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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... Northern & Western Armies seemed to be doomed to misfortune and Disgrace” 308 Benjamin Tallmadge, November 29, 1812 78. “The great & immortal Jackson, leads the valiant & daring sons of Tennessee to victory & to glory" 308 Ephraim ...
... Northern & Western Armies seemed to be doomed to misfortune and Disgrace” 308 Benjamin Tallmadge, November 29, 1812 78. “The great & immortal Jackson, leads the valiant & daring sons of Tennessee to victory & to glory" 308 Ephraim ...
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... Northern labour and Southern capital to suppress the right of Petition” 417 John Quincy Adams, September 21, 1838 The Amistad Affair 419 73. “However unjust...the slave trade may be, it is not contrary to the law of nations” 419 John ...
... Northern labour and Southern capital to suppress the right of Petition” 417 John Quincy Adams, September 21, 1838 The Amistad Affair 419 73. “However unjust...the slave trade may be, it is not contrary to the law of nations” 419 John ...
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... northern states that emancipated the children of slaves when they reached an age, sometime in their twenties, when their labor had presumably paid for the cost of their maintenance. Far more central, however, were the ways in which ...
... northern states that emancipated the children of slaves when they reached an age, sometime in their twenties, when their labor had presumably paid for the cost of their maintenance. Far more central, however, were the ways in which ...
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... northern Europe as slave-grown sugar and tobacco provided the first luxury products for a mass market. Racial slavery also provided, after a considerable lapse of time, a model or paradigm of social evil. As Abraham Lincoln put it in a ...
... northern Europe as slave-grown sugar and tobacco provided the first luxury products for a mass market. Racial slavery also provided, after a considerable lapse of time, a model or paradigm of social evil. As Abraham Lincoln put it in a ...
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... northern leaders were adamant against adding more slave states and thus increasing southern dominance, or what was becoming known as “the Slave Power.” As one northern clergyman put it in 1845, after Congress narrowly approved a ...
... northern leaders were adamant against adding more slave states and thus increasing southern dominance, or what was becoming known as “the Slave Power.” As one northern clergyman put it in 1845, after Congress narrowly approved a ...
Contenido
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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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