Author: John Quincy AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amistad (Schooner)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: John Quincy AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amistad (Schooner)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A Social History of the American Negro
Author: Benjamin Griffith BrawleyPublisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
""A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States"" is a book written by Benjamin Griffith Brawley, first published in 1921. The book provides a comprehensive account of the social, economic, and political history of African Americans in the United States, from the time of their arrival as slaves to the early 20th century. Brawley examines the various challenges faced by African Americans throughout history, including slavery, segregation, discrimination, and racism. He also discusses the contributions of African Americans to American society, including their roles in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights Movement. The book is divided into several chapters, each focusing on a particular period in African American history. Brawley draws on a variety of sources, including government documents, newspapers, and personal accounts, to provide a detailed and nuanced analysis of the issues facing African Americans. Overall, ""A Social History of the American Negro"" is a seminal work in the field of African American history, providing a comprehensive and insightful account of the struggles and achievements of African Americans in the United States.Including A History And Study Of The Republic Of Liberia.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
The Amistad Rebellion
Author: Marcus RedikerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014312398X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
"Vividly drawn . . . this stunning book honors the achievement of the captive Africans who fought for—and won—their freedom.”—The Philadelphia Tribune A unique account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, now updated with a new epilogue—from the award-winning author of The Slave Ship In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the Amistad rebellion for its true proponents: the enslaved Africans who risked death to stake a claim for freedom. Using newly discovered evidence and featuring vividly drawn portraits of the rebels, their captors, and their abolitionist allies, Rediker reframes the story to show how a small group of courageous men fought and won an epic battle against Spanish and American slaveholders and their governments. The successful Amistad rebellion changed the very nature of the struggle against slavery. As a handful of self-emancipated Africans steered their own course for freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow. This edition includes a new epilogue about the author's trip to Sierra Leona to search for Lomboko, the slave-trading factory where the Amistad Africans were incarcerated, and other relics and connections to the Amistad rebellion, especially living local memory of the uprising and the people who made it.
A Social History of the American Negro
Author: Benjamin Griffith BrawleyPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596055642
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Definitive, scrupulously documented work by a distinguished black historian traces the history of African-Americans from the years of pre-colonial exploration through the turbulent period of slavery, rebellion, "emancipation," and the halting social progress of the early 20th century.
John Quincy Adams, Reluctant Abolitionist
Author: Jeffrey A. DenmanPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476650721
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
As a Harvard alumnus, diplomat, U.S. President, member of Congress and attorney before the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams had a unique relationship with slavery. Prickly and curmudgeonly, he danced with abolitionists, but never became one himself. However, Adams did harbor an intense hatred for the arguments of Southern slaveholders, and eventually found himself in the center of America's greatest struggle. Informed by Adams' revealing and often tormented musings from his vast diary, this sweeping narrative offers a unique and gripping account of John Quincy Adams' battle with slavery, while exploring the many fault lines in American society that led to the Civil War. Included are the dramatic showdowns in the House of Representatives and Supreme Court, as well as Adams' attempts at outsmarting Southern politicians and his efforts to keep slavery at the forefront of Congressional activities.
The Mississippi Valley Historical Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
Outlaws of the Atlantic
Author: Marcus RedikerPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807033103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This maritime history "from below" exposes the history-making power of common sailors, slaves, pirates, and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall ship. In Outlaws of the Atlantic, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker turns maritime history upside down. He explores the dramatic world of maritime adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and nation-states but from the viewpoint of commoners—sailors, slaves, indentured servants, pirates, and other outlaws from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together their seafaring experiences for the first time, Outlaws of the Atlantic is an unexpected and compelling peoples’ history of the “age of sail.” With his signature bottom-up approach and insight, Rediker reveals how the “motley”—that is, multiethnic—crews were a driving force behind the American Revolution; that pirates, enslaved Africans, and other outlaws worked together to subvert capitalism; and that, in the era of the tall ship, outlaws challenged authority from below deck. By bringing these marginal seafaring characters into the limelight, Rediker shows how maritime actors have shaped history that many have long regarded as national and landed. And by casting these rebels by sea as cosmopolitan workers of the world, he reminds us that to understand the rise of capitalism, globalization, and the formation of race and class, we must look to the sea.
Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: John Quincy AdamsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368882589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.
A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University
Author: Julius J. MarkePublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363919
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1418
Book Description
Marke, Julius J., Editor. A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University With Selected Annotations. New York: The Law Center of New York University, 1953. xxxi, 1372 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-19939. ISBN 1-886363-91-9. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of the massive, well-annotated catalogue compiled by the librarian of the School of Law at New York University. Classifies approximately 15,000 works excluding foreign law, by Sources of the Law, History of Law and its Institutions, Public and Private Law, Comparative Law, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Political and Economic Theory, Trials, Biography, Law and Literature, Periodicals and Serials and Reference Material. With a thorough subject and author index. This reference volume will be of continuous value to the legal scholar and bibliographer, due not only to the works included but to the authoritative annotations, often citing more than one source. Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies 3461.
Life After Power
Author: Jared CohenPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982154543
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality.