Slave Life in Georgia
Author : John Brown
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Slavery
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Author : John Brown
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Slavery
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Author : Stephen B. Oates
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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The Definitive Biography of John Brown “John Brown’s life was filled with drama, and Oates tells his story in a manner so engrossing that the book reads like a novel, despite the fact that it is extensively documented and researched.” —Eric Foner, The New York Times Book Review Professor Oates “has given us the most objective and absorbing biography of John Brown ever written. The subtitle perfectly captures Brown’s own conception of his role in the antislavery crusade. Oates describes with subtlety and detail John Brown’s early career, his struggles with poverty, illness and death, the desperate straits the man was put to in support of his large family of twenty children. He tells us that Brown came to the armed phase of his abolitionist career at the end of many business ventures and as many failures, unsuccessful speculations, lawsuits, and bankruptcies, even misappropriation of funds.” —Willie Lee Rose, New York Review of Books In October 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry. His goal was to secure weapons and start a slave rebellion. The raid was a failure, but it galvanized the nation and sparked the Civil War. Still one of the most controversial figures in American history, John Brown’s actions raise interesting questions about unsanctioned violence that can be justified for a greater good. For more than a hundred years after Brown’s hanging, biographies of him tended to be highly politicized—then came historian Stephen B. Oates’ biography of Brown. Since its publication, Professor Oates’ work has come to be recognized as the definitive biography of Brown, a balanced assessment that captures the man in all his complexity.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Interstate commerce
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Author : Samuel DeCanio
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300198787
"Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late-nineteenth-century America, DeCanio's exhaustive archival research examines electoral politics, the Treasury Department's control over monetary policy, and the Interstate Commerce Commission's regulation of railroads to examine how conservative politicians created a new type of bureaucratic state to insulate policy decisions from popular control"--Back cover.
Author : Sotirios A. Barber
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674067967
Barber shows how arguments for states’ rights from John C. Calhoun to the present offend common sense, logic, and bedrock constitutional principles. The Constitution is a charter of positive benefits, not a contract among separate sovereigns whose function is to protect people from the central government, when there are greater dangers to confront.
Author : Texas. Supreme Court
Publisher :
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307486664
An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration of the paradox of a man steeped in the Bible but more than willing to kill for his abolitionist cause. Reynolds locates Brown within the currents of nineteenth-century life and compares him to modern terrorists, civil-rights activists, and freedom fighters. Ultimately, he finds neither a wild-eyed fanatic nor a Christ-like martyr, but a passionate opponent of racism so dedicated to eradicating slavery that he realized only blood could scour it from the country he loved. By stiffening the backbone of Northerners and showing Southerners there were those who would fight for their cause, he hastened the coming of the Civil War. This is a vivid and startling story of a man and an age on the verge of calamity.
Author : Virginia H. Taylor
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0292785712
The Franco-Texan Land Company was formed, ostensibly, by the French bondholders of the Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific Railroad in an attempt to salvage their investments through sale of lands in the railroad's Texas land grant. Most of the land company's wealth, however, went into the pockets of unscrupulous local managers and directors, and another railroad eventually built a road across Texas along the Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific right of way. Despite their unsavory histories, the land company and its railroad parent played an important part in the development of Northwest Texas. Virginia Taylor's account of their activities furthers the study of the role of land companies in the settlement of the United States and adds interesting sidelights on one of the immigrant groups that left the imprint of Europe on frontier Texas.
Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher :
Page : 1844 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.
Author : Texas. Supreme Court
Publisher :
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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