The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil WarDavid Brion Davis, Steven Mintz Drawing on a gold mine of primary documents--including letters, diary entries, personal narratives, political speeches, broadsides, trial transcripts, and contemporary newspaper articles--The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the past to life in a way few histories ever do. Here is a panoramic look at early American history as captured in the words of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and many other historical figures, both famous and obscure. In these pieces, the living voices of the past speak to us from opposing viewpoints--from the vantage point of loyalists as well as patriots, slaves as well as masters. The documents collected here provide a fuller understanding of such historical issues as Columbus's dealings with Native Americans, the Stamp Act Crisis, the Declaration of Independence, the Whiskey Rebellion, the Missouri Crisis, the Mexican War, and Harpers Ferry, to name but a few. Compiled by Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz, and accompanied by extensive illustrations of original documents, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the reader back in time, to meet the men and women who lived through the momentous events that shaped our nation. |
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... Early Virginia 52 4. " My brother and my wife are dead " 52 Sebastian Brandt , January 13 , 1622 Race War in Virginia 52 5. " They basely and barbarously murdered , not sparing either age or sex " 52 Edward Waterhouse , 1622 Indentured ...
... Early Virginia 52 4. " My brother and my wife are dead " 52 Sebastian Brandt , January 13 , 1622 Race War in Virginia 52 5. " They basely and barbarously murdered , not sparing either age or sex " 52 Edward Waterhouse , 1622 Indentured ...
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... early selections show , the Indians of the Caribbean and North America were perceived both as noble savages ( but “ timid beyond cure , " as Columbus put it ) and as the incarnation of evil . This was partly because they represented ...
... early selections show , the Indians of the Caribbean and North America were perceived both as noble savages ( but “ timid beyond cure , " as Columbus put it ) and as the incarnation of evil . This was partly because they represented ...
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... early 1830s a new generation of abolitionists took up the cry " Immediate emancipation ! " This slogan , which had different connotations and consequences in England , was much misunderstood in America ; yet immediatism directly ...
... early 1830s a new generation of abolitionists took up the cry " Immediate emancipation ! " This slogan , which had different connotations and consequences in England , was much misunderstood in America ; yet immediatism directly ...
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... early doc- uments , dated 1705 , shows the rage expressed by the governor of Massachusetts , Joseph Dudley , when two cart drivers refused to make way for his carriage and then failed to exhibit what Dudley considered the proper kind of ...
... early doc- uments , dated 1705 , shows the rage expressed by the governor of Massachusetts , Joseph Dudley , when two cart drivers refused to make way for his carriage and then failed to exhibit what Dudley considered the proper kind of ...
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... early extension of suffrage in America to virtually all white males , at a time when England , for example , limited voting to men of considerable property , distracted atten- tion from the denial of suffrage to women and from the fact ...
... early extension of suffrage in America to virtually all white males , at a time when England , for example , limited voting to men of considerable property , distracted atten- tion from the denial of suffrage to women and from the fact ...
Contents
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PART 2 EUROPEAN COLONIZATION NORTH OF MEXICO | 43 |
PART 3 A LAND OF CONTRASTS | 85 |
PART 4 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR | 123 |
PART 5 THE AGE OF REVOLUTION 17651825 | 139 |
PART 6 CREATING A NEW NATION | 211 |
PART 7 ANTEBELLUM AMERICA | 323 |
PART 8 CIVIL WAR | 501 |
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