The Slaves of Liberty: Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820-1868 0815330820, 9780815330820

Sweet Land of Liberty: The Ordeal of the American Revolution in Northampton County, Pennsylvania 9780271031088

It is often said that the American Revolution was a conservative revolution, but in many parts of the British colonies t

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I've got the light of freedom: the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle 9780520207066, 9780520085152

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Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom 9780300245493

From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the churc

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On The Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia 9780807126912, 0807126918

In this enlightening study, Clarence L. Mohr follows the demise of chattel slavery in one state of the Confederate South

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The Death of Communal Liberty: A History of Freedom in a Swiss Mountain Canton 9781400867172

Switzerland today is faced with a profound dilemma—its village life is dying, a casualty of the collision between commun

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Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World 0807829099, 9780807829097, 9780807876565

All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteen

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Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech 0195079027, 9780195079029

Although an inchoate liberty theory of freedom of speech has deep roots in Supreme Court decisions and political history

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I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface 9780520933880

This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material th

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The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War 0807835668, 9780807835661

Abraham H. Galloway (1837-70) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage

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The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement 9780231541824

Conducting dozens of interviews and consulting rich archival materials, Jon N. Hale weaves a social history of the Missi

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