Sökt på: william dusinberre
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Them Dark Days
BLUnique insights into the workings of slavery in the Antebullum American South In this close study of slavery in the rice plantations of South Carolina and Georgia, the emphasis …
Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865
Philadelphia, before the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, was not simply a "Northern" city. Unlike proslavery Washington but also unlike antislavery Boston, Philadelphia lay …
Slavemaster President
James Polk was President of the United States from 1845 to 1849, a time when slavery began to dominate American politics. Polk's presidency coincided with the eruption of the …
Strategies for Survival
Strategies for Survival conveys the experience of bondage through the words of former slaves themselves. The interviews - conducted in Virginia in 1937 by WPA interviewers - are …