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Facts & Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts And Slavery: 9 Projects, 20 Blocks, First-person Accounts
added by smiling on November 7, 2006 11:06 AM
* Celebrate and continue an American quilt tradition * Combines history and quilting * Great for homeschoolers--includes curriculum! Enslaved peoples in the American South preserved their memories...
The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror
added by shirley49 on November 22, 2006 2:57 AM
On a typical day, you might make a call on a cell phone, withdraw money at an ATM, visit the mall, and make a purchase with a credit card. Each of these routine transactions leaves a digital trail ...
Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers
added by dannyboy on November 26, 2006 4:03 AM
The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and the president's constitutional war powers went to the heart of Lincoln's presidency. Jame...
Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers
added by shawn on November 18, 2006 10:41 AM
The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and the president's constitutional war powers went to the heart of Lincoln's presidency. Jame...
Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (Belknap Press)
added by fabio on November 28, 2006 12:24 PM
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 se...
Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)
added by crafty1 on November 13, 2006 6:32 PM
Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to find a way to abolish slavery that would overcome the inadequacie...
Though the Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery
added by benzdrives on November 16, 2006 4:00 AM
"Brings to brilliant life the great case that started the downfall of slavery on both sides of the Atlantic." -Anthony Lewis, author of Gideon's Trumpet The case of James Somerset, an escaped slav...
Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery
added by wendi on October 29, 2006 9:17 PM
Are African-Americans still slaves? Why can't Black folks get together? What is the psychological consequence for Blacks and Whites of picturing God as a Caucasian? Learn to break the chains of yo...
Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson
added by wellness on November 28, 2006 5:02 PM
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