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  • The Battle of Negro Fort

    The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community

    by Matthew J Clavin ...
    The dramatic story of the United States' 1816 destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish-occupied Florida.In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent community of fugitive slaves. The result was the Battle of Negro Fort, a brutal ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Symbols of Freedom

    Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War

    by Matthew J. Clavin ...
    How American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedomIn the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an American identity that helped unify a divided people. A language of freedom played a similar role in shaping the new nation. The Declaration of Independence’s assertion “that all men are created equal,” ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War

    The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution

    by Matthew J. Clavin ...
    At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined and determined republican army, consisting almost entirely of rebel slaves, defeated all of its rivals and restored peace to the embattled territory ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War

    The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution

    by Matthew J. Clavin ...
    At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined and determined republican army, consisting almost entirely of rebel slaves, defeated all of its rivals and restored peace to the embattled territory ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Aiming for Pensacola

    Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers

    by Matthew J. Clavin ...
    In the decades before the Civil War, the small number of slaves who managed to escape bondage almost always made their way northward along the secret routes and safe havens known as the Underground Railroad. Offering a new perspective on this standard narrative, Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom by—paradoxically—sojourning deeper into the American South toward ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • Aiming for Pensacola

    Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers

    by Matthew J. Clavin ...
    In the decades before the Civil War, the small number of slaves who managed to escape bondage almost always made their way northward along the secret routes and safe havens known as the Underground Railroad. Offering a new perspective on this standard narrative, Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom by—paradoxically—sojourning deeper into the American South toward ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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    Symbols of Freedom

    Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War

    by Matthew J. Clavin ...
    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 16 min

    In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an American identity that helped unify a divided people. A language of freedom played a similar role in shaping the new nation. Resonating across the country, they encouraged the creation of a republic where the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" was universal.For enslaved ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Slavery and the Making of America

    by James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton ...
    The history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States. Slavery and the Making of America offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that illuminates the human side of this inhumane institution, presenting it largely through stories of the slaves themselves. Readers will discover a wide ranging and sharply nuanced look at American slavery, from the first ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Gateway to Freedom

    The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

    by Eric Foner ...
    The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A deeply entrenched ... Read more

    $18.29 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Thirteen Clocks

    How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence

    by Robert G. Parkinson ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time. So how did these American colonies overcome long odds to create a durable union capable of declaring independence from Britain? In this powerful new history of the fifteen tense months that culminated in the Declaration of Independence, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Rehearsal for Reconstruction

    The Port Royal Experiment

    by Willie Lee Rose ...
    Series series Galaxy Books
    This award-winning study presents an engaging account of the attempt at reconstruction that occurred in the Sea Islands of South Carolina during the beginning of the Civil War. Serving as a kind of dress rehearsal for Reconstruction, the Port Royal Experiment not only helped to shape federal policy for Reconstruction, but it also influenced the nation by adding to the initial war aim of the Union, ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Fall of the House of Dixie

    The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

    by Bruce Levine ...
    In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it, The Fall of the House of Dixie illuminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quo ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook