Lacy K Ford: 2 books
Deliver Us from Evil
The Slavery Question in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson. Drawing heavily on...
Race and the Early Republic
Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
By 1840, American politics was a paradox—unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and Native American descent. Historians have characterized this phenomenon as the "white republic."
Race and the...