Freedom at Risk
Title | Freedom at Risk PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Wilson |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2014-07-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813149797 |
Kidnapping was perhaps the greatest fear of free blacks in pre-Civil War America. Though they may have descended from generations of free-born people or worked to purchase their freedom, free blacks were not able to enjoy the privileges and opportunities of white Americans. They lived with the constant threat of kidnapping and enslavement, against which they had little recourse. Most kidnapped free blacks were forcibly abducted, but other methods, such as luring victims with job offers or falsely claiming free people as fugitive slaves, were used as well. Kidnapping of blacks was actually facilitated by numerous state laws, as well as the federal fugitive slave laws of 1793 and 1850. Greed motivated kidnappers, who were assured high profits on the sale of their victims. As the internal slave trade increased in the early nineteenth century, so did kidnapping. If greed provided the motivation for the crime, racism helped it to continue unabated. Victims usually found it extremely difficult to regain their freedom through a legal system that reflected society's racist views, perpetuated a racial double standard, and considered all blacks slaves until proven otherwise. Fortunate was the victim who received assistance, sometimes from government officials, most often from abolitionists. Frequently, however, the black community was forced to protect its own and organized to do so, sometimes by working within the law, sometimes by meeting violence with violence. Mining newspaper accounts, memoirs, slave narratives, court records, letters, abolitionist society minutes, and government documents, Carol Wilson has provided a needed addition to our picture of free black life in the United States.
Freedom at Risk
Title | Freedom at Risk PDF eBook |
Author | James Lane Buckley |
Publisher | Encounter Books |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1594034788 |
Contains essays, many from the 1970s, in which James Buckley, a former senator, under secretary of state, and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, shares his opinions on the adverse effects of the growth of the federal government.
Freedom at Risk
Title | Freedom at Risk PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Wilson |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2021-10-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813184525 |
Kidnapping was perhaps the greatest fear of free blacks in pre-Civil War America. Though they may have descended from generations of free-born people or worked to purchase their freedom, free blacks were not able to enjoy the privileges and opportunities of white Americans. They lived with the constant threat of kidnapping and enslavement, against which they had little recourse. Most kidnapped free blacks were forcibly abducted, but other methods, such as luring victims with job offers or falsely claiming free people as fugitive slaves, were used as well. Kidnapping of blacks was actually facilitated by numerous state laws, as well as the federal fugitive slave laws of 1793 and 1850. Greed motivated kidnappers, who were assured high profits on the sale of their victims. As the internal slave trade increased in the early nineteenth century, so did kidnapping. If greed provided the motivation for the crime, racism helped it to continue unabated. Victims usually found it extremely difficult to regain their freedom through a legal system that reflected society's racist views, perpetuated a racial double standard, and considered all blacks slaves until proven otherwise. Fortunate was the victim who received assistance, sometimes from government officials, most often from abolitionists. Frequently, however, the black community was forced to protect its own and organized to do so, sometimes by working within the law, sometimes by meeting violence with violence. Mining newspaper accounts, memoirs, slave narratives, court records, letters, abolitionist society minutes, and government documents, Carol Wilson has provided a needed addition to our picture of free black life in the United States.
The Risk of Freedom
Title | The Risk of Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Tava |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2015-12-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1783483792 |
An examination of the moral and political aspects of the philosophical work of Jan Patočka, one of the most influential Central European philosophers of the twentieth century.
Freedom, Eudaemonia, and Risk
Title | Freedom, Eudaemonia, and Risk PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Touchstone |
Publisher | Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2020-11-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781498596992 |
"This book uses the philosophies of Objectivism, rule-utilitarianism, and neo-Aristotelianism to argue that ethical risk-taking is vital for economic flourishing"--
Freedom At Risk
Title | Freedom At Risk PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Lopes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-07-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781088038833 |
Our freedoms are being stolen-evaporating slowly, almost unrecognizably-until they disappear entirely. But you can do something to stop the decay. It's never too late or too early to plan and take control. Freedom At Risk details how we are losing our personal and financial freedoms by examining the education system, cultural and societal issues, politics, economics, and the monetary system. This book will help you see the changes happening around you and provide you with roadmaps and survival skills to formulate a detailed, multifaceted plan to protect and maximize your freedoms to achieve a fuller, more rewarding, and freer life.
Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Title | Taking the Risk Out of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Carey |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780252066160 |
Alex Carey documents the twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda as practiced by U.S. businesse, and its export to and adoption by Western democracies like the United Kingdom and Australia. The collection, drawn from Carey's voluminous unpublished writings, examines how and why the business elite successfully sold its values and perspectives to the rest of society. A volume in the series The History of Communication, edited by Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone