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The First Emancipator
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Author : Andrew Levy
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2005-04-26
The First Emancipator written by Andrew Levy and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-26 with History categories.
Robert Carter III, the grandson of Tidewater legend Robert “King” Carter, was born into the highest circles of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy. He was neighbor and kin to the Washingtons and Lees and a friend and peer to Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. But on September 5, 1791, Carter severed his ties with this glamorous elite at the stroke of a pen. In a document he called his Deed of Gift, Carter declared his intent to set free nearly five hundred slaves in the largest single act of liberation in the history of American slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation. How did Carter succeed in the very action that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson claimed they fervently desired but were powerless to effect? And why has his name all but vanished from the annals of American history? In this haunting, brilliantly original work, Andrew Levy traces the confluence of circumstance, conviction, war, and passion that led to Carter’s extraordinary act. At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, Carter was one of the wealthiest men in America, the owner of tens of thousands of acres of land, factories, ironworks–and hundreds of slaves. But incrementally, almost unconsciously, Carter grew to feel that what he possessed was not truly his. In an era of empty Anglican piety, Carter experienced a feverish religious visionthat impelled him to help build a church where blacks and whites were equals. In an age of publicly sanctioned sadism against blacks, he defied convention and extended new protections and privileges to his slaves. As the war ended and his fortunes declined, Carter dedicated himself even more fiercely to liberty, clashing repeatedly with his neighbors, his friends, government officials, and, most poignantly, his own family. But Carter was not the only humane master, nor the sole partisan of freedom, in that freedom-loving age. Why did this troubled, spiritually torn man dare to do what far more visionary slave owners only dreamed of? In answering this question, Andrew Levy teases out the very texture of Carter’s life and soul–the unspoken passions that divided him from others of his class, and the religious conversion that enabled him to see his black slaves in a new light. Drawing on years of painstaking research, written with grace and fire, The First Emancipator is a portrait of an unsung hero who has finally won his place in American history. It is an astonishing, challenging, and ultimately inspiring book.
The Zealot And The Emancipator
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Author : H. W. Brands
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2020-10-06
The Zealot And The Emancipator written by H. W. Brands and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with History categories.
From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery. Brown’s violence pointed ambitious Illinois lawyer and former officeholder Abraham Lincoln toward a different solution to slavery: politics. Lincoln spoke cautiously and dreamed big, plotting his path back to Washington and perhaps to the White House. Yet his caution could not protect him from the vortex of violence Brown had set in motion. After Brown’s arrest, his righteous dignity on the way to the gallows led many in the North to see him as a martyr to liberty. Southerners responded with anger and horror to a terrorist being made into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle between the opposing voices of the fractured nation and won election as president. But the time for moderation had passed, and Lincoln’s fervent belief that democracy could resolve its moral crises peacefully faced its ultimate test. The Zealot and the Emancipator is the thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
The Emancipator
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Author : Elihu Embree
language : en
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
Release Date : 1995
The Emancipator written by Elihu Embree and has been published by The Overmountain Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Elihu Embree and his family were Quakers who were committed to the cause of abolishing slavery in the American South. Over a few short years, he raised the public consciousness in East Tennessee and achieved wide recognition with the publication ofThe Emancipator, the first periodical in the United States devoted solely to the abolitionist cause. The seven issues of the monthly publication are reproduced here, together with a brief history of Elihu and the Embree family’s migration from France to Washington County, Tennessee.
A Man Named Robert
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Author : Robert Carter (III.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
A Man Named Robert written by Robert Carter (III.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Leadership categories.
"Robert 'The Councillor' Carter III was a compassionate 18th Century leader who can inspire present-day leaders and offer them an alternative, innovative approach to leading people. Carter's story inspires an America that could thrive without a culture of oppression, where diversity, fraternity, liberty, and equality are foundational qualities and the fabric of our existence as a Great Nation."--Back cover.
Redeeming The Great Emancipator
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Author : Allen C. Guelzo
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-02-12
Redeeming The Great Emancipator written by Allen C. Guelzo 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 2016-02-12 with History categories.
