Download or read book Slavery Freedom and Expansion in the Early American West written by John Craig Hammond and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the inaction of elite "founding fathers" such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West, John Craig Hammond looks beyond elite leadership and examines how the demands of western settlers, the potential of western disunion, and local, popular politics determined the fate of slavery and freedom in the West between 1790 and 1820. By shifting focus away from high politics in Philadelphia and Washington, Hammond demonstrates that local political contests and geopolitical realities were more responsible for determining slavery’s fate in the West than were the clashing proslavery and antislavery proclivities of Founding Fathers and politicians in the East. When efforts to prohibit slavery revived in 1819 with the Missouri Controversy it was not because of a sudden awakening to the problem on the part of northern Republicans, but because the threat of western secession no longer seemed credible. Including detailed studies of popular political contests in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri that shed light on the western and popular character of conflicts over slavery, Hammond also provides a thorough analysis of the Missouri Controversy, revealing how the problem of slavery expansion shifted from a local and western problem to a sectional and national dilemma that would ultimately lead to disunion and civil war.
Download or read book The Writings The conflict with slavery Politics and reform The inner life Criticism written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freedom and Slavery Classic Reprint written by William Kittle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Freedom and Slavery What had these two voyages to do with each other? Everything. From them came two great movements hostile to each other, and extending over two and a half centuries Of our history. The Treasurer began the course of slavery; the Mayflower, that Of wage labor. From the introduction Of slavery in 1619, until its abolition in 1865, there was not an hour when these hostile forces did not gather strength or meet in Open conflict. For the first two centuries, from 1619 to 1819, both Sides gathered strength for the contest. From 1820 to 1860, the two groups met in intellectual and moral conflict for the possession Of new territory and political power. But the Civil War closed this long conflict. By a thousand battles, four years Of great endeavor, billions of debt, and millions of armed men, two hundred and forty-six years Of shameful history were ended and four million slaves were set free. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era written by Jonathan A. Noyalas and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African American experience in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction This book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Although the Valley was a site of fierce conflicts during the Civil War and its military activity has been extensively studied, scholars have largely ignored the Black experience in the region until now. Correcting previous assumptions that slavery was not important to the Valley, and that enslaved people were treated better there than in other parts of the South, Jonathan Noyalas demonstrates the strong hold of slavery in the region. He explains that during the war, enslaved and free African Americans navigated a borderland that changed hands frequently—where it was possible to be in Union territory one day, Confederate territory the next, and no-man’s land another. He shows that the region’s enslaved population resisted slavery and supported the Union war effort by serving as scouts, spies, and laborers, or by fleeing to enlist in regiments of the United States Colored Troops. Noyalas draws on untapped primary resources, including thousands of records from the Freedmen’s Bureau and contemporary newspapers, to continue the story and reveal the challenges African Americans faced from former Confederates after the war. He traces their actions, which were shaped uniquely by the volatility of the struggle in this region, to ensure that the war’s emancipationist legacy would survive. A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
Download or read book The Conflict with Slavery written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Conflict with Slavery by John Greenleaf Whittier
Download or read book The writings The conflict with slavery politics and reform the inner life criticism written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The conflict with slavery reform and politics the inner life etc written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slavery Freedom and Conflict written by Jane L. Bownas and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Story of Two Birminghams examines the roles played by two cities and the areas in which they are situated in the long history of people of African origin and their ancestors who were taken into slavery, experienced a phoney freedom and subsequently experienced racism, segregation and violence. From the eighteenth century the industrial city of Birmingham in England was involved in the manufacture of guns used in the African slave trade and then later, in the production and export of the steam engines used on the sugar plantations in the West Indies. In northern Alabama, on land where another industrial city of the same name would later develop, African slaves worked on cotton plantations owned by planters who would later make their fortunes by selling the mineral rich land. Abolitionists in Birmingham UK, and in the Southern States fought against much opposition to achieve freedom for the slaves. But this was often a phoney freedom: for example, under an apprenticeship system in Jamaica people endured conditions often worse than under slavery, and in Alabama they endured hard labour in the development of the new industrial city and under the Convict Lease system. Slavery, Freedom and Conflict follows the life path of descendants of slaves into the twentieth century, the difficulties experienced by West Indian immigrants in Birmingham UK, the segregation laws imposed in Birmingham, Alabama and the US Civil Rights movement which followed. Later in the century, riots occurring in Handsworth (Birmingham UK), the election of a far-right, racist politician in nearby Smethwick and the infamous speech of Enoch Powell indicated that, as in Birmingham, Alabama many black people were still suffering from the iniquities of the slave trade inflicted upon their ancestors more than two hundred years previously. This book is essential reading for all those with an interest in the history of slavery, and in the local history of the West Midlands of England and the Northern counties of Alabama.
