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The struggles of John Brown Russwurm : the life and writings of a pan-Africanist pioneer, 1799-1851 /
Historians often rely on a handful of unusual cases to illustrate the absence of free speech in the colonies-such as that of Richard Barnes, who had his arms broken and a hole bored through his tongue for seditious words against the governor of Virginia. In this definitive and accessible work, Larry...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Historians often rely on a handful of unusual cases to illustrate the absence of free speech in the colonies-such as that of Richard Barnes, who had his arms broken and a hole bored through his tongue for seditious words against the governor of Virginia. In this definitive and accessible work, Larry Eldridge convincingly debunks this view by revealing surprising evidence of free speech in early America. Using the court records of every American colony that existed before 1700 and an analysis of over 1,200 seditious speech cases sifted from those records, A Distant Heritage shows how colonists. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814722534 0814722539 |