The Deepest South of All - 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 The Deepest South of All write by Richard Grant. This book was released on 2021-08-31. The Deepest South of All available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent white families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natchez is also progressive enough to elect a gay black man for mayor with 91 percent of the vote"--
The Deepest South
The Deepest South - 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 The Deepest South write by Gerald Horne. This book was released on 2007-03-01. The Deepest South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and Brazil. The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals - before and after Emancipation -- continued to actively participate in this odious commerce by creating diplomatic, social, and political ties with Brazil, which today has the largest population of African origin outside of Africa itself. Proslavery Americans began to accelerate their presence in Brazil in the 1830s, creating alliances there—sometimes friendly, often contentious—with Portuguese, Spanish, British, and other foreign slave traders to buy, sell, and transport African slaves, particularly from the eastern shores of that beleaguered continent. Spokesmen of the Slave South drew up ambitious plans to seize the Amazon and develop this region by deporting the enslaved African-Americans there to toil. When the South seceded from the Union, it received significant support from Brazil, which correctly assumed that a Confederate defeat would be a mortal blow to slavery south of the border. After the Civil War, many Confederates, with slaves in tow, sought refuge as well as the survival of their peculiar institution in Brazil. Based on extensive research from archives on five continents, Gerald Horne breaks startling new ground in the history of slavery, uncovering its global dimensions and the degrees to which its defenders went to maintain it.
Dispatches from Pluto
Dispatches from Pluto - 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 Dispatches from Pluto write by Richard Grant. This book was released on 2015-10-13. Dispatches from Pluto available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New Yorkers Grant and his girlfriend Mariah decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. This is their journey of discovery to a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters, capture the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, and delve deeply into the Delta's lingering racial tensions. As the nomadic Grant learns to settle down, he falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home.
Deep South
Deep South - 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 Deep South write by Paul Theroux. This book was released on 2015. Deep South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Theroux's keen traveler's eye."--
Slave Country
Slave Country - 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 Slave Country write by Adam Rothman. This book was released on 2005-04-25. Slave Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men, and reveals the enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South.
