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 4
... Northern Europe, probably from a combination of reasons: a rise in technology replaced some labor-intensive work (introduction of the water-mill rendered obsolete the exhausting, slave-powered land mill); the reduced incidence of wars ...
... Northern Europe, probably from a combination of reasons: a rise in technology replaced some labor-intensive work (introduction of the water-mill rendered obsolete the exhausting, slave-powered land mill); the reduced incidence of wars ...
Strana 5
... Northern Europeans grew ever more desirous to share in the spoils of Africa and the New World. First the French, then the English and, finally, the Dutch developed a winning strategy: piracy. Each nation preyed with great glee upon the ...
... Northern Europeans grew ever more desirous to share in the spoils of Africa and the New World. First the French, then the English and, finally, the Dutch developed a winning strategy: piracy. Each nation preyed with great glee upon the ...
Strana 11
... Northern attacks on the cruelty of enslavement, reminding their critics of the universality of guilt with examples such as that which occurred in 1781 when the captain of the slave transport Zong ordered 132 famished Africans thrown ...
... Northern attacks on the cruelty of enslavement, reminding their critics of the universality of guilt with examples such as that which occurred in 1781 when the captain of the slave transport Zong ordered 132 famished Africans thrown ...
Strana 13
... Northern population. Thus the dividing line was already established between entrenched slavery that was an essential underpinning to the economy of the South and sparse slavery that was a luxury in the North. As the “fathers” of their ...
... Northern population. Thus the dividing line was already established between entrenched slavery that was an essential underpinning to the economy of the South and sparse slavery that was a luxury in the North. As the “fathers” of their ...
Strana 24
... Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures; for tho' their people have very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.”26 A crucial debate followed on the ...
... Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures; for tho' their people have very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.”26 A crucial debate followed on the ...
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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 |
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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...