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Freedom In An Age Of Revolution
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Author : Y. G. Krishnamurti
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Freedom In An Age Of Revolution written by Y. G. Krishnamurti and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Civilization, Modern categories.
Slavery And Freedom In The Age Of The American Revolution
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Author : United States Capitol Historical Society
language : en
Publisher: Urbana : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1986
Slavery And Freedom In The Age Of The American Revolution written by United States Capitol Historical Society and has been published by Urbana : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Freedom S Mirror
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Author : Ada Ferrer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-28
Freedom S Mirror written by Ada Ferrer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-28 with History categories.
Studies the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, where the violent entrenchment of slavery occurred while slaves in Haiti successfully overthrew the institution.
The Forgotten Fifth
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Author : Gary B Nash
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
The Forgotten Fifth written by Gary B Nash and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
As the United States gained independence, a full fifth of the country's population was African American. The experiences of these men and women have been largely ignored in the accounts of the colonies' glorious quest for freedom. In this compact volume, Gary B. Nash reorients our understanding of early America, and reveals the perilous choices of the founding fathers that shaped the nation's future. Nash tells of revolutionary fervor arousing a struggle for freedom that spiraled into the largest slave rebellion in American history, as blacks fled servitude to fight for the British, who promised freedom in exchange for military service. The Revolutionary Army never matched the British offer, and most histories of the period have ignored this remarkable story. The conventional wisdom says that abolition was impossible in the fragile new republic. Nash, however, argues that an unusual convergence of factors immediately after the war created a unique opportunity to dismantle slavery. The founding fathers' failure to commit to freedom led to the waning of abolitionism just as it had reached its peak. In the opening decades of the nineteenth century, as Nash demonstrates, their decision enabled the ideology of white supremacy to take root, and with it the beginnings of an irreparable national fissure. The moral failure of the Revolution was paid for in the 1860s with the lives of the 600,000 Americans killed in the Civil War. "The Forgotten Fifth" is a powerful story of the nation's multiple, and painful, paths to freedom.
Slavery And Freedom In The Age Of The American Revolution
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Author : Ira Berlin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Slavery And Freedom In The Age Of The American Revolution written by Ira Berlin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
Revolution And The Meanings Of Freedom In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Isser Woloch
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1996
Revolution And The Meanings Of Freedom In The Nineteenth Century written by Isser Woloch and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both inside and outside of revolutionary situations in the nineteenth century, as each author explores and interprets the development of nineteenth-century political culture in a particular national context. The common focus is the struggle in various countries to define, advance, or delimit freedom after the French Revolution. The introductory chapter evokes the problematic relationships between reform and revolution and introduces themes that appear in subsequent chapters, though each chapter is a free-standing interpretive essay. Among the issues addressed are the growth of the public sphere and associational movements; battles over constitutionalism, parliamentary institutions, and the franchise; the role of the state in inhibiting or expanding citizenship and the rule of law; the resort to violence by parties of order or parties of change; and the intrusion of new social questions or ethnic conflicts into the political arena.
Freedom S Debtors
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Author : Padraic X. Scanlan
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-24
Freedom S Debtors written by Padraic X. Scanlan and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-24 with History categories.
A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify colonialism in Africa British anti-slavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily useful, and crucial to the expansion of British power in West Africa. After the slave trade was abolished, anti-slavery activists in England profited, colonial officials in Freetown, Sierra Leone, relied on former slaves as soldiers and as cheap labor, and the British armed forces conscripted former slaves to fight in the West Indies and in West Africa. At once scholarly and compelling, this history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone draws on a wealth of archival material. Scanlan’s social and material study offers insight into how the success of British anti-slavery policies were used to justify colonialism in Africa. He reframes a moment considered to be a watershed in British public morality as rather the beginning of morally ambiguous, violent, and exploitative colonial history.
Friends Of Freedom
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Author : Micah Alpaugh
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-11
Friends Of Freedom written by Micah Alpaugh and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-11 with History categories.
Demonstrates how the activists who mobilized the Age of Atlantic Revolutions' greatest social movements worked together across nations.
Freedom
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Author : Annelien De Dijn
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-14
Freedom written by Annelien De Dijn and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-14 with Political Science categories.
The invention of modern freedom—the equating of liberty with restraints on state power—was not the natural outcome of such secular Western trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the Atlantic Revolutions. We tend to think of freedom as something that is best protected by carefully circumscribing the boundaries of legitimate state activity. But who came up with this understanding of freedom, and for what purposes? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of thinking about freedom in the West, Annelien de Dijn argues that we owe our view of freedom not to the liberty lovers of the Age of Revolution but to the enemies of democracy. The conception of freedom most prevalent today—that it depends on the limitation of state power—is a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking about liberty. For centuries people in the West identified freedom not with being left alone by the state but with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. They had what might best be described as a democratic conception of liberty. Understanding the long history of freedom underscores how recently it has come to be identified with limited government. It also reveals something crucial about the genealogy of current ways of thinking about freedom. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who created our modern democracies—it was invented by their critics and opponents. Rather than following in the path of the American founders, today’s “big government” antagonists more closely resemble the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work.
The Concept Of Liberty In The Age Of The American Revolution
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Author : John Phillip Reid
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1988
The Concept Of Liberty In The Age Of The American Revolution written by John Phillip Reid and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Political Science categories.
"Liberty was the most cherished right possessed by English-speaking people in the eighteenth century. It was both an ideal for the guidance of governors and a standard with which to measure the constitutionality of government; both a cause of the American Revolution and a purpose for drafting the United States Constitution; both an inheritance from Great Britain and a reason republican common lawyers continued to study the law of England." As John Philip Reid goes on to make clear, "liberty" did not mean to the eighteenth-century mind what it means today. In the twentieth century, we take for granted certain rights—such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press—with which the state is forbidden to interfere. To the revolutionary generation, liberty was preserved by curbing its excesses. The concept of liberty taught not what the individual was free to do but what the rule of law permitted. Ultimately, liberty was law—the rule of law and the legalism of custom. The British constitution was the charter of liberty because it provided for the rule of law. Drawing on an impressive command of the original materials, Reid traces the eighteenth-century notion of liberty to its source in the English common law. He goes on to show how previously problematic arguments involving the related concepts of licentiousness, slavery, arbitrary power, and property can also be fit into the common-law tradition. Throughout, he focuses on what liberty meant to the people who commented on and attempted to influence public affairs on both sides of the Atlantic. He shows the depth of pride in liberty—English liberty—that pervaded the age, and he also shows the extent—unmatched in any other era or among any other people—to which liberty both guided and motivated political and constitutional action.