Albert Colbey Smith papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: Albert Colbey Smith papers
Creator: Smith, Albert Colbey, -1985
Inclusive Dates: 1972-1985
Language(s): English
Extent: 4 Linear Feet (5 document boxes, 4 half boxes, 2 large card file boxes)
Collection Number: ms2526
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Albert Colbey Smith (d. 1985) was a historian who earned a master's degree and PhD at the University of Georgia.

Scope and Content

This collection includes a copy of his dissertation, research material, drafts, revisions, notes, and photocopies and reprints of much of the material cited in his bibliography.

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Administrative Information

Custodial History

Gift of Art A. Stanley, executor of the estate of Albert C. Smith, 1987.

Preferred Citation

Albert Colbey Smith papers, ms2526, Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2010 March 22.

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

1. Writings by Smith
	Dissertation
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1	1		Chapter I : "pre-Holmes"
1	2		Chapter I : "post-Holmes"
1	3		Chapter II : "pre-Holmes"
1	4		Chapter II ; "post-Holmes"
1	5		-Copies, Chapters I & II
1	6		Chapter III: "pre-Holmes"
1	7		Chapter III: "post-Holmes"
1	8		-Copy, Chapter III
1	9		Chapter IV : "pre-Holmes"
1	10		Chapter IV : "post-Holmes"
1	11		Chapter V : "pre-Holmes"
1	12		Chapter V : "post-Holmes"
1	13		Chapter VI : "pre-Holmes"
1	14		Chapter VI : "post-Holmes"
1	15		Footnotes
1	16		Computations and Tables
1	17		Notes
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2	1		Outlines, Chronologies
2	2		Bibliography, Sources
2	3		Notes
	Other Writings
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2	4		HIS 814C Term Paper. "Crime and Instability in Terrell County, Georgia: 1866 to 1894", 1972
2	5		"Myths and Realities in Southern Violence: Women as Suspects and Victims in Black-Belt Georgia, 1866-1910"
2	6		"Race, Class, and Property Crime in Georgia's Black-Belt, 1866-1910"
2	7		"Race, Class, and Violent Property Crime: A Study of the Social and Economic Origins of Arson in Rural Georgia, 1866-1910"
2	8		Organization of American Historians. "Barn Burning, 'Matches in the Cotton,' and Violent Property Crime: A Study of Arson and Black Protest in Rural Georgia, 1866-1910", 1982
			Paper delivered at Annual Meeting
2	9		Journal of Southern History Resubmission Draft of Article. "'Southern Violence' Reconsidered: Arson as Protest in Black-Belt Georgia, 1865-1910"
2	10		Journal of Southern History Resubmission Draft Footnotes
2	11		Journal of Southern History Notes on Resubmission Draft Changes
2	12		Journal of Southern History Resubmission Draft Addition and Notes
2	13		Journal of Southern History Article as Published. "'Southern Violence' Reconsidered: Arson as Protest in Black-Belt Georgia, 1865-1910", November 1985

 

2. Research Materials
	Miscellany
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2	14		Miscellany
2	15		Copy, Altamaha Ledger
	Baldwin County Research
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3A	1		County History
3A	2		Tax Digests
3A	3		Court Records
3A	4		ARSON
3A	5		ASSAULT
3A	6		AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
3A	7		MURDER
3A	8		RAPE
3A	9		THEFT
	McIntosh County Research
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3B	1		County History
3B	2		Tax Digests
3B	3		Court Records
3B	4		ARSON
3B	5		ASSAULT
3B	6		AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
3B	7		MURDER
3B	8		RAPE
3B	9		THEFT
	Terrell County Research
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3C	1		County History
3C	2		Tax Digests
3C	3		Court Records
3C	4		Court Records
3C	5		ARSON
3C	6		ASSAULT
3C	7		AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
3C	8		MURDER
3C	9		RAPE
3C	10		THEFT
	General Research (Diss.)
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4	1		Census
4	2		Census by Profession
4	3		Class Structure
4	4		Economic Indicators
4	5		Planter Persistence
4	6		Government Documents
4	7		Tunis G. Campbell
4	8		Whitfield County Court Records
4	9		Crime by Case Code
4	10		Prison Records
4	11		Homicide
4	12		Suicide and Vandalism
4	13		Theft
4	14		Politics, Voting
4	15		Other, Later Tax Digests
4	16		Maps and Tables
4	17		Housing: Milledgeville
4	18		Notes from the Diaries of John Girardeau Legaré
4	19		Notes from the Diary of Archibald C. McKinley
4	20		Miscellaneous Reading Notes

 

