Addison-Wesley's fugitive slave narratives
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 1969
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 1969
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 19??
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Henry WATSON (a Fugitive Slave.)
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 1850
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Henry Watson
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Fugitive slaves
ISBN :
Author : Austin Steward
Publisher :
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Slavery
ISBN : 9780201057478
The author does not think that any apology is necessary for this issue of his Life and History. He believes that American Slavery is now the great question before the American People: that it is not merely a political question, coming up before the country as the grand element in the making of a President, and then to be laid aside for four years; but that its moral bearings are of such a nature that the Patriot, the Philanthropist, and all good men agree that it is an evil of so much magnitude, that longer to permit it, is to wink at sin, and to incur the righteous judgments of God. The late outrages and aggressions of the slave power to possess itself of new soil, and extend the influence of the hateful and God-provoking "Institution," is a practical commentary upon its benefits and the moral qualities of those who seek to sustain and extend it. The author is therefore the more willing - nay, anxious, to lay alongside of such arguments the history of his own life and experiences as a slave, that those who read may know what are some of the characteristics of that highly favored intitution, which is sought to be preserved and perpetuated. "Facts are stubborn things,"--And this is the reason why all systems, religious, moral, or social, which are founded in injustice, and supported by fraud and robbery, suffer so much by faithful exposition. he author has endeavored to present a true statement of the practical workings of the system of Slavery, as he has seen and felt it himself. He has intended "nothing to extenuate, nor aught set down in malice;" indeed, so far from believing that he has misrepresented Slavery as an institution, he does not feel that he has the power to give anything like a true picture of it in all its deformity and wickedness; especially that Slavery which is an institution among an enlightened and Christian people, who profess to believe that all men are born free and equal, and who have certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Author : Henry Watson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Fugitive slaves
ISBN :
Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780486430973
An influential force in the abolition movement and a lasting testimonial to the injustice of slavery, Brown's Narrative was an instant bestseller upon its 1847 publication and remains essential reading. It offers a sincere and moving account of the author's experiences during the first 20 years of his life as a slave in Missouri.
Author :
Publisher : Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Gordon S. Barker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0786469870
This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a "more perfect union"--still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugitive slave stories of the antebellum era are described and interpreted to demonstrate how fugitive slaves and their abolitionist allies embraced Patrick Henry's motto "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" and the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. African Americans and white abolitionists seized upon these dramatic events to exhort citizens to complete the Revolution by extending liberty to all Americans. Casting fugitive slaves and their slave revolt leaders as heroic American Revolutionaries seeking freedom for themselves and their enslaved brethren, this book provides a broader interpretation of the American Revolution.
Author : Walter JOHNSON
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674039157
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved.