In the Shadow of Dred Scott: St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America, Paperback - Kelly M. Kennington

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

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...

Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (2003) - Books for a Better Life - (First Book)Contributor(s): Author: Francis BokWith: Edward TivnanWinner of the Books for a Better...

Reducere. As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. The arrival of fugitives and slave catchers in the ...

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in ...

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...

Reducere. Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was ...

Reducere. Slavery on the Periphery traces the rise and fall of chattel slavery on the Kansas-Missouri border from the earliest years of American settlement t...

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

Reducere. Third in the Hooked X series, this book explores new scientific findings and recently discovered documents that show a vastly different story of No...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Kabria BaumgartnerNumber of pages: 320Collection: Early American PlacesPublication date: 2022Dimensi...

Reducere. The final novel in the bestselling series by Kelly St. Clare, The Tainted Accords A part of me knew when I was taken from Osolis that upon my retur...

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

Kelli Moore traces the political origins of the concept of domestic violence through visual culture in the United States, showing how it is rooted ...

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

Reducere. The landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford, in which the slave Dred Scott was denied freedom for himself and his family, raise...

Reducere. DescriptionFantasy of Freedom is the final action-packed title in The Tainted Accords series. This is the heaviest the veil has ever felt. But I am...

Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1, 000 e...

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

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...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsIn this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves ac...

Reducere. National Book AwardsThis magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societi...

Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keri Leigh MerrittAnalyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess worker...

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

Description'In 1811, twelve young men were chosen among the families in the Emperor's personal service to serve as ushers in his apartments. My mot...

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. "Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas."--San Francis...

Reducere. If we want to understand culture wars on the contemporary American scene, we must first come to grips with the American culture wars of the ninetee...

Reducere. For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been ...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journal...

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. On June 19, 1865, known as Juneteenth, American slaves in Texas were informed that they had been emancipated. Juneteenth is a very important event ...

Reducere. A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St...

From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke "Ro...

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

Reducere. DescriptionWhen you think of early Texas history, you think of freedom fighters at the Alamo and rugged cowboys riding the plains. You usually don'...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Geniece Crawford MondeIllustration(s): 5 tablesNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Early one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending an avalanche of water down a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tyson AmirIn the pages of Black Boy Poems, you will experience the fight, struggle, love, anger, frustration, critical anal...