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Race and Revolution

By: Gary B. Nash

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The most profound crisis of conscience for white Americans at the end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure. Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact but provided it with the protection of a vastly strengthened government after 1788. Reversing the conventional view that blames slavery on the South's social and economic structures, Nash stresses the role of the northern states in the failure to abolish slavery. It was northern racism and hypocrisy as much as southern intransigence that buttressed "the peculiar institution." Nash also shows how economic and cultural factors intertwined to result not in an apparently judicious decision of the new American nation but rather its most significant lost opportunity. Race and Revolution describes the free black community's response to this failure of the revolution's promise, its vigorous and articulate pleas for justice, and the community's successes in building its own African-American institutions within the hostile environment of early nineteenth-century America. Included with the text of Race and Revolution are nineteen rare and crucial documents—letters, pamphlets, sermons, and speeches—which provide evidence for Nash's controversial and persuasive claims. From the words of Anthony Benezet and Luther Martin to those of Absalom Jones and Caesar Sarter, readers may judge the historical record for themselves. "In reality," argues Nash, "the American Revolution represents the largest slave uprising in our history." Race and Revolution is the compelling story of that failed quest for the promise of freedom.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461641640

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9781461641643

Freedom by Degrees

Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath

By: Gary B. Nash,Jean R. Soderlund

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Freedom by Degrees

Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath

By: Gary B. Nash,Jean R. Soderlund

During the revolutionary era, in the midst of the struggle for liberty from Great Britain, Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard confronted the injustice of holding slaves. Lawmakers debated abolition, masters considered freeing their slaves, and slaves emancipated themselves by running away. But by 1800, of states south of New England, only Pennsylvania had extricated itself from slavery, the triumph, historians have argued, of Quaker moralism and the philosophy of natural rights. With exhaustive research of individual acts of freedom, slave escapes, legislative action, and anti-slavery appeals, Nash and Soderlund penetrate beneath such broad generalizations and find a more complicated process at work. Defiant runaway slaves joined Quaker abolitionists like Anthony Benezet and members of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to end slavery and slave owners shrewdly calculated how to remove themselves from a morally bankrupt institution without suffering financial loss by freeing slaves as indentured servants, laborers, and cottagers.

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Oxford University Press

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019802147X

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9780198021476

The Urban Crucible

The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution, Abridged Edition

By: Gary B. Nash

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The Urban Crucible

The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution, Abridged Edition

By: Gary B. Nash

The Urban Crucible boldly reinterprets colonial life and the origins of the American Revolution. Through a century-long history of three seaport towns--Boston, New York, and Philadelphia--Gary Nash discovers subtle changes in social and political awareness and describes the coming of the revolution through popular collective action and challenges to rule by custom, law and divine will. A reordering of political power required a new consciousness to challenge the model of social relations inherited from the past and defended by higher classes. While retaining all the main points of analysis and interpretation, the author has reduced the full complement of statistics, sources, and technical data contained in the original edition to serve the needs of general readers and undergraduates.

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Harvard University Press

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0674041321

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9780674041325

Forging Freedom

The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840

By: Gary B. Nash

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Forging Freedom

The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840

By: Gary B. Nash

This book is the first to trace the fortunes of the earliest large free black community in the U.S. Nash shows how black Philadelphians struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, organize churches, establish social networks, advance cultural institutions, educate their children, and train leaders who would help abolish slavery.

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Harvard University Press

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0674309332

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The Unknown American Revolution

The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America

By: Gary B. Nash

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The Unknown American Revolution

The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America

By: Gary B. Nash

In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating and messy years of this country's birth, they laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still strive today.

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Penguin

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014303720X

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Forbidden Love

By: Gary B. Nash

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Forbidden Love

By: Gary B. Nash

Forbidden Love is a pathbreaking book that only a master historian could write. The first work for younger readers to describe the true history of racial mixing in America, it exposes how desperately some people have fought to guard our racial borderlines. Gary Nash, a past president of the Organization of American Historians, has been instrumental in rethinking how history should be taught in schools. Now, starting with John Rolfe and Pocahontas, pausing to compare the United States with Canada and Mexico, and ending with his own multiracial classrooms, he shows how racial mixing, and the fear of it, is at the heart of American history.

