One Nation Divided By Slavery
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One Nation Divided By Slavery
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Author : Michael F. Conlin
language : en
Publisher: American Abolitionism and Anti
Release Date : 2015
One Nation Divided By Slavery written by Michael F. Conlin and has been published by American Abolitionism and Anti this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
The centrality of the American Revolution in the antebellum slavery controversy In the two decades before the Civil War, free Americans engaged in "history wars" every bit as ferocious as those waged today over the proposed National History Standards or the commemoration at the Smithsonian Institution of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In One Nation Divided by Slavery, author Michael F. Conlin investigates the different ways antebellum Americans celebrated civic holidays, read the Declaration of Independence, and commemorated Revolutionary War battles, revealing much about their contrasting views of American nationalism. While antebellum Americans agreed on many elements of national identity--in particular that their republic was the special abode of liberty on earth--they disagreed on the role of slavery. The historic truths that many of the founders were slaveholders who had doubts about the morality of slavery, and that all thirteen original states practiced slavery to some extent in 1776, offered plenty of ambiguity for Americans to "remember" selectively. Fire-Eaters defended Jefferson, Washington, and other leading patriots as paternalistic slaveholders, if not "positive good" apologists for the institution, who founded a slaveholding republic. In contrast, abolitionists cited the same slaveholders as opponents of bondage, who took steps to end slavery and establish a free republic. Moderates in the North and the South took solace in the fact that the North had managed to end slavery in its own way through gradual emancipation while allowing the South to continue to practice slavery. They believed that the founders had established a nation that balanced free and slave labor. Because the American Revolution and the American Civil War were pivotal and crucial elements in shaping the United States, the intertwined themes in One Nation Divided By Slavery provide a new lens through which to view American history and national identity.
A Nation Divided
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Author : Joseph Adler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-06-30
A Nation Divided written by Joseph Adler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-30 with categories.
During my forty-eight years of teaching United States History, there were several myths that students had heard about Abraham Lincoln, African Slaves and the Civil War. When we began studying the unit on these topics and Abraham Lincoln's name was mentioned in discussion, in almost every class I taught students would say, "I heard that Lincoln owned slaves." Then students would tell me they learned in classes they took that slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War. And some students would point out there are superior races of people and inferior races of people, and that the inferior races are only fit for doing menial jobs. I started teaching in 1958, and I am writing this book in 2023 when I am 90 years old. The community where I started teaching was a suburban area of Los Angeles and teachers would tell me that until recently black people "knew" they were not permitted in the streets at night. I decided to write this book to set the record straight, because many of these attitudes still permeate our culture: - Lincoln was not a slave owner. - Slavery was the cause of the Civil War. - There are not superior and inferior races of people. I know you will enjoy reading and learning about the truth of the historical background of these topics. I taught United States History in a special and unique way. In my classes I would bring my guitar each session and sing at least one song that the people used to sing during the time period being discussed in class. To make this book more meaningful, and show how one important aspect of human experience, music can be integrated into an historical analysis. There will be songs that the slaves sang and songs that the soldiers sang. This will add a dimension to understand the historical events that most histories do not. I recorded these songs so you may, if you wish, join with me as I sing the melodies of the songs. The recordings are included as links within this book. I did not put in all the words to these songs because I did not intend the reader to see this as a songbook. It is an historical analysis, which includes songs. I hope you will enjoy this approach as my students did.
The Constitutional Origins Of The American Civil War
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Author : Michael F. Conlin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-18
The Constitutional Origins Of The American Civil War written by Michael F. Conlin 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 2019-07-18 with History categories.
Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.
The Constitutional Origins Of The American Civil War
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Author : Michael F. Conlin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Constitutional Origins Of The American Civil War written by Michael F. Conlin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Constitutional history categories.
In an incisive analysis of over two dozen clauses as well as several 'unwritten' rules and practices, The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War shows how the Constitution aggravated the sectional conflict over slavery to the point of civil war. Going beyond the fugitive slave clause, the three-fifths clause, and the international slave trade clause, Michael F. Conlin demonstrates that many more constitutional provisions and practices played a crucial role in the bloody conflict that claimed the lives of over 750,000 Americans. He also reveals that ordinary Americans in the mid-nineteenth century had a surprisingly sophisticated knowledge of the provisions and the methods of interpretation of the Constitution. Lastly, Conlin reminds us that many of the debates that divide Americans today were present in the 1850s: minority rights vs. majority rule, original intent vs. a living Constitution, state's rights vs. federal supremacy, judicial activism vs. legislative prerogative, secession vs. union, and counter-majoritarianism vs. democracy.
American Republics A Continental History Of The United States 1783 1850
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Author : Alan Taylor
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2021-05-18
American Republics A Continental History Of The United States 1783 1850 written by Alan Taylor and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-18 with History categories.
Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American History A Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the Year From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent. In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of states contending still with European empires and other independent republics on the North American continent. Native peoples sought to defend their homelands from the flood of American settlers through strategic alliances with the other continental powers. The system of American slavery grew increasingly powerful and expansive, its vigorous internal trade in Black Americans separating parents and children, husbands and wives. Bitter party divisions pitted elites favoring strong government against those, like Andrew Jackson, espousing a democratic populism for white men. Violence was both routine and organized: the United States invaded Canada, Florida, Texas, and much of Mexico, and forcibly removed most of the Native peoples living east of the Mississippi. At the end of the period the United States, its conquered territory reaching the Pacific, remained internally divided, with sectional animosities over slavery growing more intense. Taylor’s elegant history of this tumultuous period offers indelible miniatures of key characters from Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Margaret Fuller. It captures the high-stakes political drama as Jackson and Adams, Clay, Calhoun, and Webster contend over slavery, the economy, Indian removal, and national expansion. A ground-level account of American industrialization conveys the everyday lives of factory workers and immigrant families. And the immersive narrative puts us on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Mexico City, Quebec, and the Cherokee capital, New Echota. Absorbing and chilling, American Republics illuminates the continuities between our own social and political divisions and the events of this formative period.
Apostles Of Disunion
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Author : Charles B. Dew
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2017-02-03
Apostles Of Disunion written by Charles B. Dew and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-03 with History categories.
Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our great national crisis. The fifteen years since the original publication of Apostles of Disunion have seen an intensification of debates surrounding the Confederate flag and Civil War monuments. In a powerful new afterword to this anniversary edition, Dew situates the book in relation to these recent controversies and factors in the role of vast financial interests tied to the internal slave trade in pushing Virginia and other upper South states toward secession and war.
Nations Divided
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Author : Don Harrison Doyle
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2002
Nations Divided written by Don Harrison Doyle and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
At the same time, Doyle negotiates the conceptual slipperiness of nationalism by discussing it as both constructed and real, unifying and divisive, inspiration for good and excuse for atrocity."--BOOK JACKET.
2015 U S Higher Education Faculty Awards Vol 1
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Author : Faculty Awards
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2022-09-01
2015 U S Higher Education Faculty Awards Vol 1 written by Faculty Awards and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-01 with Education categories.
Created by professors for professors, the Faculty Awards compendium is the first and only university awards program in the United States based on faculty peer evaluations. The Faculty Awards series recognizes and rewards outstanding faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Voting was not open to students or the public at large.
Art And Response One Nation Divided By Art
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Author : Michael D'Antuono
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Art And Response One Nation Divided By Art written by Michael D'Antuono and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The War Before The War
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Author : Andrew Delbanco
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-11-06
The War Before The War written by Andrew Delbanco and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-06 with History categories.
"Excellent...stunning."—Ta-Nehisi Coates The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War A New York Times Notable Book Selection * Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize* Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award * A New York Times Critics' Best Book For decades after its founding, America was really two nations--one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that enslaved black people repeatedly risked their lives to flee their masters in the South in search of freedom in the North proved that the "united" states was actually a lie. Fugitive slaves exposed the contradiction between the myth that slavery was a benign institution and the reality that a nation based on the principle of human equality was in fact a prison-house in which millions of Americans had no rights at all. By awakening northerners to the true nature of slavery, and by enraging southerners who demanded the return of their human "property," fugitive slaves forced the nation to confront the truth about itself. By 1850, with America on the verge of collapse, Congress reached what it hoped was a solution-- the notorious Compromise of 1850, which required that fugitive slaves be returned to their masters. Like so many political compromises before and since, it was a deal by which white Americans tried to advance their interests at the expense of black Americans. Yet the Fugitive Slave Act, intended to preserve the Union, in fact set the nation on the path to civil war. It divided not only the American nation, but also the hearts and minds of Americans who struggled with the timeless problem of when to submit to an unjust law and when to resist. The fugitive slave story illuminates what brought us to war with ourselves and the terrible legacies of slavery that are with us still.