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Bishop Madison And The Guardian Angels Of Science, Amanda Kay Mcvety
Bishop Madison And The Guardian Angels Of Science, Amanda Kay Mcvety
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Desegregating Monument Avenue: Arthur Ashe And The Manufacturing Of A New Social Reality In Richmond, Virginia, Melinda Cameron Hapeman Rose
Desegregating Monument Avenue: Arthur Ashe And The Manufacturing Of A New Social Reality In Richmond, Virginia, Melinda Cameron Hapeman Rose
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Southern Routes: Family Migration And The Eighteenth-Century Southern Backcountry, Creston S. Long
Southern Routes: Family Migration And The Eighteenth-Century Southern Backcountry, Creston S. Long
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In the early 1730s, small groups of settlers started moving into the Valley of Virginia, beginning the movement into the southern backcountry. By the late 1740s Scots-Irish, English, and German settlers pressed into North Carolina's western Piedmont, and the small trickle of migrants quickly turned into a flood which persisted for the next three decades. This is a study of mid-eighteenth-century migration to the backcountry South.;The purpose of this study is to describe the process of eighteenth-century southern backcountry migration and to determine migrants' underlying motivations and considerations as they went about this process. It explores the experiences of settlers …