Author: Rufus William BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Issue, Presented in a Series of Letters on Slavery
Author: Rufus William BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Issue, Presented in a Series of Letters on Slavery
Author: Rufus William BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
ISSUE PRESENTED IN A SERIES OF
Author: Rufus William 1793-1863 BaileyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781373079367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Issue, Presented in a Series of Letters on Slavery (Classic Reprint)
Author: Rufus William BaileyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428991845
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Excerpt from The Issue, Presented in a Series of Letters on Slavery In a small volume with the earnest hope that they may subserve the cause of truth, and do good to our colored population, by contributing to check the progress of prin ciples, now industriously disseminated, most injurious, as the writer believes, to their cause. The book is come. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865
Author: Elizabeth HewittPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139456601
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors turned to the epistolary form as an idealised genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. The letter was the vital technology of social intercourse in the nineteenth century and was adopted as an exemplary genre in which authors from Crevecoeur and Adams through Jefferson, to Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, could theorise the social and political themes that were so crucial to their respective literary projects. They interrogated the political possibilities of social intercourse through the practice and analysis of correspondence. Hewitt argues that although correspondence is generally only conceived as a biographical archive, it must instead be understood as a significant genre through which these early authors made sense of social and political relations in the nation.
The Knickerbocker
Author: American Monthly Knickerbocker
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The Knickerbacker
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
And There Was Light
Author: Jon MeachamPublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0553393987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. “Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize • Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents—a remote icon—or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln—an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment, essential to the story of justice in America, began as he grew up in an antislavery Baptist community; who insisted that slavery was a moral evil; and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him to see the right. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination in 1865: his rise, his self-education, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans, Lincoln’s story illustrates the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events.
Deliver Us from Evil
Author: Lacy K. FordPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199751080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson. Drawing heavily on primary sources, including newspapers, government documents, legislative records, pamphlets, and speeches, Lacy K. Ford recaptures the varied and sometimes contradictory ideas and attitudes held by groups of white southerners as they tried to square slavery with their democratic ideals. He excels at conveying the political, intellectual, economic, and social thought of leading white southerners, vividly recreating the mental world of the varied actors and capturing the vigorous debates over slavery. He also shows that there was not one antebellum South but many, and not one southern white mindset but several, with the debates over slavery in the upper South quite different in substance from those in the deep South. In the upper South, where tobacco had fallen into comparative decline by 1800, debate often centered on how the area might reduce its dependence on slave labor and "whiten" itself, whether through gradual emancipation and colonization or the sale of slaves to the cotton South. During the same years, the lower South swirled into the vortex of the "cotton revolution," and that area's whites lost all interest in emancipation, no matter how gradual or fully compensated. An ambitious, thought-provoking, and highly insightful book, Deliver Us from Evil makes an important contribution to the history of slavery in the United States, shedding needed light on the white South's early struggle to reconcile slavery with its Revolutionary heritage.