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All for Liberty - The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 (Paperback): Jeff Strickland All for Liberty - The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 (Paperback)
Jeff Strickland
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American South. With two accomplices, some sledgehammers, and pickaxes, Nicholas risked his life and helped thirty-six fellow enslaved people escape the workhouse where they had been sent by their enslavers to be tortured. While Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vesey remain the most recognizable rebels, the pivotal role of Nicholas Kelly is often forgotten. All for Liberty centers his rebellion as a decisive moment leading up to the secession of South Carolina from the United States in 1861. This compelling micro-history navigates between Nicholas's story and the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, while also considering the parallels between race and incarceration in the nineteenth century and in modern America. Never before has the story of Nicholas Kelly been so eloquently told.

The Five Witnesses of Salvation - You Shall Know Them By Their Fruit (Paperback): Jeff Strickland, Patrick Taylor, Andrew... The Five Witnesses of Salvation - You Shall Know Them By Their Fruit (Paperback)
Jeff Strickland, Patrick Taylor, Andrew Crawley
R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Greatest and the Grandest Act - The Civil Rights Act of 1866 from Reconstruction to Today (Paperback): Christian G Samito The Greatest and the Grandest Act - The Civil Rights Act of 1866 from Reconstruction to Today (Paperback)
Christian G Samito; Contributions by Michael Vorenberg, Rebecca Zietlow, Michael Les Benedict, Millington Bergeson-Lockwood, …
R1,593 Discovery Miles 15 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this volume, ten expert historians and legal scholars examine the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the first federal civil rights statute in American history. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were citizens without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery. Designed to give the Thirteenth Amendment practical effect as former slave states enacted laws limiting the rights of African Americans, this measure for the first time defined U.S. citizenship and the rights associated with it. Essays examine the history and legal ramifications of the act and highlight competing impulses within it, including the often-neglected Section 9, which allows the president to use the nation's military in its enforcement; an investigation of how the Thirteenth Amendment operated to overturn the Dred Scott case; and, New England's role in the passage of the act. The act is analyzed as it operated in several states such as Kentucky, Missouri, and South Carolina during Reconstruction. There is also a consideration of the act and its interpretation by the Supreme Court in its first decades. Other essays include a discussion of the act in terms of contract rights and in the context of the post-World War II Civil Rights Era as well as an analysis of the act's backward-looking and forward-looking nature. Not only is the Civil Rights Act of 1866 historically significant as the moment in Reconstruction when the federal government first sought to define national citizenship and protect civil rights, it continues to frame citizenship and rights debates and it is still used in federal lawsuits today.

All for Liberty - The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 (Hardcover, New Ed): Jeff Strickland All for Liberty - The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Jeff Strickland
R2,453 Discovery Miles 24 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American South. With two accomplices, some sledgehammers, and pickaxes, Nicholas risked his life and helped thirty-six fellow enslaved people escape the workhouse where they had been sent by their enslavers to be tortured. While Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vesey remain the most recognizable rebels, the pivotal role of Nicholas Kelly is often forgotten. All for Liberty centers his rebellion as a decisive moment leading up to the secession of South Carolina from the United States in 1861. This compelling micro-history navigates between Nicholas's story and the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, while also considering the parallels between race and incarceration in the nineteenth century and in modern America. Never before has the story of Nicholas Kelly been so eloquently told.

Unequal Freedoms - Ethnicity, Race, and White Supremacy in Civil War-Era Charleston (Paperback): Jeff Strickland Unequal Freedoms - Ethnicity, Race, and White Supremacy in Civil War-Era Charleston (Paperback)
Jeff Strickland
R2,744 R2,452 Discovery Miles 24 520 Save R292 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During the latter half of the nineteenth century, German and Irish immigrants were as central to the development of the political economy of Charleston, South Carolina, as white southerners and African Americans. As artisans and entrepreneurs, foreigners occupied a middle tier in the racial and ethnic hierarchy of the South's most economically and politically important city. As agents of change, they provided a buffer, alleviating tensions between the castes until assimilating after emancipation and, in many instances, effectively embracing white supremacy. In Unequal Freedoms, Jeff Strickland examines the complex interplay of race, ethnicity, and class to reveal the pivotal ways in which European immigrants influenced the social, economic, and political development of the South.

Southern Scoundrels - Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover): Jeff Forret, Bruce E. Baker Southern Scoundrels - Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Jeff Forret, Bruce E. Baker; Contributions by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr, Alexandra J Finley, T R C Hutton, …
R1,185 Discovery Miles 11 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The history of capitalist development in the United States is long, uneven, and overwhelmingly focused on the North. Macroeconomic studies of the South have primarily emphasized the role of the cotton economy in global trading networks. Until now, few in-depth scholarly works have attempted to explain how capitalism in the South took root and functioned in all of its diverse-and duplicitous-forms. Southern Scoundrels explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the region: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave traders, war profiteers, thieves, and marginal men who seized available opportunities to get ahead and, in doing so, left their mark on the southern economy. Eschewing conventional economic theory, this volume features narrative storytelling as engaging and seductive as the cast of shifty characters under examination. Contributors cover the chronological sweep of the nineteenth-century South, from the antebellum era through the tumultuous and chaotic Civil War years, and into Reconstruction and beyond. The geographic scope is equally broad, with essays encompassing the Chesapeake, South Carolina, the Lower Mississippi Valley, Texas, Missouri, and Appalachia. These essays offer a series of social histories on the nineteenth-century southern economy and the changes wrought by capitalist transformation. Tracing that story through the kinds of oily individuals who made it happen, Southern Scoundrels provides fascinating insights into the region's hucksters and its history.

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