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Author : Ralph Volney Harlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gerrit Smith, Philanthropist and Reformer written by Ralph Volney Harlow and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph V. Harlow
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ISBN 13 : 9780781251839
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Gerrit Smith written by Ralph V. Harlow and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Author : Justin Butterfield
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Letters written by Justin Butterfield and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters, dated May 13, June 27, and Sept. 14, 1846, from Justin Butterfield, to William H. Swift in Peterboro, N.Y.; and Gerritt Smith, on matters concerning the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Butterfield's letter to Swift, president of the Board of Trustees of the Canal, discusses the Canal Bill (which Butterfield drafted), and the amendments which had been added to it during its passage through the legislature. In particular, Butterfield discusses Section 16 of the original bill, which provides that the bonds held by subscribers to the loan be paid in proportion to the amount subscribed. In the two letters to Gerritt Smith, well-known philanthropist and reformer, Butterfield reports on his success in settling an ejectment case, in which he represented Smith and Messrs. Bronson & Cracken's interest in a lot along the Canal, water lot no. 1 in Kinzie's addition to the town of Chicago. Butterfield asks Smith to send him the $50 he earned for bringing the suit, plus an additional commission of $81.05 for having been successful. His letter of Sept. 14 acknowledges receipt of Smith's check for the full amount of $131.05, although the receipt signed below by John M. Smith for S. Lisle Smith, is for $81.05.
Author : Judith Wellman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092821
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Road to Seneca Falls written by Judith Wellman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminists from 1848 to the present have rightly viewed the Seneca Falls convention as the birth of the women's rights movement in the United States and beyond. In The Road To Seneca Falls, Judith Wellman offers the first well documented, full-length account of this historic meeting in its contemporary context. The convention succeeded by uniting powerful elements of the antislavery movement, radical Quakers, and the campaign for legal reform under a common cause. Wellman shows that these three strands converged not only in Seneca Falls, but also in the life of women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is this convergence, she argues, that foments one of the greatest rebellions of modern times. Rather than working heavy-handedly downward from their official "Declaration of Sentiments," Wellman works upward from richly detailed documentary evidence to construct a complex tapestry of causes that lay behind the convention, bringing the struggle to life. Her approach results in a satisfying combination of social, community, and reform history with individual and collective biographical elements. The Road to Seneca Falls challenges all of us to reflect on what it means to be an American trying to implement the belief that "all men and women are created equal," both then and now. A fascinating story in its own right, it is also a seminal piece of scholarship for anyone interested in history, politics, or gender.
Author : Works Progress Administration. Division of Community Services Programs. Historical Records Survey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Calendar of the Gerrit Smith Papers in the Syracuse University Library written by Works Progress Administration. Division of Community Services Programs. Historical Records Survey and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Historical Records Survey (U.S.). New York (State)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Calendar of the Gerrit Smith Papers in the Syracuse University Library ... written by Historical Records Survey (U.S.). New York (State) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stauffer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043960
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Black Hearts of Men written by John Stauffer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when slavery was spreading and the country was steeped in racism, two white men and two black men overcame social barriers and mistrust to form a unique alliance that sought nothing less than the end of all evil. Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, John Stauffer braids together these men's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of slavery and oppression. Who could imagine that Gerrit Smith, one of the richest men in the country, would give away his wealth to the poor and ally himself with Frederick Douglass, an ex-slave? And why would James McCune Smith, the most educated black man in the country, link arms with John Brown, a bankrupt entrepreneur, along with the others? Distinguished by their interracial bonds, they shared a millennialist vision of a new world where everyone was free and equal. As the nation headed toward armed conflict, these men waged their own war by establishing model interracial communities, forming a new political party, and embracing violence. Their revolutionary ethos bridged the divide between the sacred and the profane, black and white, masculine and feminine, and civilization and savagery that had long girded western culture. In so doing, it embraced a malleable and "black-hearted" self that was capable of violent revolt against a slaveholding nation, in order to usher in a kingdom of God on earth. In tracing the rise and fall of their prophetic vision and alliance, Stauffer reveals how radical reform helped propel the nation toward war even as it strove to vanquish slavery and preserve the peace.
Author : Gerrit SMITH (of Peterboro, N.Y.)
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Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Gerrit Smith, and the Vigilant Association of the City of New-York. (Correspondence, etc.). written by Gerrit SMITH (of Peterboro, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Aptheker
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025203029X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy written by Herbert Aptheker and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a collection of essays by Aptheker, including topics like the maroons, black abolitionists, Reconstruction, and W.E.B. Du Bois, this book shows the critical connection between political commitment and the advancement of scholarship, and points to Aptheker's central place in the development of African American studies.
Author : Mason I. Lowance
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691002279
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book A House Divided written by Mason I. Lowance and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-26 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text
Author : George E. Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317946979
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Afro-American in New York City, l827-l860 written by George E. Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993. This study traces the complex social, economic, religious, and political forces which affected African-Americans and their overall response to them. It more specifically illustrates how the prevailing views and actions of the dominant society serve to limit the aspirations of African-Americans in rising above their supposed place within American life.
