Alan Harding
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780198263692
- eISBN:
- 9780191601149
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198263694.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Trevecca College, founded by Lady Huntingdon in 1768, was one of the first institutions to be concerned exclusively with training for Christian ministry; it was significant both because of the ...
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Trevecca College, founded by Lady Huntingdon in 1768, was one of the first institutions to be concerned exclusively with training for Christian ministry; it was significant both because of the influence that its achievements (and shortcomings) had upon later forms of ministerial education, and for the impact on evangelical and other congregations of the more than two hundred students who attended Trevecca in the twenty-three years of its existence. The chapter discusses the origins of the college, the initial plans for its curriculum and staffing, and the backgrounds and recruitment of the students. It describes the often haphazard nature of the educational regime at Trevecca (including the conflicting demands of study and preaching); the college’s involvement in foreign missions; its theology; and the diverse sources of authority and influence to which the students were subject. The successor to Trevecca opened at Cheshunt in 1792; its ground rules (particularly clearly defined courses of study, and strict limits on outside preaching) showed that some of the lessons of Trevecca had been learned.Less
Trevecca College, founded by Lady Huntingdon in 1768, was one of the first institutions to be concerned exclusively with training for Christian ministry; it was significant both because of the influence that its achievements (and shortcomings) had upon later forms of ministerial education, and for the impact on evangelical and other congregations of the more than two hundred students who attended Trevecca in the twenty-three years of its existence. The chapter discusses the origins of the college, the initial plans for its curriculum and staffing, and the backgrounds and recruitment of the students. It describes the often haphazard nature of the educational regime at Trevecca (including the conflicting demands of study and preaching); the college’s involvement in foreign missions; its theology; and the diverse sources of authority and influence to which the students were subject. The successor to Trevecca opened at Cheshunt in 1792; its ground rules (particularly clearly defined courses of study, and strict limits on outside preaching) showed that some of the lessons of Trevecca had been learned.
Allan R. Ellenberger
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813174310
- eISBN:
- 9780813174822
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813174310.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Born in Savannah, Georgia, Miriam Hopkins was a product of the South. In true Southern fashion, her family proved a challenge to her throughout her life. She began her career in vaudeville and moved ...
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Born in Savannah, Georgia, Miriam Hopkins was a product of the South. In true Southern fashion, her family proved a challenge to her throughout her life. She began her career in vaudeville and moved on to Broadway and Hollywood, with stints in radio and television. Examples of her screen work include a dance hall prostitute in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the scandalous The Story of Temple Drake, and The Old Maid, one of two films she made with Bette Davis, who always brought out the worst in Hopkins. In 1935, she was Becky Sharp, in the first all-Technicolor feature film (and her only Academy Award nomination).
Hopkins had a legendary reputation for being difficult. Whatever drove her—ambition, insecurity, or something altogether different—we cannot say, but she often conflicted with her costars. And no matter where she worked, she fearlessly tackled the powers-that-be, from the venerated Samuel Goldwyn to the irascible Jack Warner.
But there’s more to Miriam Hopkins. She shouldn’t be remembered for her temperament alone but for her catalog of work as an exceptional actress. Hopkins, who died shortly before her seventieth birthday in October 1972, remains a thoroughly underappreciated performer, one whose rich, and quite prolific, career merits a reexamination.
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Born in Savannah, Georgia, Miriam Hopkins was a product of the South. In true Southern fashion, her family proved a challenge to her throughout her life. She began her career in vaudeville and moved on to Broadway and Hollywood, with stints in radio and television. Examples of her screen work include a dance hall prostitute in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the scandalous The Story of Temple Drake, and The Old Maid, one of two films she made with Bette Davis, who always brought out the worst in Hopkins. In 1935, she was Becky Sharp, in the first all-Technicolor feature film (and her only Academy Award nomination).
