This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and--unique to this volume--proslavery documents written in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It makes accessible to students, scholars, and general readers the breadth of the slavery debate. Including many previously inaccessible documents, A House Divided is a critical and welcome contribution to a literature that includes only a few volumes of antislavery writings and no volumes of proslavery documents in print.Mason Lowance's introduction is an excellent overview of the antebellum slavery debate and its key issues and participants. Lowance also introduces each selection, locating it historically, culturally, and thematically as well as linking it to other writings. The documents represent the full scope of the varied debates over slavery. They include examples of race theory, Bible-based arguments for and against slavery, constitutional analyses, writings by former slaves and women's rights activists, economic defenses and critiques of slavery, and writings on slavery by such major writers as William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Together they give readers a real sense of the complexity and heat of the vexed conversation that increasingly dominated American discourse as the country moved from early nationhood into its greatest trial.
From the PublisherDetailed account by a former captain of a slave ship--gathered together in 1854 from journals, memoranda, and conversations--describes the economic structure of the African kingdoms; the author's extensive travels to the interior of Africa for slaves; the harems and "factories" maintained by slavers; treatment and discipline of black Africans on slave ships; the suppression of a slave revolt at sea; and much more. Republication of the classic 1854 edition.
The significance of the industrial age has largely been neglected in the documentary literature on African American history. This volume fills the gap by providing a wide selection of documents that chronicle in rich detail the social, economic, and political changes in black life that occurred during that period. Among the themes covered are job-finding networks, labor relations, racial segregation in housing, strategies devised to fight racial inequality in the workplace, and discrimination in the military
When it was released in 2004, Harlem Stomp! was the first trade book to bring the Harlem Renaissance alive for young adults! Meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated, the book is a veritable time capsule packed with poetry, prose, photographs, full-color paintings, and reproductions of historical documents. Now, after more than three years in hardcover, three starred reviews and a National Book Award nomination, Harlem Stomp! is being released in paperback.
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