LIBROS DEL AUTOR: joshua d rothman

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  • A Pioneer in the Cause of Freedom
    Joshua D Rothman
    Descended from German Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth century, Elisha Tyson was born in 1749. As a young man he became wealthy in the milling business in northeastern Maryland before moving in the early 1780s to Baltimore, where he grew even wealthier and established a reputation as a prominent member of the city’s business community. Over the cou...
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  • Flush Times and Fever Dreams
    Joshua D. Rothman / Joshua DRothman
    In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the "Arkansas morass" in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves. Stewart's adventure led to a sensational trial and a wildly popular published account that would ultimately help trigger widespread violence during the summer of 1835, when five men accused of being professional...
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  • Notorious in the Neighborhood
    Joshua D. Rothman / Joshua DRothman
    Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In Notorious in the Neighborhood, Joshua Rothman examines the full spectrum of interracial sexual relationships under slavery — from Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the intertwined interraci...
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    54,12 €