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In the Name of the Father
Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
In this revelatory and genuinely groundbreaking study, François Furstenberg sheds new light on the genesis of American identity. Immersing us in the publishing culture of the early nineteenth century, he shows us how the words of George Washington and others of his generation became America's sacred...
Blackfoot Redemption
A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus “disappeared” for more than thirty years, until a delegation...
Been in the Storm So Long
The Aftermath of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil...
Slave Narratives (LOA #114)
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat Turner / Frederick Douglass / William Wells Brown / Henry Bibb / Sojourner Truth / William and Ell
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2000
The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage.
Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most...
by Joshua Coffin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries
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The subsequent collection of facts is presented to your notice, with the hope that they will have that effect...
by Lunsford Lane
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 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...
Bittersweet Legacy
The Black and White 'Better Classes' in Charlotte, 1850-1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Bittersweet Legacy is the dramatic story of the relationship between two generations of black and white southerners in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1850 to 1910. Janette Greenwood describes the interactions between black and white business and professional people--the 'better classes,' as they...
by George W. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 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...
Disowning Slavery
Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources—from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides—Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but...
White Over Black
American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition, with new forewords by historians Christopher...
The Fearless Benjamin Lay
The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life
In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded...
by Eber Pettit
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
True stories drawn from the inspirational and heartrending history of the Underground Railroad
It is estimated that by 1850 over one hundred thousand slaves had escaped to freedom in the North via a network of safe houses and secret routes known collectively as the Underground Railroad. First...
The Origin of Satan
How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s...
Slavery And Freedom
An Interpretation of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise of a racist ideology.