Hopkins had a legendary reputation for being difficult. Whatever drove her—ambition, insecurity, or something altogether different—we cannot say, but she often conflicted with her costars. And no matter where she worked, she fearlessly tackled the powers-that-be, from the venerated Samuel Goldwyn to the irascible Jack Warner.
But there’s more to Miriam Hopkins. She shouldn’t be remembered for her temperament alone but for her catalog of work as an exceptional actress. Hopkins, who died shortly before her seventieth birthday in October 1972, remains a thoroughly underappreciated performer, one whose rich, and quite prolific, career merits a reexamination.
Jago Morrison
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719084362
- eISBN:
- 9781781707098
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719084362.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and ...
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Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and political thinker. With new, historically contextualised readings of all of his major works, this is the first study to view Achebe's oeuvre in its entirety, from Things Fall Apart and the early novels, through the revolutionary Ahiara Declaration – previously attributed to Emeka Ojukwu – to the revealing final works The Education of a British Educated Child and There Was a Country. Contesting previous interpretations which align Achebe too easily with this or that nationalist programme, the book reveals Achebe as a much more troubled figure than critics have habitually assumed. Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of Achebe's work in the Twenty-First Century.Less
Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and political thinker. With new, historically contextualised readings of all of his major works, this is the first study to view Achebe's oeuvre in its entirety, from Things Fall Apart and the early novels, through the revolutionary Ahiara Declaration – previously attributed to Emeka Ojukwu – to the revealing final works The Education of a British Educated Child and There Was a Country. Contesting previous interpretations which align Achebe too easily with this or that nationalist programme, the book reveals Achebe as a much more troubled figure than critics have habitually assumed. Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of Achebe's work in the Twenty-First Century.
Andrew Billingsley
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195161793
- eISBN:
- 9780199849512
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161793.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
A study of the historical evolution of the black church as agent of social reform could have no more authentic a setting than Savannah, Georgia. It is where the oldest continuous black congregation ...
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A study of the historical evolution of the black church as agent of social reform could have no more authentic a setting than Savannah, Georgia. It is where the oldest continuous black congregation in all of North America can be found. And throughout its 225-year history (since 1773), the First African Baptist Church repeatedly has been drawn into the community to deal with social issues of a nonreligious nature. The Laurel Grove South Cemetery, located at the end of Victory Drive on the western edge of the city, is discussed. The contributions of Rev. George Leile, Rev. Andrew Bryan, Rev. Henry C. Cunningham and Rev. Andrew Marshall to the evolution of the black church in Savannah are described in detail.Less
A study of the historical evolution of the black church as agent of social reform could have no more authentic a setting than Savannah, Georgia. It is where the oldest continuous black congregation in all of North America can be found. And throughout its 225-year history (since 1773), the First African Baptist Church repeatedly has been drawn into the community to deal with social issues of a nonreligious nature. The Laurel Grove South Cemetery, located at the end of Victory Drive on the western edge of the city, is discussed. The contributions of Rev. George Leile, Rev. Andrew Bryan, Rev. Henry C. Cunningham and Rev. Andrew Marshall to the evolution of the black church in Savannah are described in detail.
Andrew Billingsley
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195161793
- eISBN:
- 9780199849512
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161793.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter discusses the contribution of General William T. Sherman to the black church. Gen. Sherman's brilliant and bloody march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the fall and winter of ...
