wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law
ISBN: 9781469619118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the antebellum South, divorce was an explosive issue. As one lawmaker put it, divorce was to be viewed as a form of "madness," and as another asserted, divorce reduced communities to the "lowest ebb of degeneracy." How was it that in this climate, the number of divorces rose steadily during the antebellum era? In Families in Crisis in the Old South, Loren Schweninger uses previously unexplored records to argue that the difficulties these divorcing families faced reveal much about the reality of life in a slave-holding society as well as the myriad difficulties confronted by white...
In the antebellum South, divorce was an explosive issue. As one lawmaker put it, divorce was to be viewed as a form of "madness," and as another asser...
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174,14 zł |
The Southern Debate Over Slavery, Volume 1: Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1778-1864
ISBN: 9780252026324 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An incomparably rich source of period information, The Southern Debate over Slavery offers a representative sampling of the thousands of petitions about issues of race and slavery that southerners submitted to their state legislatures between the American Revolution and the Civil War.
These petitions, filed by slaveholders and nonslaveholders, slaves and free blacks, women and men, abolitionists and staunch defenders of slavery, constitute a uniquely important primary source. Petitioners were compelled to present the most accurate and fully documented case they could, since their claims... An incomparably rich source of period information, The Southern Debate over Slavery offers a representative sampling of the thousands of petitions abo...
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414,50 zł |
Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915
ISBN: 9780252066344 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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110,13 zł |
Appealing for Liberty: Freedom Suits in the South
ISBN: 9780190664282 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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182,71 zł |
The Southern Debate Over Slavery, Volume 2: Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867
ISBN: 9780252032608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An incomparably rich source of period information, the second volume of The Southern Debate over Slavery offers a representative and extraordinary sampling of the thousands of petitions about issues of race and slavery that southerners submitted to county courts between the American Revolution and Civil War. These petitions, filed by slaveholders and nonslaveholders, slaves and free blacks, women and men, abolitionists and staunch defenders of slavery, constitute a uniquely important primary source. The collection records with great immediacy and minute detail the dynamics and legal... An incomparably rich source of period information, the second volume of The Southern Debate over Slavery offers a representative and extraordinary ... |
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540,42 zł |