FREEDOM RHODE
Author : E. Andrew Efstratis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
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ISBN : 125791345X
Author : E. Andrew Efstratis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
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ISBN : 125791345X
Author : Christy Clark-Pujara
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1479855634
Tells the story of one state in particular whose role in the slave trade was outsized: Rhode Island Historians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought and sold slaves and supplies that sustained plantations throughout the Americas; however, nowhere else was this business so important. During the colonial period trade with West Indian planters provided Rhode Islanders with molasses, the key ingredient for their number one export: rum. More than 60 percent of all the slave ships that left North America left from Rhode Island. During the antebellum period Rhode Islanders were the leading producers of “negro cloth,” a coarse wool-cotton material made especially for enslaved blacks in the American South. Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers, and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to reconstruct their lived experiences. The business of slavery encouraged slaveholding, slowed emancipation and led to circumscribed black freedom. Enslaved and free black people pushed back against their bondage and the restrictions placed on their freedom. It is convenient, especially for northerners, to think of slavery as southern institution. The erasure or marginalization of the northern black experience and the centrality of the business of slavery to the northern economy allows for a dangerous fiction—that North has no history of racism to overcome. But we cannot afford such a delusion if we are to truly reconcile with our past.
Author : Charles Rappleye
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743266889
From the author of "American Mafioso" comes the story of the Brown brothers, leading slave merchants of Providence, Rhode Island, during the time of the American Revolution.
Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780836851595
Presents the history, geography, people, government, economy, social life and customs, and state events and attractions of Rhode Island.
Author : Aaron Rhodes
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1594039801
The idea of human rights began as a call for individual freedom from tyranny, yet today it is exploited to rationalize oppression and promote collectivism. How did this happen? Aaron Rhodes, recognized as “one of the leading human rights activists in the world” by the University of Chicago, reveals how an emancipatory ideal became so debased. Rhodes identifies the fundamental flaw in the Universal Declaration of Human of Rights, the basis for many international treaties and institutions. It mixes freedom rights rooted in natural law—authentic human rights—with “economic and social rights,” or claims to material support from governments, which are intrinsically political. As a result, the idea of human rights has lost its essential meaning and moral power. The principles of natural rights, first articulated in antiquity, were compromised in a process of accommodation with the Soviet Union after World War II, and under the influence of progressivism in Western democracies. Geopolitical and ideological forces ripped the concept of human rights from its foundations, opening it up to abuse. Dissidents behind the Iron Curtain saw clearly the difference between freedom rights and state-granted entitlements, but the collapse of the USSR allowed demands for an expanding array of economic and social rights to gain legitimacy without the totalitarian stigma. The international community and civil society groups now see human rights as being defined by legislation, not by transcendent principles. Freedoms are traded off for the promise of economic benefits, and the notion of collective rights is used to justify restrictions on basic liberties. We all have a stake in human rights, and few serious observers would deny that the concept has lost clarity. But no one before has provided such a comprehensive analysis of the problem as Rhodes does here, joining philosophy and history with insights from his own extensive work in the field.
Author : Greg Roza
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1499405774
Rhode Island is America’s smallest state, but its history is far from tiny. This information-rich text takes readers on a journey through Rhode Island’s colonial history and the role it played in gaining independence for the American colonies. Students will learn about Rhode Island’s religious and social environment, early industry, and key historical figures. Important events such as King Philip’s War, Stamp Act protests, and the Revolutionary War are examined through the unique lens of Rhode Island’s colonial environment. Primary sources, maps, and period-specific artwork supplement the text and support social studies curricula.
Author : Michael Rhodes
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2010-07
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ISBN : 9780982597002
Author : Edward Howland
Publisher :
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 1877
Category : North America
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Author : Arthur Amasa Ross
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Rhode Island
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Author : Arthur A. ROSS (Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Newport, R.I.)
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Page : 174 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 1838
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