Author: Henry Clay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Remarks of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on Introducing His Propositions to Compromise, on the Slavery Question
Author: Henry Clay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Carry Me Back
Author: Steven Deyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190294965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Originating with the birth of the nation itself, in many respects, the story of the domestic slave trade is also the story of the early United States. While an external traffic in slaves had always been present, following the American Revolution this was replaced by a far more vibrant internal trade. Most importantly, an interregional commerce in slaves developed that turned human property into one of the most valuable forms of investment in the country, second only to land. In fact, this form of property became so valuable that when threatened with its ultimate extinction in 1860, southern slave owners believed they had little alternative but to leave the Union. Therefore, while the interregional trade produced great wealth for many people, and the nation, it also helped to tear the country apart. The domestic slave trade likewise played a fundamental role in antebellum American society. Led by professional traders, who greatly resembled northern entrepreneurs, this traffic was a central component in the market revolution of the early nineteenth century. In addition, the development of an extensive local trade meant that the domestic trade, in all its configurations, was a prominent feature in southern life. Yet, this indispensable part of the slave system also raised many troubling questions. For those outside the South, it affected their impression of both the region and the new nation. For slaveholders, it proved to be the most difficult part of their institution to defend. And for those who found themselves commodities in this trade, it was something that needed to be resisted at all costs. Carry Me Back restores the domestic slave trade to the prominent place that it deserves in early American history, exposing the many complexities of southern slavery and antebellum American life.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190294965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Originating with the birth of the nation itself, in many respects, the story of the domestic slave trade is also the story of the early United States. While an external traffic in slaves had always been present, following the American Revolution this was replaced by a far more vibrant internal trade. Most importantly, an interregional commerce in slaves developed that turned human property into one of the most valuable forms of investment in the country, second only to land. In fact, this form of property became so valuable that when threatened with its ultimate extinction in 1860, southern slave owners believed they had little alternative but to leave the Union. Therefore, while the interregional trade produced great wealth for many people, and the nation, it also helped to tear the country apart. The domestic slave trade likewise played a fundamental role in antebellum American society. Led by professional traders, who greatly resembled northern entrepreneurs, this traffic was a central component in the market revolution of the early nineteenth century. In addition, the development of an extensive local trade meant that the domestic trade, in all its configurations, was a prominent feature in southern life. Yet, this indispensable part of the slave system also raised many troubling questions. For those outside the South, it affected their impression of both the region and the new nation. For slaveholders, it proved to be the most difficult part of their institution to defend. And for those who found themselves commodities in this trade, it was something that needed to be resisted at all costs. Carry Me Back restores the domestic slave trade to the prominent place that it deserves in early American history, exposing the many complexities of southern slavery and antebellum American life.
Slave Breeding
Author: Gregory D. Smithers
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813059151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated the sexual practices and marital status of enslaved African Americans to reproduce new generations of slaves for profit. In this bold and provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. He argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South. By placing African American histories and memories of slave breeding within the larger context of America’s history of racial and gender discrimination, Smithers sheds much-needed light on African American collective memory, racialized perceptions of fragile black families, and the long history of racially motivated violence against men, women, and children of color.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813059151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated the sexual practices and marital status of enslaved African Americans to reproduce new generations of slaves for profit. In this bold and provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. He argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South. By placing African American histories and memories of slave breeding within the larger context of America’s history of racial and gender discrimination, Smithers sheds much-needed light on African American collective memory, racialized perceptions of fragile black families, and the long history of racially motivated violence against men, women, and children of color.
Dictionary of Books, relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752521201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752521201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368124129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368124129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
A Dictionary of Books relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present Time.
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752520485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752520485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
State and Citizen
Author: Peter Thompson
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813933498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Pointing the way to a new history of the transformation of British subjects into American citizens, State and Citizen challenges the presumption that the early American state was weak by exploring the changing legal and political meaning of citizenship. The volume's distinguished contributors cast new light on the shift from subjecthood to citizenship during the American Revolution by showing that the federal state played a much greater part than is commonly supposed. Going beyond master narratives--celebratory or revisionist--that center on founding principles, the contributors argue that geopolitical realities and the federal state were at the center of early American political development. The volume's editors, Peter Thompson and Peter S. Onuf, bring together political science and historical methodologies to demonstrate that citizenship was a political as well as a legal concept. The American state, this collection argues, was formed and evolved in a more dialectical relationship between citizens and government authority than is generally acknowledged. Suggesting points of comparison between an American narrative of state development--previously thought to be exceptional--and those of Europe and Latin America, the contributors break fresh ground by investigating citizenship in its historical context rather than by reference only to its capacity to confer privileges.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813933498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Pointing the way to a new history of the transformation of British subjects into American citizens, State and Citizen challenges the presumption that the early American state was weak by exploring the changing legal and political meaning of citizenship. The volume's distinguished contributors cast new light on the shift from subjecthood to citizenship during the American Revolution by showing that the federal state played a much greater part than is commonly supposed. Going beyond master narratives--celebratory or revisionist--that center on founding principles, the contributors argue that geopolitical realities and the federal state were at the center of early American political development. The volume's editors, Peter Thompson and Peter S. Onuf, bring together political science and historical methodologies to demonstrate that citizenship was a political as well as a legal concept. The American state, this collection argues, was formed and evolved in a more dialectical relationship between citizens and government authority than is generally acknowledged. Suggesting points of comparison between an American narrative of state development--previously thought to be exceptional--and those of Europe and Latin America, the contributors break fresh ground by investigating citizenship in its historical context rather than by reference only to its capacity to confer privileges.
Slavery, a Bibliographic Guide to the Microfiche Collection
Author: Microfilming Corporation of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Speech of Mr. Downs, of Louisiana, on the Compromise Resolutions of Mr. Clay
Author: Solomon Weathersbee Downs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Compromise of 1850
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description