Thomas Jordan Research Articles

Taking Profits, Making Myths: The Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest

Taking Profits, Making MythsThe Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest Timothy S. Huebner (bio) The men engaged in the slave-trade between the states pass without condemnation, and their business is deemed honorable. —Frederick Douglass, 1852 Although best known as a Confederate general and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest first made a name for himself during the 1850s, buying and selling enslaved African Americans in Memphis, Tennessee.1 Conforming to one scholar’s definition of “the most important type of [End Page 42] slave trader,” Forrest “bought slaves in the exporting states, transported them to the importing states, and sold them for a profit.” Existing studies of the trade focus mostly on earlier decades or rely heavily on sources from the much larger New Orleans market. An examination of a single prominent trader in late antebellum Memphis, a smaller urban center, yields further insights into the men who actually engaged in slave trading, as well as the pervasive hold that slavery’s capitalism had on the American South. Building on the innovative business practices established by an earlier generation of Southern traders, Forrest proved ruthlessly adept in running a profitable slave-dealing operation in the heart of the Lower Mississippi Valley.2 [End Page 43] The myths associated with Forrest’s biography obscure this part of his life, for during the postwar years the former Confederate general personally crafted a narrative to justify his antebellum business enterprises. In the immediate aftermath of accusations that Forrest had massacred Black Union soldiers at the April 1864 Battle of Fort Pillow, Forrest’s prewar slave trading emerged as an issue of particular interest in the North. A May 1864 article in the Chicago Daily Tribune described Forrest’s Memphis slave pen as “a perfect horror to all negroes far and near.” According to the Tribune, Forrest and his brother John disciplined “refractory slaves” with “long heavy bull whips,” which “cut up their victims until the blood trickled to the ground.” Forrest whipped one enslaved man to death, according to the article, after which “the slave was secretly buried, and the circumstance was only known to the slaves of the prison, who only dared to refer to the circumstance in whispers.”3 In 1868, after the war had ended, Forrest sought to rehabilitate his reputation by collaborating with Gen. Thomas Jordan, a Confederate veteran, and J. P. Pryor, a journalist, in producing an authorized biography. In the book’s introductory biographical sketch, Jordan and Pryor noted that Forrest moved to Memphis to establish himself “as a broker in real estate and a dealer in slaves,” and observed that Forrest “accumulated a considerable fortune.” Not content with this factual description, the authors—surely at Forrest’s urging—included a lengthy footnote arguing that Forrest “carried on his business with admitted probity and humanity.” The authors claimed that as a slave dealer Forrest “never sold separately the members of a family, and made it a rule, as far as practicable, after acquiring heads of a family, to purchase the others, howsoever widely scattered, and this, indeed, proved profitable in the end.”4 These words set the tone for later generations of [End Page 44] Forrest admirers, who offered similar justifications for his extensive trafficking in human beings. In 1898, one enthusiast went so far as to claim that Forrest gained such a reputation for kindness among the prewar enslaved community that he “was overwhelmed with applications from a great many [slaves], who begged him to purchase them.”5 Such arguments about Forrest’s benevolent motivations and actions—despite betraying a fundamental misunderstanding [End Page 45] of how the trade actually worked—endure even today in popular biographies and on neo-Confederate websites.6 Click for larger view View full resolution After the war, Forrest sought to rehabilitate his reputation by collaborating with General Thomas Jordan and J. P. Pryor in producing an authorized biography. This was the first source to portray Forrest as a benevolent trader. Myths have persisted as well due to the relative dearth of source material from this period in Forrest’s life. No records from his slave-trading business survive, so one must piece together...

Medicina et ars. Ikonografická analýza reversů dvou medailí Antonia Abondia

The study focuses primarily on the iconographic analysis of two medals by Antonio Abondio, portraying the prominent physicians Thomas Jordan von Klausenburg and Johann Crato von Kraftheim. Attention is paid to the reverses images and their possible models.