3. Source Material
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5	1	Armstrong, Thomas F. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 258), February 1980
5	2	Armstrong, Thomas F. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 268), April 1980
5	3	Armstrong, Thomas F. "The Transformation of Work: Turpentine Workers in Coastal Georgia, 1880-1917". (A paper prepared for presentation to the Third Citadel Conference of the South.), April 1981
5	4	Ayers, Edward L. "The Shape of Serious Crime in the Nineteenth-Century South". (A paper prepared for delivery at the 1982 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians.), 1982
5	5	Banks, Enoch. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 268), 1905
5	6	Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 1972
5	7	Bonner, James C. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 260), Fall 1971
5	8	Brewer, John and Styles, John. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 260), 1980
5	9	Brooks, Robert P. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 268), 1914
5	10	Brown, Louie. An Appalachian Symposium-Introduction, 1977
5	11	Burton, Orville Vernon and McMath, Robert C. Jr. Class, Conflict, and Consensus, 1982
5	12	Campbell, John C. The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, 1921
5	13	Campbell, Tunis G. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 268), 1877
5	14	Cash, Wilbur Joseph. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 268), 1960
5	15	Christler, Ethel Maude. (Diss. Bibliography, pp. 268-69), June 1932
5	16	Cohen, David and Johnson, Eric A. "French Criminality: Urban-Rural Differences in the Nineteenth Century" Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Winter 1982
5	17	Crain, Alan J. An Appalachian Symposium-"On the Attempt to be a Sensitive Observer in Appalachia", 1977
5	18	Cressey, Paul Frederick. "Social Disorganization and Reorganization in Harlan County, Kentucky" (A paper read at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society.), December 1948
5	19	Dana, William B. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 269), 1878
5	20	DeCanio, Stephen J. "Accumulation and Discrimination in the Postbellum South". Explorations in Economic History, 1979
5	21	Demos, John. "Families in Colonial Bristol, Rhode Island: An Exercise in Historical Demography". William and Mary Quarterly, January 1968
5	22	Dobb, Maurice Herbert. Studies in the Development of Capitalism, 1947
5	23	Dobson, Jeffrey R. and Doyon, Roy. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 269), June 1979
5	24	Drago, Edmund L. Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia, 1982
5	25	Engerrand, Steven W. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 269), 1981
5	26	Ferdinand, Theodore M. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 262), June 1967
5	27	Floud, Roderick. Quantitative Methods for Historians, 1973
5	28	Ford, Arthur M. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 270), 1973
5	29	Friedberger, Mark. "Education and Social Structure: Early Twentieth Century Iowa" (Paper 76-6 in a series entitled "The Newberry Papers in Family and Community History" issued by the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL ), December 1976
5	30	Gallman, Robert E. "Professor Pessen on the 'Egalitarian Myth'" Social Science History, Winter 1978
5	31	Gastil, Raymond D. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 262), June 1971
5	32	Goldin, Claudia. "'N' Kinds of Freedom". Explorations in Economic History, 1979
5	33	Graham, Hugh Davis. "The Paradox of American Violence Revisited" (A paper read at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.), December 1978
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6	1	Hackney, Sheldon. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 262), February 1969
6	2	Hahn, Steven. "The Roots of Southern Populism: White Yeoman Farmers, Tennants, and Sharecroppers in Upper Piedmont Georgia, 1850-1890" (Dissertation Prospectus, Yale University), November 1975
6	3	Hammett, Theodore M. "Two Mobs of Jacksonian Boston: Ideology and Interest". The Journal of American History, 1974
6	4	Hindus, Michael S. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 263), December 1976
6	5	Hindus, Michael S. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 263), 1980
6	6	Hoffmann, Charles. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 270), June 1956
6	7	Holmes, William F. "The Politics of White Supremacy: Disfranchisement in the Lower South". An essay included in Gulf Coast Politics in the Twentieth Century Ted Carageorge, Ed., 1972
6	8	Holmes, William F. "The Leflore County Massacre and the Demise of the Colored Farmers' Alliance" Phylon, 1973
6	9	Holmes, William F. "Whitecapping: Anti-Semitism in the Populist Era". American Jewish Historical Quarterly, March 1974
6	10	Holton, Robert J. "The Crowd in History: Some Problems of Theory and Method" Social History, May 1978
6	11	House, Albert V. Jr. "The Management of a Rice Plantation in Georgia, 1834-1861, as revealed in the Journal of Hugh Fraser Grant". American History. (cf. Diss. Bibliography, p. 271), October 1939
6	12	House, Albert V. Jr. "Charles Manigault's Essay on the Open Planting of Rice" American History, October 1942
6	13	Hurst, James Willard. Law and Social Process, 1960
6	14	Hurst, James Willard. Law and Social Order, 1977
6	15	Jacobson, Alvin L. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 264), September 1975
6	16	Kephart, Horace. Our Southern Highlanders, 1913
