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Interview with Mary Agnes Morgan - OH 251
In her interview with Michael Cooke, Mary Agnes Morgan discusses growing up in South Carolina, her education, and her experience with the Progressive Democratic Party. Mrs. Morgan details the impact the Progressive Democratic Party had on the local black community of Mullins, South Carolina. She also discusses how private education was established in the South for African Americans, the rise of African American politics in the South and race equality.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/1171/thumbnail.jp
Identified Converts (to the L.D.S. Church) of John H. Morgan. Mary Bailey, Georgia convert
Black and white photograph of Mary Bailey, one of John H. Morgan\u27s converts to the L.D.S. Church
Interview with Lee Morgan, booking agent
Recorded at the home of Lee Morgan (Oxford, Miss.). Interviewer: Mary Margaret Miller, Recordist: Kevin Dyes
Letter, 1829 December 26,Archibald McClean to Charles S. Morgan
Letter from Archibald McClean to Charles S. Morgan regarding the 1830 Virginia Convention in Richmond, Virginia. In the letter, McClean talked about giving more representation in Virginia to the majority of residents instead of an oligarchy of the elite class. He ended his letter referring to Andrew Jackson, president of the United States, as a "plain, unostentatious republican in manners and quite accessible. But I could not receive the impression that he is a great man.
Faucett and McCoy Families, Queen V. Bailey and Mary Haggard (on the right), early converts of Elder Morgan
Black and white photograph of Queen V. Bailey and Mary Haggard (on the right), John H. Morgan\u27s converts to the L.D.S. Church
Women's life writing 1760-1830 : spiritual selves, sexual characters, and revolutionary subjects
PhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life
writing at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. I
explore printed works by Catharine Phillips, Mary Dudley, Priscilla Hannah Gurney,
Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Steele, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, and Charlotte West and discuss the
manuscripts of Mary Fletcher, Mary Tooth, Sarah Ryan, and Elizabeth Fox. Of these
sources, five have never been analysed in the critical literature and six have received
little attention. Considered as a group, this large corpus of texts offers new insights
into the personal and political implications of different models of female selfhood and
social being.
In chapter one, I compare the religious identities presented in the spiritual
autobiographies of Quakers and Methodists. For these women, religious identification
provides a powerful sense of social belonging and enables public participation.
However, it may also lead to a loss of self in the demand for religious conformity and
self-abnegation. In chapter two, I consider the life writing of late eighteenth-century
courtesans. These women adapt available models of femininity and female authorship
in order to establish themselves as socially connected subjects. However, their
narratives also reveal that dependence on the sexual and literary marketplace puts
female selfhood under pressure. In chapter three, I explore the eyewitness accounts of
British women in the French Revolution. I argue that, for these writers, connecting
personal identity to political history is an enabling source of self-definition but it also
exposes them to the risks of self-fragmentation.
In my focus on the social function of women's life writing, I present an alternative to
the traditional alignment of the eighteenth-century autobiographical subject with the
autonomous self of individualism. These narratives allow us to reconsider the
productive and problematic dialectic between personal expression and representative
selfhood, self-authorship and collective narratives, and individualism and social
being. They suggest that women's life writing has the potential to be both the self-expression
of a unique heroine and the self-inscription of a politicised subject
David Morgan oral history transcript
A transcript of an oral history of David Morgan on Century High School Site Council. David Morgan at the time of the interview, was a student representative on the Site Council. Part of the duties of the students given this postition was to govern the curriculum and participate in scheduling decisions. Principal Dawn Montgomery and vice principals Kathy Robinson and Mary Peterson also participated
Letter from Mary Garvey, Irish immigrant, to her mother, October 24, 1850
Mary Garvey, an Irish immigrant, was the servant of Rescarrick Moore Smith, a Hightstown businessman and New Jersey State Treasurer. This letter was dictated to and transcribed by Smith's daughter, Mary Elizabeth. In this letter to her mother in Ireland, Garvey asks after various family members and friends. She asks her mother many time to consider leaving the "poor state of Ireland" to emigrate to America. She also discusses her work duties, wages, and social life
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