The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden: The Quaker Struggle to Free Slaves in Revolutionary North Carolina - Softcover

Crawford, Michael J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813060303 ISBN 13: 9780813060309

Verlag: University Press of Florida, 2010

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Reseña del editor:

Michael Crawford presents the compelling story of colonial manumission movements among North Carolina Quakers in this illuminating volume. Embedding complete primary documents within the context of his own interpretive analysis, Crawford effectively shows how the consequences of this group's antislavery activism radiated out from a few individuals to the region, the state, and, eventually, the nation. Students and scholars will be able to draw their own insights from the important documents presented in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden, many of them obscure or recently discovered. Through diaries, petitions, legislative debates, and letters, well-known as well as unknown players in the struggle for manumission are allowed to tell their own stories in their own words. This approach has the effect of highlighting the personal motivation of figures both prominent and obscure in the movement.

Biografía del autor:

Michael Crawford is senior historian of the Naval History and Heritage Command. He is the author of thirteen books, including Seasons of Grace: Colonial New England's Revival Tradition in Its British Context.

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• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0813060303
• ISBN 13: 9780813060309
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258