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A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi - Richard C. Cortner - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi - Richard C. Cortner - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

This absorbing book is a systematic analysis of the litigation in Brown v. Mississippi , in which the Supreme Court made a pathbreaking decision in 1936 showing the unconstitutionality of coerced confessions. The case exonerated Ed Brown, Henry Shields, and Arthur (Yank) Ellington, three black sharecroppers who had confessed under torture to the murder of a white planter. This case, similar to the notorious “Scottsboro” case in Alabama, paved the way for the controversial MIRANDA decision thirty years later. This book presents a dramatic story of both tragedy and triumph, one in which human nature is revealed at its best and at its worst, with courage, decency, and self-sacrifice contrasting sharply with bigotry, brutality, and indifference. Ultimately, however, A “Scottsboro” Case in Mississippi is an account of how the Supreme Court came to make a precedent-setting decision enhancing the protection of liberty under the Constitution.

DKK 333.00
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Mississippi in Africa - Alan Huffman - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Mississippi in Africa - Alan Huffman - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross's heirs contested the will for more than a decade, prompting a deadly revolt in which a group of slaves burned Ross's mansion to the ground. But the will was ultimately upheld. The slaves then emigrated to their new home, where they battled the local tribes and built vast plantations with Greek Revival-style mansions in a region the Americo-Africans renamed ""Mississippi in Africa."" In the late twentieth century, the seeds of resentment sown over a century of cultural conflict between the colonists and tribal people exploded, begetting a civil war that rages in Liberia to this day. Tracking down Prospect Hill's living descendants, deciphering a history ruled by rumor, and delivering the complete chronicle in riveting prose, journalist Alan Huffman has rescued a lost chapter of American history whose aftermath is far from over.

DKK 240.00
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Brierfield - Jr. Everett Edgar - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Brierfield - Jr. Everett Edgar - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Brierfield: Plantation Home of Jefferson Davisby Frank Edgar Everett, Jr.This is the story of a house, "Brierfield," and incidentally of a man, Jefferson Davis, and his family. The author traces the story of "Brierfield" from its construction in the antebellum period to its final disappearance in the twentieth century, a victim of war, floods, and fire. Most people associate Jefferson Davis with "Beauvoir," his home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the years after 1865, but "Brierfield" was his home during the most productive years of his life. We see Davis here as a young planter, a United States Representative and Senator, a Mexican War hero, United States Secretary of War, and President of the Confederate States of America. The tangled web of relationships involving Davis, his second wife, Varina Howell of Natchez, and his older brother and substitute father, Joseph Davis of nearby "Hurricane Plantation," unfolds against the physical setting of "Brierfield."Frank Edgar Everett, Jr. is the author of several books and articles on Mississippi history during the antebellum period. A trial lawyer, he also served as assistant attorney general of Mississippi and as a trustee of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

DKK 312.00
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Big Jim Eastland - J. Lee Annis Jr. - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Big Jim Eastland - J. Lee Annis Jr. - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

For decades after the Second World War, Senator James O. Eastland (1904-1986) was one of the more intransigent leaders of the Deep South''s resistance to what he called "the Second Reconstruction." And yet he developed, late in his life, a very real friendship with state NAACP chair Aaron Henry. Big Jim Eastland provides the life story of this savvy, unpredictable powerhouse. From 1947 to 1978, Eastland wore that image of resistance proudly, even while recognizing from the beginning his was the losing side. Biographer J. Lee Annis Jr. chronicles such complexities extensively and also delves into many facets lesser known to the general public. Born in the Mississippi Delta as part of the elite planter class, Eastland was appointed to the US Senate in 1941 by Democratic Governor Paul B. Johnson Sr. Eastland ran for and won the Senate seat outright in 1942 and served in the Senate from 1943 until his retirement in 1978. A blunt man of few words but many contradictions, Eastland was an important player in Washington, from his initial stint in 1941 where he rapidly salvaged several key local projects from bungling intervention, to the 1970s when he shepherded the Supreme Court nominees of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford to Senate confirmation. Annis paints a full picture of the man, describing the objections Eastland raised to civil rights proposals and the eventual accommodations he needed to accept after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

DKK 276.00
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Inventing George Whitefield - Jessica M. Parr - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Inventing George Whitefield - Jessica M. Parr - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Evangelicals and scholars of religious history have long recognized George Whitefield (1714-1770) as a founding father of American evangelicalism. But Jessica M. Parr argues he was much more than that. He was an enormously influential figure in Anglo-American religious culture, and his expansive missionary career can be understood in multiple ways. Whitefield began as an Anglican clergyman. Many in the Church of England perceived him as a radical. In the American South, Whitefield struggled to reconcile his disdain for the planter class with his belief that slavery was an economic necessity. Whitefield was drawn to an idealized Puritan past that was all but gone by the time of his first visit to New England in 1740. Parr draws from Whitefield's writing and sermons and from newspapers, pamphlets, and other sources to understand Whitefield's career and times. She offers new insights into revivalism, print culture, transatlantic cultural influences, and the relationship between religious thought and slavery. Whitefield became a religious icon shaped in the complexities of revivalism, the contest over religious toleration, and the conflicting role of Christianity for enslaved people. Proslavery Christians used Christianity as a form of social control for slaves, whereas evangelical Christianity's emphasis on ""freedom in the eyes of God"" suggested a path to political freedom. Parr reveals how Whitefield's death marked the start of a complex legacy that in many ways rendered him more powerful and influential after his death than during his long career.

