Libertys Chain

Author : David N. Gellman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501715860
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty’s Chain written by David N. Gellman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. The Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family. John Jay, diplomat, Supreme Court justice, and coauthor of the Federalist Papers, and his children and grandchildren helped chart the course of the Early American Republic. Liberty's Chain forges a new path for thinking about slavery and the nation's founding. John Jay served as the inaugural president of a pioneering antislavery society. His descendants, especially his son William Jay and his grandson John Jay II, embraced radical abolitionism in the nineteenth century, the cause most likely to rend the nation. The scorn of their elite peers—and racist mobs—did not deter their commitment to end southern slavery and to combat northern injustice. John Jay's personal dealings with African Americans ranged from callousness to caring. Across the generations, even as prominent Jays decried human servitude, enslaved people and formerly enslaved people served in Jay households. Abbe, Clarinda, Caesar Valentine, Zilpah Montgomery, and others lived difficult, often isolated, lives that tested their courage and the Jay family's principles. The personal and the political intersect in this saga, as Gellman charts American values transmitted and transformed from the colonial and revolutionary eras to the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond. The Jays, as well as those who served them, demonstrated the elusiveness and the vitality of liberty's legacy. This remarkable family story forces us to grapple with what we mean by patriotism, conservatism, and radicalism. Their story speaks directly to our own divided times.

Author : Jayme Maccullough
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537080536
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chain of Liberty written by Jayme Maccullough and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has problems, but there is a solution. Throughout history, leaders and nations have attempted to control and contain their citizens while others have worked to counter them. Significant individuals, decisions, and documents have been turning points in the history of liberty, from the beginning of the human race to today. The principles of liberty are unchanging and timeless. When understood and applied by individuals, they transform lives and nations. The United States exemplifies this to the world. Taking a broad but factual approach to explaining the pathway of liberty through past events, the first part of this book simplifies the language and principles of liberty. In the next section, readers learn about the history and succession of liberty in process and action from ancient to modern times-the ideologies of various governments; the governmental influence of the early church and the Reformation; and, eventually, the founding of the United States and the expansion and erosion of American government. This book will help you understand the principles and history of liberty that have enabled individuals to enjoy the personal liberties of today. It will equip the reader to understand, restore, and preserve them.

Author : Francis Gellatly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Necklace of Liberty written by Francis Gellatly and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laurie Halse Anderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416905863
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chains written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom. From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual.

Author : Elizabeth Mann
Publisher : Mikaya Press
ISBN 13 : 1931414459
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statue of Liberty written by Elizabeth Mann and published by Mikaya Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a brief history of the Statue of Liberty and describes how France gave the statue to New York City to commemorate the realtionship between the two countries, the creation and erection of the statue, and how its meaning has changed.

Author : Elizabeth Mitchell
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192556
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty's Torch written by Elizabeth Mitchell and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Turns out that what you thought you knew about Lady Liberty is dead wrong. Learn the truth in this fascinating account.” —O, The Oprah Magazine The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable monuments in the world, a powerful symbol of freedom and the American dream. For decades, the myth has persisted that the statue was a grand gift from France, but now Liberty’s Torch reveals how she was in fact the pet project of one quixotic and visionary French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. Bartholdi not only forged this 151-foot-tall colossus in a workshop in Paris and transported her across the ocean, but battled to raise money for the statue and make her a reality. A young sculptor inspired by a trip to Egypt where he saw the pyramids and Sphinx, he traveled to America, carrying with him the idea of a colossal statue of a woman. There he enlisted the help of notable people of the age—including Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Pulitzer, Victor Hugo, Gustave Eiffel, and Thomas Edison—to help his scheme. He also came up with inventive ideas to raise money, including exhibiting the torch at the Philadelphia world’s fair and charging people to climb up inside. While the French and American governments dithered, Bartholdi made the statue a reality by his own entrepreneurship, vision, and determination. “By explaining Liberty’s tortured history and resurrecting Bartholdi’s indomitable spirit, Mitchell has done a great service. This is narrative history, well told. It is history that connects us to our past and—hopefully—to our future.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107689538
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty Before Liberalism written by Quentin Skinner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry.

Author : Ann Rinaldi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439108802
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Liberty written by Ann Rinaldi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was four and my daddy left, I cried, but I understood. He had become part of the Gone. Oney Judge is a slave. But on the plantation of Mount Vernon, the beautiful home of George and Martha Washington, she is not called a slave. She is referred to as a servant, and a house servant at that -- a position of influence and respect. When she rises to the position of personal servant to Martha Washington, her status among the household staff -- black or white -- is second to none. She is Lady Washington's closest confidante and for all intents and purposes, a member of the family -- or so she thinks. Slowly, Oney's perception of her life with the Washingtons begins to crack as she realizes the truth: No matter what it's called, it's still slavery and she's still a slave. Oney must make a choice. Does she stay where she is -- comfortable, with this family that has loved her and nourished her and owned her since the day she was born? Or does she take her liberty -- her life -- into her own hands, and like her father, become one of the Gone? Told with immense power and compassion, Taking Liberty is the extraordinary true story of one young woman's struggle to take what is rightfully hers.

Author : Jacob Mahlangu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781974572076
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Individualism Liberty Vs Collectivism Community written by Jacob Mahlangu and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychological, philosophical, Political and sociological book which enquires on the interaction of an individual with society.

Author : O. G.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty: a chain of broken links, and other poems, by O.G. written by O. G. and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: