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Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 564

Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1910
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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SEC Docket
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1088

SEC Docket

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Family Or Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Family Or Freedom

In the antebellum South, the presence of free people of color was problematic to the white population. Not only were they possible assistants to enslaved people and potential members of the labor force; their very existence undermined popular justifications for slavery. It is no surprise that, by the end of the Civil War, nine Southern states had enacted legal provisions for the "voluntary" enslavement of free blacks. What is surprising to modern sensibilities and perplexing to scholars is that some individuals did petition to rescind their freedom. Family or Freedom investigates the incentives for free African Americans living in the antebellum South to sacrifice their liberty for a life in bondage. Author Emily West looks at the many factors influencing these dire decisions -- from desperate poverty to the threat of expulsion -- and demonstrates that the desire for family unity was the most important consideration for African Americans who submitted to voluntary enslavement. The first study of its kind to examine the phenomenon throughout the South, this meticulously researched volume offers the most thorough exploration of this complex issue to date.

British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation

Without pressure from a small but influential group of London financiers, Confederation would not have occurred in 1867, if at all. These financiers supported the unification of the British North American colonies because they believed it would rescue their under-performing investments and keep British North America within the British Empire. Andrew Smith discusses the role of British investors in Canadian Confederation, covering the period from the construction of the Grand Trunk Railroad in the 1850s to Canada's purchase of Rupert's Land in 1869-70. He describes how some investors lobbied the British government for the policies that made Confederation possible, working closely with the Fat...

Winchendon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Winchendon

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Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Reserve Officers on Active Duty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1156
Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 782

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1982
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Register of Retired Commissioned and Warrant Officers, Regular and Reserve, of the United States Navy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 832