The African Repository And Colonial Journal; Volume 33
Author : American Colonization Society
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Category : History
ISBN : 9781022379466
Author : American Colonization Society
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
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Category : History
ISBN : 9781022379466
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 1877
Category : African Americans
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 1834
Category : African Americans
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Author : S. Jonathan Bass
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807182087
Founded in 1841 in Marion, Alabama, Howard College provided a Christian liberal arts education for young men living along the old southwestern frontier. The founders named the school after eighteenth-century British reformer John Howard, whose words and deeds inspired the type of enlightened moral agent and virtuous Christian citizen the institution hoped to produce. In From Every Stormy Wind That Blows, S. Jonathan Bass provides a comprehensive history of Howard College, which in 1965 changed its name to Samford University. According to Bass, the “idea” of Howard College emanated from its founders’ firm commitment to orthodox Protestantism, the tenets of Scottish philosophy, the British Enlightenment’s emphasis on virtue, and the moral reforms of the age. From the Old South, through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the New South, Howard College adapted to new conditions while continuing to teach the necessary ingredients to transform young southern men into useful and enlightened Christian citizens. Throughout its history, Howard College faced challenges both within and without. As with other institutions in the South, slavery played a central role in its founding, with most of the college’s principal benefactors, organizers, and board of trustees earning financial gains from enslaved labor. The Civil War swept away the college’s large endowment and growing student enrollment, and the school never regained a solid financial footing during the subsequent decades—barely surviving bankruptcy and public auction. In 1887, with the continued decline of southern agriculture, Howard College moved to a new campus on the outskirts of Birmingham, where its president, Rev. Benjamin Franklin Riley, a well-known New South economic booster, fought to restore the college’s financial health. Despite his best efforts, Howard struggled economically until local bankers offered enough assistance to allow the institution to enter the twentieth century with a measure of financial stability. The challenges and changes wrought by the years transformed Howard College irrevocably. While the original “idea” of the school endured through its classical curriculum, by the 1920s the school had all but lost its connections to John Howard and its founding principles. From Every Stormy Wind That Blows is a fascinating look into this storied institution’s history and Samford University’s origins.
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 1847
Category : African Americans
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Author : Suzanne Cooper Guasco
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501756893
Edward Coles, who lived from 1786-1868, is most often remembered for his antislavery correspondence with Thomas Jefferson in 1814, freeing his slaves in 1819, and leading the campaign against the legalization of slavery in Illinois during the 1823-24 convention contest. In this new full-length biography Suzanne Cooper Guasco demonstrates for the first time how Edward Coles continued to confront slavery for nearly forty years after his time in Illinois. Not only did he attempt to shape the slavery debates in Virginia immediately before and after Nat Turner's rebellion, he also consistently entered national political discussions about slavery throughout the 1830s, 40s, and 50s. On each occasion Coles promoted a vision of the nation that combined a celebration of America's antislavery past with an endorsement of free labor ideology and colonization, a broad appeal that was designed to mollify his fellow-countrymen's sense of economic self-interest and virulent anti-black prejudice. As Cooper Guasco persuasively shows, Coles's antislavery nationalism, first crafted in Illinois in the 1820s, became the foundation of the Republican Party platform and ultimately contributed to the destruction of slavery. By exploring his entire life, readers come to see Edward Coles as a vital link between the unfulfilled antislavery sensibility of men like Thomas Jefferson and the pragmatic antislavery politics of Abraham Lincoln. In Edward Coles' life-long confrontation with slavery, as well, we witness the rise of antislavery politics in nineteenth-century America and come to understand the central role politics played in the fight against slavery.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2024-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 336889661X
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Bibliography
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Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Bibliography
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Author : David Saville Muzzey
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Page : 650 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 1921
Category : United States
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