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Them Dark Days
Slavery in the American Rice Swamps
Inbunden, 1996
3555 kr
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BLUnique insights into the workings of slavery in the Antebullum American SouthIn this close study of slavery in the rice plantations of South Carolina and Georgia, the emphasis is principally on the human relations of slavery, both black and white.
Slavemaster President
The Double Career of James Polk
Inbunden, 2003
770 kr
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James Polk was President of the United States from 1845 to 1849, a time when slavery began to dominate American politics. Polk's presidency coincided with the eruption of the territorial slavery issue, which within a few years would lead to the catastrophe of the Civil War. Polk himself owned …
Slavemaster President
The Double Career of James Polk
Häftad, 2008
485 kr
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James Polk was President of the United States from 1845 to 1849, a time when slavery began to dominate American politics. Polk's presidency coincided with the eruption of the territorial slavery issue, which within a few years would lead to the catastrophe of the Civil War. Polk himself owned …
Slavemaster President
The Double Career of James Polk
E-bok, 2003
302 kr
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James Polk was President of the United States from 1845 to 1849, a time when slavery began to dominate American politics. Polk''s presidency coincided with the eruption of the territorial slavery issue, which within a few years would lead to the catastrophe of the Civil War. Polk himself owned …
Them Dark Days
Slavery in the American Rice Swamps
E-bok, 1996
2266 kr
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In this groundbreaking book, Dusinberre conducts an intense investigation of slavery in the rice swamps of South Carolina and Georgia. Concentrated there were some of the richest--and most expansive--plantations of the South. It was an unhealthy region for both blacks and whites; slavery, in the …
Slavemaster President
The Double Career of James Polk
E-bok, 2007
302 kr
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James Polk was President of the United States from 1845 to 1849, a time when slavery began to dominate American politics. Polk''s presidency coincided with the eruption of the territorial slavery issue, which within a few years would lead to the catastrophe of the Civil War. Polk himself owned …
Strategies for Survival
Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia
E-bok, 2009
764 kr
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Strategies for Survival conveys the experience of bondage through former enslaved people''s own words. The source of this landmark content is a remarkable series of interviews conducted in Virginia in 1937 by WPA workers. Most of the interviewers were themselves Black; as a result, the subjects …
Strategies for Survival
Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia
Häftad, 2021
461 kr
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Them Dark Days
Slavery in the American Rice Swamps
Häftad, 2000
577 kr
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Them Dark Days is a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery’s horrors might be softened by the current historical emphasis on slave community and family and slave autonomy and …
Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865
Inbunden, 1965
1119 kr
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Philadelphia, before the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, was not simply a "Northern" city. Unlike proslavery Washington but also unlike antislavery Boston, Philadelphia lay in the "Northern border area," where mixed sympathies led to divided loyalties and to frequent convulsions over the …
Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865
E-bok, 2017
1347 kr
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Philadelphia, before the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, was not simply a "Northern" city. Unlike proslavery Washington but also unlike antislavery Boston, Philadelphia lay in the "Northern border area," where mixed sympathies led to divided loyalties and to frequent convulsions over the …
Strategies for Survival
Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia
Inbunden, 2009
616 kr
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Strategies for Survival conveys the experience of bondage through the words of former slaves themselves. The interviews - conducted in Virginia in 1937 by WPA interviewers - are considered among the most valuable of the WPA interviews because in Virginia the interviewers were almost all African …
