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Crusade against slavery : Edward Coles, pioneer of freedom /
Edward Coles was a wealthy heir to a central Virginia plantation, an ardent emancipator, the second governor of Illinois, the loyal personal secretary to President James Madison, and a close antislavery associate of Thomas Jefferson. Yet never before has a full-length book detailed his remarkable li...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in writing & rhetoric.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Dust in the balance" : an introduction
- River and opportunity
- Man of property
- Release
- Beginning
- A rough land of great promise
- Contest and convention
- A prairie firestorm
- The chasm
- The complaint
- The emancipator
- The devastating truth of Madison's will
- The aging historian
- The preacher
- Prodigal Virginian
- The woodlands.