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Black American Writing from the Nadir: The Evolution of a Literary Tradition, 1877-1915
Book Title Author(s) : Dickson D. Bruce
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Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War
Book Title Author(s) : James M. McPherson
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James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the ...Read More

The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865
Book Title Author(s) : Dickson D. Bruce Jr.
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From the earliest texts of the colonial period to works contemporary with Emancipation, African American literature has been a dialogue across color lines, and a medium through which black writers have been able to exert considerable authority on both ...Read More

American Archives
Book Title Author(s) : Shawn Michelle Smith
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Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives Shawn Michelle Smith offers a bold and disturbing account of how photography and the sciences of biological racialism joined forces in the nineteenth century to offer an idea of what Americans loo...Read More

The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers and Finney (History of Evangelicalism)
Book Title Author(s) : John Wolffe
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century the village of Clapham in Surrey still enjoyed a sense of distance from the bustle of London. There the group of evangelicals who would come to be known as the Clapham Sect regularly gathered. William Wilberforce, leader of a long campaign against the slave...Read More

Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (Belknap Press)
Book Title Author(s) : Peter Kolchin
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Two massive systems of unfree labor arose, a world apart from each other, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until they were legally abolished in the mid-nine...Read More

 

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