American inheritance : liberty and slavery in the birth of a nation, 1765-1795
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- ISBN: 9780393882216 (ePub ebook)
- ISBN: 0393882209
- ISBN: 9780393882209
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Physical Description:
x, 358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-345) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Crèvecoeur's question: "What is an American?" -- "A rabble of negros &c.": The first shots for Liberty, 1770 -- Imperial protests and the metaphor of slavery: 1765-1769 -- A practice "so odious": The legality of slavery, 1770-1774 -- The declaration of liberty: 1774-1776 -- "Liberty is Sweet": an illusive promise, 1776-1778 -- "Contending for the sweets of freedom": 1778-1781 -- A house dividing: liberty and slavery under the Confederation, 1781-1787 -- The compromised convention: 1787 -- "We, the states": ratifying liberty and slavery, 1787-1788 -- "I am free": liberty and slavery under the federal government, 1789-1795 -- Banneker's answer: I am an American. |
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