Troublesome Presence: Democracy and Black AmericansTransaction Publishers, 1993 M01 1 - 358 páginas Ginzberg and Eichner, in an innovative interpretation of basic political conflict in the American experience, reveal how democracy evolved without making a place for African Americans. The volume emphasizes the national, rather than regional, character of racial prejudice. |
Contenido
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The Founding Fathers | 32 |
The Great Silence | 66 |
The Agony of Lincoln | 96 |
Victory Without Commitment | 129 |
In Search of a Permanent Majority | 163 |
The Reconstructed South | 199 |
The Mind of the North | 232 |
The War for Democracy | 265 |
The New Federalism | 290 |
From Freedom to Equality | 314 |
The Promise Still Delayed 1993 | 338 |
Sources and Reading List | 357 |
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The Troublesome Presence: American Democracy and the Negro Eli Ginzberg,Alfred S. Eichner Vista de fragmentos - 1964 |
The Troublesome Presence: American Democracy and the Negro Eli Ginzberg,Alfred S. Eichner Vista de fragmentos - 1964 |
The Troublesome Presence: American Democracy and the Negro Eli Ginzberg,Alfred S. Eichner Vista de fragmentos - 1964 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 124 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 105 - But if the negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself, that is self-government ; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that " all men are created equal," and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
Página 114 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we while our votes will prevent it allow it to spread into the national Territories and to overrun us here in these free States! If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively.
Página 54 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and -thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página 126 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Página 107 - all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes and foreigners, and catholics.
Página 116 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 105 - What next ? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals ? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not.
Página 92 - But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.