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Book The Contest in America

Download or read book The Contest in America written by John Stuart Mill and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slavery Doomed

Download or read book Slavery Doomed written by Frederick Milnes Edge and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slavery Doomed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederick Milnes Edge
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781019782118
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Slavery Doomed written by Frederick Milnes Edge and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Milnes Edge offers a fascinating look at the debate over slavery in the United States, focusing on the economic factors that ultimately led to its demise. He examines the role of both free and slave labor in the southern economy and argues that the growth of industry in the north put increasing pressure on the institution of slavery. This is an important read for anyone interested in the history of American slavery or the economic history of the United States. 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 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. 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 Dark Work

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  • Author : Christy Clark-Pujara
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2018-03-06
  • ISBN : 1479855634
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Dark Work written by Christy Clark-Pujara and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of one state in particular whose role in the slave trade was outsized: Rhode Island Historians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought and sold slaves and supplies that sustained plantations throughout the Americas; however, nowhere else was this business so important. During the colonial period trade with West Indian planters provided Rhode Islanders with molasses, the key ingredient for their number one export: rum. More than 60 percent of all the slave ships that left North America left from Rhode Island. During the antebellum period Rhode Islanders were the leading producers of “negro cloth,” a coarse wool-cotton material made especially for enslaved blacks in the American South. Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers, and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to reconstruct their lived experiences. The business of slavery encouraged slaveholding, slowed emancipation and led to circumscribed black freedom. Enslaved and free black people pushed back against their bondage and the restrictions placed on their freedom. It is convenient, especially for northerners, to think of slavery as southern institution. The erasure or marginalization of the northern black experience and the centrality of the business of slavery to the northern economy allows for a dangerous fiction—that North has no history of racism to overcome. But we cannot afford such a delusion if we are to truly reconcile with our past.

Book Capitalism and Slavery

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  • Author : Eric Williams
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2014-06-30
  • ISBN : 1469619490
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Capitalism and Slavery written by Eric Williams and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.

Book Hidden Slaves

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  • Author : Barry Leonard
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004-12
  • ISBN : 9780756745165
  • Pages : 67 pages

Download or read book Hidden Slaves written by Barry Leonard and published by . This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced labor is a serious & pervasive problem in the U.S. At any given time 10,000 or more people work as forced laborers in cities & towns across the country, & it is likely that the actual number is much higher, possibly tens of thousands. Because forced labor is hidden, inhumane, widespread, & criminal, sustained & coordinated efforts by U.S. law enforce., social service providers, & the general public are needed to expose & eradicate this illicit trade. This report documents the nature & scope of forced labor in the U.S. from Jan. 1998 to Dec. 2003. It is the first study to examine the numbers, demographic characteristics, & origins of victims & perpetrators of forced labor in the U.S. & the adequacy of the U.S. response to this growing problem. Illus.

Book Performing Disunion

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  • Author : Lawrence T. McDonnell
  • Publisher : Cambridge Studies on the Ameri
  • Release : 2018-06-21
  • ISBN : 1107184932
  • Pages : 571 pages

Download or read book Performing Disunion written by Lawrence T. McDonnell and published by Cambridge Studies on the Ameri. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of the causes of the American Civil War, highlighting the role played by ordinary men in the secession debate and process.

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers  Society Limited

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society Limited written by Rochdale Equitable Pioneers' Society and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The London Review

Download or read book The London Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book London Quarterly Review

Download or read book London Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Experiment and the Idea of Democracy in British Culture  1776   1914

Download or read book The American Experiment and the Idea of Democracy in British Culture 1776 1914 written by Ruth Livesey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century Britain, the effects of democracy in America were seen to spread from Congress all the way down to the personal habits of its citizens. Bringing together political theorists, historians, and literary scholars, this volume explores the idea of American democracy in nineteenth-century Britain. The essays span the period from Independence to the First World War and trace an intellectual history of Anglo-American relations during that period. Leading scholars trace the hopes and fears inspired by the American model of democracy in the works of commentators, including Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alexis de Tocqueville, Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill, Richard Cobden, Charles Dilke, Matthew Arnold, Henry James and W. T. Stead. By examining the context of debates about American democracy and notions of ’culture’, citizenship, and race, the collection sheds fresh light on well-documented moments of British political history, such as the Reform Acts, the Abolition of Slavery Act, and the Anti-Corn Law agitation. The volume also explores the ways in which British Liberalism was shaped by the American example and draws attention to the importance of print culture in furthering radical political dialogue between the two nations. As the comprehensive introduction makes clear, this collection makes an important contribution to transatlantic studies and our growing sense of a nineteenth-century modernity shaped by an Atlantic exchange. It is an essential reference point for all interested in the history of the idea of democracy, its political evolution, and its perceived cultural consequences.

Book A catalogue of a valuable collection of books

Download or read book A catalogue of a valuable collection of books written by John Russell Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Book Eclectic and Congregational Review

Download or read book Eclectic and Congregational Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Eclectic Review

Download or read book The Eclectic Review written by Samuel Greatheed and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets

Download or read book A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Book Bibliotheca Americana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by John Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Americana

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Alfred Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: