02423nam 2200649 450 991046493970332120200520144314.00-8203-4704-3(CKB)3710000000087915(EBL)1630844(SSID)ssj0001112908(PQKBManifestationID)11615191(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001112908(PQKBWorkID)11162919(PQKB)11239212(MiAaPQ)EBC1630844(OCoLC)870949220(MdBmJHUP)muse34827(Au-PeEL)EBL1630844(CaPaEBR)ebr10837666(CaONFJC)MIL573852(EXLCZ)99371000000008791520140222h20112011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPhillis Wheatley biography of a genius in bondage /Vincent Carretta ; April Leidig-Higgins, designAthens, Georgia :The University of Georgia Press,2011.©20111 online resourceSarah Mills Hodge Fund PublicationDescription based upon print version of record.0-8203-4664-0 0-8203-3338-7 Includes bibliographical references and index."On being brought from Africa to America" -- "Thoughts on the works of Providence" -- "I prefer the verse" -- "A wonder of the age indeed!" -- "A farewell to America" -- "Now upon my own footing" -- "An elegy on leaving".Reveals the fascinating life of Phillis Wheatley, the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book, and only the second woman to do so in America, and also to do so while she was a slave and a teenager.Sarah Mills Hodge Fund PublicationAfrican American women poetsBiographyPoets, AmericanColonial period, ca. 1600-1775BiographySlavesUnited StatesBiographyElectronic books.African American women poetsPoets, AmericanSlaves811/.1Carretta Vincent532269Leidig-Higgins April958045MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464939703321Phillis Wheatley2170395UNINA04101nam 2200673 a 450 991081035440332120240416174158.00-8018-9781-5(CKB)2520000000007669(SSID)ssj0000337862(PQKBManifestationID)11266296(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337862(PQKBWorkID)10294800(PQKB)10321681(MiAaPQ)EBC3318456(OCoLC)593239760(MdBmJHUP)muse2763(Au-PeEL)EBL3318456(CaPaEBR)ebr10363191(OCoLC)923194408(EXLCZ)99252000000000766920081120d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe fragile fabric of Union cotton, federal politics, and the global origins of the Civil War /Brian Schoen1st ed.Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins University Press2009xiv, 369 p. ill., mapStudies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of PhiladelphiaBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-4214-0404-4 0-8018-9303-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue, 1787 -- 1 The Threads of a Global Loom: Cotton, Slavery, and Union in an Interdependent Atlantic, 1789-1820 -- Cotton, Empire, and Nation -- The Formation of a Transatlantic Cotton Interest -- Cotton's "Revolution" and Its Limits -- 2 Calculating the Cost of Union: Nationalism and Sectionalism in a Republican Era, 1796-1818 -- The Cotton South and a Republican Coalition of "Equals" -- "The Honor of Bearing It Best": Cotton, Commercial Warfare, and War -- Peace Abroad, Dissension at Home: Republicans Active and Passive -- 3 Protecting Slavery and Free Trade: The Political Economy of Cotton, 1818-1833 -- Panic and Protection -- Cotton and a Harmonious Domestic and International Division of Labor -- "Unequal" Protection under the Law and Cotton's Minority Status -- 4 Building Bridges to the West and the World: Empowerment and Anxiety in the Second Party System, 1834-1848 -- Publishing the "Banns" of Marriage: The Search for Lower South Commercial Advancement -- American Proslavery Thought in the Age of British Abolition -- The Second Party System in the Cotton South -- 5 An Unnatural Union: King Cotton and Lower South Secession, 1849-1860 -- Economic Advancement in an Age of Democratic Ascendance -- Converting Friends to Enemies and Enemies to Friends: The Search for Natural Allies -- Realists Decide: Election and Secession -- Epilogue, 1861 -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.The story he tells reveals the opportunities and costs of cotton production for the Lower South and the United States.Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.Cotton tradeSouthern StatesHistory19th centuryCotton tradeUnited StatesHistory19th centuryCotton tradePolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centurySecessionUnited StatesHistorySouthern StatesEconomic conditions19th centurySouthern StatesForeign economic relationsEurope19th centuryUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865CausesCotton tradeHistoryCotton tradeHistoryCotton tradePolitical aspectsHistorySecessionHistory.973.7/1Schoen Brian1670793MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810354403321The fragile fabric of Union4032871UNINA