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AMERICAN HISTORY

FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING NEW

The Historian’s John Adams, Selling America
Narrative of Slavery, and Race Immigration Promotion

Frederick Douglass Ideas, Politics, and and the Settlement of the

Reading Douglass’s Diplomacy in an American Continent,
Autobiography as Social Age of Crisis 1607–1914
and Cultural History ARTHUR SCHERR CHRISTINA A. ZIEGLER-MCPHERSON

EDITED BY ROBERT FELGAR

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second U.S. president John Adams’s from 1607 to 1914, including what
attitudes toward slavery, blacks, and attracted people to America, who was
“ this black libertarian, self- the Haitian Revolution, this iconoclastic trying to attract them, and why.
A firsthand approach to
study illuminates the inner and outer
determined, freedom fighter. worlds of Adams for scholars and FEATURES
. . . Felgar’s book should be general readers. • Features a synthesis of 35 state
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” • Supplies a knowledge of John Adams’s
and independent scholars. FEATURES immigration
—James L. Conyers, Jr. , PhD, Director, views—information that reveals him • Challenges the commonly held view
that the 19th century was a period of
African American Studies Program, as hardly a paragon in matters of racial “laissez-faire” immigration policy
University Professor of African American equality—that will facilitate a more
Studies, University of Houston, realistic appraisal of early American • Examines the question of why
January 30, 2017 culture, politics, and diplomacy at a immigrants migrate to certain areas
time when the dogma of “American • Highlights the corporate, for-profit
To celebrate the bicentenary of exceptionalism” is under attack at U.S. nature of English colonization in the
Frederick Douglass’s birth in 2018, this universities and in the media 17th century
new annotated edition of his classic • Includes private corporate, religious,
autobiography shows how his insights on and philanthropic promotional
slavery, racism, and the pursuit of self- ARTHUR SCHERR, PhD, teaches history activities
reliance are still highly relevant today in at the City University of New York.
21st-century America.
CHRISTINA A. ZIEGLER-
MCPHERSON, PhD, is a public
ROBERT FELGAR, PhD, is professor historian and museum curator. She
and head of the Department of English has a doctorate in history from the
at Jacksonville State University, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jacksonville, AL.
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