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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... opinion of the energetic wants of the federal government are well known” 237 George Washington, February 3, 1787 Debates within the Constitutional Convention 238 18. “A national government ought to be established consisting of a Supreme ...
... opinion of the energetic wants of the federal government are well known” 237 George Washington, February 3, 1787 Debates within the Constitutional Convention 238 18. “A national government ought to be established consisting of a Supreme ...
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... opinion), and powerlessness, shame, dehumanization, and enslavement, on the other. For example, most American colonists in 1776, and most southerners in 1861, believed that they were compelled to resist being “enslaved" by an expansive ...
... opinion), and powerlessness, shame, dehumanization, and enslavement, on the other. For example, most American colonists in 1776, and most southerners in 1861, believed that they were compelled to resist being “enslaved" by an expansive ...
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... opinion and the American government. In his original wording of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson wrote that “all men are created equal & independent.” It was from this equal creation that “they derived rights inherent ...
... opinion and the American government. In his original wording of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson wrote that “all men are created equal & independent.” It was from this equal creation that “they derived rights inherent ...
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... opinion. Turner's lack of any apparent plan or strategy besides revenge and mass killing made it easy for southern defenders of slavery, led by Thomas R. Dew, to dismiss Turner as a madman, “a fanatical Negro preacher...whose ...
... opinion. Turner's lack of any apparent plan or strategy besides revenge and mass killing made it easy for southern defenders of slavery, led by Thomas R. Dew, to dismiss Turner as a madman, “a fanatical Negro preacher...whose ...
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... opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery,” a man whose party “has announced, that the South shall be excluded from the common Territory...and that a war must be waged against slavery until it shall cease throughout the United States ...
... opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery,” a man whose party “has announced, that the South shall be excluded from the common Territory...and that a war must be waged against slavery until it shall cease throughout the United States ...
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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