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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... territory " 233 Northwest Ordinance , 1787 Creating Republican Governments 234 15. " The ... Power of Government of this State is vested in , and must be derived from the People " 234 New Hampshire , A Declaration of Rights , and Plan ...
... territory " 233 Northwest Ordinance , 1787 Creating Republican Governments 234 15. " The ... Power of Government of this State is vested in , and must be derived from the People " 234 New Hampshire , A Declaration of Rights , and Plan ...
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... Territorial Legislatures may lawfully evade the Constitution " 470 Abraham Lincoln , Facts for the People , ca. 1858 109. " Douglas ' Don't Care " " 471 Abraham Lincoln , Facts for the People , ca. 1858 110. " I have said that I do not ...
... Territorial Legislatures may lawfully evade the Constitution " 470 Abraham Lincoln , Facts for the People , ca. 1858 109. " Douglas ' Don't Care " " 471 Abraham Lincoln , Facts for the People , ca. 1858 110. " I have said that I do not ...
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... territories claimed by France and Spain would preempt the danger of any European interference or inter- vention . He also advocated the “ living generation's " self - liberation from the laws , lim- its , and debts of the past . Yet ...
... territories claimed by France and Spain would preempt the danger of any European interference or inter- vention . He also advocated the “ living generation's " self - liberation from the laws , lim- its , and debts of the past . Yet ...
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... territory . The constant and significant refrain that free white colonists were in literal dan- ger of being " enslaved , " or in the striking biblical phraseology , of being forced to become " hewers of wood and drawers of water ...
... territory . The constant and significant refrain that free white colonists were in literal dan- ger of being " enslaved , " or in the striking biblical phraseology , of being forced to become " hewers of wood and drawers of water ...
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... Territory stretching westward to the Rocky Mountains , avoid a cataclysmic slave insurrection , expand cotton plantations westward from Georgia to Louisiana , successfully “ remove ” the large Indian tribes who lived east of the ...
... Territory stretching westward to the Rocky Mountains , avoid a cataclysmic slave insurrection , expand cotton plantations westward from Georgia to Louisiana , successfully “ remove ” the large Indian tribes who lived east of the ...
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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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