Finding Books using the Catalog
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Below are examples of books found using the keywords slavery AND United States
Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World by Examines every effort to end slavery in the United States and the transatlantic world. It focuses on massive, broad-based movements, as well as specific incidents, events, and developments, and pulls together in one place information previously available only in a wide variety of sources.
The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade by The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals - before and after Emancipation -- continued to actively participate in this odious commerce by creating diplomatic, social, and political ties with Brazil, which today has the largest population of African origin outside of Africa itself
Emotional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States by The sectional conflict over slavery in the United States was not only a clash between labour systems and political ideologies but also a viscerally felt part of the lives of antebellum Americans. This book contributes to the growing field of emotions history by exploring how specific emotions shaped Americans'perceptions of, and responses to, the sectional conflict in order to explain why it culminated in disunion and war.
Slave Songs of the United States by First published in 1867, Slave Songs of the United States represents the work of its three editors, all of whom collected and annotated these songs while working in the Sea Islands of South Carolina during the Civil War, and also of other collectors who transcribed songs sung by former slaves in other parts of the country.
