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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... slaves who were rowed beneath him , going in chains to the slave ships . The slave trade was a greedy king raiding his own villages to get slaves to buy brandy . The slave trade was a pious captain holding prayer services twice a day on his ...
... slaves who were rowed beneath him , going in chains to the slave ships . The slave trade was a greedy king raiding his own villages to get slaves to buy brandy . The slave trade was a pious captain holding prayer services twice a day on his ...
Pagina 119
... slaves could be accommodated . Thus slaves had about twenty - five inches of head room and could not sit up straight during the entire voyage . Every available inch of the slave hold was packed with human flesh , and often slaves could ...
... slaves could be accommodated . Thus slaves had about twenty - five inches of head room and could not sit up straight during the entire voyage . Every available inch of the slave hold was packed with human flesh , and often slaves could ...
Pagina 120
... slaves " commenced . For exercise slaves were made to jump around as best they could wearing chains , to the soulless accom- paniment of a drum or a banjo , and the slaves were also supposed to sing . Perhaps this was the beginning of ...
... slaves " commenced . For exercise slaves were made to jump around as best they could wearing chains , to the soulless accom- paniment of a drum or a banjo , and the slaves were also supposed to sing . Perhaps this was the beginning of ...
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The Myth of the Puritan Pilgrim I | 1 |
The Myth of the Savage | 31 |
The Myth of the Founding Fathers | 64 |
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