Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery, Paperback - Joseph P. Reidy

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DescriptionAt the crux of America's history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slav...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Kris ManjapraIllustration(s): 1x8pp mono insetNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 24...

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DescriptionThe Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: David W. BlightEditor: Jim DownsThis collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters...

Features the lyrics of fifteen slave songs and fifteen abolitionist songs, placing them in proper historical context and making them available agai...

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The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical...

Contributor(s): Author: Kate MasurAn Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation...

Reducere. "NEW YORK TIMES "EDITOR'S CHOICE"SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "RECOMMENDED BOOKWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEOne morning in 1805, off a remote island in t...

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Reducere. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with t...

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

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Gregory NoblesIllustration(s): 10 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimension...

This book shows, in a pictorial manner, how light is perceived in our world. It then demonstrates how light in a variety of environments is transfe...

How I became an abolitionist: a memoir of Black Lives MatterPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Derecka PurnellNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2...

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Reducere. The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, riverme...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his...

Reducere. Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Lesli...

Examines how the demands of western settlers, the potential of western disunion, and local, popular politics determined the fate of slavery and fre...

Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political or...

Reducere. Never afraid to take on tough cases or tackle difficult issues, here in From Freedom to Slavery Gerry Spence comes at us uncensored, with his passi...

Tells a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia ...

DescriptionInvestigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Jam...

Winner of the Casa de las Am�rica Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jos� Maria, set a...

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Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Authors Award for Nonfiction New Jersey's land records and deeds are unlikely sources for a thri...

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This edited collection represents the latest scholarship in the area of diversity and inclusion, pertaining to institutional policies, practices, d...

George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign agai...

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

Reducere. Contains the essence of the logotherapeutic writings of Viktor Frankl, who noted that many readers report that they understand some parts of logoth...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 159 x 275 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Joel (Queens College, USA) SpringIllustration(s): 15 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Tables, black and ...

Contributor(s): Editor: Clifton EllisEditor: Rebecca GinsburgCountering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and ...

Reducere. Joseph, son of Jacob, is given a special coat as a sign of his father's love. Filled with jealousy, Joseph's brothers sell him into slavery. After ...