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  • Freedom and Resistance

    A Social History of Black Loyalists in the Bahamas

    af Christopher Curry ...
    Serier serie Contested Boundaries
    After the American Revolution, enslaved and free blacks who had been loyal to the British cause arrived in the Bahamas, drawn by British promises of liberty and land. Freedom and Resistance shows how Black Loyalists struggled to find freedom, clashing with white loyalists who tried either to bind them to illegal indentured contracts or to enslave them. Despite these challenges, Black Loyalists ... Læs mere

    117,83 kr.

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  • The American Yawp

    A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: To 1877

    Redigeret af Joseph L. Locke, Ben Wright ...
    "I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of GrassThe American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent ... Læs mere

    196,51 kr.

  • Liberty’s Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire.

    af Maya Jasanoff ...
    From the author of ‘Edge of Empire’ comes a fascinating, thought-provoking and alternative history of the American Revolution – that of those Americans who remained loyal to the British Empire.George Washington's triumphant entrance into New York City in 1783 marked the end of the American Revolution; the British were gone, the patriots were back and a key moment inscribed itself in the annals of ... Læs mere

    127,78 kr.

  • Generations of Captivity

    A History of African-American Slaves

    af Ira Berlin ...
    Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later.Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Here, however, ... Læs mere

    235,81 kr.

  • Runaway America

    Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution

    af David Waldstreicher ...
    Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father. Finding slavery at the center of Franklin's life, Waldstreicher proves it was likewise ... Læs mere

    118,86 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Many Thousands Gone

    The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

    af Ira Berlin ...
    Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep South, or embraced Christianity. Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first ... Læs mere

    267,25 kr.

  • Saints and Strangers

    New England in British North America

    af Joseph A. Conforti ...
    Serier serie Regional Perspectives on Early America
    "Conforti's book will give you better understanding of Colonial New England and the lives of your ancestors who settled there." — Family Tree MagazineNamed a Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn the first general history of colonial New England to be published in over twenty-five years, Joseph A. Conforti synthesizes current and classic scholarship to explore how Puritan saints and "strangers" to ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean

    af Randy M. Browne ...
    Serier serie Early American Studies
    A groundbreaking study of slavery and power in the British Caribbean that foregrounds the struggle for survivalAtlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled to survive against their enslavers, their ... Læs mere

    225,00 kr.

  • Dismal Freedom

    A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp

    af J. Brent Morris ...
    The foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement; however, what may have impeded the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousands of maroons—people ... Læs mere

    192,50 kr.

  • The Escapes of David George

    An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution

    af Gregory E. O'Malley ...
    "Gregory E. O’Malley’s The Escapes of David George is a gripping, novelistic study of the remarkable man whose life forces all of us to reexamine the realities of colonial slavery and the conflicted legacies of the American Revolution." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr."remarkable ... intriguing ... an inspiring portrait of an enslaved man" --The Wall Street JournalWhen most Americans think of slavery, ... Læs mere

    118,86 kr.

  • In the Shadow of Slavery

    African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863

    af Leslie M. Harris ...
    A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation.The popular understanding of the history of slavery in America almost entirely ignores the institution's extensive reach in the North. But the cities of the North were built by—and became the home of—tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans, many of whom would ... Læs mere

    129,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Running from Bondage

    Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

    af Karen Cook Bell ...
    Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls ... Læs mere

    180,79 kr.

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