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Taking Sides: The colonial period to Reconstruction
Author | : Larry Madaras |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781561341214 |
Colonies, Revolution, Reconstruction
Author | : Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md). |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The Counter-Revolution of 1776
Author | : Gerald Horne |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2014-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479808725 |
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.
American Revolution, 1700-1800
Author | : Joy Masoff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780439051101 |
Re-creates the American colonies before, during, and after the American Revolution by describing in words and pictures various aspects of the colonists' lives, including work, food, clothing, shelter, religion, the events leading to the war, and life as a soldier.
The Blind African Slave
Author | : Jeffrey Brace |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2005-02-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0299201430 |
The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (né Boyrereau Brinch), who was born in West Africa around 1742. Captured by slave traders at the age of sixteen, Brace was transported to Barbados, where he experienced the shock and trauma of slave-breaking and was sold to a New England ship captain. After fighting as an enslaved sailor for two years in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to New Haven, Connecticut, and sold into slavery. After several years in New England, Brace enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of winning his manumission. After five years of military service, he was honorably discharged and was freed from slavery. As a free man, he chose in 1784 to move to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There, he met and married an African woman, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he decided to publish his life story, which he narrated to a white antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss, who published it in 1810. Upon his death in 1827, Brace was a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter provides a historical introduction, annotations, and original documents that verify and supplement our knowledge of Brace's life and times.
Revolution and Empire
Author | : Robert McKinley Bliss |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780719042096 |
From 1625, when Charles I announed his intention to make settlements part of his royal empire, to 1689, when a colonial clergyman told William III that he might, if he pleased, be emperor of America, metropolitan power and colonial dependence shaped the politics of empire. Bliss (history, U. of Lancaster) extends the terms of debate over the origins of English imperialism by placing West Indian and North American colonization squarely in the context of 17th century English political history. Distributed by St. Martin's. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina
Author | : John Porter Hollis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Author | : Bernard Bailyn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : United States |
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