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Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland

Corrected Edition

By: William Kirwin,E. Seary

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Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland

Corrected Edition

By: William Kirwin,E. Seary

Byrne, Chaffey, Fahey, Fizzard, Fudge, Grouchy, Hynes, Inkpen, Lyver, McLaughlin, Miles, Murphy, Puddester, Quirk -- the names themselves are evocative of Newfoundland. Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland traces the origins of almost 3,000 surnames found on the Island and provides an engaging and comprehensive collection of etymology, genealogy, and Newfoundland history. The introduction presents a fascinating discussion of the history and linguistic origins of surnames found in Newfoundland, which come from many different cultures, notably English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, French, Syrian, Lebanese, and Mi'kmaq. The main body of the book comprises a dictionary of surnames in the province based on data collected from provincial voting lists, family records, government documents, and newspaper reports dating back to the seventeenth century. Each entry includes variant spellings and cross-references of the surname, the countries in which the name originated, and its meaning. Newfoundland place names associated with the surname are also given. The book also includes a ranking of the most common surnames in Newfoundland and a comparative analysis of the frequency of surnames in Scotland, Ireland, England, and Newfoundland. Originally published in 1977, Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland is a unique reference work, giving Newfoundlanders, both in the province and away, a fascinating look at their roots. This edition incorporates a number of additions and corrections and has been completely reset in a sturdier and more convenient format. It will be of great use to individuals tracing their ancestors and to genealogists researching early settlers in Newfoundland.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773567410

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9780773567412

Alice Falling

By: William Wall

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Alice Falling

By: William Wall

Married to the wealthy and dangerous Paddy Lynch, Alice is no stranger to trouble. All her life she has had to fight to survive, struggling to cope with abuse and the death of her sister. But she is not prepared to be a victim anymore.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393050017

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9780393050011

Nakada's Touch

By: William Higham

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Nakada's Touch

By: William Higham

1990 - A watershed year in South Africa's tempestuous history.Police emergency powers are lifting, apartheid laws are finally crumbling, and heroic Nelson Mandela walks free after 27 years in detention.Into this volatile mix walks top-gun political journalist Sally Kaplan, a New Yorker on a working vacation in Natal's Port Farewell.A risk-taker, her work permit under threat by a white government struggling to come to terms with a new sociopolitical reality, Sally is taken off the political desk by Natal Crier editor Deek Delany and reassigned a missing street-boy story in the red-light district, Baysend, domain of the night people. People like stripper Elsa van Els, nightclub owner and Elsa's lover Clair Wilson, and young street hustlers Wayne van Els and Danie Marais.Together, they take Sally on a journey into a killer's madness..._______________________________________________________________'Screenplay adaptation a 2004 SEMI-FINALIST in American Accolades Screenwriting Competition!

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Lulu.com

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1435719832

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9781435719835

Of Silent Parades

By: William Howard Graley

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Of Silent Parades

By: William Howard Graley

Of Silent Parades is a story about dignity which blends a combination of dialogue, narrative, and description, revealing the horizontal aftermath of the Vietnam Era. Its characters cope with the rebuiliding of America's military image during the 70's, and offer a means of reconciliation to bridge the immeasurably great intervals (which still exists to some degree) between the American public, politicians, the news media, and the Vietnam veteran.

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Trafford Publishing

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1553697863

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9781553697862

Middle-Class Blacks in a White Society

Prince Hall Freemansonry in America

By: William Alan Muraskin

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Middle-Class Blacks in a White Society

Prince Hall Freemansonry in America

By: William Alan Muraskin

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

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0520331788

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Angels of Mercy

White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum

By: William Seraile

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Angels of Mercy

White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum

By: William Seraile

William Seraile uncovers the history of the colored orphan asylum, founded in New York City in 1836 as the nation’s first orphanage for African American children. It is a remarkable institution that is still in the forefront aiding children. Although no longer an orphanage, in its current incarnation as Harlem-Dowling West Side Center for Children and Family Services it maintains the principles of the women who organized it nearly 200 years ago. The agency weathered three wars, two major financial panics, a devastating fire during the 1863 Draft Riots, several epidemics, waves of racial prejudice, and severe financial difficulties to care for orphaned, neglected, and delinquent children. Eventually financial support would come from some of New York’s finest families, including the Jays, Murrays, Roosevelts, Macys, and Astors. While the white female managers and their male advisers were dedicated to uplifting these black children, the evangelical, mainly Quaker founding managers also exhibited the extreme paternalistic views endemic at the time, accepting the advice or support of the African American community only grudgingly. It was frank criticism in 1913 from W. E. B. Du Bois that highlighted the conflict between the orphanage and the community it served, and it wasn’t until 1939 that it hired the first black trustee. More than 15,000 children were raised in the orphanage, and throughout its history letters and visits have revealed that hundreds if not thousands of “old boys and girls” looked back with admiration and respect at the home that nurtured them throughout their formative years. Weaving together African American history with a unique history of New York City, this is not only a painstaking study of a previously unsung institution of black history but a unique window onto complex racial dynamics during a period when many failed to recognize equality among all citizens as a worthy purpose.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823241629

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9780823241620

Enlightenment Prelate

Benjamin Hoadly, 1676-1761

By: William Gibson

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Enlightenment Prelate

Benjamin Hoadly, 1676-1761

By: William Gibson

A reappraisal of the legacy of Benjamin Hoadly, the 18th Century bishop whose liberal and rationalist views had a considerable influence on the English Enlightenment and the American Revolution.