Swatch Group and Francogeddon

This case illustrates how exchange rate shocks affect international businesses. The focus is on one recent stark example: the effect on Swatch Group of the Swiss National Bank's January 2015 decision to end its policy of putting a ceiling on the euro/Swiss franc exchange rate. It is useful for an introductory class that defines different exchange rate concepts, illustrates why managers should care about exchange rates, and motivates/previews the study of the macroeconomics of exchange rates, capital flows, and monetary policy. This case is appropriate for use in a first-year MBA course that deals with international economics or finance, though it is written to be standalone and thus could also be employed in an advanced undergraduate or master's level course on international macroeconomics or finance. Excerpt UVA-GEM-0167 Oct. 29, 2018 Swatch Group and Francogeddon “The Swiss National Bank has decided to discontinue the minimum exchange rate of CHF 1.20 per euro with immediate effect and to cease foreign currency purchases associated with enforcing it.” Thomas Jordan, Chairman, Swiss National Bank With that one sentence uttered on a cold Zurich day in early 2015, Thomas Jordan ended the Swiss National Bank (SNB) policy to hold the Swiss franc (CHF) down against the euro (EUR). The policy, which had been in place since September 2011, had SNB purchasing foreign currency in exchange for the Swiss franc in order to maintain a floor of CHF1.2 per euro (or, equivalently, a ceiling of EUR0.83 per franc). Within a week of removing this policy, the franc appreciated over 20% and the stock price of Swatch Group, a Swiss watch manufacturer and exporter, fell by over 20% (Figure 1). Swatch CEO Nick Hayek Jr. proclaimed, “Words fail me! Jordan is not only the name of the SNB president, but also of a river and today's SNB action is a tsunami; for the export industry and for tourism, and finally for the entire country.” . . .

Geoscience society rescinds award to top seismologist after ethics investigation

The American Geophysical Union says it received a ‘conduct-related complaint’ against Thomas Jordan. The American Geophysical Union says it received a ‘conduct-related complaint’ against Thomas Jordan.

Alcohol control strategies: the gap between evidence and practice

‘Intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.’ This quote from Thomas Jordan Jarvis (1836–1915) is as true now as it was in the 19th century. While our consumption per capita in the UK has not quite reached Victorian levels, it has more than doubled since World War II and alcohol-related illnesses, injuries, and deaths are now at an all-time high. Representatives of the drinks industry are quick to point out that data from national surveys have shown a fall over the past few years (during the financial downturn) in consumption figures. However, this has coincided with increasing ethnic diversity and more abstainers in the UK population, and those that are drinking are doing so in a more harmful way. It is also well known that there is a marked disparity between alcohol consumption figures from self-reported national surveys and from alcohol sales data. It has been estimated by Bellis et al 1 from the volume of pure alcohol taxed in 2007/2008 that the average consumption of a drinking adult in England is 26 units per week, higher than surveys suggest and well above recommended limits of 14 units per week for women and 21 for men. The evidence for …

A 'Lost' Play Found: Thomas Jordan's The Walks of Islington and Hogsdon

SCHOLARS have tended to assume that Youth’s Figaries (or Youth’s Vagaries) by the actor and playwright Thomas Jordan, was one of the casualties of the outbreak of the Civil War between Charles I and his Parliamentary opponents, when the London playhouses were closed and many texts were ‘lost’. However, in my view, Jordan’s play is not a ‘lost’ text at all. Rather, it is another title reference for his hugely popular comedy, The Walks of Islington and Hogsdon, licensed and performed in 1641, revised in 1657, and officially performed again in1663.1 ‘Crossing over’ from the 1640s to the 1660s, the play has a significant position in English dramatic history as one of the last of the Caroline comedies and one of the first of the Restoration comedies;2 some of Jordan’s material is echoed in the works of William Wycherley and John Gay.3 Licensed for performance by the Master of the Revels, Sir Henry Herbert, on 2 August 1641, Jordan’s comedy was one of the last to be performed on the public stage before the 1642 ‘epidemicall’ closure of the theatres.4 N. W.Bawcutt’s edition of Herbert’s records is slightly misleading, implying that Jordan submitted two comedies for consideration at this time, but I am convinced that these are one and the same play. In a general note for August 1641, Herbert wrote ‘Youths Figaries all[owe]d upon several reformations and not otherwise.’ This was noted by Bawcutt with the comment, ‘A lost play’.5 A few lines later, Herbert’s entry for 2 August 1641 is: ‘This Comedy, called, The Walks of Islington and Hogsdon, With the Humours of Woodstreet-Compter, may be Acted, This 2, August, 1641.’ Herbert’s reference to ‘This Comedy’ is made as though he is referring back to something he had previously passed judgement upon, and it would seem likely, if this were a resubmitted play with the required ‘several reformations’ now made, that he would wave it through as recorded in the entry for 2 August 1641.

