Format:
1 Online-Ressource (262 Seiten)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780393882216
Content:
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding.
Content:
Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Crèvecœur's Question: "What Is an American?" -- Chapter 1: "A Rabble of Negros & -- c.": The First Shots for Liberty, 1770 -- Chapter 2: Imperial Protests and the Metaphor of Slavery: 1765-1769 -- Chapter 3: A Practice "So Odious": The Legality of Slavery, 1770-1774 -- Chapter 4: The Declaration of Liberty: 1774-1776 -- Chapter 5: "Liberty Is Sweet": An Illusive Promise, 1776-1778 -- Chapter 6: "Contending for the Sweets of Freedom": 1778-1781 -- Chapter 7: A House Dividing: Liberty and Slavery under the Confederation, 1781-1787 -- Chapter 8: The Compromised Convention: 1787 -- Chapter 9: "We, the States": Ratifying Liberty and Slavery, 1787-1788 -- Chapter 10: "I Am Free": Liberty and Slavery under the Federal Government, 1789-1795 -- Epilogue: Banneker's Answer: I Am an American -- Illustrations Insert -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Also by Edward J. Larson -- Copyright.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780393882209
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Larson, Edward J., 1953 - American inheritance New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2023 ISBN 9780393882209
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
;
Unabhängigkeitsbewegung
;
Freiheit
;
Sklaverei
;
Geschichte 1765-1795
