An Unholy Traffic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Unholy Traffic write by Robert K. D. Colby. This book was released on 2024. An Unholy Traffic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Civil War, enslavers bought and sold thousands of people, extending a traffic in humanity that had long underpinned American slavery. Despite the pressures of blockades, economic collapse, and unfolding emancipation, the slave trade survived to the war's end. This book provides a vivid look at life within the trade in slaves and tells the story of the wartime slave trade from the perspective of both participants in it and those subjected to it.
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution write by James Oakes. This book was released on 2021-01-12. The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States. Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery. With this understanding, Lincoln and his antislavery allies used every tool available to undermine the institution. Wherever the Constitution empowered direct federal action—in the western territories, in the District of Columbia, over the slave trade—they intervened. As a congressman in 1849 Lincoln sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in Washington, DC. He reentered politics in 1854 to oppose what he considered the unconstitutional opening of the territories to slavery by the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He attempted to persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition with compensation for slaveholders and the colonization of free Blacks abroad. President Lincoln took full advantage of the antislavery options opened by the Civil War. Enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were declared free. The Emancipation Proclamation, a military order of the president, undermined slavery across the South. It led to abolition by six slave states, which then joined the coalition to affect what Lincoln called the "King’s cure": state ratification of the constitutional amendment that in 1865 finally abolished slavery.
Outlines of British Colonisation
Outlines of British Colonisation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Outlines of British Colonisation write by William Henry Parr Greswell. This book was released on 1893. Outlines of British Colonisation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lord Shaftesbury
Lord Shaftesbury - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lord Shaftesbury write by John Wesley Bready. This book was released on 1927. Lord Shaftesbury available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lord Shaftesbury and Social-industrial Progress
Lord Shaftesbury and Social-industrial Progress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lord Shaftesbury and Social-industrial Progress write by John Wesley Bready. This book was released on 1927. Lord Shaftesbury and Social-industrial Progress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.