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Book Diary of William Dunlap  1766 1839   The Memoirs of a Dramatist  Theatrical Manager  Painter  Critic  Novelist  and Historian  62

Download or read book Diary of William Dunlap 1766 1839 The Memoirs of a Dramatist Theatrical Manager Painter Critic Novelist and Historian 62 written by William Dunlap and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Diary of William Dunlap

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  • Author : William Dunlap
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1930-12
  • ISBN : 9780405084744
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Diary of William Dunlap written by William Dunlap and published by . This book was released on 1930-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diary

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  • Author : William Dunlap
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1930
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Diary written by William Dunlap and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diary of William Dunlap  1766 1839

Download or read book Diary of William Dunlap 1766 1839 written by William Dunlap and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emancipating New York

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  • Author : David N. Gellman
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2008-08
  • ISBN : 0807134651
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Emancipating New York written by David N. Gellman and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative blend of cultural and political history, Emancipating New York is the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New York state. Focusing on public opinion, David N. Gellman shows New Yorkers engaged in vigorous debates and determined activism during the final decades of the eighteenth century as they grappled with the possibility of freeing the state's black population. The gradual emancipation that began in New York in 1799 helped move an entire region of the country toward a historically rare slaveless democracy, creating a wedge in the United States that would ultimately lead to the Civil War. Gellman's comprehensive examination of the reasons for and timing of New York's dismantling of slavery provides a fascinating narrative of a citizenry addressing longstanding injustices central to some of the greatest traumas of American history.

Book Performing the Temple of Liberty

Download or read book Performing the Temple of Liberty written by Jenna M. Gibbs and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and students interested in slavery and abolition, British and American politics and culture, and Atlantic history will take an interest in this provocative work.

Book American Diaries  Diaries written from 1492 to 1844

Download or read book American Diaries Diaries written from 1492 to 1844 written by Laura Arksey and published by Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research. This book was released on 1983 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo

Download or read book The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo written by Jeroen Dewulf and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's most intriguing black folkloric traditions, Pinkster. Jeroen Dewulf rejects the usual interpretation of this celebration of a "slave king" as a form of carnival. Instead, he shows that it is a ritual rooted in mutual-aid and slave brotherhood traditions. By placing these traditions in an Atlantic context, Dewulf identifies striking parallels to royal election rituals in slave communities elsewhere in the Americas, and he traces these rituals to the ancient Kingdom of Kongo and the impact of Portuguese culture in West-Central Africa. Dewulf's focus on the social capital of slaves follows the mutual aid to seventeenth-century Manhattan. He suggests a much stronger impact of Manhattan's first slave community on the development of African American identity in New York and New Jersey than hitherto assumed. While the earliest works on slave culture in a North American context concentrated on an assumed process of assimilation according to European standards, later studies pointed out the need to look for indigenous African continuities. The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo suggests the necessity for an increased focus on the substantial contact that many Africans had with European--primarily Portuguese--cultures before they were shipped as slaves to the Americas. The book has already garnered honors as the winner of the Richard O. Collins Award in African Studies, the New Netherland Institute Hendricks Award, and the Clague and Carol Van Slyke Prize.

Book Library of Congress Catalog

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

Book Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans

Download or read book Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans written by Heather Nathans and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how the earliest representations of Jewish characters on American stages mirrored treatment of Jewish Americans outside the playhouse

Book More Books

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  • Author : Boston Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1931
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 904 pages

Download or read book More Books written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art Books  1876 1949

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  • Author : R.R. Bowker Company
  • Publisher : R. R. Bowker
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 810 pages

Download or read book Art Books 1876 1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1981 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Paintings at Harvard

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  • Author : Theodore E. Stebbins
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-01-01
  • ISBN : 030015352X
  • Pages : 649 pages

Download or read book American Paintings at Harvard written by Theodore E. Stebbins and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features nearly 500 paintings, watercolors, pastels, and miniatures from Harvard University's storied, yet little-known, collection of American art. These works, many unpublished, are drawn from the Harvard Art Museums, the University Portrait Collection, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and other entities, and date from the early colonial years to the mid-19th century. Highlights include a rare group of 17th-century portraits, along with important paintings by Robert Feke, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and Washington Allston, in addition to works depicting western and Native American subjects by Alexandre de Batz, Henry Inman, and Alfred Jacob Miller, among others. Each work is accompanied by scholarly commentary that draws on extensive new research, as well as a complete exhibition and reference history. An introduction by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. describes the history of the collection. Lavishly illustrated in color, this compendium is a testament to the nation's oldest collection of American art, and an essential resource for scholars and collectors alike.

