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by Works Projects Administration
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Slavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the anti-slavery movement was known as abolition. For many abolitionists, slavery was the preeminent moral issue of the day, and their opposition...
Practical Liberators
Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at best, inconsistent and fraught with internal strains. But after Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act in 1862, army policy became mostly consistent...
Epic Journeys of Freedom
Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dangers can the exhilaration...
Jim Crow's Children
The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Peter Irons, acclaimed historian and author of A People History of the Supreme Court, explores of one of the supreme court's most important decisions and its disappointing aftermath
In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v. Board...
There Goes My Everything
White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
During the civil rights movement, epic battles for justice were fought in the streets, at lunch counters, and in the classrooms of the American South. Just as many battles were waged, however, in the hearts and minds of ordinary white southerners whose world became unrecognizable to them. Jason Sokol’s...
by Robert Jefferson Norrell
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Bringing us close to the complex history of the civil rights movement in the American South—the currents that involved thousands of communities and millions of individual lives—this book looks deeply into the experiences of a single Alabama town, Tuskegee, and its surrounding Macon County. It...
Death Blow to Jim Crow
The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local...
Champion of Civil Rights
Judge John Minor Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
One of the least publicly recognized heroes of the civil rights movement in the United States, John Minor Wisdom served as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1957 until his death in 1999 and wrote many of the landmark decisions instrumental in desegregating the American...
by James Oakes
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead...
A Curse upon the Nation
Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and would later help fuel...
Known for My Work
African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
“Demonstrates that the ‘emancipation generation’ bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping religious, educational, and cultural institutions as well as labor and political organizations.”—Peter Rachleff, editor of Starving Amidst Too Much...
The Long Emancipation
The Demise of Slavery in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the United States. Emancipation was not an occasion but a century-long process of brutal struggle by generations of African Americans who were not naive about the price of freedom. Just as slavery was initiated and maintained by violence, undoing slavery also required violence.
by Andrew Delbanco, John Stauffer, Manisha Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Abolitionists have been painted in extremes—vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring reformers who hastened the end of slavery. Delbanco sees them as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent impulse of an adamant minority to rid the world of outrageous evil.
Abolitionists Remember
Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation's growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so important.
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