{"product_id":"race-and-revolution-paperback","title":"Race and Revolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGary B. Nash\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most profound crisis of conscience for white Americans at the end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure. \u003ci\u003eRace and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact but provided it with the protection of a vastly strengthened government after 1788.\u003cbr\u003eReversing the conventional view that blames slavery on the South's social and economic structures, Nash stresses the role of the northern states in the failure to abolish slavery. It was northern racism and hypocrisy as much as southern intransigence that buttressed \"the peculiar institution.\" Nash also shows how economic and cultural factors intertwined to result not in an apparently judicious decision of the new American nation but rather its most significant lost opportunity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRace and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e describes the free black community's response to this failure of the revolution's promise, its vigorous and articulate pleas for justice, and the community's successes in building its own African-American institutions within the hostile environment of early nineteenth-century America.\u003cbr\u003eIncluded with the text of \u003ci\u003eRace and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e are nineteen rare and crucial documents-letters, pamphlets, sermons, and speeches-which provide evidence for Nash's controversial and persuasive claims. From the words of Anthony Benezet and Luther Martin to those of Absalom Jones and Caesar Sarter, readers may judge the historical record for themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\"In reality,\" argues Nash, \"the American Revolution represents the largest slave uprising in our history.\" \u003ci\u003eRace and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is the compelling story of that failed quest for the promise of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary B. Nash\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a variety of books on race and class in early America, including: \u003ci\u003eFreedom By Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath\u003c\/i\u003e with Jean Soderlund (Oxford, 1991); \u003ci\u003eForging Freedom: The Black Urban Experience in Philadelphia, 1720-1820\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard, 1988); \u003ci\u003eRace, Class and Politics: Essays on Colonial and Revolutionary Society\u003c\/i\u003e (Univ. of Illinois, 1985); \u003ci\u003eThe Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard, 1979); \u003ci\u003eRed, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America\u003c\/i\u003e (Prentice-Hall, 1974, 1982); \u003ci\u003eClass and Society in Early America\u003c\/i\u003e (Prentice-Hall, 1970); and \u003ci\u003eQuakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton, 1968). He is a general editor of \u003ci\u003eThe American People: Creating a Nation and a Society\u003c\/i\u003e (Harper and Row, 1986, 1990). In addition to teaching history at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received a UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, Professor Nash is the associate director of the National Center for History in the Schools. He holds his B.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9.14 x 5.86 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50345273131245,"sku":"9780945612216","price":66.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/Y7b0QHlRbU9780945612216.webp?v=1785202768","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-ca\/products\/race-and-revolution-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}