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James Clarke & Company

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0227906543

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9780227906545

Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790

Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued in the Province of Pennsylvania, Previous to 1790

By: John Blair Linn,William Henry Egle

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Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790

Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued in the Province of Pennsylvania, Previous to 1790

By: John Blair Linn,William Henry Egle

Among the laws agreed upon in England for the governing of the Province of Pennsylvania was one providing for a registry of marriages, births, and deaths. Marriage licenses were issued from the Office of the Provincial Secretary, those listed in this work dating from 1742. Some earlier registers of licenses and some kept at a later date are missing, yet this work still features a base list of 6,500 marriages, to which we have added a further 3,500 marriages from articles in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. All 10,000 marriages are based on public records as opposed to church records.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806307099

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9780806307091

Slavery and Class in the American South

A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865

By: William L. Andrews

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Slavery and Class in the American South

A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865

By: William L. Andrews

The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with others whom they deem to be beneath them, in point of character, color, condition, or the superior importance of their respective masters." Henry Bibb, fugitive slave, editor, and antislavery activist, stated this in his Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb (1849). In William L. Andrews's magisterial study of an entire generation of slave narrators, more than 60 mid-nineteenth-century narratives reveal how work, family, skills, and connections made for social and economic differences among the enslaved of the South. Slave narrators disclosed class-based reasons for violence that broke out between "impudent," "gentleman," and "lady" slaves and their resentful "mean masters." Andrews's far-reaching book shows that status and class played key roles in the self- and social awareness and in the processes of liberation portrayed in the narratives of the most celebrated fugitives from U.S. slavery, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, and William and Ellen Craft. Slavery and Class in the American South explains why social and economic distinctions developed and how they functioned among the enslaved. Noting that the majority of the slave narrators came from the higher echelons of the enslaved, Andrews also pays close attention to the narratives that have received the least notice from scholars, those from the most exploited class, the "field hands." By examining the lives of the most and least acclaimed heroes and heroines of the slave narrative, Andrews shows how the dividing edge of social class cut two ways, sometimes separating upper and lower strata of slaves to their enslavers' advantage, but at other times fueling pride, aspiration, and a sense of just deserts among some of the enslaved that could be satisfied by nothing less than complete freedom. The culmination of a career spent studying African American literature, this comprehensive study of the antebellum slave narrative offers a ground-breaking consideration of a unique genre of American literature.

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Oxford University Press

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0190908394

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9780190908393

Death & Texas

By: William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone

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Death & Texas

By: William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone

WELCOME TO JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WATCH YOUR BACK. From the bestselling chroniclers of the American West comes a brand new series of gun-blazing adventures that could only happen in Texas. Meet Cullen McCabe, a Lone Star sheriff who learned—the hard way—that there are two sure things in life . . . DEATH & TEXAS The great state of Texas is a land of opportunity. For outlaws. And horse thieves. And cattle rustlers. Not to mention bank robbers, train robbers, and anything-that-ain’t-nailed-down robbers. The state’s governor, Richard B. Hubbard, is at the end of his rope. He wants to clean up Texas once and for all—and he’s desperate enough to try something crazy: hire a man who can do what the Texas Rangers can’t. A man not tied down by a wife or children. Or rules. Who’s not afraid to go outside the law. Who will protect the good people of Texas at any cost—and put the blast on anyone who gets in his way. . . . He needs a man like Cullen McCabe, a small town sheriff. First in the explosive Death & Texas series! Live Free. Read Hard.

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Pinnacle Books

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0786043717

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9780786043712

Forever Texas

A Thrilling Western Novel of the American Frontier

By: William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone

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Forever Texas

A Thrilling Western Novel of the American Frontier

By: William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone

“Superb from start to finish. An instant classic. “ —New York Times Bestselling Author Marc Cameron Based on real events and the true history of the legendary King Ranch in South Texas, this riveting historical adventure evokes the reality of life on the Texas frontier, as one pioneering family battles to forge a new life and carve out their own piece of the American West… The war is over. But a new battle is on the horizon. Based on true events. It’s 1852. The wounds of the Mexican War are healing. Regis Royle, co-owner of a steamship fleet, has made it out alive, relatively unscarred and with enough profit and foolhardy ambition to envision a new life in south Texas. With the help of his crack-shot kid brother Shepley, his glad-handing riverboat partner Cormac Delany, and his old friend, raw-edged former Texas Ranger Jarvis “Bone” McGraw, Regis is laying claim to the prime jewel in a magnificent rolling prairie: the Santa Calina range teeming with wild mustangs, cattle, and eighteen-thousand acres of lush promise. But all dreams have a price. For Regis, it’s hell to pay—and the fire is coming at him from all directions. On one side of the border, it’s banditos. On the other side, the Apaches, slave traders, and outlaws have Santa Calina in their sights. And none of them are going to walk away from the bloody battle. The brothers Royle and their partners have the most to lose—including their lives. They made a pledge to themselves to build the greatest ranch in America. To see it through to the end, they’ll have to ride hard and learn the bitter necessity of violence and bloodshed.

