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• Author : Gerald Horne
• Publisher : NYU Press
• File Size : 43,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2016-09
• Total pages : 363
• ISBN : 9781479806898
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Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.

• Author : Thomas Fleming
• Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• File Size : 30,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2016-10-18
• Total pages : 786
• ISBN : 1539589439
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What is the myth of 1776? To state it in its baldest terms: This was a time in American life when idealism was in full flower. Never have so many great men sprung from nowhere to lead a people in pursuit of liberty. In this book, New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming explodes this myth by examining all the dimensions of that year - particularly the least known aspects of the common, fallible humanity of the men and women of the American Revolution. The year 1776 ended with both the Americans and the British stripped of their illusions. Both sides had been forced to abandon the myth of their invincibility and to confront the realities of human nature on the battlefield and in the struggle for allegiance to their causes. For the Americans, it had been a shock to discover that it was easy to persuade people to cheer for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but it was another matter to convince them to take large risks, to make real sacrifices for these ideals. For the British, their goal of achieving proper subordination of America to England was frustrated forever. Seventeen seventy-six was a traffic year: Americans fighting in the name of liberty persecuted and sometimes killed fellow Americans who chose to remain loyal to the old order and its more circumscribed, yet sincere, commitment to freedom. Seventeen seventy-six was a year of heroes: It brought forth the leaders who had the courage to fight for freedom. Seventeen seventy-six was a disgraceful year: Americans revealed a capacity for cowardice, disorganization, and incompetence. Here, in this masterful book, is the true story of 1776.

• Author : David McCullough
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 25,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2006-07-04
• Total pages : 19
• ISBN : 9780743226721
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Download Seventeen Seventy-six in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

Draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a history of the American Revolution that includes the siege of Boston, the American defeat at Brooklyn, the retreat across New Jersey, and the American victory at Trenton.

• Author : Larry P. Arnn,Carol Swain,Matthew Spalding
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 17,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2021
• Total pages : 128
• ISBN : 1641772255
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Download The 1776 Report in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

"In the course of human events there have always been those who deny or reject human freedom, but Americans will never falter in defending the fundamental truths of human liberty proclaimed on July 4, 1776. We will-we must-always hold these truths. The declared purpose of the President's Advisory 1776 Commission is to "enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and to strive to form a more perfect Union." This requires a restoration of American education, which can only be grounded on a history of those principles that is "accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling." And a rediscovery of ourshared identity rooted in our founding principles is the path to a renewed American unity and a confident American future"--

• Author : Lauren Tarshis
• Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
• File Size : 38,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2017-08-29
• Total pages : 144
• ISBN : 9780545919753
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Download I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 (I Survived #15) in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

Bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the American Revolution in this latest installment of the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling I Survived series.

• Author : Mark R. Anderson
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• File Size : 38,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2016-03-14
• Total pages : 256
• ISBN : 9781438460031
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Download The Invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775-1776 in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

Presents never before published and translated Canadian Loyalist and American Patriot first-hand accounts of the Quebec Campaign of the Revolutionary War. The Invasion of Canada by the Americans, 1775–1776 offers two significant, insightful, and intriguing first-hand accounts of the Revolutionary War. These previously untranslated and unpublished primary sources provide contrasting viewpoints from a Loyalist French-Canadian administrative official, Jean-Baptiste Badeaux, and a Patriot Continental officer, William Goforth. Compelling personal interactions with friends and neighbors, and local and provincial-level leaders—as occupier and occupied—are documented. Their stories climax during the two-month period in early 1776 when Goforth was military governor of Three Rivers and Badeaux served as his somewhat reluctant interpreter and unofficial advisor. Including their experiences with Benedict Arnold and Quebec’s Governor Guy Carleton, as well as letters to Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, this unique book provides diverse insights into the invasion of Canada and its immediate impact on the people on both sides of the revolution.

• Author : Elizabeth Massie
• Publisher : Tor Teen
• File Size : 30,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-11-05
• Total pages : 224
• ISBN : 9781466856110
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Download 1776: Son of Liberty in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." On his farm in Maryland, sixteen-year-old Caleb Jacobson hears rumors of an armed rebellioni of the Massachusetts colonists against he oppressive tyranny of King George III and his soliders. Educated in a small Quaker school, Caleb has been taught that it is wrong to raise one's hand against another. Yet Caleb is a free black living in a slave colony. He knows firsthand the horrors and hardships of slavery and wonders what good an American victory will do if his fellow blacks - including his best friend Gaddi - remain shackled in bondage. Then comes news that the British Governor Lord Dunmore promises freedom to any slave who joins his army against the Americans. Can he be trusted to keep his work? Or should Caleb support the colonists' fight in hope of a better future for his people? Caleb will have to choose." At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

• Author : Claudio Saunt
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 31,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2014-06-16
• Total pages : 304
• ISBN : 9780393244304
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Download West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies. In this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond the familiar story of the thirteen colonies to explore the many other revolutions roiling the turbulent American continent. In that fateful year, the Spanish landed in San Francisco, the Russians pushed into Alaska to hunt valuable sea otters, and the Sioux discovered the Black Hills. Hailed by critics for challenging our conventional view of the birth of America, West of the Revolution “[coaxes] our vision away from the Atlantic seaboard” and “exposes a continent seething with peoples and purposes beyond Minutemen and Redcoats” (Wall Street Journal).

