Delaware's Counter Revolution
Author | : Andrew A. Zellers-Frederick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : American loyalists |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andrew A. Zellers-Frederick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : American loyalists |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harold Bell Hancock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Tilly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gerald Horne |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2016-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479806897 |
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.
Author | : Federal Writers' Project |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1595342079 |
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Delaware takes the reader on a journey through the coastal beauty of the state, from the Twelve-Mile Circle to the Nanticoke River. Although Delaware is the second smallest state in terms of area, the guide offers 27 driving tours accompanied by engaging photographs and pen-and-ink drawings. Published in 1938, this guide to the First State, also details Delaware’s rich history.
Author | : Federal Writers' Project |
Publisher | : US History Publishers |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Delaware |
ISBN | : 1603540083 |
Author | : John Dickinson |
Publisher | : New York : Outlook Company |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Best Books on |
Publisher | : Best Books on |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1623760089 |
compiled and written by the Federal writers' project of the Works progress administration for the state of Delaware.
Author | : John Andrew Munroe |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780874138726 |
This volume presents a varied sampling of the author's writings from the past sixty years, along with some previously unpublished materials. It begins with a long prologue that the author calls a literary autobiography, and this story is continued and amplified in introductory notes that accompany each of the following items. the relationship between Delaware and the city of Philadelphia. This theme reappears in many guises in the background of other items as, for example, in a summary of New Castle's history, in an investigation of an experiment in nonresident representation in Congress, and in explanation of the unique importance of an early Wilmington collector of customs. In the last essay, previously unpublished, the relationship is personalized in a reminiscence contributing to the autobiographical theme with which the book began. at the University of Delaware.
Author | : Josh Hitchens |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439672962 |
Ghosts and legends of the First State—from haunted houses and historic sites to chilling stories of demon dogs and the Bad Weather Witch. Delaware’s long history has created many ghostly echoes in the present day, places where the souls of the dead have not yet found rest. Experience the eerie legend of Fiddler’s Bridge, meet the ghosts in the Governor’s Mansion and learn the truth behind the Selbyville Swamp Monster. Discover many more terrifying tales that will chill your bones. These are the stories of the most frightening phantoms that lurk in New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties—read them if you dare. Delaware native and paranormal historian Josh Hitchens takes a spooky road trip through the First State.