Author: Richard HildrethPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The history of the United States of America
Author: Richard HildrethSlavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution
Author: Timothy Messer-KrusePublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807183334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution unearths a long-hidden factor that led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. While historians have generally acknowledged that patriot leaders assembled in response to postwar economic chaos, the threat of popular insurgencies, and the inability of the states to agree on how to fund the national government, Timothy Messer-Kruse suggests that scholars have discounted Americans’ desire to compel Britain to return fugitives from slavery as a driving force behind the convention. During the Revolutionary War, British governors offered freedom to enslaved Americans who joined the king’s army. Thousands responded by fleeing to English camps. After the British defeat at Yorktown, American diplomats demanded the surrender of fugitive slaves. When British generals refused, several states confiscated Loyalist estates and blocked payment of English creditors, hoping to apply enough pressure on the Crown to hand over the runaways. State laws conflicting with the 1783 Treaty of Paris violated the Articles of Confederation—the young nation’s first constitution—but Congress, lacking an executive branch or a federal judiciary, had no means to obligate states to comply. The standoff over the escaped slaves quickly escalated following the Revolution as Britain failed to abandon the western forts it occupied and took steps to curtail American commerce. More than any other single matter, the impasse over the return of enslaved Americans threatened to hamper the nation’s ability to expand westward, develop its commercial economy, and establish itself as a power among the courts of Europe. Messer-Kruse argues that the issue encouraged the founders to consider the prospect of scrapping the Articles of Confederation and drafting a superseding document that would dramatically increase federal authority—the Constitution.
The History of the United States of America
Author: Richard HildrethPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385416760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775-1789
Author: Allan NevinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
A History and Description of New England
Author: A.J. CoolidgePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382301865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
A History and Description of New England, General and Local
Author: Austin Jacobs CoolidgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Author: Friends of Freedom
Author: Micah AlpaughPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009027573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
From the Sons of Liberty to British reformers, Irish patriots, French Jacobins, Haitian revolutionaries and American Democrats, the greatest social movements of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions grew as part of a common, interrelated pattern. In this new transnational history, Micah Alpaugh demonstrates the connections between the most prominent causes of the era, as they drew upon each other's models to seek unprecedented changes in government. As Friends of Freedom, activists shared ideas and strategies internationally, creating a chain of broad-based campaigns that mobilized the American Revolution, British Parliamentary Reform, Irish nationalism, movements for religious freedom, abolitionism, the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and American party politics. Rather than a series of distinct national histories, Alpaugh shows how these movements jointly responded to the Atlantic trends of their era to create a new way to alter or overthrow governments: mobilizing massive social movements.
Building of the Republic, 1689-1783
Author: Albert Bushnell HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
Author: Mercy Otis WarrenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mercy Otis Warren has been described as perhaps the most formidable female intellectual in eighteenth-century America. This work (in the first new edition since 1805) is an exciting and comprehensive study of the events of the American Revolution, from the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765 through the ratification of the Constitution in 1788-1789. Steeped in the classical, republican tradition, Warren was a strong proponent of the American Revolution. She was also suspicious of the newly emerging commercial republic of the 1780s and hostile to the Constitution from an Anti-Federalist perspective, a position that gave her history some notoriety.