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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
John Giggie is associate professor of history and African American studies at the
University of Alabama. He is the author of After Redemption: Jim Crow and the
Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875–1917, editor of America
Firsthand, and editor of Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Commercial Culture.
He is currently preparing a book on African American religion during the Civil War. He has
been honored for his teaching, most recently with a Distinguished Fellow in Teaching award
from the University of Alabama. He received his PhD from Princeton University.
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BRIEF CONTENTS
10 AMERICA’S ECONOMIC
27 THE COLD WAR 653
REVOLUTION 225
28 THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY 678
11 COTTON, SLAVERY, AND THE OLD
SOUTH 251 29 THE TURBULENT SIXTIES 707
APPENDIX 823
15 RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW
SOUTH 351 GLOSSARY 851
INDEX 855
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CONTENTS
PREFACE XXV
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x • CONTENTS
STIRRINGS OF REVOLT 93
The Stamp Act Crisis 93
Internal Rebellions 96
The Townshend Program 96
The Boston Massacre 97
The Philosophy of Revolt 98
Sites of Resistance 101
The Tea Excitement 101
THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE 111 Debating the Past: The American
The First Phase: New England 111 Revolution 108
The Second Phase: The Mid-Atlantic America in the World: The Age of
Region 112 Revolutions 116
Securing Aid from Abroad 114
The Final Phase: The South 115 Consider the Source: The
Winning the Peace 119 Correspondence of Abigail Adams on
Women’s Rights (1776) 122
WAR AND SOCIETY 119
CONCLUSION 131
Loyalists and Minorities 119
KEY TERMS/PEOPLE/PLACES/EVENTS 131
The War and Slavery 120
RECALL AND REFLECT 132
Native Americans and the Revolution 121
Women’s Rights and Roles 121
The War Economy 124
ESTABLISHING NATIONAL
SOVEREIGNTY 145
Securing the West 145
Maintaining Neutrality 148
SECTIONALISM AND
NATIONALISM 192
The Missouri Compromise 192
Marshall and the Court 193
CONTENTS • xiii
THE ABANDONMENT OF
RECONSTRUCTION 368
The Southern States “Redeemed” 368
Waning Northern Commitment 369
20 THE PROGRESSIVES
THE PROGRESSIVE IMPULSE 488
487
THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND
The Muckrakers and the Social Gospel 489 THE MODERN PRESIDENCY 505
The Settlement House Movement 491 The Accidental President 505
The Allure of Expertise 492 The “Square Deal” 506
The Professions 492 Roosevelt and the Environment 507
Women and the Professions 493 Panic and Retirement 509
XV. Both Tenants must Pay the Rent for Land which has
been Sublet.
Where a landlord receives a tenant on his land, and it afterward
happens that the latter sublets a third of the same to another party,
both shall be considered tenants of the landlord, and shall pay rent
to him in proportion to the amount of land they occupy.
XVI. Where Goths have Appropriated any of the Third Part of
Land Belonging to Romans, they shall Restore the Entire
Amount to the Romans, under Order of Court.
Judges, governors, and other authorities, in all cases where
Romans have been deprived of their lands, shall take them from
those who occupy them, and restore them to the Romans, in order
that the royal treasury may sustain no loss; provided, however, that
the period of fifty years shall not have elapsed, so that, by limitation
of time, the rights of the Romans to said lands may not have been
lost.
FLAVIUS CHINTASVINTUS, KING.
XVII. Concerning the Partition of Property Among the Blood-
Relatives of Slaves, and the Distribution of their Personal
Estates.
It is the just province of the law to amend or repeal by new
decrees, any former statutes which may be devoid of reason or
equity; and the cause of abuses must first be determined, before
laws can be enacted for their correction. As a son is born of both
parents, why should he follow the condition of his mother, while he
owes his being equally to his father. It is, therefore, but reasonable
that we decree that where one slave has married a slave owned by
another person, any issue of said marriage shall belong equally to
the masters of both slaves. Where, however, there is but one son
born to said parents, since he cannot serve both masters at once, he
shall remain with his mother until his twelfth year, at which age he
will be able to work. The master of the female slave shall then pay to
the master of her husband one half of the value of the child, after
said value shall have been appraised by men of respectability. A
similar rule shall be observed in the cases of other children of slaves,
where said children are not of even number. All personal property
which said male and female slave has accumulated, while living
under one roof, shall belong to both masters. And if said slaves
should have accumulated any property on land belonging to a third
person, or any building, or any real estate of any description, or any
personal property that is not portable, the masters of said slaves
shall have a right to the division of said property among themselves,
in the same manner as if it had been acquired through relationship
by blood. If one of the said masters should be opposed to the
marriage of the slaves aforesaid, he may straightway separate them,
under this condition: that, after said marriage shall have come to the
knowledge of said masters, and they should not desire its
continuance, they must dissolve it within a year. If, through their
negligence, this reasonable time prescribed by law should have
elapsed, whatever issue said slaves may have after that time, shall
be equally divided between their masters; the sex, number, and ages
of said children being taken into consideration. If more than a year
should elapse without one or both of their masters being aware of
said marriage, all issue of the same shall be divided between them,
as aforesaid.
THE GLORIOUS FLAVIUS RECESVINTUS, KING.
XVIII. All Personal Property shall be Classed under One Title.
We often see wicked persons, for the purpose of contention,
pervert the meaning of the law; and, in order to prevent such
conduct, as far as possible, we desire to simplify matters whenever
this can be done. Therefore, we decree that no difference shall exist
in the classification of all kinds of personal property, whether said
property be tangible, or merely held in trust by one for another; in
order that the subtle distinctions which have arisen in the
classification of said property may be abolished.
THE GLORIOUS FLAVIUS RECESVINTUS, KING.
XIX. Where a Contract is not Complied With, according to its
Terms.
Whenever any person obtains possession of land, vineyards, or
any other real estate, under a lease for the tenth part of its annual
yield, or for any other payment, or consideration, whether said lease
is in writing, or verbal, provided he who leases it does so under
some contract for rent, the lessee shall, without demand or
solicitation from the lessor, pay his rent regularly; nor shall the right
of the landlord to said rent be affected, in any way, should he not do
so. For wherever the provisions or covenants of a lease are not
fulfilled, the right of the owner shall not be affected; because the
controversy has not arisen through the act of the landlord, but
through the fraud of the tenant. If the tenant should refuse to fulfil his
contract, or to comply with any of its provisions, he shall pay double
the amount to the landlord which he agreed to pay him under the
terms of the lease. And if the tenant, alleging various pretexts,
should not comply with his contract for such a time that the rights of
the owner are lost by the limitation of the law, that is, for fifty years,
he shall forfeit said property, with all the increase in value of the
same resulting from his labors thereon.
TITLE II. CONCERNING THE LIMITATIONS OF FIFTY AND THIRTY YEARS.
I. After the Lapse of Fifty Years, Neither Goths nor Romans can Assert a
Claim to Property.
II. No Fugitive Slave shall Again be Reduced to Servitude, after the Lapse of
Fifty Years.
III. No Suit at Law shall be Brought Thirty Years After the Cause of Action has
Arisen.
IV. The Limitation of Thirty Years shall Run in all Cases Excepting those
where Slaves of the Crown are Concerned.
V. Concerning Claims made within Thirty Years.
VI. The Limitation of Thirty Years shall not Run while Persons are Exiled.
VII. Within what Time Slaves Belonging to the Crown can Again be Reduced
to Slavery.