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Was it commonplace for free Blacks to own slaves in Virginia, prior to 1865? Professor John Henderson Russell (born 1884) has surprising answers in his short 12-page work titled "Colored Freemen as ……続きを見る

"Wilson finds that there were about 6,200 colored slave-holders in the days of yore, and that these 'Black Masters' owned some 18,000 slaves." -The African Abroad (1913) "An extremely interesting ar……続きを見る

A primer on applying historical and culinary practices to modern day cooking Seeking the Historical Cook is a guide to historical cooking methods from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century receipt (rec……続きを見る

A stereotypical image of manumission is that of a benign plantation owner freeing his slaves on his deathbed. But as Stephen Whitman demonstrates, the truth was far more complex, especially in borde……続きを見る

This Ebook is the first of two Ebooks that present the print book, Ordinary Soldiers - Extraordinary Task. The print book traces the sons of two ordinary colonial families in their Revolutionary War……続きを見る

This Ebook is the second of two Ebooks that present the print book, Ordinary Soldiers - Extraordinary Task. The print book traces the sons of two ordinary colonial families in their Revolutionary Wa……続きを見る

The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public debates over the religious and political values that define it. In Accidental Pluralism, Evan Haefeli argues t……続きを見る

Examines the significant impact of Dutch traders and settlers on the early history of Northeastern North America, and their relationships with its Indigenous peoples. This volume of essays by histor……続きを見る

En el largo y sinuoso proceso que condujo a la publicación de La Florida del Inca (Lisboa, 1605) podemos suponer la existencia de varios pre-textos: copias manuscritas de versiones preliminares o pa……続きを見る

The Planters of Colonial Virginia is a historical account on formation of Virginian aristocracy. The author deals with the genesis of colonial landowners who managed to make a fortune in a relativel……続きを見る

This Pulitzer Prize awarded history interrogates the discovery and first settlement of the region; the genesis of the religious and political ideas which there took root and flourished; the geograph……続きを見る

History of the Colonial Virginia is a three volume series dealing with the pre revolutionary Virginia. This series provides one of the best historical reviews of British rule in the New World and th……続きを見る

In 1741, Manhattan had the second-largest slave population of any city in the Thirteen Colonies after Charleston, South Carolina. As a result The Conspiracy of 1741, also known as the Negro Plot of ……続きを見る

Patrician and Plebeian is a historical book dealing with the origin of colonial aristocracy in colonial Virginia. The author relegates the old belief that the Virginia aristocracy had its origin in ……続きを見る

Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 deals with the first eight decades of the colony of Virginia from the arrival of three little vesselsーthe Sarah Constant, the Discovery and the Goodspeedー unde……続きを見る

A historical saga that covers a winter of 1650/1651 journey of John Law, a young Scotsman captured by the English Lord Cromwell's forces in seventeenth century Scotland during "The Battle of Dunbar"……続きを見る

Forward To Freedom - The American Constitution and Humanity’s Struggle for Liberty Across the Ages is a fast-paced, informative, and inspiring account of the Constitution and its historical roots. I……続きを見る

This edition is comprised of the most important legal documents in early American history which are considered instrumental to its founding and philosophy: The United States Declaration of Independe……続きを見る

My Mother’s Daughter is a fast-paced, page-turning historical fiction about a mother’s daughters, set in an era of southern plantations and slavery. Each woman finds her own way to develop unsuspect……続きを見る

A sprawling novel focuses on the burgeoning revolution in 19th-century Texas. …a substantial piece of thoughtful historical fiction. ーKirkus Reviews ________________________ In the Texas Revolution……続きを見る

In early modern England, wood scarcity was a widespread concern. Royal officials, artisans, and common people expressed their fears in laws, petitions, and pamphlets, in which they debated the sever……続きを見る

Texas is well known to everyone as the setting for Indian tales and Wild West romances and most have also heard of the oil wells and sulfur pits, cattle herds, and cotton fields that secure it a pla……続きを見る

Museums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text to examine museum practice in a decolonised moment, moving beyond known roles of object collection and presentation. Drawing on st……続きを見る

Examines the complex global impact of the ivory trade The economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys, billi……続きを見る

The Huguenot II: Building the Dream picks up right where The Huguenot: Flight From Terror ends. Readers fell in love with three French émigré forced to flee France because of their Protestant faith ……続きを見る

This historical novel, set in the early 1600s describes the adventures of young Mayflower pilgrim, Elisabeth Tilley, who early in life became wise beyond her years as part of an ultimate immigration……続きを見る

Beginning with the medieval period, this book collates and reviews first-hand scholarship on Muslims in the Middle East and South Asia, as noted down by eminent British travellers, sleuths and obser……続きを見る

How early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process. In colonial America, Catholics were presumed dangerou……続きを見る

“Diversity” is not a new, foreign element in American life. It goes back to the earliest roots of the nation, when five distinct regions emerged along the Atlantic shore in the 17th century. This bo……続きを見る

In this first-ever biography, historian Robert Thompson tells the dramatic story of the life and death of William Crawford, a legendary figure from the violent world of the American colonial frontie……続きを見る