Description: Further DetailsTitle: Death or LibertyCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackSubtitle: African Americans and Revolutionary AmericaISBN-10: 0199782253EAN: 9780199782253ISBN: 9780199782253Publisher: Oxford University Press IncRelease Date: 06/09/2011Description: In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving the households of Boston's elite. More important, he recaptures the drama of slaves, freed blacks, and white reformers fighting to make the young nation fulfill its republican slogans. Although this struggle often unfolded in the corridors of power, Egerton pays special attention to what black Americans did for themselves in these decades, and his narrative brims with compelling portraits of forgotten African American activists and rebels, who battled huge odds and succeeded in finding liberty--if never equality--only in northern states. Egerton concludes that despite the real possibility of peaceful, if gradual, emancipation, the Founders ultimately lacked the courage to end slavery.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 231mmItem Length: 155mmItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 476gAuthor: Douglas R. EgertonGenre: HistoryTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Death or Liberty
Title: Death or Liberty
Subtitle: African Americans and Revolutionary America
ISBN-10: 0199782253
EAN: 9780199782253
ISBN: 9780199782253
Release Date: 06/09/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Death or Liberty : African Americans and Revolutionary America
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / General, African American
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 1.1 in
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Douglas R. Egerton
Subject Area: History
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
