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The early 1930s Jean Morris, a proud farmers wife never knew the secrets her husband kept from her when he suddenly died. She lived in suspense, agony and heartbreak. It was a secret he took to his grave. Later on two grandsons unravel the secret her husband had kept from his family. It was a happy and sad ending for Jess Morris.Lena Gray was a happy go lucky beautiful lady that also had a secret she kept from everyone. Dr. Jay is a cruel hear...

The early 1930s Jean Morris, a proud farmers wife never knew the secrets her husband kept from her when he suddenly died. She lived in suspense, agony and heartbreak. It was a secret he took to his grave. Later on two grandsons unravel the secret her husband had kept from his family. It was a happy and sad ending for Jess Morris.Lena Gray was a happy go lucky beautiful lady that also had a secret she kept from everyone. Dr. Jay is a cruel hear...

The Truth Seeker will find that the total person-body, mind, and spirit-must be inspired and developed. This poetry will help in understanding the many levels of Virtues and imperfections encountered in every day living. The imperfections are not deadly sins, but merely mistakes which can be corrected and risen above, as a child leaves behind his childish ways.

Considers trade, travel and power between Britain and Jamaica and West Africa.

The Truth Seeker will find that the total person - body, mind, and spirit must be inspired and developed. This poetry will help to will help in understanding the many levels of Virtues and imperfections encountered in every day living. The imperfections are not deadly sins but merely mistakes which can be corrected and risen above, as a child leaves behind his childish ways.

Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the transatlantic slave trade and compares the regional social and economic forces that affected the growth of slavery in early America. In addition, Wood provides a window into the reality of slavery, presenting a true picture of daily life throughout the colonies.

In Women's Work, Men's Work, Betty Wood examines the struggle of bondpeople to secure and retain for themselves recognized rights as producers and consumers in the context of the brutal, formal slave economy sanctified by law. Wood examines this struggle in the Georgia lowcountry over a period of eighty years, from the 1750s to the 1830s, when, she argues, the evolution of the system of informal slave economies had reached the point that it wo...

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. "The Origins of American Slavery" is a short analysis that shows the complex rationale behind the English establishment of American slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This new assessment of a pivotal time in the formation of what was to become the United States offers thought-provoking insights int...

Distinguished scholar Betty Wood clearly explains the evolution of the transatlantic slave trade and compares the regional social and economic forces that affected the growth of slavery in early America. In addition, Wood provides a window into the reality of slavery, presenting a true picture of daily life throughout the colonies.

This definitive work thoroughly explores, for the first time, the often complicated ways in which ethnicity and social rank interacted to determine the relationships that were forged among four categories of women in the Revolutionary and early National Lowcountry. Betty Wood analyzes the experiences of enslaved African and African American women, free women of color, elite women of European ancestry, and underclass women of European descent.S...

Gathers 142 letters written by Mary Telfair of Savannah to her best friend Mary Few of New York. Telfair was born in 1791 to a wealthy, slaveholding family. Few, born in 1790, moved with her family from Savannah to New York in 1799. Self-exiled because of their antislavery views, the Fews never returned Georgia yet remained close to the Telfairs.

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Georgia was the only British colony in America in which a sustained effort was made to prohibit the introduction and use of black slaves at a time when the institution of slavery was well established in the other southern colonies.In the first half of "Slavery in Colonial Georgia, " Betty Wood examines the reasons which prompted James Oglethorpe and the other British founders of the colony to originally ban slavery. In their concern for the ma...

The author shows how color was used in ancient civilizations, its applications in healing traditions, and the ways it is currently used to affect mood and behavior.