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Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian. Born to Presbyterian grain-growers in rural New Jersey, he was never quite satisfied with the agricultural life he seemed destined to inherit. Fithian longed for something more- to improve himself in a revolutionary world that was making upward mobility possible. Fithian is best known for the diary that he wrote in 1773-74 while working as a tutor at...
Author
Publisher
Mercer University Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
11 unnumbered pages of plates, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Of Augustus Benners's Life -- Prelude to War: 1850-1860 -- The Civil War Years: 1861-May 1865 -- The Reconstruction Years: May 1865-1877 -- The Later Years, 1878-1885.
Author
Series
North Caroliniana Society imprints volume no. 41
Publisher
Office of Archives and History, NC Department of Cultural Resources
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 257 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, facsimiles, photographs ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines what life was like for children who grew up as slaves in the United States, describing the conditions in which they lived, the work they did, how they were educated, and their efforts to obtain freedom.
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