserving the White Man’s Republic: The Democratic Party and the Transformation of American Conservatism, 1847-1860 (Under the direction of Harry L. Watson) In the late 1840s and 1850s, the American Democratic party redefined itself as “conservative.” Yet Democrats’ preexisting dedication to majoritarian democracy, liberal individualism, and white supremacy had not changed. Democrats believed that “fanatical” reformers, who opposed slavery and advanced the rights of African Americans and women, imperiled the white man’s republic they had crafted in the early 1800s. There were no more abstract notions of freedom to boundlessly unfold; there was only the existing liberty of white men to conserve. Democrats therefore recast democracy, previously a progressive means to expand rights, as a way for local majorities to police racial and gender boundaries. In the process, they reinvigorated American conservatism by placing it on a foundation of majoritarian democracy. Empowering white men to democratically govern all other Americans, Democrats contended, would preserve their prerogatives. With the policy of “popular sovereignty,” for instance, Democrats left slavery’s expansion to territorial settlers’ democratic decision-making. -
1 the Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Library
The Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Library Bibliography: with Annotations on marginalia, and condition. Compiled by Christian Goodwillie, 2017. Coastal Affair. Chapel Hill, NC: Institute for Southern Studies, 1982. Common Knowledge. Duke Univ. Press. Holdings: vol. 14, no. 1 (Winter 2008). Contains: "Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: First and Lasting Impressions" by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Confederate Veteran Magazine. Harrisburg, PA: National Historical Society. Holdings: vol. 1, 1893 only. Continuity: A Journal of History. (1980-2003). Holdings: Number Nine, Fall, 1984, "Recovering Southern History." DeBow's Review and Industrial Resources, Statistics, etc. (1853-1864). Holdings: Volume 26 (1859), 28 (1860). Both volumes: Front flyleaf: Notes OK Both volumes badly water damaged, replace. Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1958. Volumes 1 through 4: Front flyleaf: Notes OK Volume 2 Text block: scattered markings. Entrepasados: Revista De Historia. (1991-2012). 1 Holdings: number 8. Includes:"Entrevista a Eugene Genovese." Explorations in Economic History. (1969). Holdings: Vol. 4, no. 5 (October 1975). Contains three articles on slavery: Richard Sutch, "The Treatment Received by American Slaves: A Critical Review of the Evidence Presented in Time on the Cross"; Gavin Wright, "Slavery and the Cotton Boom"; and Richard K. Vedder, "The Slave Exploitation (Expropriation) Rate." Text block: scattered markings. Explorations in Economic History. Academic Press. Holdings: vol. 13, no. 1 (January 1976). Five Black Lives; the Autobiographies of Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, the Rev. G.W. Offley, [and] James L. Smith. Documents of Black Connecticut; Variation: Documents of Black Connecticut. 1st ed. ed. Middletown: Conn., Wesleyan University Press, 1971. Badly water damaged, replace. -
Rewriting the Frontier: Making History in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
REWRITING THE FRONTIER: MAKING HISTORY IN TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA by THOMAS CHASE HAGOOD (Under the Direction of Allan Kulikoff) ABSTRACT This dissertation explores the dynamics of white settlement at Tuscaloosa, Alabama and the role of settlers’ written words in mythologizing the nineteenth-century, American frontier. The lived experiences of settlers, captured in individuals’ letters, diaries, deeds, wills, poems and books, tell how they transformed a frontier into the Old South. Over the course of the nineteenth century, however, generations of migrants, storytellers and local writers also blended historical accounts, memories, Native legends and fiction, thereby contributing to the creation of the myths of the American frontier and the early formations of southern identity. INDEX WORDS: White settlement, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, American frontier, Old South, southern identity. REWRITING THE FRONTIER: MAKING HISTORY IN TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA by THOMAS CHASE HAGOOD B.A., The University of North Alabama, 2004 A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ATHENS, GEORGIA 2011 © 2011 Thomas Chase Hagood All Rights Reserved REWRITING THE FRONTIER: MAKING HISTORY IN TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA by THOMAS CHASE HAGOOD Major Professor: Allan Kulikoff Committee: Claudio Saunt Kathleen Clark Stephen Mihm Michael Kwass Electronic Version Approved: Maureen Grasso Dean of the Graduate School The University of Georgia May 2011 DEDICATION My parents, Thomas and Linda Hagood, have stood by me my whole life. Because of their unfailing love and unwavering support, this work is dedicated to them. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project’s maturation and my evolution as an historian who takes seriously the people of the past has left me deeply indebted to countless individuals I have encountered over the past seven years. -
Professional Communities in Alabama, from 1804 to 1861