Thomas E. Jordan, A Review of “The Quality of Life in Seventeenth-Century Ireland”

In “The Quality of Life in Seventeenth-Century Ireland,” Thomas Jordan brings a historian’s perspective to quality-of-life studies. The book raises questions about the determinants of quality-of-life, tangible outcomes and appropriate measures to assess societal well-being.

Another Instance of Plagiarism by Thomas Jordan

Another Instance of Plagiarism by Thomas Jordan

Popular Theatre and the Red Bull

Governing the Pen to the Capacity of the Stage: Reading the Red Bull and Clerkenwell by Lucy Munro: This essay introduces the Issues in Review section ‘Popular Theatre and the Red Bull’, which highlights new work on the Red Bull theatre and its Clerkenwell locality. It suggests ways in which this group of essays relate to current ideas about repertory approaches to early drama, and concludes with a look at the career of actor-dramatist Thomas Jordan at the Red Bull in the Caroline, Interregnum and Restoration periods. Multi-day Performance and the London Clerkenwell Play by Anne Lancashire: Although it has recently been suggested that the multi-day play performed at least occasionally at Clerkenwell, in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, either was not a theatrical performance or was a single-day play performance repeated over several days, evidence strongly points to a multi-day biblical play. Possibly the play was performed with some regularity but was only Noted in royal records and/or chronicles when it was made use of, and therefore perhaps performed with greater elaboration, in response to special royal circumstances. When the Red Bull theatre was built in the same general area in the early seventeenth century, following the locating of the royal Revels Office there from 1560 to 1607-8, it was thus apparently continuing a tradition of Clerkenwell as a major London performance district. Playing the Man: Acting at the Red Bull and the Fortune by John Astington: The seventeenth-century playhouses of north-west London, especially the Red Bull, have suffered a bad press, from their own day to the present. This paper attempts to assess the basis of the evidence for their low reputation, through an examination of the companies which occupied them, their repertories, and their actors. While there are a number of indications of a somewhat populist and old-fashioned character in both repertory and acting style, there are balancing signs of high levels of performance and production in the companies which used the theatres, and of the acquisition of up-to-date and fashionable plays throughout the Caroline period. The difference in standards, as well as in audience, at the Red Bull in particular, has been overemphasised by modern historians and commentators, influenced as they have been by anecdotal comments on the theatres composed in the interregnum and Restoration. The Red Bull Repertory in Print, 1608-1638 by Marta Straznicky: Plays from the Red Bull repertory were not only published but identified as Red Bull productions in a surprisingly large number of quarto editions in the first half of the seventeenth century. The design, typography, and ownership of the Red Bull quartos suggests that, as reading material, the Red Bull plays were not identified with a strictly ‘low’ cultural or social sector. The position of these plays in early modern print culture thus contradicts the familiar rhetorical construction of Red Bull playgoers as unlettered, or even illiterate, and demands a reassessment of the social and educational make-up the audience for a ‘popular’ theatrical repertory.

Foreign Direct Investment in Japan. Edited by Masaru Yoshitomi and Edward M. Graham. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1996. xvi, 231 pp. £49.95.

The Japanese economy - why perceived weaknesses in its recovery should not be overemphasized, Lawrence Klein. Part 1 How can the theories of foreign direct investment shed light on the small size of FDI into Japan?: explaining foreign direct investment in Japan - some theoretical insights, John H. Dunning what can the theory of foreign direct investment tell us about the low level of foreign firm participation in the economy of Japan, Edward M. Graham. Part 2 How do Japan's distinctive business practices and trade structure affect FDI into Japan?: why foreign firm's entry has been low in Japan - an empirical examination, Ryuhei Wakasugi structural impediments to investment in Japan - what have we learned over the last 450 years?, David Weinstein. Part 3 What are the actual experiences of foreign multinational companies in Japan?: the future of foreign direct investment in Japan, Thomas Jordan what are the actual experiences of foreign multinational companies in Japan? The European point of view, Reinhard Neumann.