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This chapter discusses the contribution of General William T. Sherman to the black church. Gen. Sherman's brilliant and bloody march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the fall and winter of 1864–65 profoundly affected the black community and the black church. Just as profoundly did the black people and their church affect the success of Sherman's mission. After Sherman's conquest, the Zion Baptist Church would become separate and free, and Brother Ephraim would lead this independent church into the early years of freedom. The quest of Gen. Sherman from Atlanta to Savannah is described. Twenty black religious leaders were the special guests of the general. They were summoned to help the general and President Lincoln on how to implement the Emancipation Proclamation. After six weeks in Savannah, Sherman left the city for his campaign through the Carolinas.Less
This chapter discusses the contribution of General William T. Sherman to the black church. Gen. Sherman's brilliant and bloody march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the fall and winter of 1864–65 profoundly affected the black community and the black church. Just as profoundly did the black people and their church affect the success of Sherman's mission. After Sherman's conquest, the Zion Baptist Church would become separate and free, and Brother Ephraim would lead this independent church into the early years of freedom. The quest of Gen. Sherman from Atlanta to Savannah is described. Twenty black religious leaders were the special guests of the general. They were summoned to help the general and President Lincoln on how to implement the Emancipation Proclamation. After six weeks in Savannah, Sherman left the city for his campaign through the Carolinas.
Andrew Billingsley
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195161793
- eISBN:
- 9780199849512
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161793.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The black churches in Savannah responded in two distinct ways to the collapse of the Confederacy and the crisis of emancipation. They expanded their churches, and established an institutional ...
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The black churches in Savannah responded in two distinct ways to the collapse of the Confederacy and the crisis of emancipation. They expanded their churches, and established an institutional hegemony in the black community that would last for more than a century and a half. These churches were functioning as social institutions as defined by Du Bois, Frazier, and C. Eric Lincoln. In addition, the church also moved resolutely into community action, thus executing the “communal” dimension of its mission as set forth by Lincoln and Mamiya. Education, business and economic development, and political action are among the areas of social reform in which churches were preeminent in the black community. After working hard and successfully to influence the state Legislature to establish the first college for blacks in Georgia, Emanuel King Love convinced the state authorities that Richard R. Wright Sr. should become this fledgling college's first president.Less
The black churches in Savannah responded in two distinct ways to the collapse of the Confederacy and the crisis of emancipation. They expanded their churches, and established an institutional hegemony in the black community that would last for more than a century and a half. These churches were functioning as social institutions as defined by Du Bois, Frazier, and C. Eric Lincoln. In addition, the church also moved resolutely into community action, thus executing the “communal” dimension of its mission as set forth by Lincoln and Mamiya. Education, business and economic development, and political action are among the areas of social reform in which churches were preeminent in the black community. After working hard and successfully to influence the state Legislature to establish the first college for blacks in Georgia, Emanuel King Love convinced the state authorities that Richard R. Wright Sr. should become this fledgling college's first president.
Andrew Billingsley
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195161793
- eISBN:
- 9780199849512
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161793.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The evolution of the black church in Savannah as agent of social reform reached its zenith during the civil rights era. Rev. Ralph Mark Gilbert, pastor of the First African Baptist Church from ...
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The evolution of the black church in Savannah as agent of social reform reached its zenith during the civil rights era. Rev. Ralph Mark Gilbert, pastor of the First African Baptist Church from 1939–1956, is generally considered the father of the civil rights movement in Savannah. Gilbert inherited a mantle of activist leadership. He was a leader in the political life of blacks in Georgia. He was also a great builder of the church as a community institution. Building on the groundwork laid under the leadership of the Rev. Gilbert, W. W. Law, the NAACP, and the churches, Savannah blacks were ready for action in 1960 when the student sit-in movement was launched by four black students in North Carolina who sat down at a Greensboro lunch counter. In addition, the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum is described.Less
The evolution of the black church in Savannah as agent of social reform reached its zenith during the civil rights era. Rev. Ralph Mark Gilbert, pastor of the First African Baptist Church from 1939–1956, is generally considered the father of the civil rights movement in Savannah. Gilbert inherited a mantle of activist leadership. He was a leader in the political life of blacks in Georgia. He was also a great builder of the church as a community institution. Building on the groundwork laid under the leadership of the Rev. Gilbert, W. W. Law, the NAACP, and the churches, Savannah blacks were ready for action in 1960 when the student sit-in movement was launched by four black students in North Carolina who sat down at a Greensboro lunch counter. In addition, the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum is described.