OBJECTS OF CONFIDENCE AND CHOICE: PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES IN ALABAMA, 1804-1861 By THOMAS EDWARD REIDY JOSHUA D. ROTHMAN, COMMITTEE CHAIR GEORGE C. RABLE LAWRENCE F. KOHL JOHN M. GIGGIE JENNIFER R. GREEN A DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History in the Graduate School of The University of Alabama TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA 2014 ! Copyright Thomas E. Reidy 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ABSTRACT Objects of Confidence and Choice considered the centrality of professional communities in Alabama, from 1804 to 1861. The dissertation highlighted what it meant to be a professional, as well as what professionals meant to their communities. The study examined themes of education, family, wealth patterns, slaveholding, and identities. This project defined professionals as men with professional degrees or licenses to practice: doctors, clergymen, teachers, and others. Several men who appeared here have been widely studied: William Lowndes Yancey, Josiah Nott, J. Marion Sims, James Birney, Leroy Pope Walker, Clement Comer Clay, and his son Clement Claiborne Clay. Others are less familiar today, but were leaders of their towns and cities. Names were culled from various censuses and tax records, and put into a database that included age, marital status, children, real property, personal property, and slaveholding. In total, the database included 453 names. The study also mined a rich vein of primary source material from the very articulate professional community. Objects of Confidence and Choice indicated that professionals were not a social class but a community of institution builders. In order to refine this conclusion, a more targeted investigation of professionals in a single antebellum Alabama town will be needed. -
Early History of Huntsville, Alabama, 1804-1870
r 334- .H9B5 ,,^^t-^^:t/.i•-^•:• A "^^^ ^' .5 -n^. o'^- ^' xV ^> .A' / . s ^ -^U a "^O- v^' .^^ ^^. .^^' .0 o^ ^, .^ A^ '>- V o5 -Tt/. "^ i-t-'^ -^' A. .y.„ N -/ . ,; i' .A O . o5 Xc :^'^' ^^.vA' ^b << ^^' '^ -l\'' •^oo^ v r 7"/-/-. I EARLY HISTORY OF HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA 1804 TO 1870 I I EARLY HISTORY OF HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA 1804 TO 1870 With the Compliments of the Author REVISED 1916 MONTGOMERY, ALA. THE BROWN PRINTING CO. 1916 EARLY HISTORY OF HUNTSVILLE. ALABAMA 1804 TO 1870 BY EDWARD CHAMBERS BETTS 1909 '' REVISED 1916 MONTGOMERY, ALA. THE BROWN PRINTING CO. 1916 Hres Copyright. 1916 BY EDWARD CHAMBERS BETTS ^ 'CI.A'I4R190 NOV -I 1916 "VU) I ^ FOREWORD In the preparation of this work the author is largely indebted to the Department of Archives and History of Alabama, under the capable management of Dr. Thomas M. Owen, who con- tributed liberally of his time assisting in a search of the files and records of this Department. Especially is the author indebted for the aid received from the letters of Judge Thomas J. Taylor,* dealing with this subject. In its inception this work was not intended for, nor is it offered as, a literary efifort, but merely as a chronicle of his- torical facts and events dealing with Huntsville. In its prepa- ration, the author has taken care to record nothing within its pages for which his authority as to the source of information is not given. It has value only as a documentary record of facts and events gleaned chiefly from contemporaneous sources, and is as accurate as could be made after verification from all material at hand, which was necessarily very meager. -
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Biographies 589 crat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses 16, 1831; attended the common schools and was graduated (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); was not a candidate for from Keene (N.H.) Academy; moved to Wisconsin in 1853 renomination, but was a successful candidate for Governor and settled near Beloit, Rock County; engaged in agricul- of Montana and served in that office from January 4, 1937, tural pursuits; elected alderman and was a member of the until January 6, 1941; resumed his ranching activities; died first city council of Beloit; unsuccessful Democratic candidate in Lewistown, Mont., May 23, 1955; interment in Lewistown for election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; appointed City Cemetery. postmaster of Beloit by President Cleveland on August 2, 1886, and served until August 17, 1889, when a successor AYRES, Steven Beckwith, a Representative from New was appointed; appointed secretary of the State agricultural York; born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, October 27, 1861; moved society of Wisconsin in 1885 and served until 1899; elected with his parents to Elmira, N.Y., in 1866; attended the as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891- grammar school; moved to Penn Yan, N.Y., in 1873; at- March 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 tended the Penn Yan Academy and was graduated from to the Fifty-third Congress; retired from public life and ac- Syracuse (N.Y.) University, in 1882; engaged in the pub- tive business pursuits and resided in Beloit, Wis., until his lishing business at Penn Yan and was editor of the Yates death there on March 11, 1907; interment in the Protestant County Chronicle; delegate to the Republican State conven- Cemetery. -
The First Alabama Union Cavalry in the Civil War at The
“Homemade Yankees”: The First Alabama Union Cavalry in the Civil War At the Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads on March 10, 1865, as the Civil War drew to a close, Alabamians fighting for the Union helped finish off the southern rebellion. In his official report, Major Sanford Tramel, of the First Alabama Union Cavalry, described the action that day. “At the sounding of reveille,” he wrote, “we were aroused from sleep by the whistling of bullets and the friendship yelling of the enemy, who were charging into our camp.” Then followed “a most bloody hand-to-hand conflict, our men forming behind trees and stumps and the enemy endeavoring to charge us (mounted) with the saber. The fighting was most desperate for an hour, when we succeeded in driving the enemy away.” During the fight, Tramel reported, “I was captured by the enemy and held as prisoner until the 14th instant, when I succeeded in making my escape, and after three days lying the swamps and traveling nights, I succeeded in rejoining my command.” A month later, having fought for three full years against their rebel neighbors, Tramel and the First Alabama Cavalry watched as Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the Army of Tennessee at Bennett Place.1 Southerners fighting for the Union represent a well-documented phenomenon to historians of the Civil War. As many as 100,000 white citizens of Confederate states, spread over eighty-five units, enlisted in the Union Army over the course of the war. The vast majority of these men came from the Upper South, particularly Virginia and Tennessee, states which had vacillated in their allegiance right up to the outbreak of hostilities. -