Abraham Lincoln projects a larger-than-life image across American history owing to his role as the Great Emancipator. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln’s identity is the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. The award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo offers a vigorous defense of America’s sixteenth president.
The Emancipator S Wife
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Author : Barbara Hambly
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2005-01-25
The Emancipator S Wife written by Barbara Hambly and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-25 with Fiction categories.
As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the British. But no one knows her secret fears and anxieties. Although she is courted by the most eligible suitors in the land, including future senator Stephen Douglas, it is a gangly lawyer from Illinois who captures her heart. After a stormy courtship and a broken engagement, Abraham Lincoln will marry twenty-four-year-old Mary Todd and give her a ring inscribed with the words “Love Is Eternal.” But their happiness won’t last nearly so long. Their first child will be born under the gathering clouds of a civil war, and three more follow. As Lincoln’s star rises, the pleasure-loving Mary learns, often the hard way, the rules of being a politician’s wife. But by the time the fiery storm of war passes, tragedy will have claimed two sons, scandal will shadow her days as First Lady, and an assassin’s bullet will take Lincoln himself, leaving Mary alone and all but forgotten by the nation that owed her husband its survival. Yet it is in the years to come that Mary Todd Lincoln will truly come into her own. In public, she will fight to preserve Lincoln’s memory even as she battles a bitterly contested insanity trial. In private, she will struggle with depression and addiction as she endures the betrayals–both real and imagined–of family and friends. With a gifted novelist’s imagination and a historian’s eye for detail, Barbara Hambly tells a story of astonishing scope, richly peopled with real-life characters and their fictional counterparts, a tour-de-force tale of power, politics, and the role of women in nineteenth- century America. The result is a Mary Todd Lincoln few have seen and none will forget–the fascinating, controversial woman of whom her husband could say: “My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl and I fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out”–Mary Todd, the woman who loved Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln
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Author : David P. Press
language : en
Publisher: Voices for Freedom: Abolitioni
Release Date : 2013
Abraham Lincoln written by David P. Press and has been published by Voices for Freedom: Abolitioni this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Chronicles the life, career, and views of the famous President, including his childhood, his leadership during the Civil War, and his abolishment of slavery.
The Emancipator Complete
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
The Emancipator Complete written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with Antislavery movements categories.
The Pharaoh Contract
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Author : Ray Aldridge
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-04-01
The Pharaoh Contract written by Ray Aldridge and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Fiction categories.
One man—the Lone Emancipator—is programmed to bring down the slave trade from within in the first novel in the classic science fiction trilogy. Ruiz Aw is an Art League enforcer sent to investigate the disappearance of several slaves from the planet Pharaoh prior to their being "harvested". They are the property of the Art League and their property has been stolen. Ruiz is an ex-slave now working for the League, doing its corporate slave trading dirty work. Pharoah is a planet of slave herds, castes and imagination. It is a planet without hope or freedom. It is a planet of slave poachers. Ruiz must go undercover to find these poachers for the league but he has a conflicting responsibility: he is also the Lone Emancipator, a man with an oath to bring down the slave trade and destroy the League. He alone is the galaxy's last chance. However, if Ruiz is caught or his plan uncovered, the Gencha death net anchored deep within his brain is programmed to kill him!
Forced Into Glory
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Author : Lerone Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Johnson Publishing Company (IL)
Release Date : 2007
Forced Into Glory written by Lerone Bennett and has been published by Johnson Publishing Company (IL) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with African Americans categories.
Beginning with the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free African American slaves, this dissenting view of Lincoln's greatness surveys the president's policies, speeches, and private utterances and concludes that he had little real interest in abolition. Pointing to Lincoln's support for the fugitive slave laws, his friendship with slave-owning senator Henry Clay, and conversations in which he entertained the idea of deporting slaves in order to create an all-white nation, the book, concludes that the president was a racist at heart--and that the tragedies of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era were the legacy of his shallow moral vision.