This is a critical edition of the essays that J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) wrote in English but did not include in Letters from an American Farmer. First published in 1782, Letters from an American Farmer is an eighteenth-century cultural masterpiece. Written in English by a French-born immigrant, it is a collection of semiautobiographical writings in epistolary form that describe daily life along the northern frontier during the days leading up to the American Revolution. Convey...
The Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts (Heritage Books Reprint Classic)
by Richard P Hallowell
Patriots. Founding Fathers. Revolutionaries. For many Americans, the colonial heroes deserve special celebratory reverence. Yet while Washington's leadership, Franklin's writings, and Revere's ride captivate us, the inspiration and influence George Whitefield instilled within the revolutionary spirits of early Americans is regrettably unknown. In this refreshing biography, Jerome Dean Mahaffey deftly moves beyond Whitefield's colonial celebrity to show how his rhetoric and ministry worked for f...
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A Brief Narrative of the Journeys of David Thompson, in North-western America [microform]
Archaeological and historical scholarship completed over the past decade has revealed much about the built environments of slavery and the daily lives of enslaved workers in North America. Cabin, Quarter, Plantation is the first book to take this new research into account and comprehensively examine the architecture and landscapes of enslavement on plantations and farms. This important work brings together the best writing in the field, including classic pieces on slave landscapes by W. E. B....
The Arawack Language of Guiana and Its Linguistic and Its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations, In
Slavery. Attitudes About Slavery; Slavery - Attitudes about Slavery - Segregation
Between Slavery and Freedom (African American Experience)
by Professor of History Julie Winch
In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the "borderlands" between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the Civil War. However they had navigated their way out of bondage - through flight, through military service, through self-purchase, through the working of the law in different times and in different places,...
Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - North American History)
by John Adams
American statesman John Adams (1735-1826) was a key player in the early days of the American Revolution, and the second President of the United States (1797-1801). He was involved in drafting the 1776 Declaration of Independence, and as a Congress representative in Europe negotiated peace with Great Britain. First published in 1841, this two-volume book brings together the letters Adams wrote to his wife Abigail between 1774 and 1801. Spanning twenty-five years crucial to the creation and develo...
The Career and Adventures of John H. Surratt, Since His Flight From America, After the Execution of His Mother, Mrs. Mary Surratt, Payne, Harold and Atzerott for the Assassination of President Lincoln ... His Final Arrest in Egypt by United State...
by Charles Wesley Alexander
A First Book in American History, with Special Reference to the Lives and Deeds of Great Americans
by Deceased Edward Eggleston
