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The Negro Southern League

A Baseball History, 1920-1951

By: William J. Plott

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The Negro Southern League

A Baseball History, 1920-1951

By: William J. Plott

The Negro Southern League was a baseball minor league that operated off and on from 1920 to 1951. It served as a valuable feeder system to the Negro National League and the Negro American League. A number of NNL and NAL stars got their start in the NSL, among them five Hall of Famers including Satchel Paige and Willie Mays. During its history, more than 80 teams were members of the league, representing 40 cities in a dozen states. In the end only four teams remained, operating more as semipro than professional teams. This book is a narrative history of the league from its inception with eight teams in major Southern cities until its demise three decades later.

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McFarland

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0786475447

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9780786475445

Baptist Foundations in the South

Tracing through the Separates the Influence of the Great Awakening, 1754-1787

By: William L. Lumpkin

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Tracing through the Separates the Influence of the Great Awakening, 1754-1787

By: William L. Lumpkin

Who were the Separates? Where did they originate? What did they believe? What part did they play in the Great Awakening of religious fervor in the South? What effect did they have on the history and heritage of Southern Baptists? Any evaluation of the genius and growth of Southern Baptists is impossible without recognition of the tremendous influence of a handful of rugged, single-minded, enthusiastic colonists from Connecticut who, for their Òirregularity, were known as ÒSeparate Baptists. They settled at Sandy Creek in central North Carolina in 1755 and immediately introduced the phenomenon of revival to the southern frontier. The life and history of the Separate Baptists have continued to leave their mark upon the subsequent story of the denomination and the nation. Yet, until now, it has been a phase of American church history that has never been adequately treated.

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177

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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159752705X

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9781597527057

Journeymen for Jesus

Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitalism in Jacksonian Baltimore

By: William R. Sutton

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Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitalism in Jacksonian Baltimore

By: William R. Sutton

When industrialization swept through American society in the nineteenth century, it brought with it turmoil for skilled artisans. Changes in technology and work offered unprecedented opportunity for some, but the deskilling of craft and the rise of factory work meant dislocation for others. Journeymen for Jesus explores how the artisan community in one city, Baltimore, responded to these life-changing developments during the years of the early republic. Baltimore in the Jacksonian years (1820s and 1830s) was America's third largest city. Its unions rivaled those of New York and Philadelphia in organization and militancy, and it was also a stronghold of evangelical Methodism. These circumstances created a powerful mix at a time when workers were confronting the negative effects of industrialism. Many of them found within Methodism and its populist spirituality an empowering force that inspired their refusal to accept dependency and second-class citizenship. Historians often portray evangelical Protestantism as either a top-down means of social control or as a bottom-up process that created passive workers. Sutton, however, reveals a populist evangelicalism that undergirded the producer tradition dominant among those supportive of trade union goals. Producers were not socialists or social democrats, but they were anticapitalist and reform-minded. In populist evangelicalism they discovered a potent language and ethic for their discontent. Journeymen for Jesus presents a rich and unromanticized portrait of artisan culture in early America. In the process, it adds to our understanding of the class tensions present in Jacksonian America.

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372

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Penn State Press

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0271044128

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9780271044125

A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. Containing the Selectmen's Minutes from 1764 Through 1768

By: William Henry Whitmore,William Summer Appleton,Edward Webster McGlenen,Walter Kendall Watkins

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A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. Containing the Selectmen's Minutes from 1764 Through 1768

By: William Henry Whitmore,William Summer Appleton,Edward Webster McGlenen,Walter Kendall Watkins

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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362

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385514010

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9783385514010

A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. Containing the Selectmen's Minutes from 1754 Through 1763

By: William Henry Whitmore,William Summer Appleton,Edward Webster McGlenen,Walter Kendall Watkins

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A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. Containing the Selectmen's Minutes from 1754 Through 1763

By: William Henry Whitmore,William Summer Appleton,Edward Webster McGlenen,Walter Kendall Watkins

Reprint of the original, first published in 1887.

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334

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3385521769

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9783385521766

Related Families of Botetourt County, Virginia

By: John William Austin,Rebecca H. R. Austin

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By: John William Austin,Rebecca H. R. Austin

This is the definitive work on Americans taken prisoner during the Revolutionary War. The bulk of the book is devoted to personal accounts, many of them moving, of the conditions endured by U.S. prisoners at the hands of the British, as preserved in journals or diaries kept by physicians, ships' captains, and the prisoners themselves. Of greater genealogical interest is the alphabetical list of 8,000 men who were imprisoned on the British vessel The Old Jersey, which the author copied from the papers of the British War Department and incorporated in the appendix to the work. Also included is a Muster Roll of Captain Abraham Shepherd's Company of Virginia Riflemen and a section on soldiers of the Pennsylvania Flying Camp who perished in prison, 1776-1777.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806350237

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9780806350233

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The Negro Southern League

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A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. Containing the Selectmen's Minutes from 1764 Through 1768

A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. Containing the Selectmen's Minutes from 1764 Through 1768

A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. Containing the Selectmen's Minutes from 1754 Through 1763

A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. Containing the Selectmen's Minutes from 1754 Through 1763

Related Families of Botetourt County, Virginia

Related Families of Botetourt County, Virginia

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