American Slavery. 1619-1877, Paperback - Peter Kolchin

Beginning with the Colonial period, progressing through the Revolution and the Antebellum period, this book chronologically documents the historica...

Reducere. When and where was America founded? Was it in Virginia in 1619, when a pirate ship landed a group of captive Africans at Jamestown? So asserted the...

Reducere. George Mason of Gunston Hall distinguished himself as a planter, revolutionary patriot, author the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and slave owner....

A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on th...

Reducere. DescriptionAmerican History volume 2 gives a wide overview of America's history from the end of the Civil War era, to the political and cultural st...

DescriptionAmerican History volume 1 surveys the broad sweep of American history from the first Native American societies to the end of the Reconst...

Reducere. DescriptionProgram litany for the ceremony concluding 40 Days of Prayer for the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS). The ceremony engages blacks...

Reducere. AFRICAN AMERICAN LAWMEN, 1867-1877 explores the understudied topic of African Americans in law enforcement, as well as in executive and elected pol...

Reducere. Description"Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a famili...

While the depth of Americans' historiographical engagement with slavery is not surprising, the range and sheer volume of writing on the subject can...

Reducere. A leader of the Reconstruction era, whose contested election eerily parallels the election debacle of 2000 The disputed election of 1876 between Ru...

Reducere. BLACK HISTORY 1619 TO 2019 is an inspiring and educational journey through American history. It is an in-depth look at the events which shaped the ...

Reducere. "My Christian faith taught me always to fight hard but only to fight back with the truth. Sadly, I learned that the opposition to Judeo-Christian f...

Reducere. DescriptionPublished by the Salish Kootenai College Press Peter Ronan (1839-93) was the government agent for the Salish and Kootenai tribes of the ...

A landmark history of the rise, abolition, and legacy of slavery in the New World.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Robin BlackburnNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. Designed to accompany American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context, Fourth Edition, this two-volume sourcebook provides a diverse set of doc...

Reducere. For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.S. and...

Reducere. This book explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as ...

From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery. Even as the U.S. was founded on pr...

Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Childr...

Reducere. "American Slavery As It Is" is a book composed of first-hand accounts of slavery and its horrors. The work focuses on the afflictions that slaves f...

Reducere. Description"I too am not a bit tamed--I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."--Walt Whitman, "Song of Myse...

Reducere. Description"I too am not a bit tamed--I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."--Walt Whitman, "Song of Myse...

Reducere. "My Christian faith taught me always to fight hard but only to fight back with the truth. Sadly, I learned that the opposition to Judeo-Christian f...

A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

The emergence of slavery in the District of Columbia profoundly transformed constitutional interpretation. Gilhooley's account of this interaction,...

Reducere. This Lenten devotional invites readers to learn more about the brutal institution of slavery and its impact on Black people in America and recogniz...

Reducere. First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a ...

Reducere. America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the cult...

Reducere. "Demonstrates that the 'emancipation generation' bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping rel...

The revolutionary X-15 remains the fastest manned aircraft ever to fly. Built in in the two decades following World War II, it was the most success...

The Peter Lang Companion to Latin American Science Fiction provides a comprehensive overview of science fiction in Latin America by addressing the ...

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's la...

Reducere. From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Ameri...

'Send back the Money!' throws light upon nineteenth-century culture, British and American Abolitionists, and ecclesiastical politics.

CONTENTS: Chapter 1: 1762-1786; Chapter 2: 1787-1817; Chapter 3: 1818-1830; Chapter 4: 1831-1845 (Introduction); Chapter 5: 1847-1853; Chapter 6: 1...

Reducere. In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands...

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteen...

Reducere. The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.The Origins of Ame...

Reducere. Who were the first American Slaves? More importantly, who started slavery? Know the answers to these interesting questions and more by going over t...

Reducere. Over the past quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship on the lives of the slaves in the American South. Now he p...

Reducere. It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...

Traces Scarborough's path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce Unive...