Download or read book Contesting Slavery written by John Craig Hammond and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scholarship on slavery and politics between 1776 and 1840 has wholly revised historians’ understanding of the problem of slavery in American politics. Contesting Slavery builds on the best of that literature to reexamine the politics of slavery in revolutionary America and the early republic. The original essays collected here analyze the Revolutionary era and the early republic on their own terms to produce fresh insights into the politics of slavery before 1840. The collection forces historians to rethink the multiple meanings of slavery and antislavery to a broad array of Americans, from free and enslaved African Americans to proslavery ideologues, from northern farmers to northern female reformers, from minor party functionaries to political luminaries such as Henry Clay. The essays also delineate the multiple ways slavery sustained conflict and consensus in local, regional, and national politics. In the end, Contesting Slavery both establishes the abiding presence of slavery and sectionalism in American political life and challenges historians’ long-standing assumptions about the place, meaning, and significance of slavery in American politics between the Revolutionary and antebellum eras. Contributors: Rachel Hope Cleves, University of Victoria * David F. Ericson, George Mason University * John Craig Hammond, Penn State University, New Kensington * Matthew Mason, Brigham Young University * Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology * James Oakes, CUNY Graduate Center * Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia * Robert G. Parkinson, Shepherd University * Donald J. Ratcliffe, University of Oxford * Padraig Riley, Dalhousie University * Edward B. Rugemer, Yale University * Brian Schoen, Ohio University * Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, Camden * George William Van Cleve, University of Virginia * Eva Sheppard Wolf, San Francisco State University
Download or read book The Impending Crisis the Irrepressible Conflict Between Freedom and Slavery written by Alfred Wells and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The conflict with slavery politics and reform the inner life criticism written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Conflict with Slavery Politics And Reform The Inner Life Criticism written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book The Contest in America written by John Stuart Mill and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Contest in America' is an excellent analysis of the war in America written by one of the most influential thinkers in the 19th-century, John Stuart Mill. It was written when the British Parliament contemplated interfering in the American war. Mill's examination of the dispute and Great Britain's approach to dealing with it is sharp, insightful, and engaging to read.
Download or read book Remarks on the Sectional Conflict on the Subject of Slavery written by Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Civil War II written by T H Logwood and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are headed for War! These are perilous times, and it seems that events are spinning out of control, with conflict seemingly inevitable. Are we headed for armed conflict with our fellow citizens? Is another civil war looming? What is at stake is an America that is governed by the Rule of Law, Constitutional law, traditions, and fairness. Or will America sink into a country controlled by "mob rule", a socialistic ideology, where thought and expression are controlled by an elite class that decides what is right and wrong. Such a society of constricting rules would all but destroy our Rights and Freedoms. The battle lines are drawn. What will historians say about this crazy time?Just look at the news, mob rule and "peaceful" protests are happening in the major cities, the Corona Virus had stymied our otherwise robust economy, mobs destroying historical statues, amidst a turbulent presidential election year. The major controversies these days revolve around defunding the police departments, perceived racism by a white supremacist class, gun control, freedom of speech and religion, and government over-stepping its bounds in regards to property and due process. Are these issues real life, or just more emotionally driven hype to push a deeper darker agenda? What will be the match that sets off the powder keg? This book takes a look at a number of current issues, pondering the questions of losing our rights and freedoms, among the political struggles. After all, elections have consequences, and the election of our leaders does relate exactly to losing or preserving our liberties.
Download or read book Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict written by Samuel Joseph May and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work details the antislavery movement in America and investigates slavery and the Church as a special focus.
Download or read book Freedom s Frontier written by Stacey L. Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Smith reveals that the state's anti-Chinese movement, forged in its struggle over unfree labor, reached eastward to transform federal Reconstruction policy and national race relations for decades to come. Throughout, she illuminates the startling ways in which the contest over slavery's fate included a western struggle that encompassed diverse labor systems and workers not easily classified as free or slave, black or white.
