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Race and Revolution [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Nash Gary B Visualizza persona
Titolo: Race and Revolution [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
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 genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4616-4164-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452978303321
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