Sean F. Johnston
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199692118
- eISBN:
- 9780191740732
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199692118.003.0005
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
During the war, theoretical ideas had been translated with dizzying rapidity into immense industrial enterprises. The concentration of wartime experience at a handful of centres was crucial in ...
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During the war, theoretical ideas had been translated with dizzying rapidity into immense industrial enterprises. The concentration of wartime experience at a handful of centres was crucial in nurturing the new specialists. But the drive for the new field was provided by glimmers of technological possibilities and the opportunities that they might provide to build a new discipline. The design of ‘atomic piles’, or nuclear chain-reactors, became the aspiration and focus of activity at a half-dozen national labs. In the USA, ‘nucleonics’ was promoted as a new field, while in the UK nuclear engineering received little support from administrators as a new discipline. In each country, empirical engineering science became the focus of attention, leading to hybrid scientist-engineers unlike their pre-war counterparts.Less
During the war, theoretical ideas had been translated with dizzying rapidity into immense industrial enterprises. The concentration of wartime experience at a handful of centres was crucial in nurturing the new specialists. But the drive for the new field was provided by glimmers of technological possibilities and the opportunities that they might provide to build a new discipline. The design of ‘atomic piles’, or nuclear chain-reactors, became the aspiration and focus of activity at a half-dozen national labs. In the USA, ‘nucleonics’ was promoted as a new field, while in the UK nuclear engineering received little support from administrators as a new discipline. In each country, empirical engineering science became the focus of attention, leading to hybrid scientist-engineers unlike their pre-war counterparts.
Adam King, Christopher L. Thornock, and Keith Stephenson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781683400103
- eISBN:
- 9781683400318
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683400103.003.0008
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
In this chapter we explore the role of the Hollywood site in the development of a unique version of Mississippian political culture that emerged along the middle Savannah River Valley. We argue this ...
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In this chapter we explore the role of the Hollywood site in the development of a unique version of Mississippian political culture that emerged along the middle Savannah River Valley. We argue this variant of Mississippian was inspired by the coming together of material culture, belief traditions, and people from the Central Mississippi valley and the middle Savannah valley. Those divergent traditions and practices were entangled through a set of mortuary rituals emplaced within Hollywood’s Mound B. What resulted was a new settlement system, emphasis on monumentality, and ceremonialism that was a unique historical creation.Less
In this chapter we explore the role of the Hollywood site in the development of a unique version of Mississippian political culture that emerged along the middle Savannah River Valley. We argue this variant of Mississippian was inspired by the coming together of material culture, belief traditions, and people from the Central Mississippi valley and the middle Savannah valley. Those divergent traditions and practices were entangled through a set of mortuary rituals emplaced within Hollywood’s Mound B. What resulted was a new settlement system, emphasis on monumentality, and ceremonialism that was a unique historical creation.
Noeleen McIlvenna
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469624037
- eISBN:
- 9781469624051
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469624037.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This chapter describes everyday life for the working class of England, then tells the story of the difficult first years of the settlement of Savannah and surrounding forts. The high rates of illness ...
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This chapter describes everyday life for the working class of England, then tells the story of the difficult first years of the settlement of Savannah and surrounding forts. The high rates of illness and mortality, combined with swampy land, led to low productivity and to disillusionment with the Trustees. Irish convict servants were blamed and punished severely. Gradually the workers realized they must fend for themselves and began both hunting for food and demanding better wages. This led to a group of Scottish gentlemen protesting the current conditions to the Trustees.Less
This chapter describes everyday life for the working class of England, then tells the story of the difficult first years of the settlement of Savannah and surrounding forts. The high rates of illness and mortality, combined with swampy land, led to low productivity and to disillusionment with the Trustees. Irish convict servants were blamed and punished severely. Gradually the workers realized they must fend for themselves and began both hunting for food and demanding better wages. This led to a group of Scottish gentlemen protesting the current conditions to the Trustees.
