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Great History Book
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Impending Crisis
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- Unabridged
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Stamped from the Beginning
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- By: Ibram X. Kendi
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Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America - more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.
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a unique civil war perspective
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The period following the Civil War was one of the most controversial eras in American history. This comprehensive account of the period captures the drama of those turbulent years that played such an important role in shaping modern America.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Outdated edition!!
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At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive but also more diverse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Frederick Douglass
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As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence, he bore witness to the brutality of slavery.
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Excellent Biography
- By Adam Shields on 10-22-18
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Lincoln and the Abolitionists
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- By: Fred Kaplan
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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Lincoln, who in afterlife became mythologized as the Great Emancipator, was shaped by the values of the white America into which he was born. While he viewed slavery as a moral crime abhorrent to American principles, he disapproved of antislavery activists. Until the last year of his life, he advocated "voluntary deportation", concerned that free blacks in a white society would result in centuries of conflict.
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An able exploration
- By mark s. zumhagen on 02-24-19
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Battle Cry of Freedom: Volume 1
- By: James M. McPherson
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James M. McPherson, professor emeritus of U.S. history at Princeton, is one of the foremost scholars of the Civil War. In this informative and meticulously researched masterpiece, he clarifies the differing ways of life and philosophy that led to this shattering conflict. Abraham Lincoln wondered whether "in a free government the minority have the right to break up the government". And Jefferson Davis felt "forced to take up arms" to guarantee states' rights.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible audio book
- By Brian on 03-21-10
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No Property in Man
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- By: Sean Wilentz
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Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage at the nation's founding. The acclaimed political historian Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and slavery differently. Although the proslavery side won important concessions, he asserts, antislavery impulses also influenced the framers' work. Far from covering up a crime against humanity, the Constitution restricted slavery's legitimacy under the new national government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent review of Slavery and the Constitution
- By Amazon Customer on 01-01-19
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Soul by Soul
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- By: Walter Johnson
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Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each.
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American Slavery, American Freedom
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- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
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"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The story of slavery's origins in Virginia
- By Jeff Quinn on 08-04-15
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The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
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- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states’ rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to rationalize the secession and the war itself. Unfortunately, skillful propagandists have been so successful in promoting this romanticized view that the Lost Cause has assumed a life of its own.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Putting down "The Great Pro-Slavery Rebellion"
- By Buretto on 07-30-18
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The History of White People
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- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 570
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A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race—not merely a skin color but also a signal of power, prestige, and beauty to be withheld and granted selectively. Ever since the Enlightenment, race theory and its inevitable partner, racism, have followed a crooked road, constructed by dominant peoples to justify their domination of others. Filling a huge gap in historical literature that long focused on the non-white, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, tracing not only the invention of the idea of race but also the frequent worship of “whiteness” for economic, social, scientific, and political ends.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Destroys the myth that race is about skin color
- By Emily L. on 08-25-14
Publisher's Summary
The consensus view of the Civil War - that it was first and foremost a war to restore the Union, and an antislavery war only later when it became necessary for Union victory - dies here.
James Oakes’s groundbreaking history shows how deftly Lincoln and congressional Republicans pursued antislavery throughout the war, pragmatic in policy but steadfast on principle. In the disloyal South the federal government quickly began freeing slaves, immediately and without slaveholder compensation, as they fled to Union lines.
In the loyal Border States the Republicans tried coaxing officials into abolishing slavery gradually with promises of compensation. As the devastating war continued with slavery still entrenched, Republicans embraced a more aggressive military emancipation, triggered by the Emancipation Proclamation. Finally it took a constitutional amendment on abolition to achieve the Union’s primary goal in the war. Here, in a magisterial history, are the intertwined stories of emancipation and the Civil War.
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- Cooper
- US
- 04-09-15
game changer. excellent history of antislavery pol
a much needed recovery Republican antislavrry policy under the freedom national principle. highly recommended reading
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- david allen
- 12-16-16
decent story overall
very repetitive. the narrator was great. goal was to suggest that the Emancipation Proclamation was no big deal.
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