The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil WarDavid Brion Davis, Steven Mintz Drawing on a gold mine of primary documents--including letters, diary entries, personal narratives, political speeches, broadsides, trial transcripts, and contemporary newspaper articles--The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the past to life in a way few histories ever do. Here is a panoramic look at early American history as captured in the words of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and many other historical figures, both famous and obscure. In these pieces, the living voices of the past speak to us from opposing viewpoints--from the vantage point of loyalists as well as patriots, slaves as well as masters. The documents collected here provide a fuller understanding of such historical issues as Columbus's dealings with Native Americans, the Stamp Act Crisis, the Declaration of Independence, the Whiskey Rebellion, the Missouri Crisis, the Mexican War, and Harpers Ferry, to name but a few. Compiled by Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz, and accompanied by extensive illustrations of original documents, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the reader back in time, to meet the men and women who lived through the momentous events that shaped our nation. |
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... populations . And for thousands of years , the institution of slavery has stood as the most extreme example of and metaphor for domination and submission . Although slave labor was never a part of the original European plans for New ...
... populations . And for thousands of years , the institution of slavery has stood as the most extreme example of and metaphor for domination and submission . Although slave labor was never a part of the original European plans for New ...
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... population to a safe refuge . As some of the early selections show , the Indians of the Caribbean and North America were perceived both as noble savages ( but “ timid beyond cure , " as Columbus put it ) and as the incarnation of evil ...
... population to a safe refuge . As some of the early selections show , the Indians of the Caribbean and North America were perceived both as noble savages ( but “ timid beyond cure , " as Columbus put it ) and as the incarnation of evil ...
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... population of military age . In 1834 , when Parliament emanci- pated British colonial slaves , the slaveholders suffered little financial loss since they were compensated with £ 20 million , to say nothing of four more years of " free ...
... population of military age . In 1834 , when Parliament emanci- pated British colonial slaves , the slaveholders suffered little financial loss since they were compensated with £ 20 million , to say nothing of four more years of " free ...
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... population of Mexico never content with their present condition but always desiring a change of government & rulers . Such deep - rooted racial prejudices were pervasive in the North as well as the South . The McCalebs of America never ...
... population of Mexico never content with their present condition but always desiring a change of government & rulers . Such deep - rooted racial prejudices were pervasive in the North as well as the South . The McCalebs of America never ...
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Contents
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PART 2 EUROPEAN COLONIZATION NORTH OF MEXICO | 43 |
PART 3 A LAND OF CONTRASTS | 85 |
PART 4 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR | 123 |
PART 5 THE AGE OF REVOLUTION 17651825 | 139 |
PART 6 CREATING A NEW NATION | 211 |
PART 7 ANTEBELLUM AMERICA | 323 |
PART 8 CIVIL WAR | 501 |
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