• Author : Jon Butler
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 52,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2001-12-28
• Total pages : 337
• ISBN : 9780674006676
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Download Becoming America in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural: America three hundred years ago -- and today. Here are Britain's mainland American colonies after 1680, in the process of becoming the first modern society -- a society the earliest colonists never imagined, a "new order of the ages" that anticipated the American Revolution. Jon Butler's panoramic view of the colonies in this epoch transforms our customary picture of prerevolutionary America; it reveals a strikingly "modern" character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history. Stressing the middle and late decades (the hitherto "dark ages") of the American colonial experience, and emphasizing the importance of the middle and southern colonies as well as New England, Becoming America shows us transformations before 1776 among an unusually diverse assortment of peoples. Here is a polyglot population of English, Indians, Africans, Scots, Germans, Swiss, Swedes, and French; a society of small colonial cities with enormous urban complexities; an economy of prosperous farmers thrust into international market economies; peoples of immense wealth, a burgeoning middle class, and incredible poverty. Butler depicts settlers pursuing sophisticated provincial politics that ultimately sparked revolution and a new nation; developing new patterns in production, consumption, crafts, and trades that remade commerce at home and abroad; and fashioning a society remarkably pluralistic in religion, whose tolerance nonetheless did not extend to Africans or Indians. Here was a society that turned protest into revolution and remade itself many times during the next centuries -- asociety that, for ninety years before 1776, was becoming America.

• Author : United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 47,9 Mb
• Release Date : 1977
• Total pages : 564
• ISBN : IND:30000036818049
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Download America's highways, 1776-1976 in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

PDF book entitled America's highways, 1776-1976 written by United States. Federal Highway Administration and published by Unknown which was released on 1977 with total hardcover pages 564, the book become popular and critical acclaim.

• Author : Mark R. Anderson
• Publisher : UPNE
• File Size : 35,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-10-25
• Total pages : 457
• ISBN : 9781611684988
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Download The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

An unparalleled look at AmericaÍs Revolutionary War invasion of Canada

• Author : David McCullough
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 14,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2007-05-31
• Total pages : 448
• ISBN : 9780743218306
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Download Mornings on Horseback in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough. Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as “a masterpiece” (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography. Written by David McCullough, the author of Truman, this is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and almost fatal asthma attacks, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household in which he was raised. The father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. The mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and a celebrated beauty, but also considerably more, which the book makes clear as never before. There are sisters Anna and Corinne, brother Elliott (who becomes the father of Eleanor Roosevelt), and the lovely, tragic Alice Lee, TR’s first love. All are brought to life to make “a beautifully told story, filled with fresh detail” (The New York Times Book Review). A book to be read on many levels, it is at once an enthralling story, a brilliant social history and a work of important scholarship which does away with several old myths and breaks entirely new ground. It is a book about life intensely lived, about family love and loyalty, about grief and courage, about “blessed” mornings on horseback beneath the wide blue skies of the Badlands.

• Author : Russ Castronovo
• Publisher : Oxford Studies in American Lit
• File Size : 38,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2014
• Total pages : 256
• ISBN : 9780199354900
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Download Propaganda 1776 in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic, revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda. Truth, clarity, and honesty were declared virtues of the period-but rumors, falsehoods, forgeries, and unauthorized publication were no less the life's blood of liberty. Looking at famous patriots like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine; the playwright Mary Otis Warren; and the poet Philip Freneau, Castronovo provides various anecdotes that demonstrate the ways propaganda was - contrary to our instinctual understanding - fundamental to democracy rather than antithetical to it. By focusing on the persons and methods involved in Revolutionary communications, Propaganda 1776 both reconsiders the role that print culture plays in historical transformation and reexamines the widely relevant issue of how information circulates in a democracy.

• Author : Peter Wilson Coldham
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 35,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2009-05
• Total pages : 178
• ISBN : 080631799X
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Download Complete Book of Emigrants, 1661-1699 in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

PDF book entitled Complete Book of Emigrants, 1661-1699 written by Peter Wilson Coldham and published by Unknown which was released on 2009-05 with total hardcover pages 178, the book become popular and critical acclaim.

• Author : William Henry Egle
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 23,9 Mb
• Release Date : 1895
• Total pages : 504
• ISBN : WISC:89066118704
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Download Notes and Queries Historical and Genealogical, Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

PDF book entitled Notes and Queries Historical and Genealogical, Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania written by William Henry Egle and published by Unknown which was released on 1895 with total hardcover pages 504, the book become popular and critical acclaim.