Historic Tales of Talladega - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historic Tales of Talladega write by E. Grace Jemison. This book was released on 1984. Historic Tales of Talladega available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Historic Tales of Talladega
Historic Tales of Talladega - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historic Tales of Talladega write by E. Grace Jemison. This book was released on 1959. Historic Tales of Talladega available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A very complete and well researched book of the facets of Talladega County, Alabama.
"Fear God and Walk Humbly"
"Fear God and Walk Humbly" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Fear God and Walk Humbly" write by James Mallory. This book was released on 2013-09-06. "Fear God and Walk Humbly" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A detailed journal of local, national, and foreign news, agricultural activities, the weather, and family events, from an uncommon Southerner Most inhabitants of the Old South, especially the plain folk, devoted more time to leisurely activities—drinking, gambling, hunting, fishing, and just loafing—than did James Mallory, a workaholic agriculturalist, who experimented with new plants, orchards, and manures, as well as the latest farming equipment and techniques. A Whig and a Unionist, a temperance man and a peace lover, ambitious yet caring, business-minded and progressive, he supported railroad construction as well as formal education, even for girls. His cotton production—four bales per field hand in 1850, nearly twice the average for the best cotton lands in southern Alabama and Georgia--tells more about Mallory's steady work habits than about his class status. But his most obvious eccentricity—what gave him reason to be remembered—was that nearly every day from 1843 until his death in 1877, Mallory kept a detailed journal of local, national, and often foreign news, agricultural activities, the weather, and especially events involving his family, relatives, slaves, and neighbors in Talladega County, Alabama. Mallory's journal spans three major periods of the South's history--the boom years before the Civil War, the rise and collapse of the Confederacy, and the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War. He owned slaves and raised cotton, but Mallory was never more than a hardworking farmer, who described agriculture in poetical language as “the greatest [interest] of all.”
Talladega
Talladega - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talladega write by Walter Belt White. This book was released on 2002. Talladega available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Talladega, Alabama, best known for its popular speedway, is also a town of enchanting old homes, historic institutions, and fascinating people. In this pictorial review, the reader travels over diverse paths-from winding Indian trails to the fastest racetrack on earth-into the rich and colorful heritage of a landmark Southern community. Talladega: Pathways to the Past invites both longtime residents and newcomers alike to watch a Native American ballgame, experience an Indian battle, peer into Old South plantation life, step into a notorious saloon, behold a feast at a world-famous hotel, and thrill at the speed of race cars. The rambler views quaint nineteenth-century storefronts, sees the state's oldest courthouse still in use, strolls through the historic Silk Stocking District, discovers the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind, greets youngsters at the Presbyterian Home for Children, tours one of the nation's oldest historically black colleges, and relaxes at Shocco Springs. Vintage photographs within these pages bring truly extraordinary people to life, including the "Father of Radio," the only Alabama nurse to give her life during World War I, a noted author of popular plantation tales, a world-renowned sculptor, the founder of one of the nation's largest tourist agencies, and the first Alabamian inducted in Statuary Hall in the National Capitol. Perhaps more importantly, this volume showcases everyday folks doing everyday things, thus preserving numerous slices of daily life in small-town Alabama.
Taming Alabama
Taming Alabama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taming Alabama write by Paul McWhorter Pruitt (Jr.). This book was released on 2010-07-20. Taming Alabama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taming Alabama focuses on persons and groups who sought to bring about reforms in the political, legal, and social worlds of Alabama. Most of the subjects of these essays accepted the fundamental values of nineteenth and early twentieth century white southern society; and all believed, or came to believe, in the transforming power of law. As a starting point in creating the groundwork of genuine civility and progress in the state, these reformers insisted on equal treatment and due process in elections, allocation of resources, and legal proceedings. To an educator like Julia Tutwiler or a clergyman like James F. Smith, due process was a question of simple fairness or Christian principle. To lawyers like Benjamin F. Porter, Thomas Goode Jones, or Henry D. Clayton, devotion to due process was part of the true religion of the common law. To a former Populist radical like Joseph C. Manning, due process and a free ballot were requisites for the transformation of society.