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Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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0805049533

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9780805049534

First City

Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory

By: Gary B. Nash

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First City

Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory

By: Gary B. Nash

With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents in the history of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were drafted and signed in Philadelphia. The city served off and on as the official capital of the young country until 1800, and was also the site of the first American university, hospital, medical college, bank, paper mill, zoo, sugar refinery, public school, and government mint. In First City, acclaimed historian Gary B. Nash examines the complex process of memory making in this most historic of American cities. Though history is necessarily written from the evidence we have of the past, as Nash shows, rarely is that evidence preserved without intent, nor is it equally representative. Full of surprising anecdotes, First City reveals how Philadelphians—from members of elite cultural institutions, such as historical societies and museums, to relatively anonymous groups, such as women, racial and religious minorities, and laboring people—have participated in the very partisan activity of transmitting historical memory from one generation to the next.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812202880

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9780812202885

Retracing the Past

Readings in the History of the American People

By: Gary B. Nash,Ronald Schultz

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Retracing the Past

Readings in the History of the American People

By: Gary B. Nash,Ronald Schultz

Retracing the Past is an engaging collection of both primary and secondary sources that emphasize social history. The text leads students to consider the role of women, ethnic groups, and laboring Americans in the weaving of the nation's social fabric, and allows them to explore life at the individual and community levels. It also introduces students to individuals and groups who made a critical difference in the shaping of American history.

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321101375

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9780321101372

The Forgotten Fifth

African Americans in the age of revolution

By: Gary B Nash

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The Forgotten Fifth

African Americans in the age of revolution

By: Gary B Nash

As the United States gained independence, a full fifth of the country's population was African American. The experiences of these men and women have been largely ignored in the accounts of the colonies' glorious quest for freedom. In this compact volume, Gary B. Nash reorients our understanding of early America, and reveals the perilous choices of the founding fathers that shaped the nation's future. Nash tells of revolutionary fervor arousing a struggle for freedom that spiraled into the largest slave rebellion in American history, as blacks fled servitude to fight for the British, who promised freedom in exchange for military service. The Revolutionary Army never matched the British offer, and most histories of the period have ignored this remarkable story. The conventional wisdom says that abolition was impossible in the fragile new republic. Nash, however, argues that an unusual convergence of factors immediately after the war created a unique opportunity to dismantle slavery. The founding fathers' failure to commit to freedom led to the waning of abolitionism just as it had reached its peak. In the opening decades of the nineteenth century, as Nash demonstrates, their decision enabled the ideology of white supremacy to take root, and with it the beginnings of an irreparable national fissure. The moral failure of the Revolution was paid for in the 1860s with the lives of the 600,000 Americans killed in the Civil War. "The Forgotten Fifth" is a powerful story of the nation's multiple, and painful, paths to freedom.

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Harvard University Press

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0674041348

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9780674041349

Encyclopedia of American History: Comprehensive index

By: Gary B. Nash

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Encyclopedia of American History: Comprehensive index

By: Gary B. Nash

A comprehensive index to the ten volume "Encyclopedia of American History.

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0816050791

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Forbidden Love

The Hidden History of Mixed-race America

By: Gary B. Nash

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Forbidden Love

The Hidden History of Mixed-race America

By: Gary B. Nash

Presents accounts of how mainly anonymous Americans have defied the official racial ideology and points out how guardians of the past have written that side of our history out of the record.

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0963321889

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History on Trial

Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past

By: Gary B. Nash,Charlotte Antoinette Crabtree,Ross E. Dunn

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History on Trial

Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past

By: Gary B. Nash,Charlotte Antoinette Crabtree,Ross E. Dunn

An incisive overview of the current debate over the teaching of history in American schools examines the setting of controversial standards for history education, the integration of multiculturalism and minorities into the curriculum, and ways to make history more relevant to students. Reprint.

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Book's by Gary B Nash

Race and Revolution

Race and Revolution

Freedom by Degrees

Freedom by Degrees

The Urban Crucible

The Urban Crucible

Forging Freedom

Forging Freedom

The Unknown American Revolution

The Unknown American Revolution

Forbidden Love

Forbidden Love

First City

First City

Retracing the Past

Retracing the Past

The Forgotten Fifth

The Forgotten Fifth

Encyclopedia of American History: Comprehensive index

Encyclopedia of American History: Comprehensive index

Forbidden Love

Forbidden Love

History on Trial

History on Trial

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