No More Lies: The Myth and the Reality of American HistoryHarper & Row, 1971 - 311 pagina's Explodes such American myths as free elections, the Mason-Dixon line, free enterprise, Emancipation, and the Puritan Pilgrims. |
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Pagina 148
... South , its lands would have re- mained " a howling wilderness . " Such is the myth . The fact is that , ever since the found- ing of Jamestown , white men have performed much of the South's heavy agricultural labor . For a century and ...
... South , its lands would have re- mained " a howling wilderness . " Such is the myth . The fact is that , ever since the found- ing of Jamestown , white men have performed much of the South's heavy agricultural labor . For a century and ...
Pagina 149
... South made remarkable economic and agricultural strides , and the number of slaves and the prices they brought rose accordingly . Even before the cotton gin got itself invented , the South was producing 60 per cent of America's corn ...
... South made remarkable economic and agricultural strides , and the number of slaves and the prices they brought rose accordingly . Even before the cotton gin got itself invented , the South was producing 60 per cent of America's corn ...
Pagina 273
... South . In many areas of the South , black folks and white folks have always lived side by side . Thus in the South white folks have always approved buses being used to transport white kids and black kids to separate schools . Northern ...
... South . In many areas of the South , black folks and white folks have always lived side by side . Thus in the South white folks have always approved buses being used to transport white kids and black kids to separate schools . Northern ...
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The Myth of the Puritan Pilgrim | 15 |
The Myth of the Savage | 50 |
The Myth of the Founding Fathers | 88 |
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