A Self-Evident Lie: Southern Slavery and the Threat to American Freedom 1606352253, 9781606352250

American Slavery, American Freedom 9780393347517

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Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West 9780813946047

Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debat

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Slavery and Freedom

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Liberty and Slavery : Southern Politics to 1860 1570033870, 9781570033872

The recipient of high praise―and considerable debate for its provocative thesis―William J. Cooper, Jr.'s sweeping s

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Black Culture and Black Consciousness : Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom 9780199763474, 9780195305685

When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding

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Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South / 0807823449, 0807846937

Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South

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Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation 0807835838, 9780807835838

For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and thei

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More American Than Southern : Kentucky, Slavery, and the War for an American Ideology, 1828-1861 [1 ed.] 9781621901181, 9781621900573

When Fort Sumter fell to Confederate troops in April 1861, most states quickly declared their allegiances to the North o

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C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy 9780316179737, 0316179736

C Street - where piety, politics, and corruption meet Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside t

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Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery 9780813932408, 9780813932385, 2011036683

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