"Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan H. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an explicit retreat from the goals of emancipation or even as an essentially proslavery ideology. These claims, he notes, fail to explain free soil's real contributions to the antislavery cau ..."
America(4th Edition) A Concise History 4e V1 & John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry & Black Americans in the Revolutionary Era & Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement & Lancaster Treaty of 1744 by James A. Henretta, David Brody, JonathanEarle, Woody Holton, Kathryn Kish Sklar, James H. Merrell Paperback, Published 2010 by Bedford/St. Martin's ISBN-13: 978-0-312-67719-0, ISBN: 0-312-67719-7
"The authors' own abridgement preserves the hallmark explanatory power of the parent text, helping students to understand not only what happened but why -- so they're never left wondering what's important."
"Sewell and Cole date Hale's final decision to oppose the joint resolution as
January 10, the day he attempted to introduce a proviso to the legislation that
would divide Texas into free and slave halves. But Hale had already made his
decision at least three days earlier, before his attempt to ''test'' the New
Hampshire legislature's eighth resolution. See Congressional Globe, 28th Cong.,
2d sess., 120; Sewell, John P. Hale and the ..."
"Long before the first shot of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter, violence had already erupted along the Missouri-Kansas border--a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and revenge. This multifaceted study brings together fifteen scholars to expand our understanding of this vitally important region, the violence that besieged it, and its overall impact on the Civil War. Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri blends politic ..."
"Black orators stood on street corners, extolling the alternative visions of political
parties like the Socialists, or the black nationalism of ... What does the Harlem
Renaissance tell us about the African American community in the 20th century?
First ..."
"Blassingame, John, The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum
South, Oxford University Press, 1979. ... Part II: Two Communities, Slave and
Free Aptheker, Herbert, American Negro Slave Revolts (6th ed.) ... The African
Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa, University of
North Carolina Press, 1995. Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, Within the Plantation
Household: Black and White Women of the Old South ..."
"Long before the first shot of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter, violence had already erupted along the Missouri-Kansas border—a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and revenge. This multifaceted study brings together fifteen scholars to expand our understanding of this vitally important region, the violence that besieged it, and its overall impact on the Civil War. Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri blends politi ..."
"The authors' own abridgement preserves the hallmark explanatory power of the parent text, helping students to understand not only what happened but why -- so they're never left wondering what's important."
"Jonathan Earle’s volume presents Brown as neither villain nor martyr, but rather as a man whose deeply held abolitionist beliefs gradually evolved to a point where he saw violence as inevitable."