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English
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"A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar...
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 590 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
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Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Slavery did not end without an organized and impassioned struggle. Many Americans, both black and white, thought it was inhumane and morally wrong to enslave another human being, no matter the color of his or her skin, and fought for the freedom of enslaved Africans in the United States. Learn about these abolitionists and freedom fighters from colonial days through emancipation, and discover how their work brought the country as far as it has come."...
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Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
126 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Slavery grew from an informal system of bondage to a social institution. Along the way, it became the foundation of the Southern economy and way of life. As abolitionists fought to end slavery and influential Southerners fought to keep it, it became a political issue that spurred a civil was and changed the government, as well as American society." -- Page [4] cover.
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Language
English
Description
When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In this work, the author explores the founding father's engagement with slavery at every stage of his life--as a Virginia planter, soldier, politician, president and statesman. Washington was born and raised among blacks and mixed-race people he and his wife had blood ties...
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xviii, 330 pages : illustrations (black-&-white), facsimiles, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman--a prophet, a printer, and a 'Contessa'--and how its breakup led to the success of America's most important social movement. In the crucial early years of the abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves' freedom. Journalist...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A scholar uncovers Lincoln's strategy for abolishing slavery in this groundbreaking history of the sectional crisis and Civil War. Some celebrate Lincoln for freeing the slaves; others fault him for a long-standing conservatism on abolition and race. James Oakes gives us another option in this brilliant exploration of Lincoln and the end of slavery. Through the unforeseen challenges of the Civil War crisis, Lincoln and the Republican party adhered...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxii, 251 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln's then-unprecedented welcome of African Americans to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. Drawing from an array of primary sources, White reveals how the Great Emancipator used the White House as the stage to empower Black voices in our country's most divisive era"--
Jonathan White illuminates why Lincolns unprecedented welcoming of African American men and women...
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xix, 392 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a "house divided against itself," as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick Rael, but no other nation endured anything like the United States. Here the process took from 1777, when Vermont wrote slavery out of its state constitution, to 1865, when...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : map, illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which every aspect of life in the United States was and is shaped by the existence of slavery. Black Ghost of Empire focuses on emancipation and how this opportunity to make right further codified the racial caste system-instead of obliterating it.To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts society today, we must not only look at what slavery was, but also the unfinished way it ended. One may think...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
1400L
Physical Desc
369 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Robert Pierce Forbes goes behind the scenes of the crucial Missouri Compromise, the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War, to reveal the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis, including the central, unexpected role of President James Monroe. Although Missouri was allowed to join the union with slavery, the compromise in fact closed off nearly all remaining federal territories to slavery. When Congressman...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of Southerners' national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences ensued. Although Southern...
Author
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
vii, 168 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Self-Evident Lie explores and underscores the fear and complex meaning of "slavery" to northerners before the Civil War. Many northerners asked: If slavery was the beneficent and paternalistic institution that southerners claimed, could it not be applied with equal morality to whites as well as blacks? Republicans repeatedly expressed concern that proslavery arguments were not inherently racial. Irrespective of race, anyone could fall victim to...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 168 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
How partisan politics lead to the Civil War
What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant and succinct book, Holt distills a lifetime of scholarship to demonstrate that secession and war did not arise from two irreconcilable economies any more than from moral objections to slavery. Short-sighted politicians were to blame. Rarely looking...
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In Northern Men with Southern Loyalties, Michael Todd Landis forcefully contends that a full understanding of the Civil War and its causes is impossible without a careful examination of Northern Democrats and their proslavery sentiments and activities. He focuses on a variety of key Democratic politicians, such as Stephen Douglas, William Marcy, and Jesse Bright, to unravel the puzzle of Northern Democratic politcal allegiance to the South. As congressmen,...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiv, 768 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism...
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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
264 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the United States prior to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln's election as the first antislavery president was hardly preordained. From the country's inception, Americans had struggled to define slavery's relationship to freedom. Most Northerners supported abolition in the North but condoned slavery in the South, while most Southerners...