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• Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
• File Size : 23,9 Mb
• Release Date : 18 April 2024

A study of the attitudes of the founding fathers toward slavery. This revised text examines the views of Thomas Jefferson reflected in his life and writings and those of other

• Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
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• Release Date : 08 April 2014

The new edition of this classic work addresses how the first generation of leaders of the United States dealt with the profoundly important question of human bondage. This third edition

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 42,7 Mb
• Release Date : 09 April 2014

In Slavery and the Founders, Paul Finkelman addresses a central issue of the American founding: how the first generation of leaders of the United States dealt with the profoundly important

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• File Size : 53,8 Mb
• Release Date : 28 November 2000

This controversial, convincing, and highly original book is important reading for everyone concerned about the origins, present, and future of the American experiment in self-government.

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 55,5 Mb
• Release Date : 03 September 2019

Driving straight to the heart of the most contentious issue in American history, Sean Wilentz argues controversially that, far from concealing a crime against humanity, the U.S. Constitution limited

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 21,5 Mb
• Release Date : 06 April 2017

Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where

• Publisher : UNC Press Books
• File Size : 38,7 Mb
• Release Date : 20 January 2011

In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 22,9 Mb
• Release Date : 31 May 2022

"A ... synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and

• Publisher : Anchor
• File Size : 36,6 Mb
• Release Date : 13 November 2018

From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work

• Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
• File Size : 20,9 Mb
• Release Date : 22 June 2020

In this persuasive work of intellectual history, Lucas E. Morel argues that the most important influence on Abraham Lincoln’s political thought and practice was what he learned from the