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Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION
by
Eric Foner
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Slavery and Empire
• Slave Cultures and Slave Resistance
• An Empire of Freedom
• The Public Sphere
• The Great Awakening
• Imperial Rivalries
• Battle for the Continent
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The Old Plantation
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Slavery and Empire
 Focus Question:
How did African slavery differ regionally
in eighteenth-century North America?
Slavery and Empire:
Atlantic trade
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Atlantic Trade
Map 4.1 Atlantic Trading Routes
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The title page of Olaudah Equiano’s account of his life
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Slavery and Empire:
Slave Trade
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Africa and the Slave Trade
The Middle Passage
Map 4.2 The Slave Trade in The Atlantic World, 1460–1770
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A mid-eighteenth-century image of a
woman going to church in Lima, Peru
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Slavery and Empire:
the Chesapeake
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Chesapeake Slavery
Freedom and Slavery in the Chesapeake
Slavery and Empire:
the Carolinas
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Indian Slavery in Early Carolina
The Rice Kingdom
Slave-Trading Vessel Marle-Seraphique
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An Overseer Doing His Duty
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Slavery and Empire:
Georgia and the north
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The Georgia Experiment
Slavery in the North
Slave Sale Broadside
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Henry Darnall III
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Savannah, Georgia, in 1734
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Slavery existed in the eighteenth century
in all the colonies.
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Slave Cultures and
Slave Resistance
 Focus Question:
What factors led to distinct AfricanAmerican cultures in the eighteenth
century?
Slave Cultures and Slave
Resistance: AfricanAmericans
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Becoming African-American
African Religion in Colonial America
African-American Cultures
Slave population as percentage of total
population of original thirteen colonies, 1770
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Slave Cultures and Slave
Resistance: Uprisings
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Resistance to Slavery
The Crisis of 1739–1741
An advertisement seeking the return of a
runaway slave from Port Royal in the Sea
Islands of South Carolina
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An Empire of Freedom
 Focus Question:
What were the meanings of British
liberty in the eighteenth century?
An Empire of Freedom:
Britain
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British Patriotism
The British Constitution
An Empire of Freedom:
Liberty
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The Language of Liberty
Republican Liberty
Liberal Freedom
Even though less than 5 percent of the British population
enjoyed the right to vote, representative government was
central to the eighteenth-century idea of British liberty.
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A 1770 engraving from the Boston Gazette by Paul
Revere illustrates the association of British patriotism
and liberty.
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The Polling, by the renowned eighteenth-century
British artist William Hogarth
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The title page of John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government
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The British political philosopher John Locke
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The Public Sphere
 Focus Question:
What concepts and institutions
dominated colonial politics in the
eighteenth century?
The Public Sphere:
Voting
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The Right to Vote
Political Cultures
Election in Pennsylvania
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The Public Sphere:
Assemblies
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Colonial Government
The Rise of the Assemblies
The Public Sphere:
politics and the press
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Politics in Public
The Colonial Press
Benjamin Franklin’s quest for self-improvement is
illustrated in this “Temperance diagram.”
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The Public Sphere:
Freedom of expression
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Freedom of Expression and Its Limits
The Trial of Zenger
Benjamin Franklin, 1762
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The Public Sphere:
enlightenment
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The American Enlightenment
The first page of the New York Weekly Journal
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The Great Awakening
 Focus Question:
How did the Great Awakening challenge
the religious and social structure of
British North America?
The Great Awakening:
effects on society
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Religious Revivals
The Preaching of Whitefield
The Awakening’s Impact
Jonathan Edwards, one of the most prominent
Preachers of the Great Awakening
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George Whitefield
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Evangelical Spirit of the
Great Awakening
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Imperial Rivalries
 Focus Question:
How did the Spanish and French empires
in America develop in the eighteenth
century?
Imperial Rivalries:
spanish and french
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Spanish North America
The Spanish in California
The French Empire
Map 4.3 European Empires in North America, ca. 1750
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In this lithograph from 1816, Indians perform
a dance at Mission San Francisco in California.
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A sketch of New Orleans as it appeared in 1720
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Battle for the
Continent
 Focus Question:
What was the impact of the Seven Years'
War on imperial and Indian-white
relations?
Battle for the
Continent: british,
french, and indians
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The Middle Ground
The Seven Years’ War
A World Transformed
A map of upstate New York presented to
Governor William Tryon of colonial New York
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The cover of a magazine published in Pennsylvania
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Battle for the
Continent: 1763
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Pontiac’s Rebellion
The Proclamation Line
Map 4.4 Eastern North America after the
Peace of Paris, 1763
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Battle for the
Continent: aftermath of
seven years’ war
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Pennsylvania and the Indians
Colonial Identities
Benjamin Franklin produced this famous cartoon in 1754.
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Review
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Slavery and Empire
Focus Question: How did African slavery differ regionally in
eighteenth-century North America?
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Slave Cultures and Slave Resistance
Focus Question: What factors led to distinct African-American
cultures in the eighteenth century?
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An Empire of Freedom
Focus Question: What were the meanings of British liberty in the
eighteenth century?
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The Public Sphere
Focus Question: What concepts and institutions dominated colonial
politics in the eighteenth century?
Review continued
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The Great Awakening
Focus Question: How did the Great Awakening challenge the religious
and social structure of British North America?
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Imperial Rivalries
Focus Question: How did the Spanish and French empires in America
develop in the eighteenth century?
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Battle for the Continent
Focus Question: What was the impact of the Seven Years' War on
imperial and Indian-white relations?
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Eric Foner on slavery in the 18th century
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Eric Foner on African-American identity in
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The American Revolution,
1763–1783
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The Crisis Begins
The Road to Revolution
The Coming of Independence
Securing Independence
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AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION
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