Cornerstones of Georgia History: Documents That Formed the StateThomas A. Scott University of Georgia Press, 15/01/2011 - 280 من الصفحات This collection of fifty-nine primary documents presents multiple viewpoints on more than four centuries of growth, conflict, and change in Georgia. The selections range from a captive's account of a 1597 Indian revolt against Spanish missionaries on the Georgia coast to an impassioned debate in 1992 between county commissioners and environmental activists over a proposed hazardous waste facility in Taylor County. Drawn from such sources as government records, newspapers, oral histories, personal diaries, and letters, the documents give a voice to the concerns and experiences of men and women representing the diverse races, ethnic groups, and classes that, over time, have contributed to the state's history. Cornerstones of Georgia History is especially suited for classroom use, but it provides any concerned citizen of the state with a historical basis on which to form relevant and independent opinions about Georgia's present-day challenges. |
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... independent opinions of their own. Many good students have told me that the documents approach revolutionized their view of history. Before, they found the ix subject boring, and consequently they never had much success in Preface.
... told them that they should not kill me. This is one of their practices of witchcraft. Finally, confronted with all these opinions, they decided to let me live and so a cacique arose and said to me: "Do you wish me to unbind you? Do you ...
... told them at the same time what to do when necessity forced them to kill one of the Deer tribe. Now, whenever the hunter shoots a Deer, the Little Deer, who is swift as the wind and cannot be wounded, runs quickly up to the spot and ...
... told him to go and make ready for them. This was the Great Buzzard, the father of all the buzzards we see now. He flew all over the earth, low down near the ground, and it was still soft. When he reached the Cherokee country, he was ...
... told them that as they had found out her secret she could do nothing more for them; that she would die, and they must drag her body around over the ground; that wherever her body was dragged corn would come up. Of this they were to make ...
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The Colonial Controversy over Slavery and Georgias Future | 25 |
Georgia on the Eve of the Revolution | 38 |
The Debate over Indian Removal | 50 |
6 Slavery in Antebellum Georgia | 63 |
The Decision to Leave the Union | 77 |
Perspectives of North Georgia Women | 92 |
12 The Leo Frank Case | 151 |
13 Georgias Rejection of Woman Suffrage | 164 |
The Great Migration Boll Weevil Invasion and Great Depression | 179 |
Georgia in the 1940s | 193 |
16 The Integration of Public Schools and Colleges | 208 |
The Gubernatorial Inauguration of Jimmy Carter | 224 |
The Debate over a Hazardous Waste Facility for Taylor County | 235 |
Questions to Consider | 251 |
9 Reconstruction in Georgia | 107 |
Fault of the North or the South? | 122 |
11 Jim Crow Georgia and Its Leaders Black and White | 136 |
Index | 259 |