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Author | : Christopher Phillips |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252066184 |
Baltimore's African-American population--nearly 27,000 strong and more than 90 percent free in 1860--was the largest in the nation at that time. Christopher Phillips's Freedom's Port, the first book-length study of an urban black population in the antebellum Upper South, chronicles the growth and development of that community. He shows how it grew from a transient aggregate of individuals, many fresh from slavery, to a strong, overwhelmingly free community less wracked by class and intraracial divisions than were other cities. Almost from the start, Phillips states, Baltimore's African Americans forged their own freedom and actively defended it--in a state that maintained slavery and whose white leadership came to resent the liberties the city's black people had achieved.
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Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 988 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780521394932 |
Author | : Roy A. Rogers |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017-03-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1365632245 |
All Dan wanted was to celebrate his anniversary in the beautiful Freedom Hotel with Judith, his loving wife of 13 years. Yet from the moment they entered the lobby Dan recognized that something was different. They had celebrated their anniversary there only three years earlier, and now it seemed the hotel he loved was pushing him away, telling him to leave while he still could. Dan didn't listen. Then the hallucinations began, if they were hallucinations. Taunting, tormenting, chasing his sanity and causing him to remember things he didn't want to remember and perhaps do things he didn't want to do. As from a siren of a forgotten life Dan was being dragged down into a world he could not see, by a Melody so strong he could not pull away. Was his future already formed for him by this past he could not remember? Would Dan be able to escape before he was pulled down for good? Even if he found the answers, would Danny ever be allowed his Freedom?
Author | : Myra B. Young Armstead |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2013-06-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1479825239 |
Unearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journal.
Author | : Jack D. Warren |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2023-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493071718 |
Published under the auspices of the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution is a narrative history of the War for Independence. It tells the pivotal story of the courageous men and women who risked their lives to create a new nation based on the idea that government should serve people and protect their freedom. Written for Americans intent on understanding our national origins, but also appropriate for teachers and secondary classrooms, Freedom argues that the American Revolution is the central event in our history: the turning point between our colonial origins and our national experience. This volume includes 167 full-color paintings, maps, illustrations, and photos—many of them seen only in historical institutions across the country! The Freedom narrative spans from the American Revolution’s origins in the nature of colonial British America—a society in which freedom was limited and in which everyone was the subject of a distant monarch—through the crisis in the British Empire that followed the French and Indian War, to the events of the War for Independence itself, and ultimately to the creation of the first great republic in modern history. This is the story of how Americans came to fight for their freedom and became a united people, with a shared history and national identity, and how a generation of founders expressed ideals of liberty, equality, natural and civil rights, and responsible citizenship: ideals that have shaped our history and will shape our future—and the future of the world.
Author | : Donald R. Rothwell |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2021-10-18 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004482660 |
Navigational rights and freedoms have been central to the development of the law of the sea since the original debates over whether the seas were `open' or `closed' to maritime traffic. The 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea recognises the legitimate rights of coastal states to proclaim sovereignty and assert jurisdiction over vast areas of maritime space. In return, maritime states are given a range of navigational rights over waters ranging from the territorial sea through to the high sea. The new regime of the law of the sea created by the Convention presents an opportunity to review developments in the law of navigational rights and freedoms. This book assesses the navigational regime established by the 1982 Convention, with emphasis given to the continuing importance of the freedom of the seas. Navigation in the territorial sea and international straits is reviewed, especially in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, and the Torres Strait. Archipelagic navigation from the perspective of two claimant states, Indonesia and the Philippines, and a user state, South Korea, is also considered. The interaction of environmental concerns with navigational rights is an important feature of the current law of the sea regime with relevant conventions assessed and the role of the International Maritime Organization in developing navigational standards considered. Both European and Canadian practice in the protection of sensitive marine environments and the impact upon navigational rights is also considered. Finally, the roles of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the International Maritime Organization in dispute resolution are reviewed, before a concluding consideration of the future for navigational rights and freedoms in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Allison Weir |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0197507948 |
Freedom is celebrated as the definitive ideal of modern western civilization. Yet in western thought and practice, freedom has been defined through opposition to the unfreedom of most of the world's people. Allison Weir draws on Indigenous political theories and practices of decolonization in dialogue with western theories, to reconstruct a tradition of relational freedom as a distinctive political conception of freedom: a radically democratic mode of engagement and participation in social and political relations with an infinite range of strange and diverse beings perceived as free agents in interdependent relations in a shared world.
Author | : Steve Sheinkin |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1596437960 |
Describes the fifty black sailors who refused to work in unsafe and unfair conditions after an explosion in Port Chicago killed 320 servicemen, and how the incident influenced civil rights.
Author | : Edythe Ann Quinn |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2015-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438455399 |
Through wonderfully detailed letters, recruit rosters, and pension records, Edythe Ann Quinn shares the story of thirty-five African American Civil War soldiers and the United States Colored Troop (USCT) regiments with which they served. Associated with The Hills community in Westchester County, New York, the soldiers served in three regiments: the 29th Connecticut Infantry, 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (11th USCT), and the 20th USCT. The thirty-sixth Hills man served in the Navy. Their ties to family, land, church, school, and occupational experiences at home buffered the brutal indifference of boredom and battle, the ravages of illness, the deprivations of unequal pay, and the hostility of some commissioned officers and white troops. At the same time, their service among kith and kin bolstered their determination and pride. They marched together, first as raw recruits, and finally as seasoned veterans, welcomed home by generals, politicians, and above all, their families and friends.
Author | : Timothy D. Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781625345936 |
In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic seaboard. While scholarship on the Underground Railroad has focused almost exclusively on overland escape routes from the antebellum South, this groundbreaking volume expands our understanding of how freedom was achieved by sea and what the journey looked like for many African Americans. With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers.