The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author: John Codman Hurd

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-01-17

Total Pages: 850

ISBN-13: 9780243061624

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Excerpt from The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, Vol. 2 of 2 It is in the agitation of The Slavery Question, almost ex elusively, that those doctrines of State sovereignty have, dur ing the last thirty years, been exhibited, upon which practical secession is claimed to be legitimate public action; and as those who were most opposed in their moral and political preferences in respect to slavery were at the same time almost in harmony on this subject, in view of totally different ends, it could be no occasion for surprise if these doctrines had been found to have gained greatly in acceptance, during that agitation, in the Northern as well as in the Southern States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


I was Born a Slave

I was Born a Slave

Author: Yuval Taylor

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 837

ISBN-13: 1556523327

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The narratives in this volume include tales of Africa, pirate ships, wild animals, witches; a slave who had ten owners, and another who led a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites; the kidnapping of a white woman and her rescue by a slave; the nightmarish tortures of the infamous Mr. Gooch; the tragicomic experiences of a pair of "white slaves"; and the story of the "original Uncle Tom."--


The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author: John C. Hurd

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 670

ISBN-13: 9780266445029

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Excerpt from The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, Vol. 1 of 2 In the belief that this tendency arises principally from a want of precision in the definitions of law and in the formulas which express the basal propositions of jurisprudence, the follow ing examination of the laws of the United States affecting per sonal condition has been commenced by a preliminary exposition of those principles of general jurisprudence which would be necessarily involved in considering the incidents of free condition and its contraries in whatever country they might exist and it has been attempted at the same time to discriminate for use in the succeeding inquiry such terms, already adopted by writers of acknowledged reputation, as are requisite to express the neces sary distinctions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


John Wesley's Teachings, Volume 2

John Wesley's Teachings, Volume 2

Author: Thomas C. Oden

Publisher: Zondervan Academic

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0310492688

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The first presentation of John Wesley's doctrinal teachings in a systematic form that is also faithful to Wesley's own writings in ebook format. Wesley was a prolific writer and commentator on Scripture, yet it is commonly held that he was not systematic or internally consistent in his theology and doctrinal teachings. On the contrary, Thomas C. Oden intends to demonstrate here that Wesley displayed a remarkable degree of consistency over sixty years of preaching and ministry. The book helps readers to grasp Wesley's essential teachings in an accessible form so that the person desiring to go directly to Wesley's own writings (which fill eighteen volumes) will know exactly where to turn.


Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Volume 2, Free Persons and Free States

Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Volume 2, Free Persons and Free States

Author: Quentin Skinner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1107311411

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Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action and their relations to conceptions of citizenship. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.