Memories of Madison
Memories of Madison A Connected Community 1857-2007 by John Patrick Rankin emories o f Madison was prepared to support the Sesquicentennial Celebration for the City of Madison. It presents some of the knowledge Mand old photographs acquired by the author from more than a decade of research into families who settled the area and built, then sustained, the town. When James Clemens offered town lots for sale beside the Memphis & Charles ton Railroad depot in 1857, he had no way of foreseeing the prominence of those who would come to live there. Nor could he have anticipated the influences that citizens of the future town of Madison would have in state, national, and international politics through the years. Mr. Clemens passed away in June 1860 after selling only fifteen of the original fifty-five lots and without ever residing in the new town himself. However, Clemens did set the tone for social harmony and unity in his town by selling some of his lots to women (before suffrage and property rights were com mon) and even one lot on the primary residential street to a “free man of color” before the Civil War. This book reveals the sense of community that grew in the village, where various families became interconnected by marriages as well as business relationships. It also provides insights into the many connections of Madison families to notable early American families. The book concludes with selected anecdotes and tidbits relating to the citizenry of Madison and its pioneer days. Madison was founded as a railroad town, developed along the route of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad when it was built through northern Alabama in the mid-1850s. -
Letters from Florida in 1851
Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 29 Number 4 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 29, Article 6 Issue 4 1950 Letters from Florida in 1851 Olin Norwood Part of the American Studies Commons, and the United States History Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Article is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Florida Historical Quarterly by an authorized editor of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Norwood, Olin (1950) "Letters from Florida in 1851," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 29 : No. 4 , Article 6. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol29/iss4/6 Norwood: Letters from Florida in 1851 LETTERS FROM FLORIDA IN 1851 Edited by OLIN N0Rw00~ Clement Claiborne Clay, 1816-1886, was a son of Gov- ernor Clement Comer Clay of Alabama. He was a lawyer by profession, and in 1851 was a county judge. Two years later he was elected to the U. S. Senate, where he served until the outbreak of the Civil War. He declined to be the first Confederate Secretary of War, but was a Confed- erate senator from 1861 until 1863. In 1864 he undertook a highly secret mission to Canada on behalf of the Con- federacy, the results of which are still not completely known. He was accused of participating in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, and spent over a year in solitary confinement at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. Through the efforts of his wife, Virginia Caroline (Tunstall) Clay, he was released by President Johnson in 1866. -
A Survey of Duelling in the United States
The Woman's College of The University of North Carolina LIBRARY COLLEGE COLLECTION CQ no. 652 Gift of MARTIN LUTHER WILSON " WILSON, MARTIN LUTHER. A Survey of Duelling in the United States. (1969). Directed by: Dr» Richard Bardolph. pp. t2» This thesis was undertaken to study duelling as an aspect of social history in the United States. The aim of the researciier was to go beyond mere cnronicling of particu- lar duels, in an effort to ascertain feelings and attitudes toward the practice. To obtain such information, both pub- lished and unpublished sources were consulted, to reconstruct the story of duelling as it developed in America. The duel grew out of European practices, particularly the chivalry associated with knighthood. The custom was later transported to America by European settlers, though few duels occurred before the American Revolution. The presence of aristocratic European officers in America during that con- flict influenced natives, who retained the duelling custom. The duel was present in all sections of the new nation until Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in 160^-. At that point the duel lost favor in the Northern states, but held on pri- marily in the Southern states. Northern political leaders and military men continued to duel from time to time, however. For conducting the duelling ritual, there were various sets of written rules, the most widely used being those compiled by Governor John Lyde Wilson of South Carolina. These rules laid down the principles that duels should be only betv/een social equals, that all negotiations be con- ducted by seconds chosen for that purpose, and that the ( actual encounter be carried out fairly under rules agreed upon beforehand.