The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil WarDavid Brion Davis, Steven Mintz Oxford University Press, 15. 10. 1998 - Počet stran: 608 Drawing on a gold mine of primary documents--including letters, diary entries, personal narratives, political speeches, broadsides, trial transcripts, and contemporary newspaper articles--The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the past to life in a way few histories ever do. Here is a panoramic look at early American history as captured in the words of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and many other historical figures, both famous and obscure. In these pieces, the living voices of the past speak to us from opposing viewpoints--from the vantage point of loyalists as well as patriots, slaves as well as masters. The documents collected here provide a fuller understanding of such historical issues as Columbus's dealings with Native Americans, the Stamp Act Crisis, the Declaration of Independence, the Whiskey Rebellion, the Missouri Crisis, the Mexican War, and Harpers Ferry, to name but a few. Compiled by Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz, and accompanied by extensive illustrations of original documents, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the reader back in time, to meet the men and women who lived through the momentous events that shaped our nation. |
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... never mean ... ..to possess another slave by purchase " 220 George Washington , September 9 , 1786 White Slavery 220 7. " Congress having ... invest [ ed ] us with full Powers entering into a Treaty ... with the ... Government of ...
... never mean ... ..to possess another slave by purchase " 220 George Washington , September 9 , 1786 White Slavery 220 7. " Congress having ... invest [ ed ] us with full Powers entering into a Treaty ... with the ... Government of ...
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... never was a time when the public Interest required more attention " 250 John Hancock , ca. 1788 27. " The property , the ability , and the virtue of the State , are almost solely in favor of the constitution " 251 Henry Knox , February ...
... never was a time when the public Interest required more attention " 250 John Hancock , ca. 1788 27. " The property , the ability , and the virtue of the State , are almost solely in favor of the constitution " 251 Henry Knox , February ...
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... never hear of the man who wishes to ... [ be ] a slave himself " Abraham Lincoln , ca. 1857-1858 465 104. " Mr. Buchanan is a very weak man in the two Houses of Congress " 466 Andrew Johnson , January 23 , 1858 105. " The Democratic ...
... never hear of the man who wishes to ... [ be ] a slave himself " Abraham Lincoln , ca. 1857-1858 465 104. " Mr. Buchanan is a very weak man in the two Houses of Congress " 466 Andrew Johnson , January 23 , 1858 105. " The Democratic ...
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... never prove them . Yet when all this is frankly acknowledged , there is something left that is primary and irreducible . Whatever one believes about his- torical progress or the lack of it — we are the beneficiaries of past struggles ...
... never prove them . Yet when all this is frankly acknowledged , there is something left that is primary and irreducible . Whatever one believes about his- torical progress or the lack of it — we are the beneficiaries of past struggles ...
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... never a part of the original European plans for New World settlement , Indian and especially African slaves became the essential driving force in the New World economies from the mid - six- teenth to the mid - nineteenth centuries ...
... never a part of the original European plans for New World settlement , Indian and especially African slaves became the essential driving force in the New World economies from the mid - six- teenth to the mid - nineteenth centuries ...
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PART 2 EUROPEAN COLONIZATION NORTH OF MEXICO | 43 |
PART 3 A LAND OF CONTRASTS | 85 |
PART 4 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR | 123 |
PART 5 THE AGE OF REVOLUTION 17651825 | 139 |
PART 6 CREATING A NEW NATION | 211 |
PART 7 ANTEBELLUM AMERICA | 323 |
PART 8 CIVIL WAR | 501 |
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