Tiya Miles
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469626338
- eISBN:
- 9781469626352
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469626338.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter recounts the rise of Savannah, Georgia as a key tourist attraction for visitors interested in the paranormal. The chapter focuses on the Sorrel-Weed House, reportedly Savannah’s most ...
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This chapter recounts the rise of Savannah, Georgia as a key tourist attraction for visitors interested in the paranormal. The chapter focuses on the Sorrel-Weed House, reportedly Savannah’s most haunted abode, to examine how stories of race, gender, and sexual improprieties during slavery drive “dark tourism” ventures today. It connects this analysis to historical context about black slaves, free blacks, and Haitian immigrants in 1830s-1860s Savannah.Less
This chapter recounts the rise of Savannah, Georgia as a key tourist attraction for visitors interested in the paranormal. The chapter focuses on the Sorrel-Weed House, reportedly Savannah’s most haunted abode, to examine how stories of race, gender, and sexual improprieties during slavery drive “dark tourism” ventures today. It connects this analysis to historical context about black slaves, free blacks, and Haitian immigrants in 1830s-1860s Savannah.
Susana Onega
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719068782
- eISBN:
- 9781781701898
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719068782.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Although he published the autobiographical meditation Home and Exile in 2002, Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah (1987) remains the culmination point of his achievement as a writer of fiction, ...
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Although he published the autobiographical meditation Home and Exile in 2002, Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah (1987) remains the culmination point of his achievement as a writer of fiction, as well as being an elaboration of his earlier novelistic interests. Dealing in coded terms with Nigeria's calcified power-elite, and the bankruptcy of its post-independence nepotistic politics, Anthills of the Savannah is in many respects a sequel to the penultimate novel A Man of the People (1966), which explored themes of political corruption and military takeover on the eve of Biafra. In the fifth and final novel, Achebe's view of that elite and its position in the wider African context has become more uncompromising and – at least in theory – more attuned to gender and populist ideas. Addressing Nigeria's elite as himself a self-conscious member of that group, Achebe is unambivalent in his view of leadership as the chief pivot of political and also of economic transformation. The novel clears a space for women to be themselves the prefiguring subjects of a new social and political vision.Less
Although he published the autobiographical meditation Home and Exile in 2002, Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah (1987) remains the culmination point of his achievement as a writer of fiction, as well as being an elaboration of his earlier novelistic interests. Dealing in coded terms with Nigeria's calcified power-elite, and the bankruptcy of its post-independence nepotistic politics, Anthills of the Savannah is in many respects a sequel to the penultimate novel A Man of the People (1966), which explored themes of political corruption and military takeover on the eve of Biafra. In the fifth and final novel, Achebe's view of that elite and its position in the wider African context has become more uncompromising and – at least in theory – more attuned to gender and populist ideas. Addressing Nigeria's elite as himself a self-conscious member of that group, Achebe is unambivalent in his view of leadership as the chief pivot of political and also of economic transformation. The novel clears a space for women to be themselves the prefiguring subjects of a new social and political vision.
James M. Woods
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035321
- eISBN:
- 9780813039046
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035321.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
Two episodes in the career of Fr. Jeremiah O'Neill illustrate the progression of feelings regarding the Irish in Savannah and much of the South. At first regarded as dangerous aliens, welcomed only ...
