The Historic Home Of George Poindexter Poingdestre Criss Cross A Photo Book And History Before And After

Unearthing a wealth of historical detail and local colour, the authors examine the events leading up to the fateful year of 1204 - the year in which the English lost the duchy of Normandy, including the Channel Islands, to the French - and the fifty turbulent years that followed.

First published in 1898, this comprehensive history was the first documented survey of a system that helped fugitive slaves escape from areas in the antebellum South to regions as far north as Canada. Comprising fifty years of research, the text includes interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, biographies, memoirs, speeches, and a large number of other firsthand accounts. Together, they shed much light on the origins of a system that provided aid to runaway slaves, including the degree of formal organization within the movement, methods of procedure, geographical range, leadership roles, the effectiveness of Canadian settlements, and the attitudes of courts and communities toward former slaves.

A biography of John Tyler, tenth President of the United States, and a "...review [of] the general history of the country through an interval of nearly a hundred years...".

Six years after the appearance of the first edition of this work, two new sources of information became available: the collection of manuscripts purchased by the Library of Congress from a member of the Ambler family, and a monograph titled The Site of Ol

"The data presented in Alabama Notes, Volumes 3 and 4 derive primarily from county court records, specifically wills and deeds, as well as selected marriage books and are supplemented by cemetery records, census records, and numerous other records of miscellaneous origin. A sequel to Mrs. England's Alabama Notes, Volumes 1 and 2 (see Item 1680), the work at hand refers to thousands of ancestors whose records were culled from the counties of Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Dallas, Greene, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Monroe, Perry, Shelby, and Wilcox" -- publisher website (August 2007).