Metodismo de imigração e afro-brasileiros: Análise de alguns aspectos importantes da relação entre imigrantes metodistas estadunidenses e população afro-brasileira na região de Piracicaba no período de 1867 a 1930.

Os imigrantes metodistas americanos que chegaram ao Brasil em meados do século XIX na região de Piracicaba, são majoritariamente do sul dos Estados Unidos e, portanto, escravocratas. Encontram aqui não apenas a oportunidade de reconstruírem suas vidas devastadas pela guerra de secessão (1861-1865), como também uma nova possibilidade de reviverem seus ideais escravocratas, num país ainda escravagista. Com efeito, a presente dissertação versa sobre alguns aspectos importantes das relações destes imigrantes com a população afro-brasileira, priorizando o recorte histórico entre 1867-1930 e procurando destacar situações históricas na região de Piracicaba. Na tentativa de reconstituir possíveis anseios de liberdade dos afro-brasileiros, sua resistência e luta pela abolição, a pesquisa discute também o contexto de transição do país em face do liberalismo emergente na economia e na política, o que facilitou em muitos aspectos a inserção do protestantismo. Em face do exposto, a fundamentação teórica será feita a partir de autores como Boaventura de Souza Santos (2006), Frantz Fanon (1968;2008), Abdias do Nascimento (1978), Eugene Genovese(1983), Justus Gonzalez (2007), Antonio Gouveia Mendonça (2008), José Carlos Barbosa (2002), Júlio Chiavenato(1988), Eugene Harter (1985), Peri Mesquida (1994), Judith MacKnigth Jones (1967) entre outros. O distanciamento da missão metodista em relação às necessidades das populações afro-brasileiras demonstra que os metodistas direcionaram sua missão mais para si mesmos, como colônia e posteriormente, para as elites. As populações pobres, incluindo os afro-brasileiros da região, não foram contempladas. Isso pode explicar a ausência destes nas instituições metodistas até 1930 quando da autonomia da Igreja Metodista do Brasil em relação à Igreja Metodista Episcopal do Sul dos Estados Unidos.

Richmond from ten to twelve miles from here.

Shows troop positions, batteries, etc. near Dutch gap on the James River.

Sumpter Prison, Andersonville, Georgia, June 1864 /

Shows the prison with wooden fence, 18 guard towers, the famous "deadline," the north and south gates, Sweetwater Creek, "Valley of Death," fortification, batteries, and cook house. He depicts overcrowding by a blizzard of tiny dots everywhere, writing the dots stand for "Union soldiers."

The golden horseshoe; extracts from the letters of Captain H. L. Herndon of the 21st U.S. infantry, on duty in the Philippine Islands, adn Lieutenant Lawrence Gill, A.D.C. to the military governor of Puerto Rico.

Mode of access: Internet.

New York in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865.

Vol. 6: "Index."

A youth's history of the great civil war in the United States, from 1861 to 1865.

Mode of access: Internet.

Reminiscences, or, Four years in the Confederate Army : a history of the experiences of the private soldier in camp, hospital, prison, on the march, and on the battlefield, 1861 to 1865 /

Reprint. Originally published: Evansville, Ind. : Keller Print. and Pub. Co., 1898.

Letters from Benjamin Welles to John Henry Tudor, 1799-1801

Benjamin Welles wrote these six letters to his friend and classmate, John Henry Tudor, between 1799 and 1801. Four of the letters are dated, and the dates of the other two can be deduced from their contents. Welles wrote Tudor four times in September 1799, at the onset of their senior year at Harvard, in an attempt to clear up hurt feelings and false rumors that he believed had caused a chill in their friendship. The cause of the rift is never fully explained, though Welles alludes to "a viper" and "villainous hypocrite" who apparently spread rumors and fueled discord between the two friends. In one letter, Welles asserts that "College is a rascal's Elysium - or the feeling man's hell." In another he writes: "College, Tudor, is a furnace to the phlegmatic, & a Greenland to thee feeling man; it has an atmosphere which breathes contagion to the soul [...] Villains fatten here. College is the embryo of hell." Whatever their discord, the wounds were apparently eventually healed; in a letter written June 26, 1800, Welles writes to ask Tudor about his impending speech at Commencement exercises. In an October 29, 1801 letter, Welles writes to Tudor in Philadelphia (where he appears to have traveled in attempts to recover his failing health) and expresses strong wishes for his friend's recovery and return to Boston. This letter also contains news of their classmate Washington Allston's meeting with painters Henry Fuseli and Benjamin West.

Stillman Visscher Jenks. Member of Co. A 339th infantry. (Polar Bear Expedition)

(Born in Kalamazoo on December 2, 1895. Died January 19, 1919 in Ust Padinga, Russia. Buried in White Chapel Cemetery, Troy, Michigan. Body brought back from Russia in 1929/30 (see Walter Dundon papers, Michael Macalla papers for more info)

The prairie president; living through the years with Lincoln, 1809-1861,

Mode of access: Internet.

Confederate reporter, 1861-64.

"Compiled [chiefly] from...the Daily express, Petersburg, Virginia [and the] Richmond dispatch, Richmond Virginia, 1861-1864."

Lloyd's battle history of the great rebellion : complete, from the capture of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861, to the capture of Jefferson Davis, May 10, 1865, embracing General Howard's tribute to the volunteer ... and a general review of the war for the union.

Mode of access: Internet.