6	17	Kerr, Ed. "Southerners who set the Woods on Fire". Harper's Magazine, July 1958
6	18	Kilian, Martin A. and Tatom, E. Lynn. "Marx, Hegel, and the Marxian of the Master Class: Eugene D. Genovese on Slavery" The Journal of Negro History, Fall 1981
6	20	Kundert, Kenneth R. and Bargmann, Rolf E. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 278), 1972
6	21	Kuznets, Simon. Capital in the American Economy: Its Formation and Financing, 1961
6	22	Lane, Roger. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 264), Fall 1968
6	23	Loftin, Colin and Hill, Robert H. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 264), October 1974
6	24	Magdol, Edward. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 271), 1977
6	25	Mandle, Jay R. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 271), Spring 1972
6	26	Mandle, Jay R. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 271), 1978
6	27	McDonald, Forrest and McWhiney, Grady. "The South from Self-Sufficiency to Peonage: An Interpretation". The American Historical Review, December 1980
6	28	McGuire, Robert A. "U.S. Agricultural Statistics: State Estimates, 1866-1914". American History, April 1980
6	29	McIntosh, Glenda Riley. "The Origins of the Feminist Movement in America" Forums in History, 1973
6	30	McKinney, Gordon B. An Appalachian Symposium "Industrialization and Violence in Appalachia in the 1890's", 1977
6	31	Melton, Ella Christie and Raines, Mrs. Augusta Griggs. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 272)
6	32	Miller, William D. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 264), Spring 1973
6	33	Mohr, Clarence L. "Before Sherman: Georgia Blacks and the Union War Effort, 1861-1864". The Journal of Southern History, August 1979
6	34	Monkkonen, Eric H. "Systematic Criminal Justice History: Some Suggestions" Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Winter 1979
6	35	Monkonnen, Eric H. "The Organized Response to Crime in Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century America" Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Summer 1983
6	36	Nettler, Gwynn. "Criminal Justice" Annual Review of Sociology, 1979
6	37	Opie, John. An Appalachian Symposium "A Sense of Place: The World We Have Lost", 1977
6	38	Oubre, Claude F. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 272), 1978
6	39	Owens, James Leggette. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 272), 1977
6	40	Phillips, Ulrich B. October 1928 (Diss. Bibliography, p. 272), October 1928
6	41	Prunty, Merle Jr. "The Renaissance of the Southern Plantation". The Geographical Review, October 1955
6	42	Ransom, Roger and Sutch, Richard. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 273), 1977
6	43	Ransom, Roger and Sutch, Richard. "Growth and Welfare in the American South the Nineteenth Century" Explorations in Economic History, 1979
6	44	Rausford, H. Edward. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 273: See 'Ransford'), 1977
6	45	Reid, Joseph D. Jr. Explorations in Economic History, 1979
6	46	Roark, James L. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 273), 1977
6	47	Russell, James M. "Homicide and the Violent Ideal in Atlanta, 1865 to 1890" (Term Paper, U. of Tennessee at Chattanooga), March 1978
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6A	1	Saunders, Robert M. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 266), 1978
6A	2	Scott, Anne Firor. The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930, 1970
6A	3	Shammas, Carole. "Constructing a Wealth Distribution from Probate Records" Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Autumn 1978
6A	4	Shapiro, Henry D. An Appalachian Symposium "Appalachia and the Idea of America: The Problem of the Persisting Frontier", 1977
6A	5	Shaw, Van B. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 266), May-June 1949
6A	6	Sjoquist, David Lawrence. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 266), 1973
6A	7	Sowell, Thomas. Race and Economics, 1975
6A	8	Spindel, Donna J. and Thomas, Stuart W. Jr. "Crime and Society in North Carolina, 1663-1740" The Journal of Southern History, May 1983
6A	9	Steel, Edward M. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 266), April 1972
6A	10	Stephens, Lester D. "A Former Slave and the Georgia Convict Lease System" Negro History Bulletin, January 1976
6A	11	Temin, Peter. "Freedom and Coercion" Explorations in Economic History, 1979
6A	12	Thomas, George R. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 273), 1972
6A	13	Thompson, E. P. "Eighteenth-Century Crime, Popular Movements and Social Control" Society for the Study of Labor History Bulletin, 1972
6A	14	Thompson, E. P. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 267), 1978-05
6A	15	Vance, Rupert. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 274), 1929
6A	16	Walls, David S. An Appalachian Symposium "On the Naming of Appalachia", 1977
6A	17	Wiener, Johnathan M. "Class Structure and Economic Development in the American South, 1865-1955". The American Historical Review, October 1979
6A	18	Williams, Raymond. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 274), 1961
6A	19	Woodman, Harold D. (Diss. Bibliography, p. 274), November 1977
6A	20	Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. "Community, Class, and Snopesian Crime: Local Justice in the Old South"
6A	21	BOOK REVIEWS of various authors by various authors
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7		Note Cards
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8		Note Cards