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Author : Clarence Mayers
Release : 1993
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Book Synopsis The Duval Forebears & Decendants [sic] of William Pope Duval, Grovenor [sic] of Florida by : Clarence Mayers
Download or read book The Duval Forebears & Decendants [sic] of William Pope Duval, Grovenor [sic] of Florida written by Clarence Mayers. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Owen Knauss
Release : 1933
Genre : Florida
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Book Synopsis William Pope DuVal by : James Owen Knauss
Download or read book William Pope DuVal written by James Owen Knauss. This book was released on 1933. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duval's portrait on first page.
Author : Lee H. Warner
Release : 2014-07-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Free Men in an Age of Servitude by : Lee H. Warner
Download or read book Free Men in an Age of Servitude written by Lee H. Warner. This book was released on 2014-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom did not solve the problems of the Proctor family. Nor did money, recognition, or powerful supporters. As free blacks in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, three generations of Proctor men were permanently handicapped by the social structures of their time and their place. They subscribed to the Western, middle-class value system that taught that hard work, personal rectitude, and maintenance of family life would lead to happiness and prosperity. But for them it did not -- no matter how hard they worked, how clever their plans, or how powerful their white patrons. The eldest, Antonio, born a Spanish slave, became a soldier for three nations and received government recognition for his daring and his skills as a translator. His son, George, an entrepreneur, achieved material success in the building trade but was so hampered by his status as a free black that he eventually lost not only his position in the community but his family. John, George's son, seized the opportunity proffered by Reconstruction and spent ten years in the Florida state legislature before segregation forced him to return to the life of a tradesman. Warner describes the Proctor men as "inarticulate." They left no personal papers and no indication of their attitudes toward their hardships. As a result, this work relies heavily on local government documents and oral history. Inference and intimation become vital tools in the search for the Proctors. In important ways the author has produced a case study of nontraditional methodology, and he suggests new ways of describing and analyzing inarticulate populations. The Proctors were not typical of the black population of their era and their location, yet the story of their lives broadens our knowledge of the black experience in America.
Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Release : 2015-05-07
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis When Scotland Was Jewish by : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Download or read book When Scotland Was Jewish written by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman. This book was released on 2015-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.
Author : Caroline Mays Brevard
Release : 1904
Genre : Florida
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Book Synopsis A History of Florida by : Caroline Mays Brevard
Download or read book A History of Florida written by Caroline Mays Brevard. This book was released on 1904. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
