Reprint of a 1901 booklet giving guidance for doing evangelistic work among Southern Blacks.

A seminal work exploring the daily life and status of southern women in colonial America, describes the domestic occupation, social life, education, and role in government of women of varied classes.

During the 1890's, Ellen White wrote multiple appeals to members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church to engage in evangelistic efforts in the South. The first of these messages, entitled "Our Duty to the Colored People," was published as a leaflet in 1891. It was this leaflet that inspired James Edson White (Ellen White's son) to build a missionary boat called The Morning Star from which he launched an evangelistic and educational work in the South. The boat, which White lived on, also served as a chapel, printing office, and classroom. Meanwhile, Mrs. White continued writing about needs in the South. Between 1895 and 1896, while she was living in Australia, Mrs. White penned ten additional articles about the needs in the Southern United States. All this time, James Edson White forged ahead with his missionary work to the South. Part of the work Elder White did was to recruit additional missionaries to come and work in this very special field of labor. In 1898, Elder White compiled the letters Ellen White had written into a small book called "The Southern Work." In 1901, additional letters added to an expanded edition of "The Southern Work." When the letters making up "The Southern Work" were first written, the task of bringing the gospel to the South had been sadly neglected. Only 25-30 years had passed since the abolition of slavery, and the situation of many of our brothers and sisters there was deplorable. In response to these letters, decided efforts were made by the Adventist Church to bring the Good News of the gospel to their African American brothers and sisters in the South. Those efforts were met with much success, to the point where it was stated, in 1966, that the proportion of African American Adventists as part of the general population was greater than the proportion among Caucasians. Though written more than a hundred years ago, the counsels in these historic letters remain instructive today. More than that, they remind us that we are all brothers and sisters in Christ, and one in the Spirit.

Who is always perfectly put together and never at a loss for words? Who is professional, courteous, and harder working than anyone else? Whose Christmas cards arrive the day after Thanksgiving, year after year? Y'all know she's got to be a Southern Belle. A Southern Belle takes care of herself and makes sure people treat her right. She always gets her way, even if her man thinks it was his idea. (That's a win for you both.) But you don't have to be raised in the South to be the same fun-loving package of looks, charm, and determination that makes a Belle a Belle. That's what this little book is for! Take it from Phaedra Parks, the smart, confident, and always poised star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Life as a Belle is simply better--for you and for the people around you.--From publisher description.

Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state. Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-the-ground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad developments related to slavery and emancipation, industrial capitalism, moral and social reform, and American politics and religion. Wood explains how the decades-long battle over child labor created enduring political and ideological divisions within capitalist society that divided the gatekeepers of modernity from the cultural warriors who opposed them. Tracing the ideological origins and the politics of the child labor battle over the course of eighty years, this book tells the story of how child labor debates bequeathed an enduring legacy of sectionalist conflict to modern American capitalist society.

Twice the Work of Free Labor is both a study of penal labor in the southern United States, and a revisionist analysis of the political economy of the South after the Civil War.

Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the formation of two competing unions, and the largest armed conflict in American labor history--a week-long battle between 20,000 coal miners and 5,000 state police, deputy sheriffs, and mine guards. These events resulted in an untold number of deaths, indictments of over 550 coal miners for insurrection and treason, and four declarations of martial law. Corbin argues that these violent events were collective and militant acts of aggression interconnected and conditioned by decades of oppression. His study goes a long way toward breaking down the old stereotypes of Appalachian and coal mining culture. This second edition contains a new preface and afterword by author David A. Corbin.

Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. "The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel "Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.--Choice

A compilation of Review and Herald articles on the beginnings and growth of the work of the church among Blacks in the Southern States - Introduction: The Story of The Southern Work. I. Ellen G. White's Appeal to the Church. Our Duty to the Colored People. II. The Review and Herald Articles. Work Among the Colored People. An Appeal for the Southern Field. An Appeal for the South--2. An Appeal for the South--3 .An Example in History. The Bible the Colored People's Hope. Spirit and Life for the Colored People."Am I My Brother's Keeper?". Lift Up Your Eyes and Look on the Field. Volunteers Wanted for the Southern Field. III. Counsels Regarding the Work in the South. Words of Precaution Regarding. Proper Methods of Work in the Southern Field. The Southern Field. IV. Special Counsels and Cautions in 1899. Colonization Not Advisable. The Field Becoming Difficult. Further Counsel Regarding a Colony in the South. A Neglected Work. Principles Regarding Restitution

In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies.<