The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the JamesRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008 M12 16 - 320 páginas From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrumental in the formation of modern America. It was along the James that British and Native American cultures collided and, in a twisted paradox, the seeds of democracy and slavery were sown side by side. The culture crafted by Virginia's learned aristocrats, merchants, farmers, and frontiersmen gave voice to the cause of the American Revolution and provided a vision for the fledgling independent nation's future. Over the course of the United States' first century, the James River bore witness to the irreconcilable contradiction of a slave-holding nation dedicated to liberty and equality for all. When that intractable conflict ignited civil war, the James River served as a critical backdrop for the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. As he guides readers through this exciting historical narrative, Deans gives life to a dynamic cast of characters including the familiar Powhatan, John Smith, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, and Robert E. Lee, as well as those who have largely escaped historical notoriety. The River Where America Began takes readers on a journey along the James River from the earliest days of civilization nearly 15,000 years ago through the troubled English settlement at Jamestown and finishes with Lincoln's tour of the defeated capital of Richmond in 1865. Deans traces the historical course of a river whose contributions to American life are both immeasurable and unique. This innovative history invites us all to look into these restless waters in a way that connects us to our past and reminds us of who we are as Americans. |
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... Africans, English, and Native Americans first came together four centuries ago to form the beginnings of a new civiliza- tion that would change the world. The story is ugly in places. Seldom is it fully just or fair. It is, though, a ...
... Africans, English, and Native Americans first came together four centuries ago to form the beginnings of a new civiliza- tion that would change the world. The story is ugly in places. Seldom is it fully just or fair. It is, though, a ...
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... African people who came to this country in chains and somehow kept faith through the long nightmare of slavery with their unfathomable will to be free. Strangely, it seems, the cartography of our national origins has ren- dered the ...
... African people who came to this country in chains and somehow kept faith through the long nightmare of slavery with their unfathomable will to be free. Strangely, it seems, the cartography of our national origins has ren- dered the ...
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... Africa, and the rain forests of Latin America as in Western Europe or the plains of North America, just as the James itself finds its true origins not in a single confluence of streams but in an intri— cate web of distant waters ...
... Africa, and the rain forests of Latin America as in Western Europe or the plains of North America, just as the James itself finds its true origins not in a single confluence of streams but in an intri— cate web of distant waters ...
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... African , English , and Native American peoples — each largely alien to the others — first came together to form the beginnings of a new civilization that would change the world . In the four centuries since those tenuous beginnings ...
... African , English , and Native American peoples — each largely alien to the others — first came together to form the beginnings of a new civilization that would change the world . In the four centuries since those tenuous beginnings ...
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... Africans to arrive in English America in chains, and the place where the country's original cash crop, tobacco, was raised on plantations that generated the export profits that, in turn, drove one of the first major economies ever ...
... Africans to arrive in English America in chains, and the place where the country's original cash crop, tobacco, was raised on plantations that generated the export profits that, in turn, drove one of the first major economies ever ...
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Chapter 05 Democracy in America | 89 |
Chapter 06 Wade in the Water | 117 |
Chapter 07 Liberty or Death | 159 |
Chapter 08 River of Dreams | 217 |
Chapter 09 A New Birth of Freedom | 249 |
Undimmed by Human Tears | 277 |
Bibliography | 289 |
Index | 299 |
About the Author | 319 |
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