Add to ORKGAs the preeminent resort in the South, White Sulphur Springs, “the most fashionable of all Virginia spas during antebellum times,” served as the mecca for southern men of ample means and political sway throughout its remarkable history. Between 1831 and 1860, five sitting presidents from Andrew Jackson forward visited, savoring the pristine surroundings, the trappings of high society, and the cosmopolitan ambience. The resort also served as the economic and social locus of the area’s slave labor force, who worked a variety of jobs within the springs’ service oriented economy. Several sources have documented the historical presence of slaves at Virginia springs and spas, in general, and White Sulphur Springs, specifically, and the unique nat...
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Analyzes connections between the Southern aristocracy and the elite of Philadelphia in the antebellu...
During the antebellum period, free African Americans living in the Southern United States were a thi...
When dealing with southern blacks after emancipation, historians have traditionally focused on the p...
Antebellum America has been described as a period of turbulence for the nation as the North and the ...
After the Civil War the African American population in the southern Appalachia city of Asheville exp...
The Southerner of the ante-bellum period had more leisure time than his modern counterpart, but he d...
Despite recent interest in the efforts of antebellum southerners to modernize their society, the rol...
Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia\u27s tobacco producers exploited slave lab...
Charles Henry Ambler's thesis of antebellum western Virginia depicted the state as divided into two ...
Every year millions of tourists visit historic sites throughout the world. In the American South, th...
In his essay "The 19th Century Rural Landscape: the Courthouse, the Small College, the Mineral Sprin...
A review of Political Culture in the Nineteenth Century South: Mississippi, 1830-1900, by Bradley G....
There are Civil War historians who argue that slavery in the United States South was a dying institu...
Black Master. It is difficult to digest, but numerous records indicate that thousands of free people...
This interpretation of the black experience in the South revealing emphasizes the evolution of slave...
Analyzes connections between the Southern aristocracy and the elite of Philadelphia in the antebellu...
During the antebellum period, free African Americans living in the Southern United States were a thi...
When dealing with southern blacks after emancipation, historians have traditionally focused on the p...