DKK 558.00
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Pinchback - Nicholas Patler - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Pinchback - Nicholas Patler - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Born to a formerly enslaved mother and a white planter father, P. B. S. Pinchback (1837–1921) became the first African American governor in the United States. His tenure as governor of Louisiana was brief—a mere thirty-five days—but he remains one of the most prominent African American officeholders during the Reconstruction Era. Yet despite being a pivotal figure in the post-Civil War South, attempts to tell his story have been incomplete. From the deep influence of a mother who had spent half of her life in bondage, to the ambiguity of racial identity in Pinchback’s life and world, to a political career that was as tumultuous and rich as any in American history, the life and career of Pinchback are far more interesting and complex than most historians have portrayed. This volume presents Pinchback’s story more fully and accurately, exploring the larger and more nuanced account of how Pinchback used strategy and skill to overcome obstacles, maintain power, and push an agenda of rights and equality during the Reconstruction Era, often in the face of great adversity. Pinchback worked feverishly to help create and nurture a democratized environment that made African Americans and Creoles the political and even social equals of white Louisianans. This was a sweeping change that only a few years earlier most people could have hardly dreamed possible. In every sense of the word, it was a revolution that reconfigured the political and social landscape and transformed life as everyone had once known it.

DKK 237.00
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Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 - David J. Libby - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 - David J. Libby - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835By David J. LibbyIn the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions. However, in over a hundred years of history detailed in this book, the hard reality of slavery in Mississippi''s antebellum world is strikingly different from the one of popular myth. It shows that Mississippi''s past was never frozen, but always fluid. It shows too that slavery took a number of shapes before its form in the late antebellum mold became crystalized for popular culture.The colonial French introduced African slaves into this borderlands region situated on the periphery of French, Spanish, and English settlements. In this frontier, planter society made unsuccessful attempts to produce tobacco, lumber, and indigo. Slavery outlasted each failed harvest. Through each era, plantation culture rode the back of a system far removed from the romantic stereotype.Almost simultaneously as Mississippi became a United States territory in the 1790s, cotton became the cash crop. The booming King Cotton economy changed Mississippi and adopted the slave system that was its foundation.Some Mississippi slaves resisted this grim oppression and rebelled by flight, work slowdowns, arson, and conspiracy. In 1835 a slave conspiracy in Madison County provoked such draconian response among local slave holders that planters throughout the state redoubled the iron locks on the system. Race relations in the state remained radicalized for many generations to follow.Beginning with the arrival of the first African slaves in the colony and extending over 115 years, this book is the first such history since Charles Sydnor''s Slavery in Mississippi (1933).David J. Libby is an independent scholar.

DKK 312.00
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John Jones Pettus, Mississippi Fire-Eater - Robert W. Dubay - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

John Jones Pettus, Mississippi Fire-Eater - Robert W. Dubay - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

John Jones Pettus, Mississippi Fire-Eater: His Life and Times, 1813-1867 By Robert W. Dubay The life of John Jones Pettus, governor of Mississippi from 1859 to 1863 and champion of the secessionist movement, provides a parallel to the slowly changing pattern of southern politics from 1840 to the end of the Civil War. A small slave-holding planter and lawyer, Pettus served respectively in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Senate. Throughout his legislative career his political attitudes evolved from that of sectionalist to southern nationalist and finally to secessionist. He may be described as a new radical, having been too young for participation in either the earlier Missouri crisis or the nullification controversy. In late 1859 Pettus was elected governor of Mississippi. As a leader of the fire-eater wing of the Democratic Party, he campaigned as a champion of the secessionist movement. He was elected with a virtual mandate, 75% of the vote, an indication that Mississippians had become responsive to the fire-eater point of view.An examination of Pettus's activities while governor sheds additional light on the political, social, and economic fabric of both Mississippi and the South during the tense era immediately preceding the Civil War. After the opening of hostilities in 1861, John Pettus's career took on added significance and dimension. "Many of his activities," states Dubay, "demonstrate that he did not fit the stereotype commonly attached to southern governors during this crucial period of history." His relationship to the Confederate government and to his own constituents serves to clarify the picture of Mississippi's war effort and its ultimate failure. Robert W. Dubay was academic dean and professor of history at Bainbridge Junior College in Bainbridge, Georgia.

DKK 263.00
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Creolization as Cultural Creativity - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Creolization as Cultural Creativity - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

"This volume delivers a powerful compilation of thoughtful and provocative essays written by a group of first-rate scholars. While each contributor has turned to their own particular specialization in cultural inquiry, collectively they provide their readers with a broad view of the wide range of social developments found across a wide swath of the western hemisphere."-John Michael Vlach, author of Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery and The Planter''s Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings"For anyone interested in human culture as something alive-something that moves as we, its makers, move with it-this book, with its vivid, surprising, and far-reaching examples of syncretic forms, will be an inspiration."-Susan Stewart, author of The Poet''s Freedom: A Notebook on Making"Creolization as Cultural Creativity teaches us how to think about the many verbal ways that people on the lower rungs dynamically express and remake themselves in challenging cultural circumstances. How do they respond and create something new? In these trying historical times, I find this an immensely helpful, hopeful, and even liberating scholarly book."-Edward Hirsch, author of The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems and How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with PoetryRobert Baron directs the folk arts program of the New York State Council on the Arts. He is the coeditor, with Nick Spitzer, of Public Folklore. Folklorist Ana C. Cara is professor of Hispanic studies at Oberlin College. Her articles have appeared in Journal of American Folklore, World Literature Today, and Latin American Research Review.Contributions from Roger D. Abrahams, Robert Baron, Kenneth Bilby, Ana C. Cara, J. Michael Dash, Grey Gundaker, Lee Haring, Raquel Romberg, Nick Spitzer, and John F. Swzed

DKK 858.00
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