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Captured.Never Came Back: Social Networks Among Female New England Captives, 1689--1763, Barbara Austen
Captured.Never Came Back: Social Networks Among Female New England Captives, 1689--1763, Barbara Austen
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Neither Heroine Nor Fool : Anna Ella Carroll Of Maryland, Janet L. Coryell
Neither Heroine Nor Fool : Anna Ella Carroll Of Maryland, Janet L. Coryell
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1815, Anna Ella Carroll was the eldest daughter of Maryland Governor Thomas King Carroll. By the early 1850s, she had become a political pamphleteer for the Know-Nothing Party, a nativist and anti-Catholic organization. She wrote a number of books and election pamphlets supporting the presidential candidacy of Millard Fillmore in 1856. In the election of 1860, she promoted the candidacy of John Minor Botts of Virginia, a strong Unionist.;When Civil War began, Carroll worked to support Lincoln's action, and wrote several pamphlets on his behalf. She argues, as did Lincoln, that the …