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Gabriel's Conspiracy: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780813932941 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The plans for a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in 1800, orchestrated by a literate enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel, leaked out before they could be executed, and he and twenty-five other enslaved people were hanged. In reaction to the plot, the Virginia and other legislatures passed restrictions on free blacks, as well as on the education, movement, and hiring out of the enslaved. Although Gabriel's conspiracy is well known among historians, documents relating to it have remained relatively inaccessible. In Gabriel's Conspiracy, Philip J. Schwarz offers a valuable... The plans for a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in 1800, orchestrated by a literate enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel, leaked out before... |
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397,10 zł |
Gabriel's Conspiracy: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780813932958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The plans for a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in 1800, orchestrated by a literate enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel, leaked out before they could be executed, and he and twenty-five other enslaved people were hanged. In reaction to the plot, the Virginia and other legislatures passed restrictions on free blacks, as well as on the education, movement, and hiring out of the enslaved. Although Gabriel's conspiracy is well known among historians, documents relating to it have remained relatively inaccessible. In Gabriel's Conspiracy, Philip J. Schwarz offers a valuable... The plans for a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in 1800, orchestrated by a literate enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel, leaked out before... |
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165,63 zł |
Migrants Against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation
ISBN: 9780813920085 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A significant number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Virginians migrated north and west with the intent of extricating themselves from a slave society. All sought some kind of freedom: whites who left the Old Dominion to escape from slavery refused to live any longer as slave owners or as participants in a society grounded in bondage; fugitive slaves attempted to liberate themselves; free African Americans searched for greater opportunity. In Migrants against Slavery Philip J. Schwarz suggests that antislavery migrant Virginians, both the famous--such as fugitive Anthony Burns and... A significant number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Virginians migrated north and west with the intent of extricating themselves from a slav... |
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261,83 zł |
Slave Laws in Virginia
ISBN: 9780820335162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The five essays in "Slave Laws in Virginia" explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that guided it. The topics covered are diverse, including the African judicial background of African American slaves, Thomas Jefferson's relationship with the laws of slavery, the capital punishment of slaves, nineteenth-century penal transportation of slaves from Virginia as related to the interstate slave trade and the changing market for slaves, and Virginia's experience with its own fugitive slave laws. Through the history of one large extended... The five essays in "Slave Laws in Virginia" explore two centuries of the ever-changing relationship between a major slave society and the laws that... |
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167,48 zł |
Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865
ISBN: 9781886363540 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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268,54 zł |
Beginning a New Life : African Americans During Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780816061396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In order to fully understand American history, it is essential to know that for nearly two centuries, Americans bought imported Africans and kept them and their descendants in bondage in the 13 colonies and the United States. Slavery lasted so long and controlled so many lives that its sad legacy is still felt today. It is extremely difficult to grasp many aspects of today's United States without learning about slavery's role in people's lives and its development through the years. The new six-volume
In order to fully understand American history, it is essential to know that for nearly two centuries, Americans bought imported Africans and kept them...
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186,43 zł |