Tumult and Silence at Second Creek : An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy / / Winthrop D. Jordan

• Autore: Jordan Winthrop D
• Pubblicazione: Baton Rouge, : Louisiana State University Press, 1995
• Edizione: Rev. ed./Louisiana pbk. ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Disciplina: 976.22600496073; 976.22605
• Soggetto topico: Plantation life - Mississippi - Adams County - History - 19th century; African Americans - Mississippi - Adams County - History - 19th century; Slave rebellions - Mississippi - Adams County
• Soggetto geografico: Adams County (Miss.) Race relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and ind index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface to the Revised Edition; Note of Appreciation and Thanks; Abbreviations and Notations on Sources; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 An Episode in May; CHAPTER 2 Evidentiary Sounds and Voices; CHAPTER 3 Of Water, Land, and Work; CHAPTER 4 Of the Planting Classes; CHAPTER 5 Of One Kind of Politics; CHAPTER 6 The Trials; CHAPTER 7 The Rebels; CHAPTER 8 Road Travelers; CHAPTER 9 Of Women White and Black; CHAPTER 10 Of Ideologies and Occupations; CHAPTER 11 Of Means and Leaders; CHAPTER 12 The Voices of Reprise; CHAPTER 13 A Separate Peace ; Appendixes: Documents and Cast of CharactersNote on the Documents; DOCUMENT A: Lemuel P. Conner's Record (Literal); DOCUMENT B: Lemuel P. Conner's Record (Augmented); DOCUMENT C: Susan Sillers Darden Diary; DOCUMENT D: How[ell] Hines to Governor; DOCUMENT E: Jo. D. L. Davenport to Governor; DOCUMENT F: Benjamin L. C. Wailes Diary; DOCUMENTS G: Louisa and Joseph Lovell Letters; DOCUMENT H: William J. Minor Plantation Diary; DOCUMENT I: S[ophia] H. Hunt to Jennie [Hughes]; DOCUMENTS: J William H. Ker to Mary S. Ker; DOCUMENT K: A. K. Farrar to Governor; DOCUMENT L: Van S. Bennett Dairy ; DOCUMENT M: Statement of Pleasant ScottDOCUMENT N: Statement of James Carter; DOCUMENT O: Testimony of Rebecca A. Minor; DOCUMENT P: Testimony of William T. Martin; DOCUMENT Q: Brief on Loyalty, Katherine S. Minor Claim; DOCUMENT R: Opinion on the Minors' Role at the Racetrack; DOCUMENT S: John McFarland to ""My Dear Sir""; DOCUMENT T: Lemuel Conner to General Polk; DOCUMENT Y: Charlie Davenport Interview (Version Y); DOCUMENT Z: Charlie Davenport Interview (Version Z); Cast of Characters; Black, by Own Name (If Known); Black, by Owner's Name or Not Owned; White ; Author's Addenda (Revised Edition)Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
• Sommario/riassunto: In the war-fevered spring and summer of 1861, a group of slaves in Adams County, Mississippi, conspired to gain their freedom by overthrowing and murdering their white masters. The conspiracy was discovered, the plotters were arrested and tried, and at least forty slaves in and around Natchez were hanged. By November the affair was over, and the planters of the district united to conceal the event behind a veil of silence. In 1971, Winthrop D. Jordan came upon the central document, previously unanalyzed by modern scholars, upon which this extraordinary book is based - a record of the testimony
• Titolo autorizzato: Tumult and Silence at Second Creek
• ISBN: 0-8071-5119-X; 0-8071-4198-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247957703316
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