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Slavery in Pennsylvania by Edward Raymond Turner is an academic work that delves into the history of slavery in Pennsylvania. The book provides insights into the social and economic factors that influenced the institution of slavery in the state. Turner uses primary sources such as legal documents and personal accounts to analyze the role of slavery in Pennsylvania's history. This work is an important contribution to the understanding of the complexities of slavery in the United States.
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Presents and discusses the text of a resolution adopted by the American Anti-Slavery Society at its annual meeting in May 1844. The author's writing dated Boston, January 15, 1845; Resolution that every abolitionist ought to abstain from the present United States government, because of the government's support of slavery; Response to allegations the Society faces because of this resolution, including charge that the Society is against all government.
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Officially titled "An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas," this act repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had outlawed slavery above the 36º30' latitude in the Louisiana territories, and reopened the national struggle over slavery in the western territories.
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"Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/ 9780295748733 Dominica, a place once described as "Nature's Island," was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica's colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological record-which preserves traces of slave households, waterways, boiling houses, mills, and vessels for storing water-reveals changes in political authority and in how social relations were mediated through the environment. Plantation monoculture, which depended on both slavery and an abundant supply of water, worked through the environment to create predicaments around scarcity, mobility, and belonging whose resolution was a matter of life and death. In following the vestiges of these struggles, this investigation documents a valuable example of an environmental challenge centered around insufficient water. Mapping Water in Dominica is available in an open access edition through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Northwestern University Libraries"-- Provided by publisher.
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Address to the People of the United States, together with the Proceedings and Resolutions of the Pro-Slavery Convention of Missouri; Held at Lexington, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
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