No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding, Hardcover - Sean Wilentz

A radical reconstruction of the founders' debate over slavery and the Constitution, by the best-selling, award-winning author of The Rise of Americ...

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery m...

Reducere. The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history "A revelatory and fluidly written chronicle. . . . An esse...

The clearly and concisely written entries in this reference work chronicle the campaign to end human slavery in the United States, bringing to life...

Reducere. The towering figure who remade American politics the champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege The Founding Fathers ...

DescriptionDuring his 50-year association with the Village Voice, Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007) covered the city's downtown scenes, producing an unm...

A brilliantly written and groundbreaking book about Dylan's music - now the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016 - and its musical, pol...

Reducere. CONTENTS: Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble "Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World, " Sean Morey Smith and Chr...

Reducere. The past thirty-five years have marked an era of conservatism. Although briefly interrupted in the late 1970s and temporarily reversed in the 1990s...

DescriptionIn the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery's defenders often used brute force to suppress ...

Reducere. Award NameMidwest Book Award (MIPA)Award categoryBiographyDescriptionEdward Coles, who lived from 1786-1868, is most often remembered for his antis...

Acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc ...

Compelling addition to the continuing conversation on the complicity of white, southern women in the slave labor economy.Publisher: The University ...

History of British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.

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

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...

A prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.Throughout US history, black people have ...

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While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gil...

Reducere. This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century, when slavery in most parts o...

DescriptionGet to know the foreign-born chefs who are transforming America's culinary landscape and learn how to make their signature dishes in you...

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

Reducere. In the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set this World Right is the fir...

Jewel in the Crown: Bonnie Cone and the Founding of UNC Charlotte chronicles the postwar development of the University of North Carolina at Charlot...

Reducere. DescriptionFounding Father George Wythe was clearly the most influential teacher in American history, judged by student achievement in high public ...

Reducere. Bestselling author Steven Gaines's "richly entertaining" (People) and juicy social history of the Hamptons. As one of America's most fabled communi...

Reducere. DescriptionReverend Nehemiah Adams (February 19, 1806 - October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. Biography: He was born in Salem, Mas...

Publisher: Straightforward PublishingAuthor(s): Roger SprostonNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 148 x 210 x 19Cover type: Paper...

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"Marlon Bundo is the adorable bunny that should bring us all together."-- PARENTS.COM "The rabbit's romp through Washington takes him to places mea...

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