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Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground
Author | : Barbara Jeanne Fields |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300040326 |
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Examines the history of slavery in Maryland and discusses the conditions of life of Maryland's slaves and free Blacks.
Horace Between Freedom and Slavery
Author | : Stephanie McCarter |
Publsiher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2015-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299305741 |
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During the Roman transition from Republic to Empire in the first century B.C.E., the poet Horace found his own public success in the era of Emperor Augustus at odds with his desire for greater independence. In Horace between Freedom and Slavery, Stephanie McCarter offers new insights into Horace's complex presentation of freedom in the first book of his Epistles and connects it to his most enduring and celebrated moral exhortation, the golden mean. She argues that, although Horace commences the Epistles with an uncompromising insistence on freedom, he ultimately adopts a middle course. She shows how Horace explores in the poems the application of moderate freedom first to philosophy, then to friendship, poetry, and place. Rather than rejecting philosophical masters, Horace draws freely on them without swearing permanent allegiance to any—a model for compromise that allows him to enjoy poetic renown and friendships with the city's elite while maintaining a private sphere of freedom. This moderation and adaptability, McCarter contends, become the chief ethical lessons that Horace learns for himself and teaches to others. She reads Horace's reconfiguration of freedom as a political response to the transformations of the new imperial age.
Freedom s Port
Author | : Christopher Phillips |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0252066189 |
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Baltimore's African-American population--nearly 27,000 strong and more than 90 percent free in 1860--was the largest in the nation at that time. Christopher Phillips's Freedom's Port, the first book-length study of an urban black population in the antebellum Upper South, chronicles the growth and development of that community. He shows how it grew from a transient aggregate of individuals, many fresh from slavery, to a strong, overwhelmingly free community less wracked by class and intraracial divisions than were other cities. Almost from the start, Phillips states, Baltimore's African Americans forged their own freedom and actively defended it--in a state that maintained slavery and whose white leadership came to resent the liberties the city's black people had achieved.
Slavery and Freedom in Delaware 1639 1865
Author | : William Henry Williams |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0842028471 |
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A text for courses in colonial and antebellum history. It analyzes the 'peculiar institution' in the First State.
Birthright Citizens
Author | : Martha S. Jones |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107150348 |
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Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans' pre-Civil War claims to belonging.
Death or Liberty
Author | : Douglas R. Egerton |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2009-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199719235 |
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In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving the households of Boston's elite. More important, he recaptures the drama of slaves, freed blacks, and white reformers fighting to make the young nation fulfill its republican slogans. Although this struggle often unfolded in the corridors of power, Egerton pays special attention to what black Americans did for themselves in these decades, and his narrative brims with compelling portraits of forgotten African American activists and rebels, who battled huge odds and succeeded in finding liberty--if never equality--only in northern states. Egerton concludes that despite the real possibility of peaceful, if gradual, emancipation, the Founders ultimately lacked the courage to end slavery.
The Civil War in the Border South
Author | : Christopher Phillips |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2013-07-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780275995034 |
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The border states during the Civil War have long been ignored or misunderstood in general histories. This book corrects that oversight, explaining how many border state residents used wartime realities to redefine their politics and culture as "Southern." By studying the characteristics of those positioned along this fault line during the Civil War, the centrality of the war issue of slavery, which border residents long eschewed as being divisive, became apparent. This book explains how the process of Southernization occurred during and after the Civil War—a phenomenon largely unexplained by historians. Beyond the broader, more traditional narrative of the clash of arms, within these border slave states raged an inner civil war that shaped the military and political outcomes of the war as well as these states' cultural landscapes. Author Christopher Phillips describes how the Civil War experience in the border states served to form new loyalties and communities of identity that both deeply divided these states and distorted the meaning of the war for postwar generations.
Border War
Author | : Stanley Harrold |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2010-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807899550 |
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During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri against the free states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Aspects of this struggle--the underground railroad, enforcement of the fugitive slave laws, mob actions, and sectional politics--are well known as parts of other stories. Here, Stanley Harrold explores the border struggle itself, the dramatic incidents that comprised it, and its role in the complex dynamics leading to the Civil War.