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Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy
ISBN: 9780807120392 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the war-fevered spring and summer of 1861, a group of slaves in Adams County, Mississippi, conspired to gain their freedom by overthrowing and murdering their white masters. The conspiracy was discovered, the plotters were arrested and tried, and at least forty slaves in and around Natchez were hanged. By November the affair was over, and the planters of the district united to conceal the event behind a veil of silence. In 1971, Winthrop D. Jordan came upon the central document, previously unanalyzed by modern scholars, upon which this extraordinary book is based - a record of the... In the war-fevered spring and summer of 1861, a group of slaves in Adams County, Mississippi, conspired to gain their freedom by overthrowing and m... |
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The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States
ISBN: 9780195017434 / Angielski / Miękka / 1974 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An abridgement of the acclaimed White Over Black, which won both the National Book Award and a Bancroft Prize. This study attempts to answer a simple question: What were the attitudes of white men toward Negroes during the first two centuries of European and African settlement in what became the United States of America?
An abridgement of the acclaimed White Over Black, which won both the National Book Award and a Bancroft Prize. This study attempts to answer a simple ...
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White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
ISBN: 9780807871416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition, with new forewords by historians Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood, reminds us that Jordan's text is still the definitive work on the history of race in America in the colonial era. Every book published to this day on slavery and racism builds upon his work; all are judged in comparison to it; none has surpassed it.
In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions...
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258,91 zł |