Free Men All

Author : Thomas D. Morris
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584771070
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Men All written by Thomas D. Morris and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the Impact of the Idealism of the Personal Liberty Laws of Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin The Personal Liberty Laws reflected the social ethical commitment to freedom from slavery and as such were among the bricks that laid the foundation for the Fourteenth Amendment. Morris examines those statutes as enacted in the five representative states Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin, and argues that these laws were an alternative to the violence allowed by the southern slave codes and the extreme abolitionist viewpoints of the north. Thomas D. Morris [1938-] taught in the Department of History, Portland State University and is the author of Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. CONTENTS I. Slavery and Emancipation: the Rise of Conflicting Legal Systems II. Kidnapping and Fugitives: Early State and Federal Responses III. State "Interposition" 1820-1830: Pennsylvania and New York IV. Assaults Upon the Personal Liberty Laws V. The Antislavery Counterattack VI. The Personal Liberty Laws in the Supreme Court: Prigg v. Pennsylvania VII. The Pursuit of a Containment Policy, 1842-1850 VII. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 IX. Positive Law, Higher Law, and the Via Media X. Interposition, 1854-1858 XI. Habeas Corpus and Total Repudiation 1859-1860 XII. Denouement Appendix Bibliography Index

Author : Katy Simpson Smith
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062407600
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Men written by Katy Simpson Smith and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the highly acclaimed The Story of Land and Sea comes a captivating novel, set in the late eighteenth-century American South, that follows a singular group of companions—an escaped slave, a white orphan, and a Creek Indian—who are being tracked down for murder. In 1788, three men converge in the southern woods of what is now Alabama. Cat, an emotionally scarred white man from South Carolina, is on the run after abandoning his home. Bob is a talkative black man fleeing slavery on a Pensacola sugar plantation, Istillicha, edged out of his Creek town’s leadership, is bound by honor to seek retribution. In the few days they spend together, the makeshift trio commits a shocking murder that soon has the forces of the law bearing down upon them. Sent to pick up their trail, a probing French tracker named Le Clerc must decide which has a greater claim: swift justice, or his own curiosity about how three such disparate, desperate men could act in unison. Katy Simpson Smith skillfully brings into focus men whose lives are both catastrophic and full of hope—and illuminates the lives of the women they left behind. Far from being anomalies, Cat, Bob, and Istillicha are the beating heart of the new America that Le Clerc struggles to comprehend. In these territories caught between European, American, and Native nations, a wilderness exists where four men grapple with the importance of family, the stain of guilt, and the competing forces of power, love, race, and freedom—questions that continue to haunt us today.

Author : Peter P. Hinks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801450303
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Men Free and Brethren written by Peter P. Hinks and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth account of an African American institution that spans the history of the American Republic.

Author : Heather Cox Richardson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465080669
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Make Men Free written by Heather Cox Richardson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, “the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses” (Los Angeles Times) When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet, despite the egalitarian dream at the heart of its founding, the Republican Party quickly became mired in a fundamental identity crisis. Would it be the party of democratic ideals? Or would it be the party of moneyed interests? In the century and a half since, Republicans have vacillated between these two poles, with dire economic, political, and moral repercussions for the entire nation. In To Make Men Free, celebrated historian Heather Cox Richardson traces the shifting ideology of the Grand Old Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession, revealing the insidious cycle of boom and bust that has characterized the Party since its inception. While in office, progressive Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower revived Lincoln's vision of economic freedom and expanded the government, attacking the concentration of wealth and nurturing upward mobility. But they and others like them have been continually thwarted by powerful business interests in the Party. Their opponents appealed to Americans' latent racism and xenophobia to regain political power, linking taxation and regulation to redistribution and socialism. The results of the Party's wholesale embrace of big business are all too familiar: financial collapses like the Panic of 1893, the Great Depression in 1929, and the Great Recession in 2008. With each passing decade, with each missed opportunity and political misstep, the schism within the Republican Party has grown wider, pulling the GOP ever further from its founding principles. Expansive and authoritative, To Make Men Free is a sweeping history of the Party that was once America's greatest political hope -- and, time and time again, has proved its greatest disappointment.

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Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Franchise: Freemen: Free Trade ... By the Author of the People's Blue Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freemen's Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joshua Toulmin Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What is the Corporation of London? and, Who are the Freemen?. written by Joshua Toulmin Smith and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard OTLEY
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wrongs of Englishmen, and the Rights of Freemen: Being a Comparison Between the Pretended English and the Real American Constitutions written by Richard OTLEY and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Richardson (Clerk of the Council.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
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Download or read book Letter VI. To the Freemen of Alnwick written by Robert Richardson (Clerk of the Council.) and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmund Bohun
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the Nation written by Edmund Bohun and published by . This book was released on 1683 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: