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Slavery's Constitution
From Revolution to Ratification
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were directly concerned with slaves and the interests...
Tell the Court I Love My Wife
Race, Marriage, and Law--An American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States, this book illustrates in vivid detail how states, communities, and the courts have defined and regulated mixed-race marriage from the colonial period to the present. Combining a storyteller's detail with a historian's analysis,...
Shades of Freedom
Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 1998
Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania,...
Going Too Far
Essays about America's Nervous Breakdown
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Ishmael Reed goes too far, again! Just as the fugitive slaves went to Canada and challenged the prevailing view that slaves were well off under their masters, Ishmael Reed has gone all the way to Quebec—where this book is published—to challenge the widespread opinion that racism is no longer a...
Hearts Beating for Liberty
Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest.
Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest--with...
In the Shadow of Statues
A White Southerner Confronts History
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
**"An extraordinarily powerful journey that is both political and personal...An important book for everyone in America to read." --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve Jobs
The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts...
by William R. Daniel
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
A little over one hundred years after the legendary shootout at the OK Corral, a radicalSouth Chicago preacher named Frances Thomas moved to Miracle Valley, Arizona. She broughtnot only her congregation, but also a dangerous cocktail of fanaticism, faith healing, bigotry,and dynamite. Believing that...
by Kat Smutz
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves who laid down their lives in war so that Americans could be free, American Slavery in an Hour covers the...
The Slave's Cause
A History of Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social...
by Patricia Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Under the leadership of Samuel Adams, patriot propagandists deliberately and conscientiously kept the issue of slavery off the agenda as goals for freedom were set for the American Revolution. By comparing coverage in the publications of the patriot press with those of the moderate colonial press,...
Making Whiteness
The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced...
Stormy Weather
Middle-Class African American Marriages between the Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial factor in realizing this dream. But there was little agreement about how spousal relationships...
by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Austin Steward
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Slave Narrative Six Pack 3 presents six more essential texts:
Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs.
Escaping in a Chest: The Lear Green Story by William Still.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Written by Herself
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2016
Here is one of the few slave narratives written by a women. Slavery is a terrible thing, but it is far more terrible and harrowing for women than for men. Harriet Jacobs was owned by a brutal master who beat his slaves regularly and subjected them to indignations that were far worse. Jacobs eventually...