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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Documents the ways in which George Washington's words, image, and mythology shaped America's fledgling republic throughout the first fifty years after the Revolutionary War, offering insight into the pivotal role played by slavery issues.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
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
Publisher
Linnet Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1854, after the U.S. Congress created Kansas Territory, both pro- and anti-slavery settlers moved in in an attempt to decide whether Kansas would be a slave state or free, leading to the deaths of 200 people as each side vied for victory.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning 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...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
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...
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
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...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
An analysis of how George Washington's life was impacted by slavery discusses his ties to the slave community, activities as a slave owner, realization of the evils of slavery, and political efforts on behalf of slaves.
10) The radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the triumph of antislavery
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This is a book about two towering figures in our nation's history. It is a moving story about an improbable friendship, and an important story about an equally improbable alliance. [In the book, the author] has written a ... narrative history. He brings these two iconic figures to life and sheds new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America. -Dust jacket.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
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