Author: Adam HodgsonPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Remarks During a Journey Through North America in the Years 1819, 1820, and 1821
Author: Adam HodgsonAn Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography
Author: Thomas Warren FieldPublisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
“An” Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography
Author: Thomas W. FieldProceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge
Author: American Philosophical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Pearl
Author: Josephine F. PachecoPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888923
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship's crew were captured and returned to Washington. Many of the slaves were sold to the Lower South, and two men sailing the Pearl were tried and sentenced to prison. Recounting this harrowing tale from the preparations for escape through the participants' trial, Josephine Pacheco provides fresh insight into the lives of enslaved blacks in the District of Columbia, putting a human face on the victims of the interstate slave trade, whose lives have been overshadowed by larger historical events. Pacheco also details the Congressional debates about slavery that resulted from this large-scale escape attempt. She contends that although the incident itself and the trials and Congressional disputes that followed were not directly responsible for bringing an end to the slave trade in the nation's capital, they played a pivotal role in publicizing many of the issues surrounding slavery. Eventually, President Millard Fillmore pardoned the operators of the Pearl.
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Social Organization and Social Usages of the Indians of the Creek Confederacy
Author: John Reed SwantonPublisher:
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Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography, Being a Catalogue Relating to the History, Antiquities, Languages, Customs, Religion, Wars, Literature and Origin of the American Indians
Author: Th. W. FieldAn essay towards an Indian bibliography, a catalogue of books, relating to the American Indians, in the library of T.W. Field
Author: Thomas Warren FieldTransactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 6, 1839)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422377925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description