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Social historian Nash ( Forging Freedom , LJ 5/1/88) presents three essays and supporting annotated documents dealing with the neglected topic of slavery during the Revolutionary era. He argues convincingly that most Revolutionary leaders understood the incompatibility of slavery with their equalitarian ideology. Unlike past historians, Nash especially blames Northern leaders, who were unwilling to compensate Southern slaveholders or to accept a biracial America, for the persistence of slavery at a time when it most easily could have been abolished. He contends that free blacks adapted to Northern discrimination by creating alternative organizations, especially black churches, which safeguarded an African-American identity and maintained abolitionist fervor. Relying upon recent scholarship, the author provides an insightful, well-written investigation which will appeal to scholars and the general public.
- David Szatmary, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- David Szatmary, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Gary Nash has written a powerful, forthright, and revisionist interpretation of the founding generation and slavery which challenges much received wisdom. I find it thoroughly convincing.--Linda K. Kerber
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This book is a real eye-opener for anyone, like me, who thought that slavery was not an issue at the time of the American Revolution.
Did you think slaves did not understand what was going on?
Have a look!
Did you think slaves did not understand what was going on?
Have a look!
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8 von 10 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Excellent on slavery and the American Revolution
23. Juli 1996
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This book is a real eye-opener for anyone, like me, who thought that slavery was not an issue at the time of the American Revolution.
Did you think slaves did not understand what was going on?
Have a look!
Did you think slaves did not understand what was going on?
Have a look!
An Important Perspective on whether or not the new U.S. Nation Would Allow Slavery
21. April 2012
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Despite other comments about him on-line, Gary B. Nash is an exceptional historian who has made path-breaking contributions to the understanding of the American Revolution. "Race and Revolution" is one such contribution among many others. This is a book based on three lectures names for Merrill Jensen at the University of Wisconsin in 1988. It makes the case that at no time between the establishment of slavery in the British colonies in North America the U.S. Civil War was the time more opportune for Americans to abolish slavery than the revolutionary era during the 1770s and 1780s. It represented a unique occasion to end the "peculiar institution" but for five related reasons, according to Nash, the revolutionary leaders of the nation failed to seize this possibility.
For Nash the five reasons are: "First, it was the era when the sentiment for ridding American society of the peculiar institution was the strongest. Second, it was the moment when the most resistant part of the new nation, the lower South, was most precariously situated and thus manifestly ill-prepared to break away from the rest of the states. Third, it was a period when the system of thought called environmentalism was in full sway, suggesting that the degraded condition of slaves was a matter of social conditioning, not innate inferiority. Fourth, it was a time when the opening of the vast trans-Appalachian West provided the wherewithal for a compensated emancipation. Lastly, it was the era when the use of this western domain as an instrument for binding the nation together had moved to the forefront of the public mind and when the existence of this vast unsettled territory as part of a national domain provided an area where free slaves could be colonized if they were not to be permitted to remain in the settled parts of the country" (pp. 6-7).
This was a heady time with possibilities abounding. Nash relates this story in three core chapters on (1) the embrace of abolitionism, (2) the failure of abolitionism, and (3) the role of blacks in the new nation. He follows this with a collection of key documents that illuminate and extend his central argument. This is a complex and important book.
For Nash the five reasons are: "First, it was the era when the sentiment for ridding American society of the peculiar institution was the strongest. Second, it was the moment when the most resistant part of the new nation, the lower South, was most precariously situated and thus manifestly ill-prepared to break away from the rest of the states. Third, it was a period when the system of thought called environmentalism was in full sway, suggesting that the degraded condition of slaves was a matter of social conditioning, not innate inferiority. Fourth, it was a time when the opening of the vast trans-Appalachian West provided the wherewithal for a compensated emancipation. Lastly, it was the era when the use of this western domain as an instrument for binding the nation together had moved to the forefront of the public mind and when the existence of this vast unsettled territory as part of a national domain provided an area where free slaves could be colonized if they were not to be permitted to remain in the settled parts of the country" (pp. 6-7).
This was a heady time with possibilities abounding. Nash relates this story in three core chapters on (1) the embrace of abolitionism, (2) the failure of abolitionism, and (3) the role of blacks in the new nation. He follows this with a collection of key documents that illuminate and extend his central argument. This is a complex and important book.
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Simply a revisionist, apologist, anti-American "historian".
15. Dezember 2009
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
For anyone interested in reading this book, or anything else by Gary B. Nash- please consider that these are the works of a revisionist, apologist, and anti-American "historian". I refuse to even sell back his books to my local used book store. They are simply placed in the garbage where they belong. There are so many fantastic historians out there. Don't waste your time, your money or pollute your mind.
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