Author: Frederick DouglassPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385512875
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette
Author: John Quincy AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Emancipation Oration
Author: Ezra R. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Ain't I A Woman?
Author: Sojourner TruthPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241472377
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now' A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of Black women throughout her life. This selection of her impassioned speeches is accompanied by the words of other inspiring African-American female campaigners from the nineteenth century. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
The Letters of Daniel Webster
Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Oration by Frederick Douglass, Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1876. With an Appendix
Author: Frederick DouglassPublisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781376638301
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
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Author: Frederick DouglassPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Field of Blood
Author: Joanne B. FreemanPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.
The Gettysburg Address
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504080246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Introduction to Public Forum and Congressional Debate
Author: Jeffrey HannanPublisher: Idea
ISBN: 9781617700385
Category : Debates and debating
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Conceived and written by three of the most successful and talented National Forensic League coaches and educators, this text brings together current best practices for Public Forum and Congressional Debate.
A Time for Choosing
Author: Ronald ReaganPublisher:
ISBN: 9780895266224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description