Author: Charles BEECHERPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
The Duty of Disobedience to Wicked Laws. A Sermon on the Fugitive Slave Law
Author: Charles BEECHERA Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The Slave Catchers
Author: Stanley W. CampbellPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469610078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In this thoroughly researched documentation of a historically controversial issue, the author considers the background, passage, and constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law. The author's relation of public opinion and the executive policy regarding the much disputed law will help the reader reach a decision as to whether the law was actually a success or failure, legally and socially. Originally published in 1970. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
The Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience
Author: William E. ScheuermanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108804845
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
The theory and practice of civil disobedience has once again taken on import, given recent events. Considering widespread dissatisfaction with normal political mechanisms, even in well-established liberal democracies, civil disobedience remains hugely important, as a growing number of individuals and groups pursue political action. 'Digital disobedients', Black Lives Matter protestors, Extinction Rebellion climate change activists, Hong Kong activists resisting the PRC's authoritarian clampdown...all have practiced civil disobedience. In this Companion, an interdisciplinary group of scholars reconsiders civil disobedience from many perspectives. Whether or not civil disobedience works, and what is at stake when protestors describe their acts as civil disobedience, is systematically examined, as are the legacies and impact of Henry Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America
Author: Publisher: Martino Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Proceedings of the American Anti-slavery Society
Author: American Anti-Slavery SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society at its third decade, held in the city of Philadelphia, Dec. 3rd and 4th, 1863, with an appendix and a catalogue of Anti-Slavery publications in America from 1750 to 1863
Author: American Anti-Slavery Society (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Southern Hospitality Myth
Author: Anthony SzczesiulPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820350737
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular as the social habit of hospitality—which is exercised among diverse individuals and is widely varied in its particular practices—and so generalized it as to make it a cultural trait of an entire region of the country. Historians have offered a variety of explanations of the origins and cultural practices of hospitality in the antebellum South. Economic historians have at times portrayed southern hospitality as evidence of conspicuous consumption and competition among wealthy planters, while cultural historians have treated it peripherally as a symptomatic expression of the southern code of honor. Although historians have offered different theories, they generally agree that the mythic dimensions of southern hospitality eventually outstripped its actual practices. Szczesiul examines why we have chosen to remember and valorize this particular aspect of the South, and he raises fundamental ethical questions that underlie both the concept of hospitality and the cultural work of American memory, particularly in light of the region’s historical legacy of slavery and segregation.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author: Harriet Beecher StowePublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 146040209X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
With its gripping plot and pungent dialogue, Uncle Tom’s Cabin offers readers today a passionate portrait of a nation on the verge of disunion and a surprisingly subtle examination of the relationship between race and nationalism that has always been at the heart of the American experience. This Broadview edition is based upon the first American edition of the novel and reprints its original illustrations and preface. In addition, it reprints all of the prefaces that Stowe wrote for authorized European editions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, offers a wide array of appendices that clarify the novel’s participation in antebellum debates about domesticity, colonization, abolitionism, and the law, and includes sections on dramatic adaptations of the novel.
Slavery in the United States
Author: Jeff ForretPublisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438138377
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Examines numerous controversies related to the history of slavery, including slavery and the American Revolution, the Constitution and Bible as pro- or antislavery documents, the transatlantic slave trade, colonization of free blacks, abolition, slave resistance and uprisings, slavery and western expansion, and whether escaping slaves should be accepted by Union forces during the Civil War.