The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil WarDavid Brion Davis, Steven Mintz Oxford University Press, 2000 M01 13 - 608 páginas 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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... Congress, October 20, 1774 19. “We...lay our grievances before the throne” 168 Petition from the General Congress in America to the king, October 26, 1774 20. “When a Nation...turns advocate for Slavery and Oppression, there is reason ...
... Congress, October 20, 1774 19. “We...lay our grievances before the throne” 168 Petition from the General Congress in America to the king, October 26, 1774 20. “When a Nation...turns advocate for Slavery and Oppression, there is reason ...
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... Congress” 217 Edmund Pendleton, July 21, 1783 Slavery in Postrevolutionary America 218 4. "The case of the oppressed blacks commands our attention” 218 James Pemberton, November 18, 1784 5. “[Nothing] will ever prevent me from doing all ...
... Congress” 217 Edmund Pendleton, July 21, 1783 Slavery in Postrevolutionary America 218 4. "The case of the oppressed blacks commands our attention” 218 James Pemberton, November 18, 1784 5. “[Nothing] will ever prevent me from doing all ...
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... Congress in 1804 from “Planters, Merchants and other inhabitants of Louisiana": Without any agency in the events which have annexed our country to the United States, we yet consider them as fortunate, and thought our liberties secured ...
... Congress in 1804 from “Planters, Merchants and other inhabitants of Louisiana": Without any agency in the events which have annexed our country to the United States, we yet consider them as fortunate, and thought our liberties secured ...
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... Congress has no power...to establish any system of emancipation, gradual or immediate, in behalf of the present or any future generation. The several states alone, according to our existing institutions, are competent to make provision ...
... Congress has no power...to establish any system of emancipation, gradual or immediate, in behalf of the present or any future generation. The several states alone, according to our existing institutions, are competent to make provision ...
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Contenido
1 | |
29 | |
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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