Book Guide to Reprints

Download or read book Guide to Reprints written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spaces of Enslavement

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  • Author : Andrea C. Mosterman
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2021-10-15
  • ISBN : 1501715631
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book Spaces of Enslavement written by Andrea C. Mosterman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spaces of Enslavement, Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of slavery was more humane. Investigating practices of enslavement in New Netherland and then in New York, Mosterman shows that these ways of racialized spatial control held much in common with the southern plantation societies. In the 1620s, Dutch colonial settlers brought slavery to the banks of the Hudson River and founded communities from New Amsterdam in the south to Beverwijck near the terminus of the navigable river. When Dutch power in North America collapsed and the colony came under English control in 1664, Dutch descendants continued to rely on enslaved labor. Until 1827, when slavery was abolished in New York State, slavery expanded in the region, with all free New Yorkers benefitting from that servitude. Mosterman describes how the movements of enslaved persons were controlled in homes and in public spaces such as workshops, courts, and churches. She addresses how enslaved people responded to regimes of control by escaping from or modifying these spaces so as to expand their activities within them. Through a close analysis of homes, churches, and public spaces, Mosterman shows that, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the region's Dutch communities were engaged in a daily struggle with Black New Yorkers who found ways to claim freedom and resist oppression. Spaces of Enslavement writes a critical and overdue chapter on the place of slavery and resistance in the colony and young state of New York.

Book Neither True nor Divine

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  • Author : Terry Jonathan Moore
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 1998-02-01
  • ISBN : 198456286X
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Neither True nor Divine written by Terry Jonathan Moore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the dissertation was to analyze Elihu Palmer's critical responses to Christianity as an historical witness to what Christianity was in his lifetime (1764-1806). Palmer's life story, following the memoir by John Fellows primarily, was interwoven chronologically with analyses of his publications. The first chapter traced Palmer's eventful first thirty-one years. Born and reared on a farm in Connecticut, Palmer graduated from Dartmouth College in 1787. After supplying the pulpit of First Presbyterian Church, Newtown (Queens), New York, he moved to Augusta, Georgia, where he studied law and lectured on deism. For his denial of the divinity of Jesus Christ, he was fired from a Philadelphia church belonging to the Society of Universal Baptists. He advertised in Philip Freneau's National Gazette and the General Advertiser (later the Aurora) that he would lecture against Christ's divinity. However, Episcopal Bishop William White intimidated landlords to prevent Palmer and John Fitch from renting a public hall for the lecture. Palmer completed his legal studies in western Pennsylvania and returned to Philadelphia in 1793 to open his law practice. He then was blinded in a Yellow Fever epidemic and resumed preaching deism. The second chapter included analysis of Palmer's publications during his first five years in New York City. His perceptions of Christian doctrines and their social impact were discussed. The last section traced Palmer's tour through Philadelphia and Baltimore as reported in Dennis Driscol's newspaper, the Temple of Reason, and John Hargrove's short-lived Temple of Truth. The third chapter contrasted the deist movement's potential during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson with its rapid decline after the return of Thomas Paine to America. Palmer's bitterness toward Christianity and his failure to articulate a positive message in competition with revivalists were considered. His belabored critique of the Bible in his magazine, Prospect, was interpreted as a cause of the American deist movement's decline. The conclusion suggested that Palmer's antithetical relationship to Christianity contributed to the rise of Christian social reform, the further separation of church and state, and biblical criticism.

Book Library Catalog

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  • Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1008 pages

Download or read book Library Catalog written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: