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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... slavery " 352 Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery , April 13 , 1820 20. " It is not a moral question , but one merely of power " 354 Thomas Jefferson , December 26 , 1820 Slavery and Sectionalism 354 21. “ The ...
... slavery " 352 Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery , April 13 , 1820 20. " It is not a moral question , but one merely of power " 354 Thomas Jefferson , December 26 , 1820 Slavery and Sectionalism 354 21. “ The ...
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... Slavery As It Is : Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses , 1839 Narrative and Testimony of Sarah M. Grimké 396 51. " I left my native state on account of slavery " 396 Sarah M. Grimké in Weld , American Slavery As It Is , 1839 52 ...
... Slavery As It Is : Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses , 1839 Narrative and Testimony of Sarah M. Grimké 396 51. " I left my native state on account of slavery " 396 Sarah M. Grimké in Weld , American Slavery As It Is , 1839 52 ...
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... Slavery " 427 John Quincy Adams , July 15 , 1845 Political Antislavery 428 77. " We have pursued slavery ... into all its hiding places " 428 Gerrit Smith , ca.1840 78. " The Liberty party is what its enemies reproachfully call it - ' a ...
... Slavery " 427 John Quincy Adams , July 15 , 1845 Political Antislavery 428 77. " We have pursued slavery ... into all its hiding places " 428 Gerrit Smith , ca.1840 78. " The Liberty party is what its enemies reproachfully call it - ' a ...
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... SLAVERY 440 The Compromise of 1850 441 85. " What kind of settlement of the slavery question will be made I cannot tell " 441 David R. Atchison , April 5 , 1850 86. " The Compromise Bill is not a pro - Slavery measure " 441 Senator ...
... SLAVERY 440 The Compromise of 1850 441 85. " What kind of settlement of the slavery question will be made I cannot tell " 441 David R. Atchison , April 5 , 1850 86. " The Compromise Bill is not a pro - Slavery measure " 441 Senator ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
PART 1 FIRST ENCOUNTERS | 29 |
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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