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Bernhard, Virginia Purington was born on November 15, 1937 in Austin, Texas, United States. Daughter of Donald Varney and Winfrey Lucille (Stanley) Purington.
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All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, including this one, give full coverage to standard political, economic, diplomatic, and legal events. But these elements of history are largely the story of elites. This textbook also provides social history captured in the recognizable lives of ordinary people. Presidents, congressmen, and corporate executives are quoted throughout the book. So are soldiers, slaves, indentured servants, cowboys, working girls and women, and civil rights activists. Firsthand America, using more than 2,000 quotations, therefore gives due place both to the traditional leaders and to the myriad Americans never named in formal historians.
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(All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, includi...)
All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, including this one, give full coverage to standard political, economic, diplomatic, and legal events. But these elements of history are largely the story of elites. This textbook also provides social history captured in the recognizable lives of ordinary people. Presidents, congressmen, and corporate executives are quoted throughout the book. So are soldiers, slaves, indentured servants, cowboys, working girls and women, and civil rights activists. Firsthand America, using more than 2,000 quotations, therefore gives due place both to the traditional leaders and to the myriad Americans never named in formal historians.
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(All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, includi...)
All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, including this one, give full coverage to standard political, economic, diplomatic, and legal events. But these elements of history are largely the story of elites. This textbook also provides social history captured in the recognizable lives of ordinary people. Presidents, congressmen, and corporate executives are quoted throughout the book. So are soldiers, slaves, indentured servants, cowboys, working girls and women, and civil rights activists. "Firsthand America", using more than 2,000 quotations, therefore gives due place both to the traditional leaders and to the myriad Americans never named in formal historians.
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(All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, includi...)
All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, including this one, give full coverage to standard political, economic, diplomatic, and legal events. But these elements of history are largely the story of elites. This textbook also provides social history captured in the recognizable lives of ordinary people. Presidents, congressmen, and corporate executives are quoted throughout the book. So are soldiers, slaves, indentured servants, cowboys, working girls and women, and civil rights activists. Firsthand America, using more than 2,000 quotations, therefore gives due place both to the traditional leaders and to the myriad Americans never named in formal historians.
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( Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782, offers a...)
Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782, offers a fresh perspective on the complex relationship between racism and slavery in the often overlooked second-oldest English colony in the New World. As the first blacks were brought onto the islands not specifically for slave labor, but for their expertise as pearl divers and cultivators of West Indies plants, Bermuda's racial history began to unfold much differently from that of the Caribbean islands or of the North American mainland. Bermuda's history records the arrival of the first blacks, the first English law passed to control the behavior of the "Negroes," and the creation of ninety-nine-year indentures for black and Indian servants. When the inevitable reality of slavery took hold in Bermuda, slaveholders realized that they, like their slaves, were not free. Slavery dictated and strained the relationships between whites and blacks, but in this smallest of English colonies it differed from slavery elsewhere because of the uniquely close master-slave relations created by Bermuda's size and maritime economy. At only twenty-one square miles in area, Bermuda saw slaves and slaveholders working and living closer together than in other societies. The emphasis on maritime pursuits offered slaves a degree of autonomy and a sense of identity unequaled in other English colonies. This groundbreaking history of Bermuda's slavery reveals fewer runaways, less-violent rebellions, and relatively milder punishments for offending slaves. Bernhard delves into the origins of Bermuda's slavery, its peculiar nature, and its effects on blacks and whites. The study is based on archival research drawn from wills and inventories, laws and court cases, governors' reports and council minutes. Intended as an introduction to both the history of the islands and the rich sources for further research, this book will prove invaluable to scholars of slavery, as well as those interested in historical archaeology, anthropology, maritime history, and colonial history.
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(All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, includi...)
All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, including this one, give full coverage to standard political, economic, diplomatic, and legal events. But these elements of history are largely the story of elites. This textbook also provides social history captured in the recognizable lives of ordinary people. Presidents, congressmen, and corporate executives are quoted throughout the book. So are soldiers, slaves, indentured servants, cowboys, working girls and women, and civil rights activists. "Firsthand America", using more than 2,000 quotations, therefore gives due place both to the traditional leaders and to the myriad Americans never named in formal historians.
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Bernhard, Virginia Purington was born on November 15, 1937 in Austin, Texas, United States. Daughter of Donald Varney and Winfrey Lucille (Stanley) Purington.
Bachelor, Rice University, Houston, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, 1971. Master of Arts, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1961.
Lecturer, U. St. Thomas, Houston, 1971-1972; assistant professor, U. St. Thomas, Houston, 1972-1975; associate professor, U. St. Thomas, Houston, 1975-1978; professor of history, U. St. Thomas, Houston, since 1978; chairman history Department, University St. Thomas, Houston, 1981-1997.
( Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782, offers a...)
(All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, includi...)
(All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, includi...)
(All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, includi...)
(All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, includi...)
(All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, includi...)
(Book by David Burner, Virginia Bernhard, Stanley I. Kutler)
(Book by Bernhard, Virginia, Burner, David)
(used - very good)
Member American History Association, Organization American Historians, Southern History Association, Southern Association Women Historians (president 1988-1989), Southwestern History Association (president 1983-1984), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Jim Bernhard, September 1, 1961. Children: Catherine, Paul, Anne.