wyszukanych pozycji: 6
To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance
ISBN: 9780271029276 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1829, David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century: An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian treatment blacks suffered in the United States, Walker challenged his "afflicted and slumbering brethren" to rise up and cast off their chains. His innovative efforts to circulate this pamphlet in the South outraged slaveholders, who eventually uncovered one of the boldest and most extensive plans to empower slaves ever conceived in... In 1829, David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteen... |
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190,56 zł |
All Men Free and Brethren: Essays on the History of African American Freemasonry
ISBN: 9780801450303 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In early March 1775, an Irish soldier initiated a dozen or more black Bostonian men into a lodge of Freemasons, making them probably the first people of African descent formally admitted into Freemasonry in the Atlantic world. Prince Hall, a freedman, would emerge as the leader of this group as they worked together to establish a tradition of African American Freemasonry that has persisted ever since a tradition that still carries his name. All Men Free and Brethren is the first in-depth historical consideration of Prince Hall freemasonry from the Revolutionary era to the... In early March 1775, an Irish soldier initiated a dozen or more black Bostonian men into a lodge of Freemasons, making them probably the first peop... |
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183,65 zł |
Abolition and Antislavery: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic
ISBN: 9781610698276 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 447 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The struggle to abolish human slavery is one of the most important reform campaigns in history. The eventual success of this decades-long struggle serves as an inspiring example that even the most deeply rooted social wrongs can be corrected. This valuable reference work details the history of antislavery, abolition, and emancipation to illustrate the various forms of these forces and the courses they followed in the bitterly contested struggle against the institution of slavery, affording readers the most current compendium of the diverse scholarship of this important historical topic.... The struggle to abolish human slavery is one of the most important reform campaigns in history. The eventual success of this decades-long struggle ... |
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519,16 zł |
David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World
ISBN: 9780809015818 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 113 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "David Walker's Appeal" is a landmark work of American history and letters, the most radical piece of writing by an African American in the nineteenth century. Startling in its intensity, unrelenting in its attacks on slavery and white racism, it alarmed Southern slaveholders, inspired Northern abolitionists, and hastened the sectional conflicts that led to the Civil War. In this new edition of the "Appeal," the distinguished historian Sean Wilentz draws on a generation of innovative research to throw fresh light on Walker's life and ideas--and their enduring importance.
"David Walker's Appeal" is a landmark work of American history and letters, the most radical piece of writing by an African American in the ninetee... |
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80,80 zł |
David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
ISBN: 9780271019949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century, Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian treatment blacks suffered in the United States, Walker challenged his "afflicted and slumbering brethren" to rise up and cast off their chains. Walker worked tirelessly to circulate his book via underground networks in the South, and he was so successful that Southern lawmakers responded with new laws cracking down on "incendiary"... In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteent... |
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104,66 zł |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself
ISBN: 9780300204711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history
Ideal for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of Frederick Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave in pre-Civil War Maryland incorporates a wide range of supplemental materials to enhance students' understanding of slavery, abolitionism, and the role of race in American society. Offering readers a new appreciation of Douglass's world, it includes documents relating to the slave narrative genre and to the later career of an essential... A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history
Ideal for coursework in Am... |
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49,65 zł |