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Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

8 best books like Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (Peter H. Wood): Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, A Feast of Snakes, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750, Plays Well with Others, The Minutemen and Their World, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815

Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
AuthorFred Anderson
ISBN0375706364
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution–takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain’s...
I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
AuthorMary Laura Philpott
ISBN1982102802
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“I've spent my adult life prowling bookshelves for the modern-day reincarnation of my favorite authors—Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin—all rolled into one...Good news: I have finally found their successor.” —Elisabeth Egan, The...
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
AuthorDouglas A. Blackmon
ISBN0385506252
In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.

Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate...
A Feast of Snakes
AuthorHarry Crews
ISBN0684842483
From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus...
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
AuthorLaurel Thatcher Ulrich
ISBN0679732578
This enthralling work of scholarship strips away those abstractions to reveal the hidden -- and not always stoic -- face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens -- and the considerable power -- of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her...
Plays Well with Others
AuthorAllan Gurganus
ISBN0375702032
With great narrative inventiveness and emotional amplitude, Allan Gurganus gives us artistic Manhattan in the wild 1980s, where young artists--refugees from the middle class--hurl themselves into playful work and serious fun.  Our guide is Hartley Mims Jr., a Southerner whose native knack...
The Minutemen and Their World
AuthorRobert A. Gross
ISBN0809001209
Winner of the Bancroft Prize

The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author.

On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in...
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815
AuthorRichard White
ISBN0521424607
An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans...
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