wyszukanych pozycji: 9
He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey
ISBN: 9780742542235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey was hanged in Charleston, S.C., for his role in planning one of the largest slave uprisings in the United States. During his long, extraordinary life Vesey played many roles--Caribbean field hand, cabin boy, chandler's man, house servant, proud freeman, carpenter, husband, father, church leader, abolitionist, revolutionary. Yet until his execution transformed him into a symbol of liberty, Vesey made it his life's work to avoid the attention of white authorities. Because he preferred to dwell in the hidden alleys of Charleston's slave community, Vesey remains as...
On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey was hanged in Charleston, S.C., for his role in planning one of the largest slave uprisings in the United States. Durin...
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209,08 zł |
Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
ISBN: 9780195306699 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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...
In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the...
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352,93 zł |
Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries: Collected Essays and Second Thoughts
ISBN: 9780415866767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries -presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.
This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and w...
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240,39 zł |
Rebels, Reformers, & Revolutionaries: Collected Essays and Second Thoughts
ISBN: 9780415931229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and white revolutionaries - presenting a clear and cogent understanding of race, reform, and conservatism in early American history.
This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups - enslaved rebels, conservative white reformers, and w...
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810,17 zł |
Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
ISBN: 9780807844229 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Egerton illuminates the complex motivations that underlay two related Virginia slave revolts: the first, in 1800, led by the slave known as Gabriel; and the second, called the 'Easter Plot, ' instigated in 1802 by one of his followers. Although Gabriel has frequently been portrayed as a messianic, Samson-like figure, Egerton shows that he was a literate and highly skilled blacksmith whose primary goal was to destroy the economic hegemony of...
Gabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Doug...
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226,60 zł |
Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
ISBN: 9780199782253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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...
In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the...
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177,08 zł |
Unfading Light: The Sustaining Insight and Inspiration of Abraham Lincoln
ISBN: 9780761872375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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189,89 zł |
The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780813062822 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A truly invaluable collocation of documents. Highly Recommended."--Choice "Brilliantly conceptualized, exhaustively researched, and eloquently written, it is a gold mine for anyone interested in America's ongoing dilemma with slavery and race."--John Stauffer, author of Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln "This stunning and magisterial documentary history accumulates and analyzes much evidence never before considered adequately, if at all. The work of fifteen years by assiduous senior historians of slave rebellions, it not only considers the...
"A truly invaluable collocation of documents. Highly Recommended."--Choice "Brilliantly conceptualized, exhaustively researched, and eloquently...
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894,92 zł |
The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era
ISBN: 9780807170816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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266,58 zł |