Author: Frank M. GillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Eighth Article of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Author: Frank M. GillTo the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Author: Howard JonesPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469640228
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, which led to the settlement of the Canadian boundary dispute, was instrumental in maintaining peace between Great Britain and the United States. Jones analyzes the events that aggravated relations to show the affect of America's states' rights policy, and he concludes that the two countries signed the treaty because they considered it the wisest alternative to war, not because of the often-claimed strategic distribution of money. Originally published in 1977. 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 Treaty of Washington, Concluded August 9, 1842, by Daniel Webster and Lord Ashburton
Author: Hugh Taylor GordonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington, Treaty of, 1842
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867
Author: Leonardo MarquesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300224737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution to the Civil War While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade’s impact within the United States, considerably less has addressed its effects in other parts of the Americas. A rich analysis of a complex subject, this study draws on Portuguese, Brazilian, and Spanish primary documents—as well as English-language material—to shed new light on the changing behavior of slave traders and their networks, particularly in Brazil and Cuba. Slavery in these nations, as Marques shows, contributed to the mounting tensions that would ultimately lead to the U.S. Civil War. Taking a truly Atlantic perspective, Marques outlines the multiple forms of U.S. involvement in this traffic amid various legislation and shifting international relations, exploring the global processes that shaped the history of this participation.
The Counterrevolution of Slavery
Author: Manisha SinhaPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery. Sinha discusses some of the major sectional crises of the antebellum era--including nullification, the conflict over the expansion of slavery into western territories, and secession--and offers an important reevaluation of the movement to reopen the African slave trade in the 1850s. In the process she reveals the central role played by South Carolina planter politicians in developing proslavery ideology and the use of states' rights and constitutional theory for the defense of slavery. Sinha's work underscores the necessity of integrating the history of slavery with the traditional narrative of southern politics. Only by taking into account the political importance of slavery, she insists, can we arrive at a complete understanding of southern politics and the enormity of the issues confronting both northerners and southerners on the eve of the Civil War.
The African Squadron: Ashburton Treaty: Consular Sea Letters. Reviewed in an Address, Etc
Author: Andrew Hull FOOTEBlack Imagination and the Middle Passage
Author: Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN: 0198029195
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music it elicited, both on the transatlantic journey and on the American continent. The totality of this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage that extends from the interior of Africa across the Atlantic and to the interior of the Americas, and from the beginning of the Passage to the present day.
The African Slave Trade, Reopen Or Suppress, 1850-1860
Author: Clara Margaret MoeschlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The African Squadron; Ashburton Treaty; Consular Sea Letters
Author: Andrew Hull FootePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slave trade
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Atlantic Passages
Author: Robert MurrayPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813065755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Tracing the movement of people to and from Liberia in the nineteenth century Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is usually seen as an endpoint in the journeys of those who traveled there. In Atlantic Passages, Robert Murray reveals that many Liberian settlers did not remain in Africa but returned repeatedly to the United States, and he explores the ways this movement shaped the construction of race in the Atlantic world. Tracing the transatlantic crossings of Americo-Liberians between 1820 and 1857, in addition to delving into their experiences on both sides of the ocean, Murray discusses how the African neighbors and inhabitants of Liberia recognized significant cultural differences in the newly arrived African Americans and racially categorized them as “whites.” He examines the implications of being perceived as simultaneously white and Black, arguing that these settlers acquired an exotic, foreign identity that escaped associations with primitivism and enabled them to claim previously inaccessible privileges and honors in America. Highlighting examples of the ways in which blackness and whiteness have always been contested ideas, as well as how understandings of race can be shaped by geography and cartography, Murray offers many insights into what it meant to be Black and white in the space between Africa and America. Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.