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(0)Douglas R Egerton
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 429 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade, launched one of the greatest experiments in American history....
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Lexile measure
1370L
Physical Desc
xiii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Gabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Egerton illuminates the complex motivations that underlay two related Virginia slave revolts: the first, in 1800, led by the slave known as Gabriel; and the second, called the 'Easter Plot,' instigated in 1802 by one of his followers. Although Gabriel has frequently been portrayed as a messianic, Samson-like...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of the Reconstruction years, which marked the United States' most progressive moment prior to the Civil Rights movement, tells the stories of the African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality after the Civil War.
5) Year of meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the election that brought on the Civil War
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
399 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English