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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bill Webber
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781597380478
Author : James W. Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Slaves
ISBN : 1597380350
"Escape from Texas is the novel of James Robinson, a slave who dreams of freedom in the years leading up to the Texas War of Independence. Confronting his dream are planters who have other plans for Texas."--Back cover.
Author : Bruce A. Glasrud,Light Townsend Cummins,Cary D. Wintz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806147840
"'Discovering Texas History' is a historiographical reference book that will be invaluable to teachers, students, and researchers of Texas history. Chapter authors are familiar names in Texas history circles--a 'who's who' of high profile historians. Conceived as a follow-up to the award winning (but increasingly dated) 'A Guide the History of Texas' (1988), 'Discovering Texas History' focuses on the major trends in the study of Texas history since 1990. In part one, topical essays address significant historical themes, from race and gender to the arts and urban history. In part two, chronological essays cover the full span of Texas historiography from the Spanish era to the modern day. In each case, the goal is to analyze and summarize the subjects that have captured the attention of professional historians so that 'Discovering Texas History' will take its place as the standard work on the history of Texas history"--
Author : Damian Alan Pargas
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813065793
This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different “spaces of freedom” they inhabited. It also provides a groundbreaking continental view of fugitive slave migration, moving beyond the usual regional or national approaches to explore locations in Canada, the U.S. North and South, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Using newspapers, advertisements, and new demographic data, contributors show how events like the Revolutionary War and westward expansion shaped the slave experience. Contributors investigate sites of formal freedom, where slavery was abolished and refugees were legally free, to determine the extent to which fugitive slaves experienced freedom in places like Canada while still being subject to racism. In sites of semiformal freedom, as in the northern United States, fugitives’ claims to freedom were precarious because state abolition laws conflicted with federal fugitive slave laws. Contributors show how local committees strategized to interfere with the work of slave catchers to protect refugees. Sites of informal freedom were created within the slaveholding South, where runaways who felt relocating to distant destinations was too risky formed maroon communities or attempted to blend in with free black populations. These individuals procured false documents or changed their names to avoid detection and pass as free. The essays discuss slaves’ motivations for choosing these destinations, the social networks that supported their plans, what it was like to settle in their new societies, and how slave flight impacted broader debates about slavery. This volume redraws the map of escape and emancipation during this period, emphasizing the importance of place in defining the meaning and extent of freedom. Contributors: Kyle Ainsworth | Mekala Audain | Gordon S. Barker | Sylviane A. Diouf | Roy E. Finkenbine | Graham Russell Gao Hodges | Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie | Viola Franziska Müller | James David Nichols | Damian Alan Pargas | Matthew Pinsker A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
Author : Benjamin Lundy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112013338386
Author : Alice L Baumgartner
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541617773
A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.
Author : Walter Mosley
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316054799
Master storyteller Walter Mosley deftly mixes speculative and historical fiction in this daring New York Times bestselling novel, reminiscent of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad. 47 is a young slave boy living under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed until he meets a mysterious runaway slave, Tall John. 47 finds himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation.
Author : Editors of Rea
Publisher : Research & Education Assoc.
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738610375
REA's CLEP test preps are perfect for adults returning to college (or attending for the first time), military service members, high-school graduates looking to earn college credit, or home-schooled students with knowledge that can translate into college credit. /CLEP test-takers start their prep by taking our online diagnostic test to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses. A detailed score report shows them where to focus their study. Our detailed review covers everything students need to know about U.S. History from the Colonial Period to the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Author : Eric Williams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469619491
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.
Author : Andrew Delbanco
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525560302
"Excellent...stunning."—Ta-Nehisi Coates The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War A New York Times Notable Book Selection * Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize* Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award * A New York Times Critics' Best Book For decades after its founding, America was really two nations--one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that enslaved black people repeatedly risked their lives to flee their masters in the South in search of freedom in the North proved that the "united" states was actually a lie. Fugitive slaves exposed the contradiction between the myth that slavery was a benign institution and the reality that a nation based on the principle of human equality was in fact a prison-house in which millions of Americans had no rights at all. By awakening northerners to the true nature of slavery, and by enraging southerners who demanded the return of their human "property," fugitive slaves forced the nation to confront the truth about itself. By 1850, with America on the verge of collapse, Congress reached what it hoped was a solution-- the notorious Compromise of 1850, which required that fugitive slaves be returned to their masters. Like so many political compromises before and since, it was a deal by which white Americans tried to advance their interests at the expense of black Americans. Yet the Fugitive Slave Act, intended to preserve the Union, in fact set the nation on the path to civil war. It divided not only the American nation, but also the hearts and minds of Americans who struggled with the timeless problem of when to submit to an unjust law and when to resist. The fugitive slave story illuminates what brought us to war with ourselves and the terrible legacies of slavery that are with us still.
Author : Ron J. Jackson,Lee Spencer White
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806149608
"Among the fifty or so Texan survivors of the siege of the Alamo was Joe, the personal slave of Lt. Col. William Barret Travis. First interrogated by Santa Anna, Joe was allowed to depart (along with Susana Dickinson) and eventually made his way to the seat of the revolutionary government at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Joe was then returned to the Travis estate in Columbia, Texas, near the coast. He escaped in 1837 and was never captured. Ron J. Jackson and Lee White have meticulously researched plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, ship logs, newspapers, personal letters, and court documents to fill in the gaps of Joe's story. "Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend" provides not only a recovered biography of an individual lost to history, but also offers a fresh vantage point from which to view the events of the Texas Revolution"--
Author : Narayan Changder
Publisher : CHANGDER OUTLINE
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Embark on a captivating exploration of economic landscapes with our MCQ guide - "Economic History Unveiled: MCQ Expedition through Trade, Markets, and Progress." Tailored for history enthusiasts, students, and those intrigued by the economic forces that have shaped societies, this comprehensive resource offers a curated collection of multiple-choice questions that unravel the complexities and transformations in economic history. From ancient trade routes to modern globalization, delve into the rise of economies, technological advancements, and the impact of economic systems on human progress. Perfect your understanding of economic history and prepare confidently for exams. Elevate your historical acumen and immerse yourself in the fascinating journey of economic development with "Economic History Unveiled: MCQ Expedition through Trade, Markets, and Progress." Uncover the secrets of economic evolution with precision and depth.
Author : Russell M. Lawson,Benjamin A. Lawson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1471 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440850974
Divided into four volumes, Race and Ethnicity in America provides a complete overview of the history of racial and ethnic relations in America, from pre-contact to the present. The five hundred years since Europeans made contact with the indigenous peoples of America have been dominated by racial and ethnic tensions. During the colonial period, from 1500 to 1776, slavery and servitude of whites, blacks, and Indians formed the foundation for race and ethnic relations. After the American Revolution, slavery, labor inequalities, and immigration led to racial and ethnic tensions; after the Civil War, labor inequalities, immigration, and the fight for civil rights dominated America's racial and ethnic experience. From the 1960s to the present, the unfulfilled promise of civil rights for all ethnic and racial groups in America has been the most important sociopolitical issue in America. Race and Ethnicity in America tells this story of the fight for equality in America. The first volume spans pre-contact to the American Revolution; the second, the American Revolution to the Civil War; the third, Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement; and the fourth, the Civil Rights Movement to the present. All volumes explore the culture, society, labor, war and politics, and cultural expressions of racial and ethnic groups.
Author : Toussaint L'Ouverture
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788736572
Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L’Ouverture’s profound contribution to the struggle for equality.
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1700 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026013412