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A First Look At The Worst: Slavery And Race Relations At The College Of William And Mary, Terry L. Meyers
A First Look At The Worst: Slavery And Race Relations At The College Of William And Mary, Terry L. Meyers
Terry Meyers
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Thinking About Slavery At The College Of William And Mary, Terry L. Meyers
Thinking About Slavery At The College Of William And Mary, Terry L. Meyers
Terry Meyers
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The Young White Faces Of Slavery, Mary Niall Mitchell
The Young White Faces Of Slavery, Mary Niall Mitchell
Mary Niall Mitchell
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[Review Of The Book William Johnson’S Natchez: The Ante-Bellum Diary Of A Free Negro], Nick Salvatore
[Review Of The Book William Johnson’S Natchez: The Ante-Bellum Diary Of A Free Negro], Nick Salvatore
Nick Salvatore
[Excerpt] To raise this issue of Johnson's silences and social isolation is not to engage in historical pity. He made choices from the options available to him and suffered the consequences as they developed. But his history underscores the fact that slavery generated a corresponding social system that was unforgiving to the individual caught in its contradictory currents. As Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark suggest in Black Masters, their sensitive study of another slave owner and ex-slave, William Ellison of South Carolina, a purely personal solution to such volatile social relations proved impossible. What bound William Johnson to …
[Review Of The Book The Trials Of Anthony Burns: Freedom And Slavery In Emerson's Boston], Nick Salvatore
[Review Of The Book The Trials Of Anthony Burns: Freedom And Slavery In Emerson's Boston], Nick Salvatore
Nick Salvatore
[Excerpt] The intellectual core of The Trials of Anthony Burns explores the connection between Ralph Waldo Emerson and the New England Transcendentalists and the abolitionist cause. Ideas effect social life, von Frank insists, and he examines that point in a rich analysis that weaves intellectual, religious, political, and cultural perspectives into a sophisticated and detailed narrative. Emersonians came to embrace abolitionist activity as a central component of their philosophical idealism, particularly during the i850s. In an interesting way, the Burns case called upon many of New England's social and cultural elites to rethink their understanding of the relationship between idea …
Stanford University's Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Program
Stanford University's Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Program
Joanne Braxton
Stanford University's Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Program Pdf
Stanford University's Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference Program Pdf
Joanne Braxton