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“george c wright”

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  • A History of Blacks in Kentucky

    In Pursuit of Equality, 1890-1980

    by George C Wright ...
    Published by the Kentucky Historical Society & Distributed by the University Press of KentuckyThis is the second part of a two-volume study which covers the entire spectrum of the black experience in Kentucky from earliest exploration and settlement to 1980. Mandated and partially funded by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1978, this pathbreaking work is the most comprehensive consideration of the ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • A History of Blacks in Kentucky

    In Pursuit of Equality, 1890-1980

    by George C Wright ...
    Published by the Kentucky Historical Society & Distributed by the University Press of KentuckyThis is the second part of a two-volume study which covers the entire spectrum of the black experience in Kentucky from earliest exploration and settlement to 1980. Mandated and partially funded by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1978, this pathbreaking work is the most comprehensive consideration of the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Racial Violence In Kentucky

    Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings"

    by George C. Wright ...
    "Wright vividly portrays the clash between racist militants and blacks who would not submit to terror. The book makes clear the brutality concealed beneath the surface veneer of moderation." -- Journal of Southern HistoryIn this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Counterrevolution of Slavery

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  • Roots of Secession

    Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia

    by William A. Link ...
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    Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War.An upper South state with nearly half a million slaves — more than any other state in the nation — and ... Read more

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  • William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War

    by Eric H. Walther ...
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    IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814–63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater.Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother, Yancey grew up believing that abolitionists were cruel, meddling, ... Read more

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  • The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828–1856

    by William J. Cooper Jr. ...
    The politics of slavery consumed the political world of the antebellum South. Although local economic, ethnic, and religious issues tended to dominate northern antebellum politics, The South and the Politics of Slavery convincingly argues that national and slavery-related issues were the overriding concerns of southern politics during these years. Accordingly, southern voters saw their parties, ... Read more

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  • Reconstruction Updated Edition

    America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

    by Eric Foner ...
    From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white ... Read more

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  • The Lincoln Conspiracy

    The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed

    by Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch ...
    Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, the bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on the sixteenth president in The Lincoln Conspiracy.Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

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    With extensive photos and first-person accounts, this companion to the PBS series is "an illuminating, succinct history of racial discrimination in the US" ( Publishers Weekly).Between 1880 and 1954, African Americans dedicated their energies, and sometimes their lives, to defeating segregation. During these difficult decades, they acquired education and land and built businesses, churches, and ... Read more

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    In Bloody Crimes, James L. Swanson—the Edgar® Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt —brings to life two epic events of the Civil War era: the thrilling chase to apprehend Confederate president Jefferson Davis in the wake of the Lincoln assassination and the momentous 20 -day funeral that took Abraham Lincoln's body home to Springfield. A true tale full of fascinating twists ... Read more

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