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IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Perhaps the most powerful and influential black American of his time, Frederick Douglass, embodied the tumultuous social changes that transformed the United States during the nineteenth century. In a career of unprecedented breadth, Douglass rose from the oppression of his slave's birth to fame as an abolitionist.
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THE BLUEGRASS REGION OF KENTUCKY was the only part of the slaveholding South that Abraham Lincoln knew intimately. Even before the young Illinois lawyer had married a daughter of one of Lexington's leading statesmen, he had taken Robert Todd's close friend, Henry Clay, as his political idol. Mary Todd, who had grown to young womanhood in Lexington, widened Lincoln's circle of acquaintances in the Bluegrass to include such diverse personalities as...
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On 13 December 1776, the Rev. William Turner preached the first avowedly anti-slavery sermon in the North of England. Copies of his sermon were distributed far and wide – in so doing, he had fired the first shot in the battle to end slavery had begun.
Four years later, Rev. Turner, members of his congregation and the Rev. Christopher Wyvill founded 'The Yorkshire Association' to agitate for political and social reform. The Association sought...
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A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is a "supplement" book published to document Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling book and anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. An instant classic, Uncle Tom's Cabin (which was first published in 1852) had a profound impact on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States. Stowe's novel, which was highly controversial at the time, provoked a firestorm of competing and contradictory responses among...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la guerre de Sécession en moins d'une heure!
85 ans après sa déclaration d'Indépendance, la nation américaine se déchire suite à l'élection d'Abraham Lincoln, un républicain abolitionniste. Toutes les tensions se cristallisent autour d'une seule question: faut-il abolir ou non l'esclavage? Alors que les États du Nord souhaitent mettre un terme à cette pratique, les États du Sud y sont farouchement...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la guerra de Secesión, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Profundizar en el contexto en el que empieza la guerra de Secesión de los Estados Unidos, marcado por la elección del abolicionista Abraham Lincoln a la presidencia, algo que no agrada a los estados del sur, que basan su economía en la mano...
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During the first generations of European settlement in North America, a number of interconnected Northeastern families carved out private empires. In Bound by Bondage, Nicole Saffold Maskiell argues that slavery was a crucial component to the rise and enduring influence of this emergent aristocracy. Dynastic families built prestige based on shared notions of mastery, establishing sprawling manorial estates, and securing cross-colonial landholdings...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur David Livingstone et l'exploration de l'Afrique australe en moins d'une heure!
Missionnaire et explorateur écossais, David Livingstone entame, en 1840, un périple long de 16 ans avec un triple objectif: évangéliser les populations locales, trouver de nouvelles voies commerciales pour le Royaume-Uni, et abolir l'esclavage en Afrique. Ce voyage, et les deux autres expéditions qui le suivront, le...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre David Livingstone, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Comprender el contexto en el que se enmarca la vida de David Livingstone, en plena época victoriana del Reino Unido, caracterizada por una prosperidad que favorece los nuevos viajes y exploraciones como los que emprende el aventurero escocés
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