Author: Jared Sparks
Publisher:
Published: 1820
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13:
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Author: T. Stephen Whitman
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0813183588
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A stereotypical image of manumission is that of a benign plantation owner freeing his slaves on his deathbed. But as Stephen Whitman demonstrates, the truth was far more complex, especially in border states where manumission was much more common. Whitman analyzes the economic and social history of Baltimore to show how the vigorous growth of the city required the exploitation of rural slaves. To prevent them from escaping and to spur higher production, owners entered into arrangements with their slaves, promising eventual freedom in return for many years' hard work. The Price of Freedom reveals how blacks played a critical role in freeing themselves from slavery. Yet it was an imperfect victory. Once Baltimore's economic growth began to slow, freed blacks were virtually excluded from craft apprenticeships, and European immigrants supplanted them as a trained labor force.
Author: Caroline Winterer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-10-25
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0300224567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the “American Enlightenment” suggests that the rejection of monarchy and establishment of a new republic in the United States in the eighteenth century was the realization of utopian philosophies born in the intellectual salons of Europe and radiating outward to the New World. In this revelatory work, Stanford historian Caroline Winterer argues that a national mythology of a unitary, patriotic era of enlightenment in America was created during the Cold War to act as a shield against the threat of totalitarianism, and that Americans followed many paths toward political, religious, scientific, and artistic enlightenment in the 1700s that were influenced by European models in more complex ways than commonly thought. Winterer’s book strips away our modern inventions of the American national past, exploring which of our ideas and ideals are truly rooted in the eighteenth century and which are inventions and mystifications of more recent times.
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Publisher: Best Books on
Published: 1940
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1623760666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compiled by Mentor A. Howe and Roscoe E. Lewis.
Author: Cornell University. Libraries
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
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