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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... tion of redemptioners ( white immigrants who were sold to pay off the cost of their trans- port ) , the British slave trade , and Daniel Horsmanden's notes on an alleged Negro conspiracy in 1741 to burn down the city of New York . Part ...
... tion of redemptioners ( white immigrants who were sold to pay off the cost of their trans- port ) , the British slave trade , and Daniel Horsmanden's notes on an alleged Negro conspiracy in 1741 to burn down the city of New York . Part ...
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... tion . For Christians who believed in humanity's innate propensity for evil , the Indians ' alleged cannibalism and delight in torture confirmed the conviction that only repressive and authoritarian societies , like those in Europe ...
... tion . For Christians who believed in humanity's innate propensity for evil , the Indians ' alleged cannibalism and delight in torture confirmed the conviction that only repressive and authoritarian societies , like those in Europe ...
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... tion . But for many centuries at least , humans have tended to define their differences , including cultural differences , in terms of racial stereotypes . In part this may be due to the way in which dominant and recessive genetic ...
... tion . But for many centuries at least , humans have tended to define their differences , including cultural differences , in terms of racial stereotypes . In part this may be due to the way in which dominant and recessive genetic ...
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... tion from the denial of suffrage to women and from the fact that the gap between rich and poor in America was rapidly widening ; moreover , as John C. Calhoun candidly admit- ted , the illusion of white equality rested in good part on ...
... tion from the denial of suffrage to women and from the fact that the gap between rich and poor in America was rapidly widening ; moreover , as John C. Calhoun candidly admit- ted , the illusion of white equality rested in good part on ...
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... tion and of the first printing of William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper The Liberator , Clay openly declares that " Slavery is undoubtedly a manifest violation of the rights of man . It can only be justified in America , if at ...
... tion and of the first printing of William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper The Liberator , Clay openly declares that " Slavery is undoubtedly a manifest violation of the rights of man . It can only be justified in America , if at ...
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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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