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James Louis Petigru

Southern Conservative, Southern Dissenter

By: William H. Pease,Jane H. Pease

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James Louis Petigru

Southern Conservative, Southern Dissenter

By: William H. Pease,Jane H. Pease

A biography of one of South Carolina's leading antebellum lawyers and major political thinkers In the three decades before the Civil War, James Louis Petigru became the dean of the South Carolina bar and Charleston's leading exponent of the constitutional conservatism that placed federal union above state rights, the economic views that underlay Whig politics, and the liberal vision of individual rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights. In the only modern biography of Petigru, William H. and Jane H. Pease trace the rise to social and professional preeminence that not only placed him among South Carolina's elite but also gave him national visibility. In doing so, they explore the workings of the extended family he headed, the politics of the state he loved, and the intricacies of the legal system he mastered. Central to Petigru's life was the ambiguity into which his competing loyalties plunged him. Loyal to his native state, he was a vocal opponent of its political values. Despite his dissent on the critical issues of nullification and secession, Petigru was elected attorney general, served as a state representative, and codified the state's laws. Born in South Carolina's upcountry to a family of Scots-Irish and Huguenot ancestry, Petrigru achieved such high distinction as an attorney and politician that both Confederates and Yankees eulogized him when he died in Charleston in 1863. Throughout his career, his espousal of private property, individual liberty, the rule of law, and the United States Constitution remained unflinching and gave Petigru the wisdom and assurance to be the state's most notable dissenter.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570034915

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9781570034916

A Family of Women

The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War

By: Jane H. Pease,William H. Pease

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A Family of Women

The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War

By: Jane H. Pease,William H. Pease

The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state. Through vivid, interwoven life stories, the book offers a unique perspective on how these women conducted their lives, shared personal triumphs and defeats, endured the deprivations and despair of civil war, and experienced a social revolution. A Family of Women focuses on the female descendants of Louise Gibert Pettigrew (later changed to Petigru), who rose from upcountry obscurity to privileged prominence in Charleston and on low country plantations, where they variously flourished as belles, managed large households, shocked society with their unconventionality, educated their children, endured troubled marriages, and maintained close family ties. Using the letters, diaries, novels, and memoirs of the Petigru women and the material culture surrounding them, the authors weave a complex story of women well worth knowing.

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458

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UNC Press Books

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1469620197

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9781469620190

A Peculiar Imbalance

The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota

By: William D. Green

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A Peculiar Imbalance

The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota

By: William D. Green

Unearths previously untold stories of African Americans in early Minnesota.

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193

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Minnesota Historical Society

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0873516907

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9780873516907

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume II: a House Dividing Against Itself

1836-1840

By: William Lloyd Garrison

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The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume II: a House Dividing Against Itself

1836-1840

By: William Lloyd Garrison

This volume covers the five-year period in which Garrison's three sons were born and he entered the arena of social reform with full force.

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818

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Harvard University Press

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0674526619

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9780674526617

Ladies, Women, and Wenches

Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston

By: Jane H. Pease,William H. Pease

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Ladies, Women, and Wenches

Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston

By: Jane H. Pease,William H. Pease

Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urban American society, Ladies, Women, and Wenches compares the lives of women living in two distinctive antebellum cultures, Charleston and Boston, between 1820 and 1850. In contrast to most contemporary histories of women, this study examines the lives of all types of women in both cities: slave and free, rich and poor, married and single, those who worked mostly at home and those who led more public lives. Jane Pease and William Pease argue that legal, political, economic, and cultural contraints did limit the options available to women. Nevertheless, women had opportunities to make meaningful choices about their lives and sometimes to achieve considerable autonomy. By comparing the women of Charleston and Boston, the authors explore how both urbanization and regional differences -- especially with regard to slavery -- governed all women's lives. They assess the impact of marriage and work on women's religious, philanthropic, and reform activity and examine the female uses of education and property in order to illuminate the considerable variation in women's lives. Finally, they consider women's choices of life-style, ranging from compliance with to defiance of increasingly rigid social precepts defining appropriate female behavior. However bound women were by society's prescriptions describing their role or by the class structure of their society, they chose their ways of life from among such options as spinsterhood or marriage, domesticity or paid work, charitable activity or the social whirl, the solace of religion or the escape of drink. Drawing on a variety of sources including diaries, court documents, and contemporary literature, Ladies, Women, and Wenches explores how the women of Charleston and Boston made the choices in their lives between total dependence and full autonomy.

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UNC Press Books

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1469639629

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9781469639628

The Allstons of Chicora Wood

Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry

By: William Kauffman Scarborough

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The Allstons of Chicora Wood

Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry

By: William Kauffman Scarborough

William Kauffman Scarborough's absorbing biography, The Allstons of Chicora Wood, chronicles the history of a South Carolina planter family from the opulent antebellum years through the trauma of the Civil War and postwar period. Scarborough's examination of this extraordinarily enterprising family focuses on patriarch Robert R. F. W. Allston, his wife Adele Petigru Allston, and their daughter Elizabeth Allston Pringle Scarborough. Scarborough shows how Allston, in the four decades before the Civil War, converted a small patrimony into a Lowcountry agricultural empire of seven rice plantations, all the while earning an international reputation for the quality of his rice and his expertise. Scarborough also examines Allston's twenty-eight-year career in the state legislature and as governor from 1856 to 1858. Upon his death in 1864, Robert Allston's wife of thirty-two years, Adele, found herself at the head of the family. Scarborough traces how she successfully kept the family plantations afloat in the postwar years through a series of decisions that exhibited her astute business judgment and remarkable strength of character. In the next generation, one of the Allstons' five children followed a similar path. Elizabeth "Bessie" Allston took over management of the remaining family plantations upon the death of her husband and, in order to pay off the plantation mortgages, embarked on a highly successful literary career. Bessie authored two books, the first treating her experiences as a woman rice planter and the second describing her childhood before the war. A major contribution to southern history, The Allstons of Chicora Wood provides a fascinating look at a prominent southern family that survived the traumas of war and challenges of Reconstruction.

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LSU Press

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0807138452

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9780807138458

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

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James Louis Petigru

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A Peculiar Imbalance

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The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume II: a House Dividing Against Itself

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Ladies, Women, and Wenches

Ladies, Women, and Wenches

The Allstons of Chicora Wood

The Allstons of Chicora Wood

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

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

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