Author: United States House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
House Documents
Author: United States House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
Reports of Committees
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
Book Description
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Pennsylvania's Soldiers' Orphan Schools, Giving a Brief Account of the Origin of the Late Civil War, the Rise and Progress of the Orphan System, and Legislative Enactments Relating Thereto
Author: James Laughery PaulPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385555086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774-March 4, 1881
Author: Benjamin Perley PoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Bernard BurkePublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5880560945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Appealing for Liberty
Author: Loren SchweningerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190664290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the country. Appealing for Liberty is the most comprehensive study to give voice to these African Americans, drawing from more than 2,000 suits and from the testimony of more than 4,000 plaintiffs from the Revolutionary era to the Civil War. Through the petitions, evidence, and testimony introduced in these court proceedings, the lives of the enslaved come sharply and poignantly into focus, as do many other aspects of southern society such as the efforts to preserve and re-unite black families. This book depicts in graphic terms, the pain, suffering, fears, and trepidations of the plaintiffs while discussing the legal systemlawyers, judges, juries, and testimonythat made judgments on their "causes," as the suits were often called. Arguments for freedom were diverse: slaves brought suits claiming they had been freed in wills and deeds, were born of free mothers, were descendants of free white women or Indian women; they charged that they were illegally imported to some states or were residents of the free states and territories. Those who testified on their behalf, usually against leaders of their communities, were generally white. So too were the lawyers who took these cases, many of them men of prominence, such as Francis Scott Key. More often than not, these men were slave owners themselves-- complicating our understanding of race relations in the antebellum period. A majority of the cases examined here were not appealed, nor did they create important judicial precedent. Indeed, most of the cases ended at the county, circuit, or district court level of various southern states. Yet the narratives of both those who gained their freedom and those who failed to do so, and the issues their suits raised, shed a bold and timely light on the history of race and liberty in the "land of the free."
Burke's Handbook to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Author: A. Winton ThorpePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties, Connecticut
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Tolland County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description