Natural hazards need not lead to natural disasters

According to Charles Meade of the National Research Council and Thomas Jordan of MIT, the Loma Prieta, Northridge, and Kobe earthquakes resulted in 6000 deaths and $130 billion in property damage, not to mention months of disruption and years of psychological damage. But in spite of their structural and human toll, none of these seismic events was unusual. Each year, an average of 17 earthquakes occur that are stronger than the Loma Prieta quake (6.9 Mw).And so it is with many natural disasters in recent years. Despite the popular perception that Earth is being ravaged more often today than during other points in geologic history, most scientists believe that nature is no more tempestuous than it has ever been. Nonetheless, property losses due to natural disasters have skyrocketed to an average of $1 billion per week—about 2–3 times the losses in the 1980s—and the public wants to know why.

‘Musick & Poetry, Mixed’: Thomas Jordan's manuscript collection

During the turbulent years which immediately preceded the birth of Henry Purcell many Royalist poets and sympathizers gathered together collections of songs and poems illustrating major events in Britain's political history between the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642 and the restoration of the Stuart monarchy 18 years later. In 1949 the University of Nottingham acquired one such collection, a manuscript of 34 Cavalier poems with music (see table 1), compiled by the poet and actor, Thomas Jordan (c.162o-1685).' Bound during the 18th century with Jordan's 1637 publication Poeticall Varieties: or, Varietie of Fancies, the anthology was one of several hundred literary manuscripts presented to the university by the 7th Duke of Portland, and now bears the shelfmark PwV18.2 The current catalogue entry to the volume-'1637 Tho. Jordan: Poeticall varieties (printed; with manuscript additions) (small qto. vol.)'-belies the significance of PwV18. The manuscript layer, which extends to 124 pages (pp.112-23 are blank), contains a mixture of political medleys and ballads, love poems and jigs, many of which are new to the corpus of 17th-century English song. The texts are set to anonymous popular tunes and to the airs of John Wilson, Thomas Gibbes, Davis Mell, John Gamble, Mr [?John] Taylor and W[alter] Y[ockney]. Furthermore, the discovery of the manuscript identifies Jordan as the first textual scribe of John Gamble's famous songbook,3 and places him within the literary circle connected with London's theatre musicians and composers during the middle decades of the 17th century. The chain of provenance of PwV18 is an intricate one (see table 2). The volume's earliest identifiable owner was the Cervantean scholar, the Rev. John Bowle (1725-88), whose bookplate can be found on the front pastedown.4 Bowle's primary area of study lay in the romance languages; his edition of Don Quixote was published in 1781. He also accumulated a substantial library of early modern English literary works, and wrote on a wide range of subjects, including music; for Lynn Hulse is a research fellow at Clare example, his 'Remarks on some antient Musical Instruments menHall, Cambridge, and editor ofChelys, tioned in Le Roman de la Rose' were published in the 1785 issue of the journal of the Viola da Gamba Society. antiquarian journal Archaeologia. Bowle acquired Jordan's collection

'Musick & Poetry, mixed': Thomas Jordan's manuscript collection

'Musick & Poetry, mixed': Thomas Jordan's manuscript collection

Fort Pillow Revisited: New Evidence about an Old Controversy

FORT PILLOW REVISITED: NEW EVIDENCE ABOUT AN OLD CONTROVERSY Edited by John Cimprich Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. The capture of Fort Pillow on April 12, 1864, by a force of Confederate cavalry under the command of Major General Nathan B. Forrest is, perhaps , the most controversial battle of the Civil War. A congressional report on the engagement concluded not only that Forrest's troops massacred a substantial portion of the racially mixed garrison, but also that they committed numerous grisly atrocities. The report drew much criticism from southern writers, who indignantly denied that a massacre took place and even more vehemently defended Forrest's conduct. More recently, several historians have held that the report correctly labelled the event a massacre but exaggerated the additional atrocities. Further evidence, mostly new Confederate sources, provides the first really solid support for the latter interpretation and also offers a more detailed picture of the event.1 The federal garrison at FortPillow at its last count, officially consisted of 580 men, of whom 292 belonged to the Sixth United States Colored Heavy Artillery or the Second United States Colored Light Artillery (hereafter designated U.S.C.H.A. and U.S.C.L.A. respectively) and 285 to the white Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry. Three men (post staff The authors of this article were aided by funding from the Tennessee Department of Conservation (Division of Planning and Development) and the Southeast Missouri State University's Grants and Research Funding Committee. They also acknowledge the help of research assistants Karen M. Johnson, Joe Mannard, Stephan Rogers, Marion Smith, and Parris Stripling. 1 U.S., Congress, Senate Committee Reports, 38th Cong., 1st sess., No. 83, passim; Thomas Jordan and J. P. Pryor, The Campaigns of Lt. Gen. N. B. Forrest (New York, 1868), pp. 439-45; Charles W. Anderson, "The True Story of Fort Pillow," Confederate Veteran3 (Nov. 1895):326;John AllanWyeth, The Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest (New York, 1899), pp. 355-56; John L. Jordan, "Was There a Massacre at Fort Pillow?" Tennessee Historical Quarterly 6 (June 1947):122-32; Dudley T. Cornish, The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865 (New York, 1956), pp. 174-75; Albert Castel, "The Fort Pillow Massacre: A Fresh Examination of the Evidence," Civil War History 4 (Mar. 1958):46-49; idem, "Fort Pillow: Victory or Massacre," American History Illustrated 9 (Apr. 1974):4-11, 46-48. CivilWar History, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4 Copyright® 1982by The KentState University Press 0009-8078/82/2804-0001 $01.00/0 294civil war history members) belonged to other white units.2 Forrest's troops numbered about 1500 men. Contrary to the claim by the historian Ronald K. Huch, these troops had never before faced blacks in combat.3 The April 12, 1864, entry in the log4 of the gunboat New Era, which participated in the Union defense, summarizes the engagement: @6 a.m. Received information from Maj Booth5 commanding post that his Pickets were driven in and that the enemy were advancing on the Fort[.] @6.10 got underway[;] went into the Stream[;] Beatto quarters and commenced Shellingthe enemy in the ravinebelow the Fort and rendering all the assistance in ourpower to the Garrison[.] @8.15 Took in tow an empty Coal Barge containing Females and Non combat[;] towed it above Coal Creek out of danger[;] returned and commenced Shelling above the Fort throwing five inch Shell and Schrapnel and enfelading the enemys advance to such an advantage that a quantity of Sharp Shooters were stationed in the bank to drive us away[.] @9.30 a.m. Str. Liberty passed down landing at the barge and taking on board all who wished to leave[] In passing the Fort she received a Volley[.] [We] continued firing from a Signal from the Fort[;] Keeping underway[;] running a head and dropping as required[.] @noon the enemy opened on us from their battery of two light field pieces Stationed under cover of Wolfs Hül[;]e the Sharp Shooters Continued firing on us[.] @ 1.45 the enemy sent in a flag of Truce and firing was discontinued from the Fort[.] Owing the Strength of Wind and current all the firing was done by the...

The Papers of Thomas Jordan Jarvis. Volume I, 1869–1882. Edited by <italic>W. Buck Yearns</italic>. (Raleigh, N. C.: State Department of Archives and History. 1969. Pp. lx, 680. $5.00.)

