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Between Slavery and Freedom - Couverture souple

Livre 10 sur 15: The African American Experience

Winch, Julie

 
9781442262249: Between Slavery and Freedom
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1442262249 ISBN 13 : 9781442262249
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the "borderlands" between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the Civil War. However they had navigated their way out of bondage - through flight, through military service, through self-purchase, through the working of the law in different times and in different places, or because they were the offspring of parents who were themselves free - they were determined to enjoy the same rights and liberties that white people enjoyed. In a concise narrative and selected primary documents, noted historian Julie Winch shows the struggle of black people to gain and maintain their liberty and lay claim to freedom in its fullest sense. Refusing to be relegated to the margins of American society and languish in poverty and ignorance, they repeatedly challenged their white neighbors to live up to the promises of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. Winch's accessible, concise, and jargon-free book, including primary sources and the latest scholarship, will benefit undergraduate students of American history and general readers alike by allowing them to judge the evidence for themselves and evaluate the authors' conclusions.

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À propos de l'auteur

Julie Winch is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she specializes in the lives and genealogies of African Americans in the Revolutionary era and the Early American Republic.

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1442262249
ISBN 13 
9781442262249
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
186
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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