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1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Preface "The Work of the Future"; Acknowledgments; Introduction Centralizing the History of Slavery, Racism, and Resistance: Why Race Still Matters; Teaching Notes; Teaching Notes; 1 Most of the "Founders" Were Not Abolitionists, but Some from New York Were; The Deleted Passage (1776); Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, President of the Continental Congress (1779); Rejected Motion at the New York State Constitutional Convention (1777); An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (1799); An Act Relative to Slaves and Servants (1817). |
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Tredwell's Address to the New York State Constitutional Ratification Convention (1788)Frederick Douglass and the Constitution (1849, 1860); Teaching Notes; 2 Resistance! Resistance! Resistance!: New York State's Radical Black Abolitionists and the Coming of the Civil War; Henry Highland Garnet Calls for Resistance (1843); Battling Slavecatchers in Buffalo; Resisting the Fugitive Slave law; Teaching Notes; 3 Abolition on the Margins; Teaching Notes; 4 Narratives of Slavery and Escape: The Importance of Solomon Northup; Teaching Notes; 5 We May Never Know the Real Harriet Tubman. |
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William Still on Harriet TubmanHarriet Tubman in the Newspapers; Teaching Notes; 6 New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee Celebrations; Teaching Notes; 7 Lincoln at Gettysburg: Were All Men Created Equal?; Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; Teaching Notes; New York Senator William Seward Battles against Slavery; 8 The New York Press, Racism, and the Presidential Election of 1864; Teaching Notes; 9 Abolition: From Marginalization to Emancipation; Teaching Notes; 10 "The Execration of History": New York's Opposition to Congressional Reconstruction; Teaching Notes. |
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11 Politics of Historical MemoryTeaching Notes; References; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- New York (State) -- History.
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African Americans. |
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New York (State) |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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Essays.
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History.
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Essays.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Singer, Alan J. New York's grand emancipation jubilee : essays on slavery, resistance, abolition, teaching, and historical memory. Albany : SUNY Press, ©2018 214 pages 9781438469713 (DLC) 2017029911 |
| ISBN |
9781438469720 (electronic book) |
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1438469721 (electronic book) |
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9781438469713 |
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1438469713 |
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9781438469706 |
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1438469705 |
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