Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Slavery Code of the District of Columbia
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Black Code of the District of Columbia, in Force September 1st, 1848
Author: Worthington Garrettson SnethenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Legal Argument Before the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey, at the May Term, 1845, at Trenton, for the Deliverance of Four Thousand Persons from Bondage
Author: Alvan StewartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Williams' Gang
Author: Jeff ForretPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108493033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.
Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of North America
Author: Edward S. AbdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
An Example for All the Land
Author: Kate MasurPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807899321
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation and the Civil War. In this panoramic study, Kate Masur provides a nuanced account of African Americans' grassroots activism, municipal politics, and the U.S. Congress. She tells the provocative story of how black men's right to vote transformed local affairs, and how, in short order, city reformers made that right virtually meaningless. Bringing the question of equality to the forefront of Reconstruction scholarship, this widely praised study explores how concerns about public and private space, civilization, and dependency informed the period's debate over rights and citizenship.
Trace
Author: Lauret SavoyPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619026686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
With a New Preface by the Author Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its people and the land. Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life–defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land—lie largely eroded and lost. A provocative and powerful mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.–Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons. Gifted with this manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence, she delves through fragmented histories—natural, personal, cultural—to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America. "Every landscape is an accumulation," reads one epigraph. "Life must be lived amidst that which was made before." Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of memory—and to be one.
Slavery by Another Name
Author: Douglas A. BlackmonPublisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1848314132
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
American Slavery as it is
Author: Argument of William H. Seward, in Defence of William Freeman, on His Trial for Murder, at Auburn, July 21st and 22d, 1846
Author: William Henry SewardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description