Bøker i America in the Nineteenth Cent-serien

"This book reinterprets the historic touchstone of the Overland Trail as a story of death and Native activism. Emigrant graves became seeds of U.S. possession across the West. In response Native peoples defended their homelands by pointing to their graves as proofs of Indigenous persistence and enduring territorial claims"--

"This book examines the relationship between labor reform and abolitionism in the decades before the Civil War. Tracing the parallel rise of antislavery with the nation's first labor movement, Griffin shows how labor reformers made an invaluable contribution to the antislavery project"--