Slavery and Freedom in Delaware, 1639-1865
Title | Slavery and Freedom in Delaware, 1639-1865 PDF eBook |
Author | William Henry Williams |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780842028479 |
A text for courses in colonial and antebellum history. It analyzes the 'peculiar institution' in the First State.
A House Divided
Title | A House Divided PDF eBook |
Author | Patience Essah |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813916811 |
Delaware stood outside the primary streams of New World emancipation. Despite slavery's virtual demise in that state during the antebellum years and Delaware's staunch Unionism during the Civil War itself, the state failed to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which prohibits slavery, until 1901. Patience Essah takes the reader of A House Divided through the introduction, evolution, demise, and final abolition of slavery in Delaware. In unraveling the enigma of how and why tiny Delaware abstained from the abolition mandated in northern states after the American Revolution, resisted the movement toward abolition in border states during the Civil War, and stubbornly opposed ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, she offers fresh insight into the history of slavery, race, and racialism in America. The citizens of Delaware voluntarily freed over 90 percent of their slaves, yet they declined Lincoln's 1862 offer of compensation for emancipation, and the legislature persistently foiled all attempts to mandate emancipation. Those arguing against emancipation expressed fears that it inadvertently would alter the delicate balance of political power in the state. What Essah has found at the base of the Delaware paradox is a political discourse stalemated by instrumental appeals to racialism. In showing the persistence of slavery in Delaware, she raises questions about postslavery race relations. Her analysis is vital to an understanding of the African-American experience.
History of Delaware
Title | History of Delaware PDF eBook |
Author | John Andrew Munroe |
Publisher | University of Delaware Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780874139471 |
"Originally undertaken by the author as a Bicentennial project in 1975, and now the standard history of the state, this volume chronicles the history of Delaware from the early 1600s to the present."--BOOK JACKET.
Slavery and Freedom Among Early American Workers
Title | Slavery and Freedom Among Early American Workers PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Russell Hodges |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2016-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1315503409 |
Covering a chronological span from the seventeenth century to the Civil War, the book reunites black and labor history, including such major topics as the formation of slavery in the North, the American Revolution, blacks and the Workingmen's Movement, and interracial marriage before the Civil War. This book provides fascinating reading for students of American history, labor history, urban history, and black history.
A History of African Americans of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore
Title | A History of African Americans of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore PDF eBook |
Author | Carole C. Marks |
Publisher | Delaware Heritage Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780924117121 |
Picture Freedom
Title | Picture Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Jasmine Nichole Cobb |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2015-04-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1479817228 |
"Picture Freedom provides a unique and nuanced interpretation of nineteenth-century African American life and culture. Focusing on visuality, print culture, and an examination of the parlor, Cobb has fashioned a book like none other, convincingly demonstrating how whites and blacks reimagined racial identity and belonging in the early republic."--Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Title | The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Foner |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2011-09-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 039308082X |
“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.