Slavery And War In The Americas
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Slavery And War In The Americas
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Author : Vitor Izecksohn
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2014-07-29
Slavery And War In The Americas written by Vitor Izecksohn 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 2014-07-29 with History categories.
In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign in South America--the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864–70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest large-scale international conflict in the history of the Americas. Like the Union in its conflict with the Confederacy, Brazil was faced with an enemy of inferior resources and manpower--in their case, Paraguay--that nonetheless proved extremely difficult to defeat. In both cases, the more powerful army had to create an elaborate war machine controlled by the central state to achieve victory. While it was not the official cause of either conflict, slavery weighed heavily on both wars. When volunteers became scarce, both the Union and Brazilian armies resorted to conscription and, particularly in the case of the Union Army, the enlistment of freedmen of African descent. The consequences of the Union’s recruitment of African Americans would extend beyond the war years, contributing significantly to emancipation and reform in the defeated South.Taken together, these two major powers’ experiences reveal much about state building, army recruitment, and the military and social impact of slavery. The many parallels revealed by this book challenge the assumption that the American Civil War was an exceptional conflict. A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
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.
Slavery In America
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Author : Dorothy Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Checkmark Books
Release Date : 2000
Slavery In America written by Dorothy Schneider and has been published by Checkmark Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Covers slave ships and auctions, the "triangle trade," plantation life, insurrections, events leading up to the Civil War and emancipation, reactions to slavery, and profiles of slaves and abolitionists.
The Mexican War And American Slavery
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Author : John Dudley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1847
The Mexican War And American Slavery written by John Dudley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1847 with Mexican War, 1846-1848 categories.
Slavery And The Making Of America
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Author : James Oliver Horton
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2005
Slavery And The Making Of America written by James Oliver Horton and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This companion volume to the four-part PBS series on the history of American slavery--narrated by Morgan Freeman and scheduled to air in February 2006--illuminates the human side of this inhumane institution, presenting it largely through the stories of the slaves themselves. Features 120 illustrations.
Slavery In America
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Author : Dorothy Schneider
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Slavery In America written by Dorothy Schneider and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Slavery categories.
Emancipating Slaves Enslaving Free Men
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Author : Jeffrey Hummel
language : en
Publisher: Open Court
Release Date : 2013-11-18
Emancipating Slaves Enslaving Free Men written by Jeffrey Hummel and has been published by Open Court this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-18 with History categories.
This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war’s significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America’s turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. While the chapters tell the story of the Civil War and discuss the issues raised in readable prose, each chapter is followed by a detailed bibliographical essay, looking at all the different major works on the subject, with their varying ideological viewpoints and conclusions. In his economic analysis of slavery, Professor Hummel takes a different view than the two major poles which have determined past discussions of the topic. While some writers claim that slavery was unprofitable and harmful to the Southern economy, and others maintain it was profitable and efficient for the South, Hummel uses the economic concept of Deadweight Loss to show that slavery was both highly profitable for slave owners and harmful to Southern economic development. While highly critical of Confederate policy, Hummel argues that the war was fought to prevent secession, not to end slavery, and that preservation of the Union was not necessary to end slavery: the North could have let the South secede peacefully, and slavery would still have been quickly terminated. Part of Hummel’s argument is that the South crucially relied on the Northern states to return runaway slaves to their owners. This new edition has a substantial new introduction by the author, correcting and supplementing the account given in the first edition (the major revision is an increase in the estimate of total casualties) and a foreword by John Majewski, a rising star of Civil War studies.
An Eyewitness History Of Slavery In America
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Author : Dorothy Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Checkmark Books
Release Date : 2001
An Eyewitness History Of Slavery In America written by Dorothy Schneider and has been published by Checkmark Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Covers slave ships and auctions, the "triangle trade," plantation life, insurrections, events leading up to the Civil War and emancipation, reactions to slavery, and profiles of slaves and abolitionists.
Conflict And Compromise
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Author : Roger L. Ransom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Conflict And Compromise written by Roger L. Ransom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Business & Economics categories.
Ransom examines the economic and political factors that led to the attempt by Southerners to dissolve the Union in 1860.
Antislavery Politics In Antebellum And Civil War America
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Author : Thomas G. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2007-03-30
Antislavery Politics In Antebellum And Civil War America written by Thomas G. Mitchell and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-30 with History categories.
This book is a narrative history of the thirty-year struggle to outlaw slavery, starting with the founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1834 and extending until the abolition of slavery in the United States at the end of the Civil War. The core of the book consists of two sections: 1) the 20-year political struggle to restrict slavery through a succession of anti-extensionist parties starting in 1840 with the founding of the Liberty Party, extending through the Free Soil Party (1848-54) and ending with Abraham Lincoln being elected president as a Republican on the same basic platform as the Liberty Party in 1844. 2) The struggle by abolitionists to use the outbreak of the Civil War as a chance to rid the country of slavery using the executive wartime powers of the presidency.