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American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan (2003, Trade Paperback)

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American Slavery, American Freedom : The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, Paperback by Morgan, Edmund S., ISBN 039332494X, ISBN-13 9780393324945, Brand New, Free shipping in the US George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other Virginians led the battle against British oppression and drafted the country's founding documents, yet they were also slaveholders. Morgan (history emeritus, Yale University) examines the tragic contradiction at the core of America, looking at the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the Revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country. Th was first published in 1975 by . Norton and Company. This reprint includes a new preface by the author. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-10039332494X

ISBN-139780393324945

eBay Product ID (ePID)18038310746

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Book TitleAmerican Slavery, American Freedom

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicUnited States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / General

FeaturesRevised

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorEdmund S. Morgan

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight23.2 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-266284

ReviewsProfoundly important.... Every page of Morgan's book speaks of a sensitive understanding of human nature, as well as of a scrupulous attention to scholarly exactitude.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal975.5/02

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

Synopsis"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country. With a new introduction. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize and the Albert J. Beveridge Award., In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in declaring independence. Virginians drafted not only the Declaration but also the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; they were elected to the presidency of the United States under that Constitution for thirty-two of the first thirty-six years of its existence. They were all slaveholders. In the new preface Edmund S. Morgan writes: "Human relations among us still suffer from the former enslavement of a large portion of our predecessors. The freedom of the free, the growth of freedom experienced in the American Revolution depended more than we like to admit on the enslavement of more than 20 percent of us at that time. How republican freedom came to be supported, at least in large part, by its opposite, slavery, is the subject of this book. American Slavery, American Freedom is a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the keys to this central paradox, "the marriage of slavery and freedom," in the people and the politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the Revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country.

LC Classification NumberE445.V8