On America’s western frontier; myths of prosperity concealed the brutal conditions endured by women; slaves; orphans; and the poor. As poverty and unrest took root in eighteenth-century Kentucky; western lawmakers championed ideas about whiteness; manhood; and patriarchal authority to help stabilize a politically fractious frontier. Honor Sachs combines rigorous scholarship with an engaging narrative to examine how conditions in Kentucky facilitated the expansion of rights for white men in ways that would become a model for citizenship in the country as a whole. Endorsed by many prominent western historians; this groundbreaking work is a major contribution to frontier scholarship.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. This book challenges the writer to think beyond many sermons ...By Charles R Butler IIIThis book challenges the writer to think beyond many sermons into some deep seated and complex issues. The four points of Exodus; Exile; Ethiopia; and Emmanuel leads one into areas that few other books have dared to go into reclaiming history and the right to one's own path through life. Emmanuel is in the slave pits of Egypt and America; and freedom can be seen in Exile from one's promised land and the dreams of one's own home of a mythical Ethiopia. Think through this book; pray with this book. It will open eyes.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. This beautiful book gives you so much more than its title.By Thompson Lilian JThis book gives you so much more than its title. What I appreciated is the included history of remigration efforts of Afro-Americans to Africa which I experienced as a bonus of information.This book has an entertaining style and I would recommend it for the young and the old; white and non-white who are looking for a one -stop-window to understand more about the Afro- American.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. About "The Talking Book"By JerryCallahan provides an excellent summary of the African American experience with the Bible; that is; how we came to encounter it within these United States; how it was used 'against' us; and how we have come to appropriate it via listening "against" it and "reading from below." Certainly; the so little appreciated "Middle Passage" is defined; such that its impact for the Black experience in the United States may be comprehended for African Americans as well as others who employ the Bible. Above all; the work confronts us with the assorted uses of the Bible as the "founding document" of our nation and begs us to be conscientious in our employment of it.
