Apostles of Equality: The Birneys, the Republicans, and the Civil War
Autor D. Laurence Rogersen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 oct 2011
The first biographical account of the life of James Gillespie Birney in more than fifty years, this fabulously insightful history illuminates and elevates an all-but-forgotten figure whose political career contributed mightily to the American political fabric. Birney was a southern-born politician at the heart of the antislavery movement, with two southern-born sons who were major generals involved in key Union Army activities, including the leadership of the black troops. The interaction of the Birneys with historical figures (Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Clay) highlights the significance of the family’s activities in politics and war. D. Laurence Rogers offers a unique historiography of the abolition movement, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the experiences of one family navigating momentous developments from the founding of the Republic until the late 19th century.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781611860153
ISBN-10: 1611860156
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Michigan State University Press
ISBN-10: 1611860156
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Michigan State University Press
Recenzii
Apostles of Equality uses James Birney’s personal life and political career as a southern abolitionist to expose the deepening national crisis over American slavery. Birney’s story highlights an ever-changing nation and explains how Americans hoped to reconcile the issue of slavery before the Civil War. Rogers’s exhaustive research and careful prose recreates Birney’s complex life?one that started as a slave owner and ended as an abolitionist.
—John F. Kvach, University of Alabama in Huntsville
What a slap of reality. Here are the last years of American slavery. From the point James Birney, a rediscovered hero, purchases an African woman and her mulatto child to free them from the brutality of an innkeeper’s wife, this book takes us into the heart of a darkness from which escape was doubtful. It’s an inspirational reminder that political bravery mattered then, and surely matters now.
—Howard Kohn, author of Who Killed Karen Silkwood?
It was so enlightening to read of the many accomplishments my ancestors went through to bring equality and justice to our great country. They have always been heroes in my eyes but this book raised them to even higher levels.
—Herman H. “Topper” Birney III, great-great-grandson of James Gillespie Birney
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The first biographical account of the life of James Gillespie Birney in more than fifty years, this fabulously insightful history illuminates and elevates an all-but-forgotten figure whose political career contributed mightily to the American political fabric. The interaction of the Birneys with historical figures (Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Clay) highlights the significance of the family’s activities in politics and war. D. Laurence Rogers offers a unique historiography of the abolition movement, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the experiences of one family navigating momentous developments from the founding of the Republic until the late 19th century.