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Two episodes in the career of Fr. Jeremiah O'Neill illustrate the progression of feelings regarding the Irish in Savannah and much of the South. At first regarded as dangerous aliens, welcomed only to perform hard manual labor too dangerous to be carried out by African slaves, on the eve of the Civil War these Irish were needed as future allies in the South's coming struggle for independence. Ireland's influx was so massive in the United States that, after 1840, these immigrants became the face of Catholicism to Americans, North and South. How the Irish were first viewed as aliens and then became Confederates in one of the truly amazing episodes in southern history. However, natives of the Emerald Isle had migrated to the South long before the 1840s.Less
Two episodes in the career of Fr. Jeremiah O'Neill illustrate the progression of feelings regarding the Irish in Savannah and much of the South. At first regarded as dangerous aliens, welcomed only to perform hard manual labor too dangerous to be carried out by African slaves, on the eve of the Civil War these Irish were needed as future allies in the South's coming struggle for independence. Ireland's influx was so massive in the United States that, after 1840, these immigrants became the face of Catholicism to Americans, North and South. How the Irish were first viewed as aliens and then became Confederates in one of the truly amazing episodes in southern history. However, natives of the Emerald Isle had migrated to the South long before the 1840s.
Barbara Brooks Tomblin
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125541
- eISBN:
- 9780813135311
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125541.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
As December 1864 came to a close, General William T. Sherman's army approached its objective: Savannah, Georgia. Sherman's march across Georgia afforded many Union soldiers the opportunity to become ...
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As December 1864 came to a close, General William T. Sherman's army approached its objective: Savannah, Georgia. Sherman's march across Georgia afforded many Union soldiers the opportunity to become acquainted with and befriend black civilians. Young northern soldiers hired black men as servants, teaching them to read and offering them tips on how to survive in their new world of freedom. In letters home, soldiers wrote of their admiration for blacks who assisted escaping Union prisoners and guided Union soldiers on foraging parties in search of food. The advance of Sherman's army across Georgia to Savannah and then northward encouraged thousands of slaves to seek freedom and start new lives. For many more African Americans along the southern coast or in Union-occupied areas inland, the final months of the Civil War brought a measure of peace and stability. For other African Americans, especially those in the path of Sherman's advance, 1865 brought turmoil.Less
As December 1864 came to a close, General William T. Sherman's army approached its objective: Savannah, Georgia. Sherman's march across Georgia afforded many Union soldiers the opportunity to become acquainted with and befriend black civilians. Young northern soldiers hired black men as servants, teaching them to read and offering them tips on how to survive in their new world of freedom. In letters home, soldiers wrote of their admiration for blacks who assisted escaping Union prisoners and guided Union soldiers on foraging parties in search of food. The advance of Sherman's army across Georgia to Savannah and then northward encouraged thousands of slaves to seek freedom and start new lives. For many more African Americans along the southern coast or in Union-occupied areas inland, the final months of the Civil War brought a measure of peace and stability. For other African Americans, especially those in the path of Sherman's advance, 1865 brought turmoil.
John T. Juricek
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034683
- eISBN:
- 9780813038582
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034683.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This chapter discusses Georgia after the end of the war which ended in October 1748 with the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. In November 1748, the British government decided upon a drastic reduction of ...
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This chapter discusses Georgia after the end of the war which ended in October 1748 with the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. In November 1748, the British government decided upon a drastic reduction of the military establishment in Georgia and South Carolina and Oglethorpe's regiment along with the three independent companies. The action resulted in a general exodus from the southern part of the colony to safer places. Georgian President Stephens noted that Georgia was now suffering more from Indian attacks. The action also resulted in a change of focus from the Anglo-Indian contacts along the Savannah River, and the authority to deal with the Indians finally devolved to the provincial government in Savannah.Less
This chapter discusses Georgia after the end of the war which ended in October 1748 with the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. In November 1748, the British government decided upon a drastic reduction of the military establishment in Georgia and South Carolina and Oglethorpe's regiment along with the three independent companies. The action resulted in a general exodus from the southern part of the colony to safer places. Georgian President Stephens noted that Georgia was now suffering more from Indian attacks. The action also resulted in a change of focus from the Anglo-Indian contacts along the Savannah River, and the authority to deal with the Indians finally devolved to the provincial government in Savannah.
Tyler Boulware
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035802
- eISBN:
- 9780813038209
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035802.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This chapter concerns the mid-eighteenth century Cherokee settlements. By 1750, four regions—the Lower, Middle, Valley, and Overhill Settlements—had been consistently recognized by both Euroamericans ...
