Day: April 30, 2012

  • Deconstructing a Manumission Document: Mary Stafford’s Free Paper The Georgia Historical Quarterly Volume 89, Number 3 (Fall 2005) pages 285-317 Mary R. Bullard This article examines the manumission document of Mary Stafford. In early nineteenth-century Georgia, manumitting one’s slave property was a personal matter loosely regulated by the state. In exchange for a one dollar…

  • Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Penn State University Press 2005-08-18 304 pages 6 x 9, 8 illustrations/5 maps Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-02693-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-271-02694-7 Elizabeth W. Kiddy, Associate Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania Blacks of the Rosary tells the…

  • Lawrence Powell delivers a gripping history of New Orleans in ‘Accidental City’ New Orleans Times-Picayune 2012-04-02 Chris Waddington At first, I was disappointed to hear that Lawrence Powell’s history of the Crescent City ended with the Battle of New Orleans. I wanted the Tulane University scholar to bring me a little closer to the present.…