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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made 12 reviews
Eugene D. Genovese
Vintage, 1976
A Tour de Force of American History
+ History research
+ The greatest achievement of American historical writing
+ Roll Jordan Roll
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In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 1 review
James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton
Oxford University Press, USA, 1998
An Important Statement on the Role of African Americans in the Antebellum North
One of the most important developments in the historiography of the antebellum abolitionist crusade is the emphasis on the role of free blacks in the North as shapers of the national agenda. We have long known of Frederick Douglass's role in this regard, of course, but in the 1960s historians began ...
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Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress4 reviews
William Lee Miller
Knopf, 1996
a revelation
+ It surpassed all expectations
+ One of the best American History books I've read this yr
+ An enaging work on an important period of American history.
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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America50 reviews
Jon Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, ...
Twin Palms Publishers, 2000
Profound Metaphor, for the graphic brutality of Slavery in America
+ A lesson for all of us.
+ without sanctuary
+ Healing from the hurts of racism
+ Stunning, both inside and out
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John Brown (Modern Library Classics)5 reviews
W.E.B. Du Bois
Modern Library, 2001
John Brown: An American Hero
+ Strike the Blow
+ John Brown: What a great guy
+ j. brown
+ An Amazing Man
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The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-17175 reviews
Alan Gallay
Yale University Press, 2003
Portents and Premonitions
+ Careful Analysis - 3.5 to 4 Rating
+ Excellent writing
+ The best book on the subject
+ The Indian Slave Trade
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Atlantic Slave Trade1 review
Philip D. Curtin
University of Wisconsin Press, 1972
Overall, I liked this book.
There are many aspects to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. There is the issue of the African disporia, where many Africans were taken from their homes to another completely different country. There are the moral issues about slavery and who was involved and to what extent. Also, there are the ...
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Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Louisiana State University Press, 1997
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The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South. 2d ed., with new ...1 review
Eugene D. Genovese
Wesleyan, 1988
Fine Resource
In this engaging text, the author outlines both the profitable aspects of slavery that allowed the institution to become so widespread, and the detrimental (financially and otherwise) aspects that became clear only much later and allowed the system to finally collapse onto itself through the ...
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The Free and the Unfree: A New History of the United States; Second Edition (Penguin Books) 2 reviews
Peter N. Carroll, David W. Noble
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992
Both Sides
Peter Carroll and David Noble have written a brilliant book dealing with the founding and development of the Americas. This book opens the readers eyes and suggests many things that a learner of American history through the standard text book are deprived. I have also been privileged to be ...
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Racism, Revolution, Reaction, 1861-1877: The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction4 reviews
Peter Camejo
Pathfinder Press (NY), 1977
Why racism still exists
+ The roots of racism in North America
+ the second American revolution and its aftermath
+ para comprender el racismo
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Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868 2 reviews
Brooks D. Simpson
The University of North Carolina Press, 1997
An excellent book for the serious student of Reconstruction
+ A Story Unknown to Many
As a person with some knowledge of the Civil War and Reconstruction, I found LET US HAVE PEACE extremely well written, very readable and highly informative. However, I do not believe that it is for the casual reader. The book deals with a very specific time and a very specific subject: Grant's ...
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From African to Yankee: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum New England
M.E. Sharpe, 1998
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Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century (Yale Historical ...1 review
Barbara Jeanne Fields
Yale University Press, 1987
A must read for serious students of the American Civil War.
There are seemingly as many books on the American Civil War as there are stars in the sky, and one would think that every conceivable topic has been covered adnauseam and in truth, many have been. However, in Slavery on the Middle Ground, Professor Fields has written on a subject which, ...
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War20 reviews
Nicholas Lemann
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
Beyond Redemption
+ Lemann recounts an era when terrorists oveturned Civil War promise of racial justice
+ A Needed Corrective
+ Last Battle?
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An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (Early American Studies)2 reviews
Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000
Fascinating
+ ever wonder why....
A thorough treatment of a topic that few people (or at least me) had ever considered. Far from being insignificant islands, the Caribbean colonies were just as important to the British as the American colonies, and O'Shaughnessy makes a convincing case that the difference in the colonies' attitude ...
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The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 192117 reviews
Tim Madigan
St. Martin's Griffin, 2003
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG?
+ An unknown massacre in American history.
+ Balancing History & Narrative
+ Tulsa's Nightmare
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (Galaxy Books)11 reviews
Eric Foner
Oxford University Press, USA, 1971
Excellent background
+ Graduate Student Review
+ Oldie but Goodie
+ Early Republican Revolution
+ IN THE HEROIC AGE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
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Slave Narratives (Library of America)3 reviews
William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates
Library of America, 2000
The Voices of American Slaves
+ A fine cross-section of African-American slavery experiences
+ A searing collective portrait of life before emanicipation.
This book is a collection of ten narratives that document the nature of American slavery from colonial times to the eve of the Civil War. There are some familar narratives, particularly that of Frederick Douglass (who has a volume of his own in the Library of America series) as well as many ...
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Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (Omohundro ...8 reviews
Woody Holton
The University of North Carolina Press, 1999
A must read for anyone even attempting to study the era.
+ Who Were America's First Freedom Fighters?
+ great read
One of the most common misconceptions of Americans today centers around the revolutionary war, specifically the fact that this war was caused by colonist unrest due to excessive taxation, chiefly in Massachusetts. Fortunately, Holton is able to modify this fallacy, as he presents towards massive ...
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