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This chapter concerns the mid-eighteenth century Cherokee settlements. By 1750, four regions—the Lower, Middle, Valley, and Overhill Settlements—had been consistently recognized by both Euroamericans and Cherokees, with the Out Towns perhaps best characterized as an ephemeral quasi-region. Their locations were well known. The Lower and Middle Towns were mostly situated on the upper reaches of the Savannah and Little Tennessee Rivers, respectively. The Valley Settlements lay directly to the west of the Middle Towns along the Valley and Hiwassee Rivers, and the Overhills were primarily along the lower reaches of the Little Tennessee and Tellico Rivers. The Out Towns, which achieved temporary prominence during the Seven Years' War, existed to the north and east of the Middle Towns along the Tuckasegee River. While these brief descriptions might seem as if Cherokee regions were in proximity to one another, in fact the opposite is true.Less
This chapter concerns the mid-eighteenth century Cherokee settlements. By 1750, four regions—the Lower, Middle, Valley, and Overhill Settlements—had been consistently recognized by both Euroamericans and Cherokees, with the Out Towns perhaps best characterized as an ephemeral quasi-region. Their locations were well known. The Lower and Middle Towns were mostly situated on the upper reaches of the Savannah and Little Tennessee Rivers, respectively. The Valley Settlements lay directly to the west of the Middle Towns along the Valley and Hiwassee Rivers, and the Overhills were primarily along the lower reaches of the Little Tennessee and Tellico Rivers. The Out Towns, which achieved temporary prominence during the Seven Years' War, existed to the north and east of the Middle Towns along the Tuckasegee River. While these brief descriptions might seem as if Cherokee regions were in proximity to one another, in fact the opposite is true.
Stephen R. Haynes
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780195395051
- eISBN:
- 9780199979288
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395051.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter describes the genesis of the kneel-in movement in the months after the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960. It details the first wave of kneel-in protests that began in Atlanta in August of ...
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This chapter describes the genesis of the kneel-in movement in the months after the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960. It details the first wave of kneel-in protests that began in Atlanta in August of that year as a collaboration between the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the Atlanta Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights. Emphasis is placed on how the kneel-ins were understood—by those who planned and engaged in them, by those inside the targeted churches, and by those who analyzed and publicized them. An interpretation that emphasizes kneel-ins' dramatic character is developed using the categories of “spectacle of exclusion” and “spectacle of embrace.” Conflicting views of the motives of those who engaged in kneel-ins are considered. Finally, 1960 kneel-in campaigns in Atlanta, Savannah and Memphis are described in detail.Less
This chapter describes the genesis of the kneel-in movement in the months after the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960. It details the first wave of kneel-in protests that began in Atlanta in August of that year as a collaboration between the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the Atlanta Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights. Emphasis is placed on how the kneel-ins were understood—by those who planned and engaged in them, by those inside the targeted churches, and by those who analyzed and publicized them. An interpretation that emphasizes kneel-ins' dramatic character is developed using the categories of “spectacle of exclusion” and “spectacle of embrace.” Conflicting views of the motives of those who engaged in kneel-ins are considered. Finally, 1960 kneel-in campaigns in Atlanta, Savannah and Memphis are described in detail.
Allan R. Ellenberger
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813174310
- eISBN:
- 9780813174822
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813174310.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
“From a Fine Old Family” lays the groundwork for Hopkins’s complicated and erratic behavior. Hopkins’s family lineage is traced to her English roots and ancestors, many of whom were significant ...
