Background
Taylor, Orville Walters was born on September 20, 1917 in El Dorado, Arkansas, United States. Son of William Oscar and Minnie Belle (White) Taylor.
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Long out of print and found only in rare-book stores, it is now available to a contemporary audience with this new paperback edition. When slavery was abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation, there were slaves in every county of the state, and almost half the population was directly involved in slavery as either a slave, a slaveowner, or a member of an owner’s family. Orville Taylor traces the growth of slavery from John Law’s colony in the early eighteenth century through the French and Spanish colonial period, territorial and statehood days, to the beginning of the Civil War. He describes the various facets of the institution, including the slave trade, work and overseers, health and medical treatment, food, clothing, housing, marriage, discipline, and free blacks and manumission. While drawing on unpublished material as appropriate, the book is, to a great extent, based on original, often previously unpublished, sources. Valuable to libraries, historians in several areas of concentration, and the general reader, it gives due recognition to the signficant place slavery occupied in the life and economy of antebellum Arkansas.
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Taylor, Orville Walters was born on September 20, 1917 in El Dorado, Arkansas, United States. Son of William Oscar and Minnie Belle (White) Taylor.
AB, Ouachita Baptist University, 1947. Master of Arts, University Kentucky, 1948. Grad with honors, Air University, 1952.
Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University, 1956.
Instructor history Little Rock Junior College, 1950—1955. Professor Baptist College, Iwo, Nigeria, 1955—1963, University North Carolina, Asheville, 1963—1965. Professor, chairman department Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, 1965—1969, Georgia College, Milledgeville, 1969—1984.
Emeritus, from 1984; executive secretary, state historian Arkansas History Commission, 1959. Consultant Ministry of Education, Nigeria, 1956—1963, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1972—1979. Justice of peace, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1952—1955.
Chief federal electoral officer Iwo District, 1957. Visiting, adjunct professor University Arkansas, Duke University, E. Texas State University, College William & Mary, University Georgia, Indiana State University. Board directors Arkansas Educational television Association, 1953—1955.
Member national advisory committee Civil War Centennial Commission, 1959. American delegate XIV International Congress History Sciences, 1975. Captain United States Army, 1941-1946, retired lieutenant colonel United States Air Force, since 1977.
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Member of American Association of University Professors, National Endowment of the Humanities (grantee 1969, 1972), National Association Ethnic Studies, Association Study Afro-American Life & History, Georgia Political Science Association (president 1970-1971, distinguished service award 1978), Georgia Association Historians 1973-1974, Florida History Society, History Associations, Shell Foundation (grantee 1966-1968), American Philosophical Society 1968-1969, Royal African Society (life. Secretary, treas 1954-1955, Shader Memorial prize 1958), Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Evelyn Adelle Bonham, December 5, 1942. Children: Michael, Priscilla Taylor Norvell, Melissa, Penelope Taylor Pullen.