Journal Article The Papers of Thomas Jordan Jarvis. Volume I, 1869–1882. Edited by W. Buck Yearns. (Raleigh, N. C.: State Department of Archives and History. 1969. Pp. lx, 680. $5.00.) Get access The Papers of Thomas Jordan Jarvis. Volume I, 1869–1882. Edited by Yearns W. Buck. (Raleigh, N. C.: State Department of Archives and History. 1969. Pp. lx, 680. $5.00.) Maury Klein Maury Klein University of Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 75, Issue 7, December 1970, Pages 2135–2136, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/75.7.2135 Published: 01 December 1970

PLAGIARISM BY THOMAS JORDAN

Journal Article PLAGIARISM BY THOMAS JORDAN Get access PATRICIA A. PINSENT PATRICIA A. PINSENT London, N.W.9. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 1967, Pages 336–337, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/14-9-336 Published: 01 September 1967

For Collectors Only

Notes & Queries EDITED BY BOYD B. STUTLER 517 Main Street Charleston, West Virginia this department is designed as an open forum for researchers and readers of CtvtZ War History for questions on and discussions of phases of the Great Conflict and its personnel. Also for newly discovered or unrecorded sidelights of the war. Contributions are invited; address Notes and Queries Editor. QUERIES 27.General Thomas Jordan, CSA: I am at work on a thesis which will cover one year in the life of General Thomas Jordan, who served as Chief of Staff to General Beauregard— the year 1869 to 1870 when he was a leader of the insurgents in Cuba. But I need data relating to his early life and Civil War service to round out the background of this Confederate officer. For a relatively important man in CSA military service, the information needed seems very elusive. Query: Can anyone tell me the present whereabouts of General Jordan's papers, if they exist, or furnish copies of letters or documents which may be helpful in my study? Also, I would like to have the names of his children or grand-children; it may be possible to track down the papers through some of his descendents. Cornelius H. BuU III 28.Loyalty Oaths for Virginia Unionists: The Convention which assembled at Wheeling, West Virginia, on June 11, 1861, for the purpose of organizing and restoring a loyal Union government of Virginia (a secession within a secession), adopted an ordinance on June 19 providing for an oath of loyalty to the United States, 135 136BOYD B. stutler "anything in the Constitution and laws of the State of Virginia, or the ordinances of the Convention which assembled at Richmond on the 13th day of February, 1861, to the contrary notwithstanding." The form of oath prescribed bound the subscriber to "uphold and defend the government of Virginia as vindicated and restored by the Convention which assembled at Wheeling on the 11th day of June, 1861." Later, an act of the Legislature of the Restored Government passed February 10, 1862, defined the classes required to take the oath, and also provided for the issuance of printed forms and for registers to be kept by the county clerks. Query: How widely was this act observed, and what records, individual forms and registers, have been preserved in county offices and private collections? DeIf Norona 29. James A. Seddon, Confederate War Secretary: I am endeavoring to locate material on James Alexander Seddon, gifted Virginia lawyer and politician, who was Secretary of War for the Confederate States from November 22, 1862, to February 5, 1865. The data is being assembled for a biography which I expect to write as a doctoral dissertation under the direction of Dr. Fletcher Green at the University of North Carolina. When completed it will be the first full-scale study of the Secretary and the Confederate War Department and will, it is hoped, be a standard and definitive work on a little known aspect of Confederate history. Particularly helpful will be diaries which mention Seddon, correspondence between individuals and the CS War Department, letters to or from John Archibald Campbell or Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Assistant Secretaries, eta Gerard F. O'Brien ANSWERS Query 16. Iowa Cavalry at Pohick Church: Irwin L. Stein, History Department, Los Angeles Public Library, does not have a complete answer to the query posed by Colonel Henry S. Merrick (March, 195T), but does present an interesting theory. Mr. Stein writes: "There doesn't seem to be any record of Iowa Cavalry assigned anywhere in the East, but I wonder if the following suggestion is too outrageously fanciful? During the time when the 22nd Army Corps constituted the District and Department of Washington, some 14 or more regiments of the Veterans Reserve Corps served in it. Could it be that the Iowa cavalrymen now belonged to the Veterans Reserve Corps? Men from the same area might naturally stick together, and nostalgia would account for their following their names with their old regimental designations rather than the new ones in the VRC." Notes ir Queries137 Query 19. 2nd and 3rd Texas Infantry Regiments: A number of readers responded to the query of...

Thomas Jordan

Journal Article Thomas Jordan Get access R. C. Elsley R. C. Elsley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume CXCVI, Issue nov10, 10 November 1951, Page 501, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/CXCVI.nov10.501 Published: 10 November 1951