Author: United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publisher:
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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America's Highways, 1776-1976
Author: United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publisher:
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Publisher:
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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200 Years of American Medicine (1776-1976) ...
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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The Counter-Revolution of 1776
Author: Gerald Horne
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479808725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479808725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.
Bicentennial Times
Author:
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Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Publisher:
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Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Bicentennial Medals
Author: United States
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Category : Medals
Languages : fr
Pages : 10
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Category : Medals
Languages : fr
Pages : 10
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The Great Prologue
Author: Mark E. Peterson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781609075828
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9781609075828
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Thoughts on Government: Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies
Author: John Adams
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Shadows of Voices
Author: Dennis McCalib
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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United States Code
Author: United States
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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America's Quilts
Author: Jacqueline M. Atkins
Publisher: Publications International
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Publisher: Publications International
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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