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  • Runaway America

    Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution

    by David Waldstreicher ...
    Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father. Finding slavery at the center of Franklin's life, Waldstreicher proves it was likewise ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

    A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

    by David Waldstreicher ...
    A New York Times notable book of 2023 | A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography | Winner of the 2024 George Washington Prize“[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstreicher’s] interpretations equal Wheatley’s own intentional verse, making it a joy to follow along as he unpacks her words and their arrangement.” —Tiya Miles, The Atlantic“Thoroughly researched, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery

    Selections from the Diary

    by David Waldstreicher, Matthew Mason ...
    In the final years of his political career, President John Quincy Adams was well known for his objections to slavery, with rival Henry Wise going so far as to label him "the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of southern slavery that ever existed." As a young statesman, however, he supported slavery. How did the man who in 1795 told a British cabinet officer not to speak to him of "the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Slavery's Constitution

    From Revolution to Ratification

    by David Waldstreicher ...
    "A historian finds the seeds of an inevitable civil war embedded in the 'contradictions, ambiguities, and silences' about slavery in the Constitution." — Kirkus ReviewsTaking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the US Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes

    The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820

    by David Waldstreicher ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic. Drawing on newspapers, broadsides, diaries, and letters, he shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in a rapidly expanding print culture helped connect local politics to national identity. Waldstreicher reveals how Americans worked out their political ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

    A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

    by David Waldstreicher ...
    Narrated by Kim Staunton ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 1 min

    Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Mastering the Bible, Greek and Latin translations, and the works of Pope and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Forever Wars

    by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, David Waldstreicher, Harsha Walia ...
    The imperial anxieties of the American elite.Featuring a roundtable on Iran with Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, Naghmeh Sohrabi, and Alex Shams.Also in this issue:Dispatches from Tehran, Beirut, Baghdad, and the West BankOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on ending elite impunityDavid Waldstreicher on America at 250Harsha Walia on how not to abolis... ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Somerset v. Steuart

    Law, Politics, and Slavery in North America

    Edited by Matthew Mason, David Waldstreicher ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In the more than 250 years since Lord Mansfield pronounced judgment in Somerset v. Steuart (1772) that slavery was not supported by law in England, historians and legal scholars have probed its significance for the history of slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world. Engaging both the robust traditions of scholarship and the recent upswell of interest surrounding the case, the essays in this ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic

    The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis

    by Jan Ellen Lewis, Carolyn Eastman, Nicole Eustace, David Waldstreicher ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis (1949-2018) transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays defined the emerging fields of gender and emotions history and reframed traditional understandings of the founding fathers and the U.S. Constitution. As significant as her work was within each of these subfields, her most remarkable ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Beyond the Founders

    New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic

    Edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, David Waldstreicher ...
    In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before the Civil War. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks, women, entrepreneurs, and Native Americans, as well as the Adamses, Jeffersons, and Jacksons, all ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Revolutions and Reconstructions

    Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Van Gosse, David Waldstreicher ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Revolutions and Reconstructions gathers historians of the early republic, the Civil War era, and African American and political history to consider not whether black people participated in the politics of the nineteenth century but how, when, and with what lasting effects. Collectively, its authors insist that historians go beyond questioning how revolutionary the American Revolution was, or ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Revolutions and Reconstructions

    Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Van Gosse, David Waldstreicher ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Revolutions and Reconstructions gathers historians of the early republic, the Civil War era, and African American and political history to consider not whether black people participated in the politics of the nineteenth century but how, when, and with what lasting effects. Collectively, its authors insist that historians go beyond questioning how revolutionary the American Revolution was, or ... Read more

    $49.49 USD