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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: John M. Curran
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Howard Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190281324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinqué led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. The seizure of the ship by an American naval vessel near Montauk, Long Island, the arrest of the Africans in Connecticut, and the Spanish protest against the violation of their property rights created an international controversy. The Amistad affair united Lewis Tappan and other abolitionists who put the "law of nature" on trial in the United States by their refusal to accept a legal system that claimed to dispense justice while permitting artificial distinctions based on race or color. The mutiny resulted in a trial before the U.S. Supreme Court that pitted former President John Quincy Adams against the federal government. Jones vividly recaptures this compelling drama--the most famous slavery case before Dred Scott--that climaxed in the court's ruling to free the captives and allow them to return to Africa.

Author: Alvin Harold Casey
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 874

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Descendants of John Shelton born in late 1700's. He married Catherine Messer in 1805 in Hawkins County, Tennessee.

Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2868

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Author: George Benson Kuykendall
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5872287712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 689

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With Genealogy as Found in Early Dutch Church Records, State and Government Documents, Together with Sketches of Colonial Times, Old Log Cabin Days, Indian Wars, Pioneer Hardships, Social Customs, Dress and Mode of Living of the Early Forefathers

Author: Ralph Ege
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Category : Hopewell (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Carol E. Hoffecker
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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"Williams had deep roots in Sussex Country, the most southern, most rural, and most socially conservative part of Delaware. The book examines Williams's involvement in the country's poultry industry from its beginnings during the 1920s through the turbulent World War II years when Sussex poultry producers tangled with federal government officials from the Office of Price Administration and the U.S. Army. The war years coincided with the maturation of poultry production in Sussex that brought the county's people into more complex and wide-ranging economic, social, and political interactions. It was in reaction to these events that John Williams decided to run for the U.S. Senate."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Margaretta Barton Colt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195132378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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The author "brings to life the courage, recklessness, heartbreak, and deprivation of the (Shenandoah) Valley Campaign and the battles to the east of the Blue Ridge" ("The Commercial Appeal"). 60 photos.

Author: Jonathan Sterne
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822330134
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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