And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil WarAlgora Publishing, 2005 - Počet stran: 284 "This detailed account of slavery in America, from Jamestown through the Civil War, explains its economic importance in the North as well as the South, its impact on the political dynamics of the Civil War, and the moral dilemmas it posed"--Provided by publisher. |
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Strana 3
... John Chrysostom advised the slave to prefer the security of captivity to the uncertainties of freedom. In the fifth century, Pope Leo the Great proclaimed that no slave could become a priest and the Councils of Carthage refused the ...
... John Chrysostom advised the slave to prefer the security of captivity to the uncertainties of freedom. In the fifth century, Pope Leo the Great proclaimed that no slave could become a priest and the Councils of Carthage refused the ...
Strana 7
... John Rolfe, after being shipwrecked in Bermuda while sailing from England to Virginia, re-embarked with others in a homemade boat and headed for the Jamestown Colony on the mainland. Soon after his arrival, this newcomer developed an ...
... John Rolfe, after being shipwrecked in Bermuda while sailing from England to Virginia, re-embarked with others in a homemade boat and headed for the Jamestown Colony on the mainland. Soon after his arrival, this newcomer developed an ...
Strana 8
... John Winthrop, educated at Cambridge, was appointed as the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He wrote an essay (“A Modell of Christian Charity”) during the pilgrims' turbulent voyage across the Atlantic in 1630: God ...
... John Winthrop, educated at Cambridge, was appointed as the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He wrote an essay (“A Modell of Christian Charity”) during the pilgrims' turbulent voyage across the Atlantic in 1630: God ...
Strana 18
... John Adams and the American Revolution, p. 524. 18. Lois G. Schwoerer, Declaration ofRights, pp.16-17. John Adams of Massachusetts, 38, had attended Harvard in the. Behold the Cerberus the Atlantic Plough Its precious cargo, Burgoyne ...
... John Adams and the American Revolution, p. 524. 18. Lois G. Schwoerer, Declaration ofRights, pp.16-17. John Adams of Massachusetts, 38, had attended Harvard in the. Behold the Cerberus the Atlantic Plough Its precious cargo, Burgoyne ...
Strana 19
... John Adams was born. He attended the free Latin school before attending Harvard. In 1764 John married Abby Smith (her mother was a Quincy), a girl full of gaiety but deeply committed to living a purposeful life in accordance with her ...
... John Adams was born. He attended the free Latin school before attending Harvard. In 1764 John married Abby Smith (her mother was a Quincy), a girl full of gaiety but deeply committed to living a purposeful life in accordance with her ...
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3 The Missouri Compromise | 37 |
4 A Besieged South Circles the Wagons | 53 |
5 The Gag Rule Fight | 61 |
One Party Dead The Other Split | 71 |
7 Abraham Lincoln in Illinois | 83 |
A Dark Horse | 93 |
Opportunity Squandered | 149 |
15 Slaughter at Fredericksburg Jubilee with Emancipation | 163 |
Lincolns Depression Grows | 175 |
The Writing on the Wall | 183 |
General Grant | 199 |
Something Went Out of the War | 211 |
20 Confederate Disaster in Tennessee And the 13th Amendment | 223 |
21 Lee Surrenders at Appomattox | 235 |
9 Lincoln Elected Seven States Defected | 103 |
10 An Act of War | 113 |
Disillusion and Frustration | 121 |
LargeScale Killing Shocks the Nation | 131 |
McClellan spooked by Lee | 139 |
22 Lincoln Assassinated His Severe Task Done | 245 |
The Man John Quincy Adams was Looking For | 257 |
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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War Donald J. Meyers Omezený náhled - 2005 |
And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War Donald J. Meyers Omezený náhled - 2005 |
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Strana 24 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...