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Intellectual Life On The Michigan Frontier

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Author : Leonard A. Coombs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985

Intellectual Life On The Michigan Frontier written by Leonard A. Coombs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Bibliography categories.

Intellectual History And Academic Culture At The University Of Michigan

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language : en
Publisher: UM Libraries
Release Date : 1989

Intellectual History And Academic Culture At The University Of Michigan written by and has been published by UM Libraries this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Academic achievement categories.

Object Lessons And The Formation Of Knowledge

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Author : Kerstin Barndt
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017-09-19

Object Lessons And The Formation Of Knowledge written by Kerstin Barndt and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with Education categories.

Comprehensive overview of the University of Michigan's Museums, Libraries, and collections

The Princeton Fugitive Slave

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Author : Lolita Buckner Inniss
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2019-09-03

The Princeton Fugitive Slave written by Lolita Buckner Inniss and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with Law categories.

A study of the life of a Maryland slave, his escape to freedom in New Jersey, and the trials that ensued. James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton, New Jersey, where he built a life in a bustling community of African Americans working at what is now Princeton University. After only four years, he was recognized by a student from Maryland, arrested, and subjected to a trial for extradition under the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act. On the eve of his rendition, after attempts to free Johnson by force had failed, a local aristocratic white woman purchased Johnson’s freedom, allowing him to avoid re-enslavement. The Princeton Fugitive Slave reconstructs James Collins Johnson’s life, from birth and enslaved life in Maryland to his daring escape, sensational trial for re-enslavement, and last-minute change of fortune, and through to the end of his life in Princeton, where he remained a figure of local fascination. Stories of Johnson’s life in Princeton often describe him as a contented, jovial soul, beloved on campus and memorialized on his gravestone as “The Students Friend.” But these familiar accounts come from student writings and sentimental recollections in alumni reports—stories from elite, predominantly white, often southern sources whose relationships with Johnson were hopelessly distorted by differences in race and social standing. In interrogating these stories against archival records, newspaper accounts, courtroom narratives, photographs, and family histories, author Lolita Buckner Inniss builds a picture of Johnson on his own terms, piecing together the sparse evidence and disaggregating him from the other black vendors with whom he was sometimes confused. By telling Johnson’s story and examining the relationship between antebellum Princeton’s Black residents and the economic engine that supported their community, the book questions the distinction between employment and servitude that shrinks and threatens to disappear when an individual’s freedom is circumscribed by immobility, lack of opportunity, and contingency on local interpretations of a hotly contested body of law. Praise for The Princeton Fugitive Slave “Fascinating historical detective work . . . Deeply researched, the book overturns any lingering idea that Princeton was a haven from the broader society. Johnson had to cope with the casual racism of students, occasional eruptions of racial violence in town and the ubiquitous use of the N-word by even the supposedly educated. This book contributes to our understanding of slavery’s legacy today.” —Shane White, author of Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire “Collectively, Inniss’s work provides an exciting model for future scholars of slavery and labor. Perhaps most importantly, Inniss skillfully and compassionately restores Johnson's voice to his own historical narrative.” —G. Patrick O'Brien, H-Slavery

The Yankee West

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Author : Susan E. Gray
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09

The Yankee West written by Susan E. Gray and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with History categories.

Susan Gray explores community formation among New England migrants to the Upper Midwest in the generation before the Civil War. Focusing on Kalamazoo County in southwestern Michigan, she examines how 'Yankees' moving west reconstructed familiar communal institutions on the frontier while confronting forces of profound socioeconomic change, particularly the rise of the market economy and the commercialization of agriculture. Gray argues that Yankee culture was a type of ethnic identity that was transplanted to the Midwest and reshaped there into a new regional identity. In chapters on settlement patterns, economic exchange, the family, religion, and politics, Gray traces the culture that the migrants established through their institutions as a defense against the uncertainty of the frontier. She demonstrates that although settlers sought rapid economic development, they remained wary of the threat that the resulting spirit of competition posed to their communal ideals. As isolated settlements developed into flourishing communities linked to eastern markets, however, Yankee culture was transformed. What was once a communal culture became a class culture, appropriated by a newly formed rural bourgeoisie to explain their success as the triumphant emergence of the Midwest and to identify their region as true America.

Forming An American Identity On The Michigan Frontier

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Author : Christopher Michael Hammer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Forming An American Identity On The Michigan Frontier written by Christopher Michael Hammer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Detroit (Mich.) categories.

Free Print And Non Commercial Publishing Since 1700

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Author : James Raven
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-01-15

Free Print And Non Commercial Publishing Since 1700 written by James Raven and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Social Science categories.

This title was first published in 2000: The essays in this collection re-examine the phenomenon of "free print" in print culture. By focusing on free print the volume offers perspectives in the cultural history of textual transmission from the early-18th century to the mid-20th century. "Publishing" in the sense of making the print public, embraces the free and often unsolicited distribution of religious literature, political propaganda, and civic and personal gifts. The free print examined here includes gift-books; advertisements and commemorations; the promotion of knowledge, institutions and services; commercial and philanthropic lobbying; religious and missionary activity; and political propaganda both official and underground. Broad issues range from the consideration of press finances, government intervention, and private and institutional patronage, to textual familiarity and social ritual. The approach is deliberately comparative. Ten established scholars of book and printing history, who look at very different regions and periods, test the nature of the alleged authority of print and the apparent value of the commercial tag through the study of print which arrives unbidden in the hands of its consumers. The chapters in this volume are based on papers first given at the "Print for Free" conference organized by the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust in September 1996.

Brings to life the fascinating story of this physical legacy of the University of Michigan's first president, Henry Philip Tappan

Intellectual Life On The Michigan Frontier

Intellectual Life On The Michigan Frontier

Intellectual History And Academic Culture At The University Of Michigan

Object Lessons And The Formation Of Knowledge

The Princeton Fugitive Slave

The Yankee West

Forming An American Identity On The Michigan Frontier

Free Print And Non Commercial Publishing Since 1700

Libraries Culture

The First Michigan Frontier

A Creation Of His Own

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