A South Carolina Protest Against Slavery: Being a Letter from Henry Laurens, Second President of the Continental Congress, to His Son, Colonel John ... 1776: Now First Published from the Original. - Softcover

Laurens, Henry

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ISBN 10: 127569506X ISBN 13: 9781275695061

Verlag: Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012

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Title: A South Carolina protest against slavery : being a letter from Henry Laurens, second president of the Continental Congress, to his son, Colonel John Laurens, dated Charleston, S.C., August 14th, 1776 : now first published from the original.

Author: Henry Laurens

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.

Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.

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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP01959100

CollectionID: CTRG96-B1857

PublicationDate: 18610101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

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Collation: [5]-6, [17]-34 p. ; 21 cm

Biografía del autor:

Ne en 1954, Henry Laurens est historien. Docteur d'Etat et agrege d'histoire, il est reconnu comme l'un des grands specialistes du Moyen-Orient. Henry Laurens est professeur au College de France (titulaire de la chaire - Histoire contemporaine du monde arabe) et a l'INALCO (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales); il a par ailleurs ete directeur du Centre d'etudes et de recherches sur le Moyen-Orient Contemporain (CERMOC) a Beyrouth puis directeur scientifique de l'Institut Francais du Proche-Orient. Henry Laurens s'interesse notamment a l etude, sur la longue duree, des relations entre Israel et le monde arabe. En 2004, il a recu le Prix Joseph du Theil de l'Academie des Sciences morales et politiques, ainsi que le Prix de l'amitie franco-arabe de l'Association de solidarite franco-arabe. Henry Laurens est l auteur de nombreux ouvrages, parmi lesquels: "La Question de Palestine, tomes I, II et III" (Fayard, 1999/2002/2007), "L'Orient arabe a l'heure americaine" (Armand Colin, 2004), "Orientales, tome I, II et III" (CNRS editions, 2004), "Histoire du monde arabe contemporain" (Fayard, 2004), "Paix et guerre au Moyen-Orient: L'Orient arabe et le monde de 1945 a nos jours" (Armand Colin, 2005) et "Deux siecles d'Orient" (CNRS editions, 2007).

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• Verlag: Gale, Sabin Americana
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 127569506X
• ISBN 13: 9781275695061
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 24