Concord Days
Author | : Amos Bronson Alcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Amos Bronson Alcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amos Bronson Alcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
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Author | : Renee Garrelick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Concord (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
"A topical portrayal of community life during the earlier days of this century as told through the memories of the town's long-time residents"--Pref., p. ix.
Author | : Elise Lemire |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2011-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812204468 |
Concord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War was fought and here that Thoreau came to "live deliberately" on the shores of Walden Pond. Between the Revolution and the settlement of the little cabin with the bean rows, however, Walden Woods was home to several generations of freed slaves and their children. Living on the fringes of society, they attempted to pursue lives of freedom, promised by the rhetoric of the Revolution, and yet withheld by the practice of racism. Thoreau was all but alone in his attempt "to conjure up the former occupants of these woods." Other than the chapter he devoted to them in Walden, the history of slavery in Concord has been all but forgotten. In Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, Elise Lemire brings to life the former slaves of Walden Woods and the men and women who held them in bondage during the eighteenth century. After charting the rise of Concord slaveholder John Cuming, Black Walden follows the struggles of Cuming's slave, Brister, as he attempts to build a life for himself after thirty-five years of enslavement. Brister Freeman, as he came to call himself, and other of the town's slaves were able to leverage the political tensions that fueled the American Revolution and force their owners into relinquishing them. Once emancipated, however, the former slaves were permitted to squat on only the most remote and infertile places. Walden Woods was one of them. Here, Freeman and his neighbors farmed, spun linen, made baskets, told fortunes, and otherwise tried to survive in spite of poverty and harassment. With a new preface that reflects on community developments since the hardcover's publication, Black Walden reminds us that this was a black space before it was an internationally known green space and preserves the legacy of the people who strove against all odds to overcome slavery and segregation.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Concord River (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amos Bronson Alcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
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Author | : A Bronson Alcott |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781017108934 |
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Author | : Arthur Bernon Tourtellot |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Concord (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
Mr. Tourtellot's book is the best account we have of the day of Lexington and Concord. The actions of each individual who played a conspicuous part in the day's work are minutely traced but Mr. Tourtellot never loses the main thread of his narrative and the wealth of detail he has included gives substance and color to an exciting story.' - J.C. Miller, New York Herald Tribune Book Review
Author | : A. Bronson Alcott |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2017-09-16 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781528364287 |
Excerpt from Concord Days All is in the flowing moments. But who shall arrest these and fix the features of the passing person behind the pageantry, and write the diary of one's existence? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : George C. Daughan |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393245756 |
An award-winning historian reinterprets the battle that launched the American Revolution. George C. Daughan’s magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War of Independence. It was, Daughan argues, based as much in economic concerns as political ones. When Massachusetts militiamen turned out in overwhelming numbers to fight the British, they believed they were fighting for their farms and livelihoods, as well as for liberty. Benjamin Franklin was not surprised by this widespread belief. In the years prior to the Revolution, Franklin had toured Great Britain and witnessed the wretched living conditions of the king’s subjects. They wore rags for clothes, went barefoot, and had little to eat. They were not citizens, but serfs. Franklin described the appalling situation in a number of letters home. In the eyes of many American colonists, Britain’s repressive measures were not seen simply as an effort to reestablish political control of the colonies, but also as a means to reduce the prosperous colonists themselves to the serfdom described in the Franklin letters. Another key factor in the outcome of this historic battle, according to Daughan, was the scorn British officers had for colonial fighters. Although the British officers had fought alongside colonial Americans in the ferocious French and Indian War, they failed to anticipate the skill, organization, and sheer numbers of the colonial militias. Daughan explains how British arrogance led them to defeat at the hands of motivated, experienced patriot fighters determined to protect their way of life. Authoritative and immersive, Lexington and Concord gives us a new understanding of a battle that became a template for colonial uprisings in later centuries.