"The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed…
"Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and discrimination that they f…
The Revival of "Colonization," to 1861 -- The Revival of "Emigration," to 1862 -- The Republican Party and Resettlement, to 1863 -- Resettlement in Latin America, to 1864 -- Resettlement in the European West Indies, to 1865 -- Alternatives to Foreign Resettlement, to 1868. "Fro…
Based on sweeping research in six languages, Black Resettlement and the American Civil War offers the first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's greatest road not taken: the mass resettlement of African Americans outside the United States. Building …
"From the Revolution to the Civil War, white Americans entertained the strangest of notions: their black compatriots, who comprised one-fifth of the population in 1770 and one-seventh by 1860, could, would, and should leave the United States for some other land. Stranger yet, th…
"From the Revolution to the Civil War, white Americans entertained the strangest of notions: their black compatriots, who comprised one-fifth of the population in 1770 and one-seventh by 1860, could, would, and should leave the United States for some other land. Stranger yet, th…
Una historia de la conciencia: ensayos escogidos
by Davis, Angela Y., (Angela Yvonne)
fromBAAM
"[This book] gives us a very human Lincoln--an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment was essential to the story of justice in America. Here is the Lincoln who, as a boy, was steeped in the sermons of emancipation by Baptist preachers; who insisted that slavery was a m…
"A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race…
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race,…
Tracing the transatlantic crossings of Americo-Liberians between 1820 and 1857, in addition to delving into their experiences on both sides of the ocean, Murray discusses how the African neighbors and inhabitants of Liberia recognized significant cultural differences in the newl…
Inhaltsverzeichnis: "To Be Called a Free Colored Man in the States is Synonymous with What We Here Term Slavery": Transformative Mobility and Liberian Travels through the United States -- "All Those Things Desirable for a Map to Show": Space, Cartography, and Control in Colonial…