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Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xiv, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Why was the United States the only nation in the world to fight a war to end slavery? Fleming looks at the reasons of why the Civil War was fought, and shows that the polarization that divided the North and South and led to the Civil War began decades earlier than most historians are willing to admit-- back almost to the founding of the nation itself.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charles Sumner was seated at his Senate desk on May 22, 1856, when Democratic Congressman Preston S. Brooks approached, pulled out a walking stick, and struck him on the head. Brooks continued to beat the stunned Sumner, forcing him to the ground and repeatedly striking him even as the cane shattered. He then pursued the bloodied, staggering Republican senator up the Senate aisle until Sumner collapsed. Colleagues of the two intervened only after...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xi, 296 pages : map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans opposed slavery in the West, they did so partly from evidence that slaveholders, with Douglas's assistance, planned to follow up successes in Kansas by bringing Cuba, Mexico, and Central America into...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than five hundred "Free Negros" in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of £1,000 (about $200,000 in today's dollars), possibly the richest person of African descent in British North America. A slaveowner himself, Jeremiah was falsely accused by whites--who resented his success as a Charleston harbor pilot--of sowing insurrection among slaves at the behest of the British. Though a free man, Jeremiah...
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
x, 297 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Kentucky occupied an unusual position with regard to slavery during the Civil War as well as after. Since the state never seceded, the emancipation proclamation did not free the majority of Kentucky's slaves; in fact, Kentucky and Delaware were the only t