The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil WarDavid Brion Davis, Steven Mintz Oxford University Press, 15.10.1998 - 608 Seiten Drawing on a gold mine of primary documents--including letters, diary entries, personal narratives, political speeches, broadsides, trial transcripts, and contemporary newspaper articles--The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the past to life in a way few histories ever do. Here is a panoramic look at early American history as captured in the words of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and many other historical figures, both famous and obscure. In these pieces, the living voices of the past speak to us from opposing viewpoints--from the vantage point of loyalists as well as patriots, slaves as well as masters. The documents collected here provide a fuller understanding of such historical issues as Columbus's dealings with Native Americans, the Stamp Act Crisis, the Declaration of Independence, the Whiskey Rebellion, the Missouri Crisis, the Mexican War, and Harpers Ferry, to name but a few. Compiled by Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz, and accompanied by extensive illustrations of original documents, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the reader back in time, to meet the men and women who lived through the momentous events that shaped our nation. |
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... to humanity " 201 Edmund Pendleton , October 17 , 1780 The War in the South 202 42. " The loud roaring of our approaching Enemy " 202 Henry Laurens , February 14 , 1780 43. " A considerable Fleet of the Enemy has arrived xii CONTENTS.
... to humanity " 201 Edmund Pendleton , October 17 , 1780 The War in the South 202 42. " The loud roaring of our approaching Enemy " 202 Henry Laurens , February 14 , 1780 43. " A considerable Fleet of the Enemy has arrived xii CONTENTS.
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... South , 1857 102. " A house divided against itself cannot stand " 464 Abraham Lincoln , ca. 1858 103. " We never hear of the man who wishes to ... [ be ] a slave himself " Abraham Lincoln , ca. 1857-1858 465 104. " Mr. Buchanan is a ...
... South , 1857 102. " A house divided against itself cannot stand " 464 Abraham Lincoln , ca. 1858 103. " We never hear of the man who wishes to ... [ be ] a slave himself " Abraham Lincoln , ca. 1857-1858 465 104. " Mr. Buchanan is a ...
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... South , " Cotton Is King , 1860 . 119. " Will ye be led away by a cruel and misguided philanthropy , or by designing ... South Carolina ... ..have solemnly declared that the Union ...... is dissolved " 489 The South Carolina Convention ...
... South , " Cotton Is King , 1860 . 119. " Will ye be led away by a cruel and misguided philanthropy , or by designing ... South Carolina ... ..have solemnly declared that the Union ...... is dissolved " 489 The South Carolina Convention ...
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... South ' but of the entire American experi- ence that hung in the balance . " 5. Bonner , " Americans Apart : Nationality in the Slaveholding South , " Ph.D. diss . , Yale University ( December 1997 ) , Chap . 5 , p . 294 . IV . THOUGHTS ...
... South ' but of the entire American experi- ence that hung in the balance . " 5. Bonner , " Americans Apart : Nationality in the Slaveholding South , " Ph.D. diss . , Yale University ( December 1997 ) , Chap . 5 , p . 294 . IV . THOUGHTS ...
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... South Carolina had opened its ports to a massive slave trade from Africa . The South Carolinians knew that Congress , pressured by the economic , moral , and racist interests of the Upper South , would probably ban such African slave ...
... South Carolina had opened its ports to a massive slave trade from Africa . The South Carolinians knew that Congress , pressured by the economic , moral , and racist interests of the Upper South , would probably ban such African slave ...
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PART 2 EUROPEAN COLONIZATION NORTH OF MEXICO | 43 |
PART 3 A LAND OF CONTRASTS | 85 |
PART 4 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR | 123 |
PART 5 THE AGE OF REVOLUTION 17651825 | 139 |
PART 6 CREATING A NEW NATION | 211 |
PART 7 ANTEBELLUM AMERICA | 323 |
PART 8 CIVIL WAR | 501 |
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