The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil WarDavid Brion Davis, Steven Mintz Oxford University Press, 1998 M10 15 - 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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... slavery and somehow remove the black population to a safe refuge . As some of the early selections show , the Indians of the Caribbean and North America were perceived both as noble savages ( but “ timid beyond cure , " as Columbus put ...
... slavery and somehow remove the black population to a safe refuge . As some of the early selections show , the Indians of the Caribbean and North America were perceived both as noble savages ( but “ timid beyond cure , " as Columbus put ...
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... slavery ( in 1516 Thomas More prescribed slavery as a punishment in his famous book describing an imag- inary ideal society , Utopia ) . Our early documents give much attention to the developing republican ideals of liberty ...
... slavery ( in 1516 Thomas More prescribed slavery as a punishment in his famous book describing an imag- inary ideal society , Utopia ) . Our early documents give much attention to the developing republican ideals of liberty ...
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... slavery also provided , after a consider- able lapse of time , a model or paradigm of social evil . As Abraham Lincoln put it in a profound and yet typically simple way , “ If slavery is not wrong , nothing is wrong . " And as I have ...
... slavery also provided , after a consider- able lapse of time , a model or paradigm of social evil . As Abraham Lincoln put it in a profound and yet typically simple way , “ If slavery is not wrong , nothing is wrong . " And as I have ...
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... Slavery is undoubtedly a manifest violation of the rights of man . It can only be justified in America , if at all , by necessity . ” Clay even expresses regret that his native state of Kentucky had failed to adopt a law like ...
... Slavery is undoubtedly a manifest violation of the rights of man . It can only be justified in America , if at all , by necessity . ” Clay even expresses regret that his native state of Kentucky had failed to adopt a law like ...
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... slaves did not alienate English public 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 ...
... slaves did not alienate English public 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 ...
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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