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Stamper, George Washington, Sr. Book 1, Carter County Genealogical Society 2010 Morehead State University

Stamper, George Washington, Sr. Book 1, Carter County Genealogical Society

Carter County Genealogy Collection

Book 1 of the family history of George Washington Stamper, Sr. son of James W "Pewter John" and Sarah Sallie (Stamper) Stamper of Carter County, Kentucky.


Women In Antebellum Alachua County, Florida, Herbert Joseph O'Shields 2010 University of North Florida

Women In Antebellum Alachua County, Florida, Herbert Joseph O'Shields

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role and status of women in Alachua County, Florida, from 1821 through 1860. The secondary literature suggests that women throughout America had virtually no public role to play in antebellum society except in limited circumstances in some mature urban, commercial settings. The study reviewed U.S. Census materials, slave ownership records, and land ownership records as a means to examine the family structures, the mobility and persistence of persons and households, and the economic status of women, particularly including woman headed households. The study also examined laws adopted by the Florida legislative …


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