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Banks, Sutton - Order Of Appraisal For The Estate Of Sutton Banks, Dec'd, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Order of Appraisal for the estate of Sutton Banks, Dec'd, including one enslaved man aged 35 and one enslaved woman aged 50, both unnamed.

Briell, John E. - Appraisal Of The Estate Of John E. Brill [Briell] Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Appraisal of the estate of John E. Brill [Briell] deceased

Banks, Mrs. Sarah - Estate Of Mrs. Sarah Banks, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Original envelope of the probate file for Mrs. Sarah Banks, deceased

Briell, John E. - Sales Of The Personal Estate Of John E. Brill [Briell] Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County, John Bell

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Sales of the personal estate of John E. Brill [Briell] deceased. Includes enslaved persons: Peggy, Jesse (child), Leise and her children John and Winston, Mimo and her children James and Isauh, and Isaak.

Briell, John E. - Tax Receipt For John E. Brill [Briell] Administration By Catherine Brill [Briell], 1830, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Tax receipt for John E. Brill [Briell] administration by Catherine Brill [Briell], 1830

Briell, John E. - Estate Of John E. Briell Deceased With Catherine Briell Administratrix, John Burney

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Original document envelope of the probate file of John. E Briell

Tax Receipt For John E. Brill [Briell], 1829, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Tax receipt for John E. Brill [Briell], 1829

Boyden, Augustus- A List Of The Personal Property Of Augustus Boyden, Deceased., John Burney

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A list of the personal property, including enslaved persons, of Augustus Boyden, deceased.

Boyden, Augustus - Moses Boyden Account Of Administration Of The Estate Of Augustus Boyden, Deceased., Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Account of the administration of the estate of Augustus Boyden, deceased, by Moses Boyden

Boyden, Augustus - Estate Of Augustus Boyden, Deceased, With Moses Boyden, Admr., Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Original document envelope of the probate file

Expecting Blows: Sylvia Wynter, Sociogeny, And Exceeding Marxist Social Form, Sara-Maria Sorentino

Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis

This article examines the relationship between Sylvia Wynter’s sociogenic principle and the question of “social form” in the critique of political economy. Despite their diverging emphases (the symbolic over the material, the slave over the laborer, sociogeny over social form), both Wynter and Marx pursue theoretical modes of inquiry that account for how empty reality principles reside over the reproduction of historical content and consciousness. In turning to the disavowed terms that heterodox Marxism, from value-form to world-systems theory, seeks to resuscitate, Wynter retains elements of Marxism’s interest in social forms reimagines the terms through which Marx’s critique can be …

Slavery, Work, And History: Du Bois’S Black Marxism, Amy Allen

Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis

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For Civilization And Citizenship: Emancipation, Empire, And The Creation Of The Black Citizen-Soldier Tradition, Henry Ian Davis

Theses and Dissertations

For civilization and citizenship: emancipation, empire, and the creation of the black citizen-soldier tradition examines the origins and evolution of black military service and its relation to how black and white Americans understood citizenship from the Civil War Era to the First World War. This dissertation analyzes how different generations of black soldiers pursued full, civic citizenship through their military service and formed their own vision of citizenship rooted in military service and how the War Department sought to deal with the tensions created by a biracial Army. While it asserts that a separate, black citizen-soldier tradition linking service and …

Against All Odds: Facilitating Research On The First Black Legislators In Mississippi, Deedee Baldwin

UL Publications

Researched and maintained by the history librarian at Mississippi State University (MSU) Libraries, “Against All Odds” (https://much-ado.net/legislators/) is a digital humanities project that provides biographical information, photographs, excerpts from primary and secondary sources, and over 900 newspaper clippings documenting the lives and careers of the first African American men to serve in Mississippi's legislature during and just after Reconstruction. Because information on most of these men is so difficult to find, the site is designed to facilitate research by historians, librarians, students, and family historians alike. It has resulted in a presentation for the Mississippi Department of Archives …

Field Brown Cultural Research And Engagement Fellows Presentation, Field Brown, Brian S. Williams, Kenya M. Cistrunk

CAS Publications

Presentation by Field Brown, MSU alumnus and PhD Student in English at Harvard University, on the meaning of Juneteenth and the ongoing work of freedom. Part of the Juneteenth events at the JL King Center in Starkville, MS. Sponsored by the Cultural Research & Engagement Fellows (CREF) Program.

The CREF Program at Mississippi State University explores the social and cultural dimensions of food systems, food access, land in majority-Black, historically agrarian rural communities by engaging youth at the nexus of food access, farming, and culture. The CREF program is made possible by a grant from the Office of Research & …

Banks, Mrs. Sarah - Inventory Of Personal Property Of Mrs. Sarah Banks, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Inventory of the personal property of Mrs.Sarah Banks, deceased, including two enslaved persons, whose names were not recorded.

Mccracken, George - Petition Regarding An Incomplete Bequest From The Estate Of George Mccracken, By Sally And Charles Jones, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Petition regarding an incomplete bequest from the estate of George McCracken, by Sally and Charles Jones