Author : Fergus M. Bordewich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1439124612
Chronicles the 1850s appeals of Western territories to join the Union as slave or free states, profiling period balances in the Senate, Henry Clay's attempts at compromise, and the border crisis between New Mexico and Texas.
Author : Holman Hamilton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0813158311
The crisis facing the United States in 1850 was a dramatic prologue to the conflict that came a decade later. The rapid opening of western lands demanded the speedy establishment of local civil administration for these vast regions. Outraged partisans, however, cried of coercion: Southerners saw a threat to the precarious sectional balance, and Northerners feared an extension of slavery. In this definitive study, Holman Hamilton analyzes the complex events of the anxious months from December, 1849, when the Senate debates began, until September, 1850, when Congress passed the measures.
Author : Sarah Hopkins Bradford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman: By SARAH H. BRADFORD. [Special Illustrated Edition]
Author : Millard Fillmore
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 1907
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : R. J. M. Blackett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108418716
Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.
Author : The National Archives
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 2006-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0198042272
Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United States. The entry for each document includes a short introduction, a facsimile, and a transcript of the document. Backmatter includes further reading, credits, and index. The book is part of the much larger Our Documents initiative sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), National History Day, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the USA Freedom Corps.
Author : Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2023-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3382319578
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : P. Scott Corbett
Publisher :
Page : 1886 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 2024-09-10
Category : History
ISBN :
U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Author : Roger Brooke Taney
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781017251265
The Washington University Libraries presents an online exhibit of documents regarding the Dred Scott case. American slave Dred Scott (1795?-1858) and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the Saint Louis Circuit Court in 1846. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1857 that the Scotts must remain slaves.
Author : Andrew Delbanco
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0735224137
A New York Times Notable Book Selection Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the Lionel Trilling Book Award A New York Times Critics' Best Book "Excellent... stunning."—Ta-Nehisi Coates This book tells the story of America’s original sin—slavery—through politics, law, literature, and above all, through the eyes of enslavedblack people who risked their lives to flee from bondage, thereby forcing the nation to confront the truth about itself. The struggle over slavery divided not only the American nation but also the hearts and minds of individual citizens faced with the timeless problem of when to submit to unjust laws and when to resist. The War Before the War illuminates what brought us to war with ourselves and the terrible legacies of slavery that are with us still.
