Race and Revolution [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Nash Gary B
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| Titolo: |
Race and Revolution [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1990 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973/.0496073 |
| Soggetto topico: | Antislavery movements - History - 18th century - United States |
| Abolitionists - History - To 1863 - United States | |
| African Americans | |
| Regions & Countries - Americas | |
| History & Archaeology | |
| United States - General | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 African Americans |
| United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Social aspects | |
| United States History Confederation, 1783-1789 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; CHAPTER ONE The Revolutionary Generation Embraces Abolitionism; CHAPTER TWO The Failure ofAbolitionism; CHAPTER THREE Black Americans in a White Republic; DOCUMENTS; Documents for Chapter One; Documents for Chapter Two; Documents for Chapter Three; Reading Further; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact, but provided it with the protection of a vastly strengthened government after 1788. Race and Revolution describes the free black community's response to this failure of the revolution's promise, its vigorous and articulate pleas for justice, and the community's successes in building its own African-American institutions within the hostile environment of early nineteenth- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Race and Revolution |
| ISBN: | 1-4616-4164-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790568103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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