Author : Leslie M. Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226824861
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book In the Shadow of Slavery written by Leslie M. Harris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understanding of the history of slavery in America almost entirely ignores the institution’s extensive reach in the North. But the cities of the North were built by—and became the home of—tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans, many of whom would continue to live there as free people after Emancipation. In the Shadow of Slavery reveals the history of African Americans in the nation’s largest metropolis, New York City. Leslie M. Harris draws on travel accounts, autobiographies, newspapers, literature, and organizational records to extend prior studies of racial discrimination. She traces the undeniable impact of African Americans on class distinctions, politics, and community formation by offering vivid portraits of the lives and aspirations of countless black New Yorkers. This new edition includes an afterword by the author addressing subsequent research and the ongoing arguments over how slavery and its legacy should be taught, memorialized, and acknowledged by governments.
Author : James McCune Smith
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ISBN 13 : 0195309618
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Works of James McCune Smith written by James McCune Smith and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first African American to receive a medical degree, this invaluable collection brings together the writings of James McCune Smith, one of the foremost intellectuals in antebellum America. The Selected Writings of James McCune Smith is one of the first anthologies featuring the works of this illustrious scholar. Perhaps best known for his introduction to Fredrick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom, his influence is still found in a number of aspects of modern society and social interactions. And he was considered by many to be a prophet of the twenty-first century. One of the earliest advocates of the use of "black" instead of "colored," McCune Smith treated racial identities as social constructions, arguing that American literature, music, and dance would be shaped and defined by blacks. Organized chronologically, the collection covers over 40 years of writing, including speeches, letters, and essays, and begins with McCune Smith's first speech as an 11-year old boy to the Marquis de Lafayette. Providing historical context for McCune Smith's current cultural relevance, this book showcases writings on black education and self-help, citizenship, and the fight against racism.
Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300218303
Total Pages : 715 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Frederick Douglass Papers written by Frederick Douglass and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second volume of the collected correspondence of the great African-American reformer and abolitionist features correspondence written during the Civil War years The second collection of meticulously edited correspondence with abolitionist, author, statesman, and former slave Frederick Douglass covers the years leading up to the Civil War through the close of the conflict, offering readers an illuminating portrait of an extraordinary American and the turbulent times in which he lived. An important contribution to historical scholarship, the documents offer fascinating insights into the abolitionist movement during wartime and the author's relationship to Abraham Lincoln and other prominent figures of the era.
Author : David E. Swift
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807124994
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Black Prophets of Justice written by David E. Swift and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Prophets of Justice, David E. Swift examines the interlocking careers and influence of six black clergymen, two of them fugitive slaves, who lived in the antebellum North and protested the racism of the time. Samuel Cornish, Theodore Wright, Charles Ray, Henry Highland Garnet, Amos Beman, and James Pennington had much in common: all were noted for their education and eloquence, all were ministers of the earliest black Presbyterian and Congregational churches, and all were activists toward social change.Preachers as well as activists, these men fought, Swift argues, for the melding of religious life and social protest that informed their own lives. As leaders of the black congregations in the primarily white Presbyterian and Congregational denominations, they bore witness to the power of God and the essential oneness and worth of all human beings. As activists, they embraced a wide variety of issues -- including abolitionism, education, fugitive classes, and the civil and political rights -- that greatly affected the lives of Afro-Americans. As editors of the first black newspapers, they unmasked the racism implicit in the movement to colonize freed slaves outside of the United States and in the segregation of black worshipers in white churches. They organized vigilance committees to help escaped slaves, and they held conventions of free blacks in New York and Connecticut that aimed to win rights for blacks through legislation. By teaching Afro-Americans about the glories of their African past and the achievements of more recent individuals of African descent, these leaders grappled with the pernicious heritage of blacks' self-doubt caused by generations of enslavement and white insistence on black inferiority.While they opened the eyes of some influential whites, these activists effected little change in the attitudes and practices of white Americans in their own time. But their contribution to the advancement of the black cause, argues Swift, was substantial. They fed black aspiration, sharpened black discontent, and harnessed both to the creation of new black institutions. Indeed, they laid the foundation for such twentieth-century movements as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.Black Prophets of Justice is a biography of six widely respected clergymen as well as an important discussion of Afro-American activism in the North before the Civil War. Well-researched and well-written, it will be of interest to American church historians, and to all those concerned with Afro-American history or with the social impact of religion in America.
Author : David W. Blight
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807117248
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Frederick Douglass’ Civil War written by David W. Blight and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sensitive intellectual biography David W. Blight undertakes the first systematic analysis of the impact of the Civil War on Frederick Douglass' life and thought, offering new insights into the meaning of the war in American history and in the Afro-American experience. Frederick Douglass' Civil War follows Douglass' intellectual and personal growth from the political crises of the 1850s through secession, war, black enlistment, emancipation, and Reconstruction. This book provides an engrossing story of Douglass' development of a social identity in relation to transforming events, and demonstrates that he saw the Civil War as the Second American Revolution, and himself as one of the founders of a new nation. Through Douglass' life, his voice, and his interpretations we see the Civil War era and its memory in a new light.
Author : Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Gerrit Smith written by Octavius Brooks Frothingham and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
