<p>Details the history of twelve houses that were built and occupied by four generations of one Virginia family. The study presents an accurate picture of the development of plantation life and its economic background.</p>

A Virginia Family and Its Plantation Houses

History

Langhorne, Elizabeth

Lay, K. Edward

Rieley, William D.

Americas

Univ of Virginia Pr

<p>Thomas Jefferson, the public man, is a familiar and oft-chronicled figure. But the private Thomas Jefferson has been little studied. Now Elizabeth Langhorne, drawing upon public records and hitherto-unpublished documents, has produced an intimate and fascinating account of our third president and numerous members of his family, including some of his slaves, as they lived their private and sometimes tumultuous lives at Jefferson's beloved Monticello. Includes illustrations.</p>

Monticello: A Family Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill

Worlds Collide on Vieques An Intimate Portrait from the Time of Columbus Author: Elizabeth Langhorne The Taino Indians of the Caribbean were another casualty of the Spanish exploration and eventual conquest of much of the Americas. In well documented detail, the author describes Indian life, and how the conflict between the natives and the Spaniards arose. Gold was certainly a culprit, but the vanity and greed of Columbus and those who followed combined with the desire for the precious metal to destroy completely this Indian culture. Columbus was the first to chart these tiny islands such as Vieques and Borinquen (Puerto Rico), but the cruelties inflicted upon the native residents were intensified by Ponce de Leon and other Conquistadores. Although the Franciscan Fathers speak out against cruelty of the Spanish conquerors, we see the end on Vieques, where the Chiefs Cacimar and Yaureibo both fall in battle with the invaders. The book closes with the total destruction of the native population of the little island of Vieques. This work is one of the first popular accounts that is also a documented history of the time. In it we can see how the conflict progresses and worsens between the Spaniards and the natives of Vieques. We mourn their loss; but we understand it better, and, by extension, we understand better the history of the period of colonization

Worlds Collide on Vieques: An Intimate Portrait from the Time of Columbus

Rivercross Pub

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