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Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum...- $42.99
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Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
Gabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Egerton illuminates the complex motivations that underlay two related Virginia slave revolts: the first, in 1800, led by the slave known...- $42.50
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He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey
In this biography of the great rebel leader Denmark Vesey, Douglas R. Egerton employs a variety of historical sources-church records, court documents, travel accounts, and newspapers from America and Saint Domingue-to recreate the lost world of the mysterious Vesey. The revised edition is updated...- $49.00
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Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America
An enthralling chronicle of the American nineteenth century told through the unraveling of the nation's first political dynasty John and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamitous fall from grace. When John Quincy Adams died in 1848,...- $35.00
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The Atlantic World: A History, 1400 - 1888
Before the voyage of Columbus in 1492, the Atlantic Ocean stood as a barrier to contact between the people (and their ideas and institutions), plants, animals, and microbes of Eurasia and Africa on the one hand and the Americas on the other. Following Columbus's...- $54.95
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The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History
"A truly invaluable collocation of documents. Highly Recommended."-Choice "Brilliantly conceptualized, exhaustively researched, and eloquently written, it is a gold mine for anyone interested in America's ongoing dilemma with slavery and race."-John Stauffer, author of Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln...- $150.00
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The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History
A vast collection of documents that illuminate one of the mostsophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the U.S. In1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named DenmarkVesey, were tried and executed for "attempting to raise aninsurrection" in...- $55.00
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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first, the...- $35.00
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