[PDF.79hp] But We Have No Country: The 1851 Christiana, Pennsylvania Resistance

But We Have No Country: The 1851 Christiana, Pennsylvania Resistance

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 | #590998 in Books |  1998-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

 | antebellum slavery history / race relations before the Civil War | Pennsylvania-Insurrection of slaves-Christiana | Fugitive Slave Law 1850

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||7 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| If I Knew Then, What I Know Now|By A Customer|Purchasing this book made me face the risks associated with online book purchases. Forbes' subject of analysis seems to keep eluding her, and that pursuit comes across as the only continuing thread of the book. Early references to "the rhetoric of redemptive violence" quickly blurred into a discussion of "righteous violence," "n| |... among the top scholarship on African American resistance produced in the last two decades. Indeed ... a must read for all. -- Wilbert L Jenkins, Ph.D., Temple University, Pennsylvania

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"But We Have No Country" examines how William Parker and the Christiana Resisters tested the basic tenets of American democracy and law, especially the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. In doing so, they exposed the contradiction between the theory of the American creed and the reality of the enslavement and oppression of black Americans. Ultimately the Christiana Resistance was a contest of wills between Parker and his self-defense organization, with natural law on their side, a...

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