Alan Taylor
Born
in Portland, Maine, The United States
January 01, 1955
Genre
Influences
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America
16 editions
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2001
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The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
9 editions
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2010
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The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
9 editions
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2013
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William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
5 editions
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1995
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Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction
4 editions
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2012
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The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
6 editions
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2006
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Liberty Men and Great Proprietors (Institute of Early American History & Culture
4 editions
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1990
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The Secret Annexe: An Anthology of the World's Greatest War Diarists
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2 editions
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2004
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Boston in the American Revolution: A Town Versus an Empire
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Writing Early American History
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2005
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“Writing to his son in 1799, John Adams blamed America’s political turmoil on “a systematical dissolution of the true Family Authority. There can never be any regular Government of a Nation without a marked Subordination of Mothers and Children to the Father.” Tellingly, Adams suddenly remembered his forceful wife and urged his son to keep his patriarchal sentiments “a Secret,” for their revelation would “infallibly raise a Rebellion against me.”67 Rather”
― American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
― American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
“The greatest liberator was Robert Carter of Nomini Hall in the Northern Neck. An eccentric great planter, he experimented in radical religion, joining a Baptist church that included twenty-nine of his own slaves. Carter’s spiritual quest led him to recognize slavery as a sin. In 1791 he began to liberate his 509 slaves, freeing about 25 a year until completing the process in 1812. His dismayed children saw much of their inheritance dissolve into freedom, and his neighbors denounced the freedmen for setting bad examples that ruined their slaves, who thereafter resented and resisted their bondage. An angry neighbor rebuked Carter, “It appears to me (witnessing the consequences) that a man has almost as good a right to set fire to his own building though his neighbor’s is to be destroyed by it, as to free his slaves.”
― The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
― The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
“Fleeing first, in November 1813, Presley represented the greatest blow, for a body servant was a master’s favorite and confidante: no one knew Jones better than Presley did. Presley, however, preferred to serve a Royal Navy captain. In 1815 a visitor to HMS Havannah recognized Presley, whom he praised as “uncommonly likely & trained as a House Servant.” The visitor noted that Presley had renamed himself “Washington,” evidently after the great revolutionary leader who had won liberty and independence for the Americans.3 As a black Washington, Presley returned to free his friends and family left behind. In October 1814, Presley guided a British raiding party to Kinsale, liberating the rest of the slaves and casting Jones out. Presley’s return represents a common pattern in the slave escapes during the war. Runaways tended to bolt in two stages: in the first, a pioneer runaway made initial contact with the British, and then in the second stage, he returned home to liberate kin and friends.”
― The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
― The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter, General Nonfiction, 1964
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin, General Nonfiction, 2014
Growing Up by Russell Baker, Autobiography, 1983
Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward, History, 1982
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