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Plain folk, planters, and the complexities of southern society : a case study of the Browns, Sherrods, Mannings, Sprowls, and Williamses of nineteenth-century northwest Louisiana / by Ricky L. Sherrod, with Annette Pierce Sherrod.
- Title
- Plain folk, planters, and the complexities of southern society : a case study of the Browns, Sherrods, Mannings, Sprowls, and Williamses of nineteenth-century northwest Louisiana / by Ricky L. Sherrod, with Annette Pierce Sherrod.
- Author
- Sherrod, Ricky L.
- Publication
- Nacogdoches, Texas : Stephen F. Austin State University Press, [2014]
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- Additional Authors
- Sherrod, Annette Pierce
- Description
- 345 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), genealogical tables; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The book employs the story of one particular extended family network?the Browns, Sherrods, Mannings, Sprowls, and Williamses?to illustrate the powerful influence of kinship ties as a force mitigating lines of class distinction in the nineteenth-century American South. It traces each family?s story from its earliest appearance in the historical record to the convergence of the family network, first taking shape in northeast Alabama and eventually reaching full-blown form in northwest Louisiana?s Red River Valley. There, both the plain folk and planters within the group demonstrated exceptional harmony and cooperation in constructing a flexible family network that left its mark on the area between the 1820s and 1870s. The story of these five families reveals much about migratory patterns of that restless segment of early- to mid-nineteenth century Americans who hankered to exploit opportunities on the ever-expanding, westward-moving agricultural frontier." --
- Alternative Title
- Case study of the Browns, Sherrods, Mannings, Sprowls, and Williamses of 19th century northwest Louisiana
- Plain folk, planters, and the complexities of southern society : a case study of the Browns, Sherrods, Mannings, Sprowls, and Williamses of 19th century northwest Louisiana
- Subject
- 1800 - 1899
- Brown family
- Brown family > History > 19th century
- Louisiana
- Louisiana > History > 19th century
- Manning family
- Manning family > History > 19th century
- Sherard family
- Sherard family > History > 19th century
- Southern States
- Southern States > Genealogy
- Sproule family
- Sproule family > History > 19th century
- Williams family
- Williams family > History > 19th century
- Genre/Form
- Genealogy
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781622880522
- 1622880528
- OCLC
- 866928296
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library