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“From a Fine Old Family” lays the groundwork for Hopkins’s complicated and erratic behavior. Hopkins’s family lineage is traced to her English roots and ancestors, many of whom were significant historical figures. During Hopkins’s childhood in Savannah and Bainbridge, Georgia, her parents’ continual arguing destroys their marriage, and her father, Homer, leaves Savannah for Texas. Homer writes letters to Miriam and her sister, Ruby, but her mother, Ellen, intercepts them and his phone calls. Receiving no response, Homer moves on with his life. The division between mother and daughter begins in childhood. Ellen takes the girls to Syracuse, hoping to get Ruby enrolled in the university. When that does not work out, they end up in New York under the watchful eye of Ellen’s half-brother, Dixie Hines, a Broadway agent and columnist. Hopkins is sent to Goddard Seminary in Vermont for her final year of high school, where she gets her first taste of acting, breaking her ankle in the process. After graduation, she returns to New York and takes countless jobs until she decides to pursue dancing, taking lessons at several prestigious dance schools.Less
“From a Fine Old Family” lays the groundwork for Hopkins’s complicated and erratic behavior. Hopkins’s family lineage is traced to her English roots and ancestors, many of whom were significant historical figures. During Hopkins’s childhood in Savannah and Bainbridge, Georgia, her parents’ continual arguing destroys their marriage, and her father, Homer, leaves Savannah for Texas. Homer writes letters to Miriam and her sister, Ruby, but her mother, Ellen, intercepts them and his phone calls. Receiving no response, Homer moves on with his life. The division between mother and daughter begins in childhood. Ellen takes the girls to Syracuse, hoping to get Ruby enrolled in the university. When that does not work out, they end up in New York under the watchful eye of Ellen’s half-brother, Dixie Hines, a Broadway agent and columnist. Hopkins is sent to Goddard Seminary in Vermont for her final year of high school, where she gets her first taste of acting, breaking her ankle in the process. After graduation, she returns to New York and takes countless jobs until she decides to pursue dancing, taking lessons at several prestigious dance schools.
Albert C. Goodyear and Douglas A. Sain
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781683400349
- eISBN:
- 9781683401001
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683400349.003.0002
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
Located in a Pleistocene terrace on the Savannah River, evidence for a Pre-Clovis occupation of the Topper site is presented including radiocarbon and OSL dating of the Pleistocene sediments. Topper ...
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Located in a Pleistocene terrace on the Savannah River, evidence for a Pre-Clovis occupation of the Topper site is presented including radiocarbon and OSL dating of the Pleistocene sediments. Topper is a core and flake technology with numerous examples of small tools such as bend breaks, unifaces, small blades, and abundant lithic debris from chert quarrying. It has been named the Clariant complex. Pre-Clovis at Topper is pre-LGM and one of the oldest sites in the Western Hemisphere.Less
Located in a Pleistocene terrace on the Savannah River, evidence for a Pre-Clovis occupation of the Topper site is presented including radiocarbon and OSL dating of the Pleistocene sediments. Topper is a core and flake technology with numerous examples of small tools such as bend breaks, unifaces, small blades, and abundant lithic debris from chert quarrying. It has been named the Clariant complex. Pre-Clovis at Topper is pre-LGM and one of the oldest sites in the Western Hemisphere.
Henry G. Gole
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780813141763
- eISBN:
- 9780813142418
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813141763.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This chapter details Kay and Truman's return to New York City and Smith's next assignment at Fort Hamilton. During this period of his life Smith underwent a great deal of training which would prepare ...
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This chapter details Kay and Truman's return to New York City and Smith's next assignment at Fort Hamilton. During this period of his life Smith underwent a great deal of training which would prepare him for his later role as a military attaché, specifically at Fort Benning in Savannah, Georgia. Also in Georgia, Kay was involved in a horrible car crash and had a long recovery process that revealed her force of spirit and iron will.Less
This chapter details Kay and Truman's return to New York City and Smith's next assignment at Fort Hamilton. During this period of his life Smith underwent a great deal of training which would prepare him for his later role as a military attaché, specifically at Fort Benning in Savannah, Georgia. Also in Georgia, Kay was involved in a horrible car crash and had a long recovery process that revealed her force of spirit and iron will.
