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The first essay, the book's namesake, traces the origins of the "ghetto" African-American culture to the culture of Scotch-Irish Americans in the Antebellum South. The second essay, "Are Jews Generic?", discusses middleman minorities. The third essay, "The Real History of Slavery," discusses the timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom.
A prominent abolitionist, Janney condemned slavery in his writings, arguing that it was morally and socially unjust. In 1849, Janney wrote three anti-slavery essays in rebuttal to Methodist Reverend William A. Smith's pro-slavery speech that landed him in Loudoun County Court. [4] Janney was free of all charges after spending several months in ...
To a Southern Slaveholder" was a 1848 anti-slavery essay written by the Unitarian minister Theodore Parker, as the abolition movement was developing in the United States. [ 1 ] The essay's tone was akin to someone correcting someone else about a fact they got wrong.
Berlin focused in particular on the history of slavery in the United States. His first book, Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South (1974), was awarded the Best First Book Prize by the National Historical Society. [2] Berlin's work is concerned with what he termed the "striking diversity" in African-American life under ...
Essays and documents also traced the early origin of the African slave trade from the continent of Africa to the Americas. The publication also included accounts of kidnappings of free people who were sold into slavery, including Cornelius Sinclair and other victims of the Cannon-Johnson gang who were abducted from the Philadelphia area in the ...
"A Plea for Captain John Brown" is an essay by Henry David Thoreau, based on a speech he first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts, on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859.
Federalist Paper No. 54 is an essay by James Madison, the fifty-fourth of The Federalist Papers. It was first published by The New York Packet on February 12, 1788 under the pseudonym Publius , the name under which all The Federalist papers were published.
"The question of treason is distinct from that of slavery; and is the same that it would have been, if free States, instead of slave States, had seceded.On the part of the North, the war was carried on, not to liberate the slaves, but by a government that had always perverted and violated the Constitution, to keep the slaves in bondage; and was still willing to do so, if the slaveholders could ...