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Book Synopsis Speech of D. C. Broderick of California, Against the Admission of Kansas, Under the Lecompton Constitution by : David Colbreth Broderick
Download or read book Speech of D. C. Broderick of California, Against the Admission of Kansas, Under the Lecompton Constitution written by David Colbreth Broderick and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democratic Speeches on Kansas written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lincoln and California by : Brian McGinty
Download or read book Lincoln and California written by Brian McGinty and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ties that bound Abraham Lincoln to California, and California to Lincoln, have long been overlooked by historians. Although the great Civil War president has been the subject of thousands of books, his important relationship with the Western state, both before and during the war--the part it played in bringing on the great conflict and the help it gave him in winning it--have been little described and imperfectly understood. In Lincoln and California Brian McGinty explains the relationship between the president and the Golden State, describing important events that took place in California and elsewhere during Lincoln's lifetime. He includes the histories of Lincoln's close friends and personal acquaintances who made history as they went to California, lived there, and helped to keep it part of the imperiled Union. McGinty demonstrates that California was in large part responsible for beginning the Civil War, as the principal purpose of its conquest in the Mexican War was to acquire land into which the Southern states could extend their cotton-growing and slaveholding empire. The decision of California's first voters to exclude slavery from the state but to enact virulently racist legislation encouraged Southerners' hope that, if they established a separate republic, it would become an independent slave nation with the power to extend its territory to the Pacific coast of North America and into the Caribbean and Latin America. Lincoln's opposition to their plans unleashed the Civil War. As the struggle played out, however, the hopes of the proslavery Confederates were ultimately defeated because California played a vital role in helping Lincoln save the Union. Lincoln and California shines new light on an important state, a pivotal president, and a turning point in American history.
Download or read book Miscellany 1840-1858 written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Archy Lee's Struggle for Freedom by : Brian McGinty
Download or read book Archy Lee's Struggle for Freedom written by Brian McGinty and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In San Francisco, CA, in 1858, a young African American man was freed from the claims of a white man who sought to return him to slavery in Mississippi. This was one year after the Supreme Court’s notorious Dred Scott decision and during the California Gold Rush, which saw the population of the state rise from 7,000 to more than 60,000 in a few short years. Archy Lee was the name of the man who, with the aid of anti-slavery lawyers and determined opponents of human bondage, had just won his freedom from the claims of Charles Stovall. With the aid of pro-slavery lawyers and equally determined supporters, Stovall had sought to capture him and carry him back to a far-away slave plantation. Yet the book is not solely about Archy Lee. It is also about the travel routes that the gold-seekers followed to California in the 1850s, some by land over the Great Plains, some by sea around Cape Horn, yet others by sailing from the east coast of North America to the isthmus of Panama, where they crossed over the land there by train and continued on by sea to San Francisco. It is about the efforts of the racially motivated lawmakers to suppress the rights of all of California’s residents except whites, and to subject people of African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American descent to second-, third-, or even fourth-class citizenship. It is about the residents of the state—including many whites—who fought back against those efforts, seeking to ameliorate or repeal the discriminatory laws and introduce a measure of fairness and justice into California’s civil life. It is about the lawyers and judges who participated in Archy Lee’s legal struggles in 1858, some supporting his claims for freedom while others ferociously opposed them and, in the process, elevated their own political and professional profiles.
Download or read book The Illustrated American written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Race Horse Men by : Katherine C. Mooney
Download or read book Race Horse Men written by Katherine C. Mooney and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race Horse Men recaptures the vivid sights, sensations, and illusions of nineteenth-century thoroughbred racing, America’s first mass spectator sport. Inviting readers into the pageantry of the racetrack, Katherine C. Mooney conveys the sport’s inherent drama while also revealing the significant intersections between horse racing and another quintessential institution of the antebellum South: slavery. A popular pastime across American society, horse racing was most closely identified with an elite class of southern owners who bred horses and bet large sums of money on these spirited animals. The central characters in this story are not privileged whites, however, but the black jockeys, grooms, and horse trainers who sometimes called themselves race horse men and who made the racetrack run. Mooney describes a world of patriarchal privilege and social prestige where blacks as well as whites could achieve status and recognition and where favored slaves endured an unusual form of bondage. For wealthy white men, the racetrack illustrated their cherished visions of a harmonious, modern society based on human slavery. After emancipation, a number of black horsemen went on to become sports celebrities, their success a potential threat to white supremacy and a source of pride for African Americans. The rise of Jim Crow in the early twentieth century drove many horsemen from their jobs, with devastating consequences for them and their families. Mooney illuminates the role these too often forgotten men played in Americans’ continuing struggle to define the meaning of freedom.
Book Synopsis Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Date index by :
Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Date index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Senate During the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of California by : California. Legislature. Senate
Download or read book The Journal of the Senate During the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Slavery, a Bibliographic Guide to the Microfiche Collection by : Microfilming Corporation of America
Download or read book Slavery, a Bibliographic Guide to the Microfiche Collection written by Microfilming Corporation of America and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Senate of the State of California at the ... Session of the Legislature by : California. Legislature. Senate
Download or read book Journal of the Senate of the State of California at the ... Session of the Legislature written by California. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Our First Century by : Richard Miller Devens
Download or read book Our First Century written by Richard Miller Devens and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Senate ... of the Legislature of the State of California ... by : California. Legislature. Senate
Download or read book The Journal of the Senate ... of the Legislature of the State of California ... written by California. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Senate of the State of California by : California. Legislature. Senate
Download or read book Journal of the Senate of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American State Trials by : John Davison Lawson
Download or read book American State Trials written by John Davison Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 by : Library Company of Philadelphia
Download or read book Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by Boston : G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1973 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Duelling Through the Ages by : Stephen Wynn
Download or read book Duelling Through the Ages written by Stephen Wynn and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting aside Roman gladiators and gun-slingers of the American Wild West, by the 19th century duelling had become the sole domain of nobility, military officers and gentleman, with rules added to make sure everything was conducted in a fair and professional manner. The word 'honour' became popular, because it was the reason why most men would challenge another to a duel. This book challenges that notion and asks whether it was really about honour at all, or was it more about arrogance or social standing? Over time kings, leaders and governments passed rules, decrees, edicts and laws banning the practice, but still it continued, even when the duellists knew that the punishment for taking part in such an event could be their own death. The last known duel with swords in France took place at a private residence just outside of Paris in 1967 between two politicians, Gaston Deferre and Rene Ribiere. It was ended after Ribiere, who was due to be married the following day, was twice cut on the arm by Gaston. The book also looks at some of the more humorous, unusual and least expected ways people found to conduct their duels, including throwing billiard balls at each other, duelling whilst sat on the backs of elephants, and two men who decided their differences should be settled half a mile up in the sky in hot air balloons. With more efforts to bring about an end to duelling, the upper classes of British society in particular still held on to the idea of being able to defend their honour, which saw many of them turn to pugilism as a way to sate their disputes, however ridiculous they might appear today.