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Pinnacle

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0786047755

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9780786047758

Black Intellectuals

Race and Responsibility in American Life

By: William M. Banks

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Black Intellectuals

Race and Responsibility in American Life

By: William M. Banks

In this "important book, significant because it highlights the diversity and richness of Afro-American intellectual life" ("New York Times Book Review"), William Banks offers a centuries-deep analysis of black life in America, from the days of slavery and oppression to intellectuals of the modern age such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, Toni Morrison, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Photos.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393316742

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9780393316742

River Jordan

African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley

By: Joe William TrotterJr.

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River Jordan

African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley

By: Joe William TrotterJr.

Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the industrial age, it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. The Ohio became known as the "River Jordan," symbolizing the path to the promised land. In the urban centers of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, blacks faced racial hostility from outside their immediate neighborhoods as well as class, color, and cultural fragmentation among themselves. Yet despite these pressures, African Americans were able to create vibrant new communities as former agricultural workers transformed themselves into a new urban working class. Unlike most studies of black urban life, Trotter's work considers several cities and compares their economic conditions, demographic makeup, and political and cultural conditions. Beginning with the arrival of the first blacks in the Ohio Valley, Trotter traces the development of African American urban centers through the civil rights movement and the developments of recent years.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813184312

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9780813184319

John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65

By: William F. Cheek,Aimee Lee Cheek

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John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65

By: William F. Cheek,Aimee Lee Cheek

A marvel of scholarship and artistry. The general reader will be fascinated to discover the vitality of the free black community that Langston moved and moved in." -- Joyce Appleby, University of California "Provides the mirror in which to reflect Langston's brilliant, turbulent career, as well as the nation's ongoing struggle against racism. Life-and-times biography could be put to no better use." -- David W. Blight, Journal of American History "One of the most thorough studies ever done of a nineteenth-century black American. It] will be the standard." -- J. M. Matthews, Choice "Breaks new and important ground in the field of African-American history. . . . It] is both a social history of the period and the remarkable story of Langston's formative life and career as a free black Ohioan in pre-Civil War America." -- David C. Dennard, Journal of Southern History "A sensitive biography of a black leader and a full-scale history of the society in which he matured and began his career." -- John B. Boles, American Historical Review "The Cheeks have masterfully performed . . . their chief task--the transformation of autobiography into social history." -- Wilson J. Moses, Reviews in American History A volume in the series Blacks in the New World, edited by August Meier and John H. Bracey

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University of Illinois Press

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0252065913

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9780252065910

Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture

By: William L. Van Deburg

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Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture

By: William L. Van Deburg

Spanning more than three centuries, from the colonial era to the present, Van Deburg's overview analyzes the works of American historians, dramatists, novelists, poets, lyricists, and filmmakers -- and exposes, through those artists' often disquieting perceptions, the cultural underpinnings of American current racial attitudes and divisions. Crucial to Van Deburg's analysis is his contrast of black and white attitudes toward the Afro-American slave experience. There has, in fact, been a persistent dichotomy between the two races' literary, historical, and theatrical representations of slavery. If white culture-makers have stressed the "unmanning" of the slaves and encouraged such steteotypes as the Noble Savage and the comic minstrel to justify the blacks' subordination, Afro-Americans have emphasized a counter self-image that celebrates the slaves' creativity, dignity, pride, and assertiveness. ISBN 0-299-09634-3 (pbk.) : $12.50.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299096343

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9780299096342

Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania

By: William J. Switala

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Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania

By: William J. Switala

Includes detailed maps of the known routes and railroad sites. Organized in antebellum America to help slaves escape to freedom, the Underground Railroad was cloaked in secrecy and operated at great peril to everyone involved. The system was extremely active in Pennsylvania, with routes in all parts of the state.This book retraces those routes, discusses the large city networks, identifies the houses and sites where escapees found refuge, and records the names of the people who risked their lives to support the operation.

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Stackpole Books

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0811716295

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9780811716291

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Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland

Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland

Alice Falling

Alice Falling

Nakada's Touch

Nakada's Touch

Of Silent Parades

Of Silent Parades

Middle-Class Blacks in a White Society

Middle-Class Blacks in a White Society

Angels of Mercy

Angels of Mercy

Enlightenment Prelate

Enlightenment Prelate

Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790

Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790

Slavery and Class in the American South

Slavery and Class in the American South

Death & Texas

Death & Texas

Forever Texas

Forever Texas

Black Intellectuals

Black Intellectuals

River Jordan

River Jordan

John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65

John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65

Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture

Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture

Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania

Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania

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