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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... Southern ante- cedents, had married a woman from Georgia, and was a slave-owner and Southern sympathizer...but on this night he would be loyal to his uniform, to his flag and to the tall, homely, lonely, brooding man in Washington. As ...
... Southern ante- cedents, had married a woman from Georgia, and was a slave-owner and Southern sympathizer...but on this night he would be loyal to his uniform, to his flag and to the tall, homely, lonely, brooding man in Washington. As ...
Strana 11
... Southern apologists would react venomously to 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 ...
... Southern apologists would react venomously to 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 ...
Strana 13
... Southern eco- nomic life and survival, rendering the philosophical niceties of Enlightenment Europe, with the sense of the intrinsic rights and value of all human beings, an unaffordable luxury. Charleston, the warehouse of the Deep ...
... Southern eco- nomic life and survival, rendering the philosophical niceties of Enlightenment Europe, with the sense of the intrinsic rights and value of all human beings, an unaffordable luxury. Charleston, the warehouse of the Deep ...
Strana 14
... Southern colonies of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Georgia had forbidden the import of slaves until 1751, when slave-owning was permitted to allow for the culti- vation of rice along the Savannah River ...
... Southern colonies of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Georgia had forbidden the import of slaves until 1751, when slave-owning was permitted to allow for the culti- vation of rice along the Savannah River ...
Strana 15
... Southern plantation owners because most of what the plantation consumed was manufactured on site, and was not taxed. In 1774, the First Continental Congress voted to ban most trade with Great Britain. The five South Carolina delegates ...
... Southern plantation owners because most of what the plantation consumed was manufactured on site, and was not taxed. In 1774, the First Continental Congress voted to ban most trade with Great Britain. The five South Carolina delegates ...
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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...