An Oration Delivered In St Philips Church Before An Assemblage Of The Inhabitants Of Charleston South Carolina On The 5th Day Of July 1819
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Author | : Maurie D. McInnis |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1469625997 |
At the close of the American Revolution, Charleston, South Carolina, was the wealthiest city in the new nation, with the highest per-capita wealth among whites and the largest number of enslaved residents. Maurie D. McInnis explores the social, political, and material culture of the city to learn how--and at what human cost--Charleston came to be regarded as one of the most refined cities in antebellum America. While other cities embraced a culture of democracy and egalitarianism, wealthy Charlestonians cherished English notions of aristocracy and refinement, defending slavery as a social good and encouraging the growth of southern nationalism. Members of the city's merchant-planter class held tight to the belief that the clothes they wore, the manners they adopted, and the ways they designed house lots and laid out city streets helped secure their place in social hierarchies of class and race. This pursuit of refinement, McInnis demonstrates, was bound up with their determined efforts to control the city's African American majority. She then examines slave dress, mobility, work spaces, and leisure activities to understand how Charleston slaves negotiated their lives among the whites they served. The textures of lives lived in houses, yards, streets, and public spaces come into dramatic focus in this lavishly illustrated portrait of antebellum Charleston. McInnis's innovative history of the city combines the aspirations of its would-be nobility, the labors of the African slaves who built and tended the town, and the ambitions of its architects, painters, writers, and civic promoters.
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691185182 |
The 584 documents in this volume cover the period from 19 January to 31 August 1817, during which Jefferson devotes much time and energy to founding Central College, the predecessor of the University of Virginia. In May 1817, at its first official meeting, the college's Board of Visitors authorizes land purchases and a subscription campaign that eventually raises more than $44,000. Jefferson also prepares a legal brief for his chancery suit against the directors of the Rivanna Company. After years of disagreements and failed negotiations, he composes and revises a legal statement of his claim to the property in dispute. Although the complaint is submitted to the court in May 1817, the case is not settled until December 1819. In March 1817 Jefferson’s friend James Monroe begins his first term as president. During the summer Jefferson learns of the death of two friends, Madame de Staël Holstein and Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours. Late in the summer he visits Natural Bridge with two of his granddaughters. Jefferson continues to purchase books from Europe with the assistance of George Ticknor, and Stephen Cathalan helps him restock his wine cellar and pantry. Even though Jefferson answers his voluminous correspondence selectively, he still chafes under the burden.
Author | : Thomas Doughty Condy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 1819 |
Genre | : Fourth of July orations |
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Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Books |
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Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : South Carolina |
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Author | : Charleston Library Society (Charleston, S.C.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Charleston (S.C.) |
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : South Carolina |
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Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : South Carolina |
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Author | : Annie V. F. Storr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Aesthetics, American |
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Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : American literature |
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