Contents or Abstract: '; “...Slavery in the American experience / Drew Gilpin Faust -- Plantation landscapes of the antebellum South / John Michael Vlach -- The world of the plantation slaves / Charles Joyner -- Female slaves in the plantation South / Deborah Gray White -- Black life in old South cities / David R. ...”

Contents or Abstract: '; “...Washington's remarkable generation -- Virginia's trinity of immortals -- George Washington and three women -- War and state formation in revolutionary America -- The federalized militia debate -- Military education before West Point -- The martial spirit in the antebellum South -- Fomenters of revolution....”
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Contents or Abstract: '; “...Mountain neighbors : two communities on the frontier of the antebellum South -- "This unpatriotic imputation" : mountain images in secession and war -- Rebels, traitors, and Tories : loyalty and community in north Georgia, 1862-1863 -- Hellish deeds in a Christian land : the social dynamics of violence in north Georgia's guerrilla war, 1864-1865 -- The war they knew : reconstructing community and memory in north Georgia, 1865-1900....”
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Contents or Abstract: '; “...In secret places : acquiring literacy in slave communities -- A coveted possession : literacy in the first days of freedom -- The men are actually clamoring for books : African American soldiers and the educational mission -- We must get education for ourselves and our children : advocacy for education -- We are striving to dwo business on our own hook : organizing schools on the ground -- We are laboring under many difficulties : African American teachers in freedpeople's schools -- A long and tedious road to travel for knowledge : textbooks and freedpeople's schools -- If anybody wants an education, it is me : students in freedpeople's schools -- First movings of the waters : the creation of common school systems for Black and White students -- Epilogue -- Appendix : African Americans, literacy, and the law in the antebellum South....”
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Contents or Abstract: '; “...This intricate question: the "American School" of ethnology and the Zealy daguerreotypes / by Molly Rogers -- The life and times of Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty / Gregg Hecimovich -- History in the face of slavery: A family portrait / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- Portraits of endurance: Enslaved people and vernacular photography in the Antebellum South / Matthew Fox-Amato -- Part II. Photographic practice. ...”

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