HSPLS site	Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   My Account   Databases   HI Newspaper   eBooks/Audiobooks   Learning   PC Reservation   Reading Program

Basic Advanced Power History

Search:  Title BrowseAuthor BrowseSubject BrowseBest Seller BrowseMusic Title BrowseVideo/DVD Title BrowseJournal/Newspaper Title BrowseSerial Title BrowseSeries Browse (includes Bestseller List)General KeywordTitle KeywordAuthor KeywordSubject KeywordName KeywordSeries KeywordScore Title BrowseTalking Book Title BrowseAwards Note BrowseBib No.Barcode       Refine Search     > You're searching: HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Larson, Edward J. (Edward John), author.     Subjects     Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.     Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.     African Americans -- History -- 18th century.     United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.     United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Larson, Edward J. (Edward John), author.       by title:      American inheritance...         MARC Display

American inheritance : liberty and slavery in the birth of a nation, 1765-1795 / Edward J. Larson. by Larson, Edward J. (Edward John), author. New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023] Subjects Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.   Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.   African Americans -- History -- 18th century.   United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence.   United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.   United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775. ISBN:  9780393882209 (hardcover) : 0393882209 (hardcover) Description:  x, 358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction: Crèvecoeur's question: "What is an American?" -- "A rabble of negros &c.": The first shots for Liberty, 1770 -- Imperial protests and the metaphor of slavery: 1765-1769 -- A practice "so odious": The legality of slavery, 1770-1774 -- The declaration of liberty: 1774-1776 -- "Liberty is Sweet": an illusive promise, 1776-1778 -- "Contending for the sweets of freedom": 1778-1781 -- A house dividing: liberty and slavery under the Confederation, 1781-1787 -- The compromised convention: 1787 -- "We, the states": ratifying liberty and slavery, 1787-1788 -- "I am free": liberty and slavery under the federal government, 1789-1795 -- Banneker's answer: I am an American. Requests:  0 Summary:  "From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding. New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slavery or a landmark in the antislavery movement? Leaders of the founding who called for American liberty are scrutinized for enslaving Black people themselves: George Washington consistently refused to recognize the freedom of those who escaped his Mount Vernon plantation. And we have long needed a history of the founding that fully includes Black Americans in the Revolutionary protests, the war, and the debates over slavery and freedom that followed. We now have that history in Edward J. Larson's insightful synthesis of the founding. With slavery thriving in Britain's Caribbean empire and practiced in all of the American colonies, the independence movement's calls for liberty proved narrow, though some Black observers and others made their full implications clear. In the war, both sides employed strategies to draw needed support from free and enslaved Blacks, whose responses varied by local conditions. By the time of the Constitutional Convention, a widening sectional divide shaped the fateful compromises over slavery that would prove disastrous in the coming decades. Larson's narrative delivers poignant moments that deepen our understanding: we witness New York's tumultuous welcome of Washington as liberator through the eyes of Daniel Payne, a Black man who had escaped enslavement at Mount Vernon two years before. Indeed, throughout Larson's brilliant history it is the voices of Black Americans that prove the most convincing of all on the urgency of liberty"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 973.3 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3 Larson Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList North Kohala Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.