blight david 1949 (2 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, very good but with long scratch and mild fold mark on front cover. BLIGHT, DAVID W. Frederick Douglass' Civil War: keeping faith in jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991, paperback 1st printing number line 54321, xv, 270pp., . Series: Louisiana Paperback Edition "David W. Blight undertakes the first systematic analysis of the impacts of the Civil War on Frederick Douglass' life and thought, and in doing so raises a number of new questions about the meaning of the war in American history, in the Afro-American experience, and in the mind of the nineteenth century's most important black leader.[This book] follows Douglass' intellectual growth from the 1850s--considering the sources of hope Douglass found in a decade of despair among blacks--through secession, war, black enlistment, emancipation, and Reconstruction, when Douglass struggled to remain a Republican party functionary and to preserve an abolitionist's memory of the conflict." - CONTENTS: Keeping faith in jubilee: sources of hope in the pre-Civil War thought of Frederick Douglass -- The politics of hope and principle in the 1850s -- Let the conflict come: Douglass and the secession crisis -- Creating the hated enemy: Douglass, war propaganda, and the uses of violence -- Frederick Douglass and the American apocalypse -- The bugbear of colonization -- Douglass and the meaning of the black soldier -- Abolition war -- abolition peace -- Fragile jubilee: Douglass and the meaning of reconstruction -- Douglass and the struggle for the memory of the Civil War. 9780807117248 ISBN 0807117242.

good dust-jacket, corners worn, light foxing on reverse, cover price $25.00, good hardcover, BUT paper is slightly wavy along the top edge, otherwise very good copy. BLIGHT, DAVID W. A slave no more: two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007, stated First Edition with full letter line starting with A ending with B, 307pp., . Slave narratives are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives join that exclusive group. Handed down through family and friends, they tell gripping stories of escape: Through a combination of intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, the men reached the protection of occupying Union troops. Historian Blight prefaces the narratives with each man's life history. Using genealogical information, Blight has reconstructed their childhoods as sons of white slaveholders, their service as cooks and camp hands during the Civil War, and their climb to black working-class stability in the North, where they reunited their families. In the stories of Wallace Turnage and John Washington, we find portals that offer a rich new answer to the question of how four million people moved from slavery to freedom. - CONTENTS: Prologue -- 1: Rappahannock river -- 2: Mobile bay -- 3: Unusual evidence -- 4: Logic and the Trump of jubilee -- Author's note -- Memorys of the past / John M Washington -- Journal of Wallace Turnage / Wallace Turnage -- Appendix: Death of our little Johnnie / John Washington -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. ISBN 9780151012329.