Author: Alfred J. PairpointPublisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Uncle Sam and His Country, Or, Sketches of America, in 1854-55-56
Author: Alfred J. PairpointPublisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Uncle Sam and His Country, Or, Sketches of America, in 1854-55-56
Author: Alfred J. PairpointPublisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Uncle Sam and his Country
Author: Alfred PairpointPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375167466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
British Comment on the United States
Author: Ada NisbetPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520915824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.
Remembering 1759
Author: Phillip BucknerPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442699248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, and reinterpreted by groups in Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States, and most of all, in Quebec. It focuses particularly on how the public memory of the Conquest has been used for a variety of cultural, political, and intellectual purposes. The essays contained in this volume investigate topics such as the legacy of 1759 in twentieth-century Quebec; the memorialization of General James Wolfe in a variety of national contexts; and the re-imagination of the Plains of Abraham as a tourist destination. Combined with Revisiting 1759, this collection provides readers with the most comprehensive, wide-ranging assessment to date of the lasting effects of the Conquest of Canada.
Birthright Citizens
Author: Martha S. JonesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110866539X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. Jones explains, no single case defined their status. Former slaves studied law, secured allies, and conducted themselves like citizens, establishing their status through local, everyday claims. All along they argued that birth guaranteed their rights. With fresh archival sources and an ambitious reframing of constitutional law-making before the Civil War, Jones shows how the Fourteenth Amendment constitutionalized the birthright principle, and black Americans' aspirations were realized. Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The American and British Debate Over Equality, 1776-1920
Author: James L. HustonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807167452
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The American and British Debate Over Equality, 1776–1920 examines comparisons between American ideals of a classless society and the contrasting British class system, which accepted the existence of inequalities. When the United States declared political independence in 1776, they also announced repudiation of social institutions based on inequality, opting instead for (an ill-defined) equality. British travelers to the United States after 1776 and up to 1920 continuously wrote about how equality was faring in the United States and compared it to the operation of inequality in England, Scotland, and Ireland. They laid bare the actual outcomes of a system of equality versus one of inequality; this was no theoretical, intellectual exercise but instead constituted a recording of actual human practices. By the end of the nineteenth century, the defects of a system of inequality became clear in manners, social interchanges between income classes, general education levels, religious convictions, and the general energy of a people. The exploration of these nineteenth-century comparisons has great relevance for today's persistent debates about social inequities and their solutions.
North of Slavery
Author: Leon F. LitwackPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226485870
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
". . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of the Northern phase of the story Professor Litwack has performed a notable service."—John Hope Franklin, Journal of Negro Education "For a searching examination of the North Star Legend we are indebted to Leon F. Litwack. . . ."—C. Vann Woodward, The American Scholar
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.