Author: Robert Peel
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Languages : en
Pages : 880
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The Speeches Delivered in the House of Commons
Author: Robert Peel
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Pages : 880
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Pages : 880
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The Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart
Author: Sir Robert Peel
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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The Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart
Author: Robert Peel
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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The Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., Delivered in the House of Commons
Author: Sir Robert Peel
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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The Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Delivered in the House of Commons
Author: Robert Peel
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Pages : 880
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Pages : 742
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Catalogue of the Library of the Literary and Philosophical Society, of Newcastle-upon Tyne
Author: Literary and Philosophical Society (NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Pages : 900
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Island on Fire
Author: Tom Zoellner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674984307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award “Impeccably researched and seductively readable...tells the story of Sam Sharpe’s revolution manqué, and the subsequent abolition of slavery in Jamaica, in a way that’s acutely relevant to the racial unrest of our own time.” —Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls’ Rising The final uprising of enslaved people in Jamaica started as a peaceful labor strike a few days shy of Christmas in 1831. A harsh crackdown by white militias quickly sparked a full-blown revolt, leaving hundreds of plantation houses in smoking ruins. The rebels lost their daring bid for freedom, but their headline-grabbing defiance triggered a decisive turn against slavery. Island on Fire is a dramatic day-by-day account of these transformative events. A skillful storyteller, Tom Zoellner uses diaries, letters, and colonial records to tell the intimate story of the men and women who rose up and briefly tasted liberty. He brings to life the rebellion’s enigmatic leader, the preacher Samuel Sharpe, and shows how his fiery resistance turned the tide of opinion in London and hastened the end of slavery in the British Empire. “Zoellner’s vigorous, fast-paced account brings to life a varied gallery of participants...The revolt failed to improve conditions for the enslaved in Jamaica, but it crucially wounded the institution of slavery itself.” —Fergus M. Bordewich, Wall Street Journal “It’s high time that we had a book like the splendid one Tom Zoellner has written: a highly readable but carefully documented account of the greatest of all British slave rebellions, the miseries that led to it, and the momentous changes it wrought.” —Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674984307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award “Impeccably researched and seductively readable...tells the story of Sam Sharpe’s revolution manqué, and the subsequent abolition of slavery in Jamaica, in a way that’s acutely relevant to the racial unrest of our own time.” —Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls’ Rising The final uprising of enslaved people in Jamaica started as a peaceful labor strike a few days shy of Christmas in 1831. A harsh crackdown by white militias quickly sparked a full-blown revolt, leaving hundreds of plantation houses in smoking ruins. The rebels lost their daring bid for freedom, but their headline-grabbing defiance triggered a decisive turn against slavery. Island on Fire is a dramatic day-by-day account of these transformative events. A skillful storyteller, Tom Zoellner uses diaries, letters, and colonial records to tell the intimate story of the men and women who rose up and briefly tasted liberty. He brings to life the rebellion’s enigmatic leader, the preacher Samuel Sharpe, and shows how his fiery resistance turned the tide of opinion in London and hastened the end of slavery in the British Empire. “Zoellner’s vigorous, fast-paced account brings to life a varied gallery of participants...The revolt failed to improve conditions for the enslaved in Jamaica, but it crucially wounded the institution of slavery itself.” —Fergus M. Bordewich, Wall Street Journal “It’s high time that we had a book like the splendid one Tom Zoellner has written: a highly readable but carefully documented account of the greatest of all British slave rebellions, the miseries that led to it, and the momentous changes it wrought.” —Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains
The Speeches of Sir Robert Peel Delivered in the House of Commons
Author: Robert Peel
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870
Author: Avero Publications Limited
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ISBN: 9780907977346
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907977346
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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