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Book The Spirit of Africville

    Book Details:
  • Author : Africville Genealogical Society
  • Publisher : Formac Publishing Company Limited
  • Release : 2010-11-09
  • ISBN : 0887809251
  • Pages : 133 pages

Download or read book The Spirit of Africville written by Africville Genealogical Society and published by Formac Publishing Company Limited. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spirit of Africville is a multi-faceted account of a proud African Nova Scotian community, and of the systematic neglect, ignorance and arrogance that led to its demolition.

Book The Immigration and Settlement of the Black Refugees of the War of 1812 in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick

Download or read book The Immigration and Settlement of the Black Refugees of the War of 1812 in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick written by John N. Grant and published by Black Cultural Center. This book was released on 1990 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Internal Enemy  Slavery and War in Virginia  1772 1832

Download or read book The Internal Enemy Slavery and War in Virginia 1772 1832 written by Alan Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History Finalist for the National Book Award Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize "Impressively researched and beautifully crafted…a brilliant account of slavery in Virginia during and after the Revolution." —Mark M. Smith, Wall Street Journal Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Over many nights, hundreds of slaves paddled out to the warships seeking protection for their families from the ravages of slavery. The runaways pressured the British admirals into becoming liberators. As guides, pilots, sailors, and marines, the former slaves used their intimate knowledge of the countryside to transform the war. They enabled the British to escalate their onshore attacks and to capture and burn Washington, D.C. Tidewater masters had long dreaded their slaves as "an internal enemy." By mobilizing that enemy, the war ignited the deepest fears of Chesapeake slaveholders. It also alienated Virginians from a national government that had neglected their defense. Instead they turned south, their interests aligning more and more with their section. In 1820 Thomas Jefferson observed of sectionalism: "Like a firebell in the night [it] awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the union." The notes of alarm in Jefferson's comment speak of the fear aroused by the recent crisis over slavery in his home state. His vision of a cataclysm to come proved prescient. Jefferson's startling observation registered a turn in the nation’s course, a pivot from the national purpose of the founding toward the threat of disunion. Drawn from new sources, Alan Taylor's riveting narrative re-creates the events that inspired black Virginians, haunted slaveholders, and set the nation on a new and dangerous course.

Book Blacks on the Border

Download or read book Blacks on the Border written by Harvey Amani Whitfield and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the emergence of community among African Americans in Nova Scotia.

Book The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812 written by Donald R. Hickey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War of 1812 ranged over a remarkably large territory, as the fledgling United States battled Great Britain at sea and on land across what is now the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada. Native people and the Spanish were also involved in the war’s interrelated conflicts. Often overlooked, the War of 1812 has been the subject of an explosion of new research over the past twenty-five years. The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812 brings together the insights of this research through an array of fresh essays by leading scholars in the field, offering an overview of current understandings of the war that will be a vital reference for students and researchers alike. The essays in this volume examine a wide range of military, political, social, and cultural dimensions of the war. With full consideration given to American, Canadian, British, and native viewpoints, the international group of contributors place the war in national and international context, chart the course of events in its different theaters, consider the war’s legacy and commemoration, and examine the roles of women, African Americans, and natives. Capturing the state of the field in a single volume, this handbook is a must-have resource for anyone with an interest in early America.

Book National Genealogical Society Quarterly

Download or read book National Genealogical Society Quarterly written by National Genealogical Society and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maine Historical Society Newsletter

Download or read book Maine Historical Society Newsletter written by Maine Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Blacks in Canada

Download or read book A History of Blacks in Canada written by James W. St. G. Walker and published by [Hull, Quebec] : Minister of State, Multiculturalism. This book was released on 1980 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Passenger and Immigration Lists Index

Download or read book Passenger and Immigration Lists Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tennessee Historical Quarterly

Download or read book Tennessee Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Left History

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 842 pages

Download or read book Left History written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Resettlement and the American Civil War

Download or read book Black Resettlement and the American Civil War written by Sebastian N. Page and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States.

Book Acadiensis

Download or read book Acadiensis written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Blacks in New Brunswick

Download or read book The Blacks in New Brunswick written by W. A. Spray and published by [Fredericton, N.B.] : Brunswick Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Tribute for the Negro

Download or read book A Tribute for the Negro written by Wilson Armistead and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1848 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Coloured Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race Authored by Wilson Armistead

Book Tobacco and Slaves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allan Kulikoff
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 0807839221
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Tobacco and Slaves written by Allan Kulikoff and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tobacco and Slaves is a major reinterpretation of the economic and political transformation of Chesapeake society from 1680 to 1800. Building upon massive archival research in Maryland and Virginia, Allan Kulikoff provides the most comprehensive study to date of changing social relations--among both blacks and whites--in the eighteenth-century South. He links his arguments about class, gender, and race to the later social history of the South and to larger patterns of American development. Allan Kulikoff is professor of history at Northern Illinois University and author of The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism.