### Product Description This text presents a history of the American Civil War. It starts with an account of the years before the civil war and its causes - placing slavery firmly back in the centre stage - before discussing the war, the two sides, the international dimension, the position and role
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
โ Scribed by Mcpherson, James M
- Book ID
- 106905785
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780195168952
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โฆ Synopsis
Product Description
This text presents a history of the American Civil War. It starts with an account of the years before the civil war and its causes - placing slavery firmly back in the centre stage - before discussing the war, the two sides, the international dimension, the position and role of the free blacks and slaves, to its outcome, the end of the war and reconstruction.
About the Author
James McPherson is Professor Emeritus of American History at Princeton University. Battle Cry of Freedom won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2003.
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Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning _Battle Cry of Freedom_ is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events
In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, had just ordered a young African American man who had escaped from slavery in Virginia and settled in Boston to be returned to bondage in the South. An estimated 50,000 citizen rioted in protest. Observin