Author: Thomas Hart Benton
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Thirty Years' View
Author: Thomas Hart Benton
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850
Author: Thomas Hart Benton
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Thirty Years' View, Or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850, Chiefly Taken from the Congress Debates, the Private Papers of General Jackson, and the Speeches of Ex-Senator Benton, with His Actual View of Men and Affairs : with Historical Notes and Illustrations, and Some Notices of Eminent Deceased Contemporaries
Author: Thomas Hart Benton
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Thirty Years' View Or a History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years
Author: Thomas Hart Benton
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Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Thirty Years'View; or a history of the working of the American Government for thirty years, from 1820 to 1850: chiefly taken from the Congress Debates, the private papers of General Jackson, and the speeches of ex-Senator Benton, with his actual view of men and affairs. With historical notes and illustrations, and some notices of eminent deceased contemporaries. By a Senator of thirty years [i.e. T. H. Benton].
Author: United States
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Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Thirty Years' View ; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850. Chiefly Taken from the Congress Debates, the Private Jpapers of General Jackson and the Speeches of Ex-Senator Benton, with His Actual View of Men and Affairs ...
Author: Thomas Hart Benton
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Thirty years' view : or, A history of the working of the American government for thirty years, from 1820 to 1850 ; chiefly taken from the Congress debates, the private papers of General Jackson, and (2 Volumes) Volume 1
Author: Benton, Thomas Hart
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623767342
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623767342
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Thirty years' view : or, A history of the working of the American government for thirty years, from 1820 to 1850 ; chiefly taken from the Congress debates, the private papers of General Jackson, and (2 Volumes) Volume 2
Author: Benton, Thomas Hart
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623767350
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623767350
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Behind the Scenes
Author: Elizabeth Keckley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195060843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a salve and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, we see a wide range of historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195060843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a salve and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, we see a wide range of historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war.
Thirty Years a Slave
Author: Louis Hughes
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603060782
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was sold to a wealthy slaveowner who had a home near Memphis and plantation nearby in Mississippi. Hughes lived there as a house servant until near the end of the Civil War, when he escaped to the Union lines and then, in a daring adventure with the paid help of two Union soldiers, returned to the plantation for his wife. The couple made their way to Canada and after the war to Chicago and Detroit, eventually settling in Milwaukee. There Hughes became relatively comfortable as a hotel attendant and as an entrepreneur laundry operator. Self-educated and eloquent, Hughes wrote and privately published this memoir in 1897. It is a compelling account, by turns searing and compassionate about slavery, slaves, and slaveowners. No reader can be unmoved as Hughes tells about his five attempts to escape, about having to stand by helplessly while watching his wife whipped, of the joy of finally meeting again the brother whom he had not seen since they were little children in Virginia. Yet he also writes knowingly about the economics of slavery and the day-to-day business of the plantation, and the glass-house relationships between slaves and masters. Hughes died in Milwaukee in 1913.
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603060782
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was sold to a wealthy slaveowner who had a home near Memphis and plantation nearby in Mississippi. Hughes lived there as a house servant until near the end of the Civil War, when he escaped to the Union lines and then, in a daring adventure with the paid help of two Union soldiers, returned to the plantation for his wife. The couple made their way to Canada and after the war to Chicago and Detroit, eventually settling in Milwaukee. There Hughes became relatively comfortable as a hotel attendant and as an entrepreneur laundry operator. Self-educated and eloquent, Hughes wrote and privately published this memoir in 1897. It is a compelling account, by turns searing and compassionate about slavery, slaves, and slaveowners. No reader can be unmoved as Hughes tells about his five attempts to escape, about having to stand by helplessly while watching his wife whipped, of the joy of finally meeting again the brother whom he had not seen since they were little children in Virginia. Yet he also writes knowingly about the economics of slavery and the day-to-day business of the plantation, and the glass-house relationships between slaves and masters. Hughes died in Milwaukee in 1913.