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Kaleidoscope

Redrawing an American Family Tree

By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

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Kaleidoscope

Redrawing an American Family Tree

By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

In 2005 Margaret Jones Bolsterli learned that her great-great-grandfather was a free mulatto named Jordan Chavis, who owned an antebellum plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi. The news was a shock; Bolsterli had heard about the plantation in family stories told during her Arkansas Delta childhood, but Chavis’s name and race had never been mentioned. With further exploration Bolsterli found that when Chavis’s children crossed the Mississippi River between 1859 and 1875 for exile in Arkansas, they passed into the white world, leaving the family’s racial history completely behind. Kaleidoscope is the story of this discovery, and it is the story, too, of the rise and fall of the Chavis fortunes in Mississippi, from the family’s first appearance on a frontier farm in 1829 to ownership of over a thousand acres and the slaves to work them by 1860. Bolsterli learns that in the 1850s, when all free colored people were ordered to leave Mississippi or be enslaved, Jordan Chavis’s white neighbors successfully petitioned the legislature to allow him to remain, unmolested, even as three of his sons and a daughter moved to Arkansas and Illinois. She learns about the agility with which the old man balanced on a tightrope over chaos to survive the war and then take advantage of the opportunities of newly awarded citizenship during Reconstruction. The story ends with the family’s loss of everything in the 1870s, after one of the exiled sons returns to Mississippi to serve in the Reconstruction legislature and a grandson attempts unsuccessfully to retain possession of the land. In Kaleidoscope, long-silenced truths are revealed, inviting questions about how attitudes toward race might have been different in the family and in America if the truth about this situation and thousands of others like it could have been told before.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1610755626

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9781610755627

Born in the Delta

Reflections on the Making of a Southern White Sensibility

By: Margaret Bolsterli

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Born in the Delta

Reflections on the Making of a Southern White Sensibility

By: Margaret Bolsterli

In this gracefully written memoir, Margaret Jones Bolsterli recounts her experiences as a lively, observant girl coming of age on an Arkansas cotton farm during the 1930s and 1940s. The Mississippi River's broad, flat floodplain provides the setting for her vivid strokes of memory and history each portraying key elements of the "southern sensibility." Bolsterli's themes include the southerner's strong sense of place, the penchant for stories rather than true dialog, a caste system based on formality and race, the underlying current of violence, and the repressive function of evangelical religion. She also examines manners, the patriarchal family structure, the "southern belle" concept, and the persistence of the memory of the Civil War. A fascinating chapter on food indicates how African and European customs are melded in southern cuisine to include chicken, pork, "cracklin' bread," gravy and biscuits, field peas, turnip greens, butter beans, devil's food cake, and dill pickles. Comparable to Shirley Abbott's Womenfolks, Born in the Delta is a valuable resource for those interested in southern history and culture, as well as readers who just enjoy a good story, well-told.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557286167

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9781557286161

Things You Need to Hear

Collected Memories of Growing Up in Arkansas, 1890–1980

By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

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Things You Need to Hear

Collected Memories of Growing Up in Arkansas, 1890–1980

By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

Collects personal stories from people who grew up in Arkansas and asks them to discuss their lives in terms of family, community, school, and play.

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1557289786

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A Remembrance of Eden

Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel's Memories of a Frontier Plantation in Arkansas, 1849-1872

By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

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A Remembrance of Eden

Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel's Memories of a Frontier Plantation in Arkansas, 1849-1872

By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

In her perceptive chronicle of everyday life on an Arkansas plantation, Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel sheds light on the plantation economy, medical practices, religion, slavery, and sex roles in the period from 1849 until Daniel's marriage in 1872. The work is a rich mixture of mundane details surrounded by momentous events, and Daniel's sure grasp of both provides enjoyment and enlightenment for any reader.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557285896

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During Wind and Rain

The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta 1848-2006

By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

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During Wind and Rain

The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta 1848-2006

By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

n telling the story of five generations of her family and its farm in the Arkansas Delta, Margaret Jones Bolsterli brings together her own research, historical perspective, and family lore as it reaches her from the days of her great-grandfather down to her nephew. The result is a family saga that is at once universal and personal, historical and timeless. During Wind and Rain moves from the land’s acquisition in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the 1927 Flood, the Great Depression, and the drought of 1930 to the modern considerations of mechanization, fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. The transformation of dense swamp and forest to today’s commercial agriculture is the story of two hundred acres worked by people sowing their fate with sweat, ingenuity, and luck. From the hoes of Bolsterli’s great-grandfather Uriah’s time to her nephew Casey’s machinery capable of cultivating an acre in five minutes, During Wind and Rain poignantly portrays five generations of farmers motivated by dreams of “a crop so good that the memory of it can warm the drafty floors of adversity for the rest of one's life.”

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University of Arkansas Press

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1610751345

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Kaleidoscope

Redrawing an American Family Tree

By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

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Redrawing an American Family Tree

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Things You Need to Hear

Collected Memories of Growing Up in Arkansas, 1890–1980

By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

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Things You Need to Hear

Collected Memories of Growing Up in Arkansas, 1890–1980

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Collects personal stories from people who grew up in Arkansas and asks them to discuss their lives in terms of family, community, school, and play.

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During Wind and Rain

The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta 1848-2006

By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

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During Wind and Rain

The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta 1848-2006

By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

During Wind and Rain moves from the land's acquisition in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the 1927 Flood, the Great Depression, and the drought of 1930 to the modern considerations of mechanization, fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. The transformation of dense swamp and forest to today's commercial agriculture is the story of two hundred acres worked by people sowing their fate with sweat, ingenuity, and luck."--Jacket.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557288712

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Born in the Delta

Reflections on the Making of a Southern White Sensibility

By: Margaret Bolsterli

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Reflections on the Making of a Southern White Sensibility

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A Remembrance of Eden

Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel's Memories of a Frontier Plantation in Arkansas, 1849-1872

By: Margaret Jones Bolsterli

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Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel's Memories of a Frontier Plantation in Arkansas, 1849-1872

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The Life and Times of Margaret Bourgeoys (the Venerable)

By: Margaret Mary Drummond

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The Life and Times of Margaret Bourgeoys (the Venerable)

By: Margaret Mary Drummond

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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312

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Pratt Press

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1446083950

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9781446083956

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Volume 2

By: Margaret Fuller

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Volume 2

By: Margaret Fuller

Reproduction of the original: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli by Margaret Fuller

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Outlook Verlag

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3752307048

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9783752307047

Paper Bodies

A Margaret Cavendish Reader

By: Margaret Cavendish

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Paper Bodies

A Margaret Cavendish Reader

By: Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish was one of the most subversive and entertaining writers of the seventeenth century. She invented new genres, challenged gender roles, and critiqued the new science as well as the mores of society. “Paper Bodies” was the wonderful phrase she used to described her manuscripts, which she hoped would continue to make “a great Blazing Light” after her death. There are connections here to Cavendish’s most famous work, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666), a unique tale of a woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world. In addition to The Blazing World, this volume includes Cavendish’s brief autobiography, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life (1667), her play The Convent of Pleasure, and selections from her Sociable Letters, her poetry, and her critical writings. A variety of background documents by other seventeenth-century writers helps to set her work in context for the modern reader.

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Broadview Press

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1770487883

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9781770487888

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part V Volume 22

Kirsteen

By: Gail Marshall

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part V Volume 22

Kirsteen

By: Gail Marshall

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.

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