Revised Edition of Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color, by Author Anita L. Wills. The expands and continues Chronicles from The first Edition. It is historically accurate includes newly uncovered information on Mary and Patty Bowden, Charles and Ambrose Lewis, and the Lancaster and Northumberland County VA Pinn Lines, Sarah Evans-Pinn, and their allied lines. This edition also includes information on DNA Testing, Genealogy, and a how to for beginning researchers.

Many reference works offer compilations of critical documents covering individual liberty, local autonomy, constitutional order, and other issues that helped to shape the American political tradition. Yet few of those works are available in a form suitable for classroom use, and traditional textbooks give short shrift to these important issues. The American Republic overcomes that knowledge gap by providing, in a single volume, critical, original documents revealing the character of American discourse on the nature and importance of local government, the purposes of federal union, and the role of religion and tradition in forming America’s drive for liberty. The American Republic is divided into nine sections, each illustrating major philosophical, cultural, and policy positions at issue during crucial eras of American development. Readers will find documentary evidence of the purposes behind European settlement, American response to English acts, the pervasive role of religion in early American public life, and perspectives in the debate over independence. Subsequent chapters examine the roots of American constitutionalism, Federalist and Anti-Federalist arguments concerning the need to protect common law rights, and the debates over whether the states or the federal government held final authority in determining the course of public policy in America. Also included are the discussions regarding disagreements over internal improvements and other federal measures aimed at binding the nation, particularly in the area of commerce. The final section focuses on the political, cultural, and legal issues leading to the Civil War. Arguments and attempted compromises regarding slavery, along with laws that helped shape slavery, are highlighted. The volume ends with the prelude to the Civil War, a natural stopping-off point for studies of early American history. By bringing together key original documents and other writings that explain cultural, religious, and historical concerns, this volume gives students, teachers, and general readers an effective way to begin examining the diversity of issues and influences that characterize American history. The result unquestionably leads to a deeper and more thorough understanding of America's political, institutional, and cultural continuity and change. Bruce P. Frohnen is Associate Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University College of Law. He holds a J.D. from the Emory University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. Click here to print or download The American Republic index.

CONTENTS:Physics, 1800-1833. (Continued from Volume VIII)OerstedThe Effect of the Electrical Conflict on the Magnetic NeedleJoseph HenryElectricity from MagnetismFaradayElectricity from MagnetismEducation, 1781-1833PestalozziThe School in BonnalPolitical Ideas in the United States, 1833-1860Basil HallSlave ConditionsHarriet MartineauMorals of SlaveryGeorge McDuffieThe Rights of SlaveryWilliam Lloyd GarrisonThe LiberatorThe Constitution a Covenant with Death and an Agreement with HellNo Union with Slaveholders In Support of the American Anti-slavery SocietyWendell PhillipsThe Murder of LovejoyJohn CalhounTexas and SlaveryHenry ClayThe Compromise of 1850William Henry SewardThe Higher LawStephen A. DouglasSquatter SovereigntyCrystallization of Sentiment Against the Extension of SlaveryAppeal of the Independent Democrats (Chase, Sumner, Giddings, Etc.)Chief Justice TaneyThe Dred Scott DecisionAbraham LincolnAgainst Squatter Sovereignty and the Dred Scott DecisionJefferson DavisThat the Territories Cannot Keep out SlaveryThe Party Platforms, 1860Douglas Democratic PlatformSouthern Democratic PlatformRepublican PlatformConstitutional Union PlatformSecessionOrdinance of South CarolinaSouth Carolina's Declaration of CausesEvolutionCharles LyellUniformity in the Series of past Changes in the Animate and Inanimate WorldTheodor SchwannCell TheoryHerbert SpencerProgress: Its Law and CauseCharles DarwinNatural SelectionErnst HaeckelThe Fundamental Law of the Evolution of OrganismsPhysics and ChemistryHermann von HelmholtzThe Conservation of EnergyKirchhoff and BunsenChemical Analysis by Means of the SpectroscopeEducationFriedrich FroebelThe KindergartenHorace MannLessons from EuropeInventions