Myths of American Slavery, Hardcover

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

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

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. 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. DescriptionIn 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26, 000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the ...

Reducere. Explore Captivating Cherokee MythsIn Cherokee myth-as in other Indigenous American traditions-the whole of creation is alive and able to communicat...

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 ...

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

Reducere. In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to ...

Reducere. In The American Dream for Students of Color, the tenets of the American Dream as a merit narrative enacted in schools are examined to better unders...

Reducere. If you're looking for a captivating collection of Central American myths, then keep reading...Mexico and the Central American states are home to ma...

Reducere. One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays...

Reducere. Explore Captivating Native American MythsThree captivating manuscripts in one book: Native American Mythology: Captivating Myths of Indigenous Peop...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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. "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. This book is about the real Old West. The research presented here comes from what I've found during my more than forty-five years of researching Am...

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

Reducere. Native American Mythology began long before the European settlers arrived on North American soil. The most popular of these myths usually are the o...

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

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 ...

Reducere. DescriptionBefore the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person,...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionBefore the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person,...

Reducere. Throughout the 400 years since the first "20 and odd Negroes" were brought to the British colonies, American Descendants of Slavery have experience...