Leonard L. Richards Books
Who freed the slaves
"In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation may have been limited--freeing only slaves within Confederate stat...
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The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter...
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The slave power
"With The Slave Power, Richards reopens a discussion effectively closed by historians since the 1920s - when the Slave Power theory was dismissed first as a distortion of reality and later as a man...
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