Author: Edward Everett
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ISBN: 9781425568634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions Vol. 2 / By Edward Everett.
Author: Edward Everett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781425568634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781425568634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Everett, E. Biographical memoir of the public life of Daniel Webster. Speeches delivered on various public occasions
Author: Daniel Webster
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Life of Benjamin Silliman, M.D., LL.D., Late Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology in Yale College
Author: George Park Fisher
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Life of Benjamin Silliman, Late Professor of Chemistry ... in Yale College
Author: Fisher
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States
Author: John Adams
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives
Author: Jeffrey Einboden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190844485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the President, promising to disclose "a matter of momentous importance". By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries. Authored by Muslims fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky, these documents delivered to the President in 1807 were penned by literate African slaves, and written entirely in Arabic. Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives reveals the untold story of two escaped West Africans in the American heartland whose Arabic writings reached a sitting U.S. President, prompting him to intervene on their behalf. Recounting a quest for emancipation that crosses borders of race, region and religion, Jeffrey Einboden unearths Arabic manuscripts that circulated among Jefferson and his prominent peers, including a document from 1780s Georgia which Einboden identifies as the earliest surviving example of Muslim slave authorship in the newly-formed United States. Revealing Jefferson's lifelong entanglements with slavery and Islam, Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives tracks the ascent of Arabic slave writings to the highest halls of U.S. power, while questioning why such vital legacies from the American past have been entirely forgotten.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190844485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the President, promising to disclose "a matter of momentous importance". By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries. Authored by Muslims fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky, these documents delivered to the President in 1807 were penned by literate African slaves, and written entirely in Arabic. Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives reveals the untold story of two escaped West Africans in the American heartland whose Arabic writings reached a sitting U.S. President, prompting him to intervene on their behalf. Recounting a quest for emancipation that crosses borders of race, region and religion, Jeffrey Einboden unearths Arabic manuscripts that circulated among Jefferson and his prominent peers, including a document from 1780s Georgia which Einboden identifies as the earliest surviving example of Muslim slave authorship in the newly-formed United States. Revealing Jefferson's lifelong entanglements with slavery and Islam, Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives tracks the ascent of Arabic slave writings to the highest halls of U.S. power, while questioning why such vital legacies from the American past have been entirely forgotten.
The Athenaeum
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland
Author: Christine Kinealy
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441133089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book considers how, helped by developments in transport and communications, newspapers throughout the world reported on the suffering in Ireland, prompting funds to be raised globally on an unprecedented scale. Donations came from as far away as Australia, China, India and South America and contributors emerged from across the various religious, ethnic, social and gender divides. Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland traces the story of this international aid effort and uses it to reveal previously unconsidered elements in the history of the Famine in Ireland.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441133089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book considers how, helped by developments in transport and communications, newspapers throughout the world reported on the suffering in Ireland, prompting funds to be raised globally on an unprecedented scale. Donations came from as far away as Australia, China, India and South America and contributors emerged from across the various religious, ethnic, social and gender divides. Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland traces the story of this international aid effort and uses it to reveal previously unconsidered elements in the history of the Famine in Ireland.
The Nation
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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A Literary History of America
Author: Barett Wendell
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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