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5 produkter
Beyond Jefferson
The Hemingses, the Randolphs, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America
Inbunden, 2024
341 kr
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A global history of how Thomas Jefferson’s descendants navigated the legacy of the Declaration of Independence on both sides of the color line The Declaration of Independence identified two core principles—independence and equality—that defined the American Revolution and the nation forged in 1776. …
Jefferson's Wolf
A Founding Father's Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery
Av Christa Dierksheide, Nicholas Guyatt
Inbunden, 2026
271 kr
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A decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United States.Toward the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson made his most famous statement about American …
Amelioration and Empire
Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas
Inbunden, 2014
611 kr
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Christa Dierksheide argues that “enlightened” slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward reactionaries nor freedom-loving hypocrites, thought of themselves as modern, cosmopolitan men with a powerful alternative vision of progress in the Atlantic world. Instead of …
Amelioration and Empire
Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas
E-bok, 2014
573 kr
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Christa Dierksheide argues that "enlightened" slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward reactionaries nor freedom-loving hypocrites, thought of themselves as modern, cosmopolitan men with a powerful alternative vision of progress in the Atlantic world. Instead of …
American Revolution at 250
Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding
Av Francis D Cogliano, Teresa Pollack m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
386 kr
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The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States' birthIn these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the American Revolutionary era reflect on the meaning of 1776 to the nation in 2026, offering fresh insights …
