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 2
... troops under the command of Major Robert Anderson, son of a Revolutionary War officer who had once been under a bombardment of his own, in this very city, by the British. The son, a West Point graduate, a native of Kentucky, a man of ...
... troops under the command of Major Robert Anderson, son of a Revolutionary War officer who had once been under a bombardment of his own, in this very city, by the British. The son, a West Point graduate, a native of Kentucky, a man of ...
Strana 14
... troops during the French and Indian War of the 1750s created a boom for the foodstuff. Escalating British demand nearly doubled the price of the crop late in the decade. For some 50 years before the Revolution, many slave-owners ...
... troops during the French and Indian War of the 1750s created a boom for the foodstuff. Escalating British demand nearly doubled the price of the crop late in the decade. For some 50 years before the Revolution, many slave-owners ...
Strana 17
... that of offering freedom to the blacks who deserted their masters and joined the British troops bivouacked in the cities. There was a rumor that the British crown planned to 17 1. The Declaration: Liberty, but Not for All.
... that of offering freedom to the blacks who deserted their masters and joined the British troops bivouacked in the cities. There was a rumor that the British crown planned to 17 1. The Declaration: Liberty, but Not for All.
Strana 19
... troops a Conti- nental Army, to name a general to lead it, to arm and sustain it and to tell England what they were about. He asked the assembly to warn England that if she continued the hostilities, the Colonies would seek alliances ...
... troops a Conti- nental Army, to name a general to lead it, to arm and sustain it and to tell England what they were about. He asked the assembly to warn England that if she continued the hostilities, the Colonies would seek alliances ...
Strana 26
... troops restored a tenuous order. The next day, Samuel Adams led a large protest meeting demanding that all British soldiers be ordered out of Boston. Governor Hutchinson reached an agreement with the army commander for the troops to be ...
... troops restored a tenuous order. The next day, Samuel Adams led a large protest meeting demanding that all British soldiers be ordered out of Boston. Governor Hutchinson reached an agreement with the army commander for the troops to be ...
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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...