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Complicated Lives: Free Blacks In Virginia, 1619-1865, Sherri L. Burr

Faculty Book Display Case

Would the United States have developed differently if Virginia had not passed a law in 1670 proclaiming all subsequently arriving Africans as servants for life, or slaves? What if the state had not stripped all Free Blacks and Indians of voting rights in 1723, or outlawed interracial sex for 337 years?

Complicated Lives upends the pervasive belief that all Africans landing on the shores of Virginia beginning in late August 1619, became slaves. In reality, many of these kidnap victims received the status of indentured servants. Indeed, hundreds of thousands of free African Americans in the South and North owned …

Civil War Congress And The Creation Of Modern America: A Revolution On The Home Front, Paul Finkelman, Donald R. Kennon

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

Most literature on the Civil War focuses on soldiers, battles, and politics. But for every soldier in the United States Army, there were nine civilians at home. The war affected those left on the home front in many ways. Westward expansion and land ownership increased. The draft disrupted families while a shortage of male workers created opportunities for women that were previously unknown.

The war also enlarged the national government in ways unimagined before 1861. The Homestead Act, the Land Grant College Act, civil rights legislation, the use of paper currency, and creation of the Internal Revenue Service to collect …

Dorothy Moser Medlin Papers - Accession 1049, Dorothy Moser Medlin

Manuscript Collection

(The Dorothy Moser Medlin Papers are currently in processing.)

This collection contains most of the records of Dorothy Medlin’s work and correspondence and also includes reference materials, notes, microfilm, photographic negatives related both to her professional and personal life. Additions include a FLES Handbook, co-authored by Dorothy Medlin and a decorative mirror belonging to Dorothy Medlin.

Major series in this collection include: some original 18th century writings and ephemera and primary source material of André Morellet, extensive collection of secondary material on André Morellet's writings and translations, Winthrop related files, literary manuscripts and notes by Dorothy Medlin (1966-2011), copies …

The Kennedy Justice Department's Enforcement Of Civil Rights: A View From The Trenches, Brian K. Landsberg

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Books

The Kennedy Justice Department's Enforcement of Civil Rights: A View from the Trenches, in The Kennedy Justice Department’s Enforcement of Civil Rights: A View from the Trenches, in John F. Kennedy History, Memory, Legacy: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry (John Delane Williams et al. eds., 2010) available at www.und.edu/instruct/jfkconference/.

Civil Rights Chronology, January 1961 -- November 1963, in The Kennedy Justice Department’s Enforcement of Civil Rights: A View from the Trenches, in John F. Kennedy History, Memory, Legacy: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry (John Delane Williams et al. eds., 2010) available at www.und.edu/instruct/jfkconference/.

Civil Government. Its Origin, Mission, And Destiny, And The Christian's Relation To It., David Lipscomb

Stone-Campbell Books

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