From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family, Paperback - James H. Johnston

Reducere. From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique ...

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Rod Brown and Julius Lester bring history to life in this profoundly moving exploration of the slave experience. From the Middle Passage to the auc...

Reducere. The riveting story of the slave ship Whydah, captured by pirates and later sunk in a fierce storm off the coast of Massachusetts, energizes this la...

Reducere. Seeking to overcome the chasm between church practice and theological reflection, James H. Evans Jr., a major and distinctive voice in American rel...

Reducere. This teen and young reader book is a richly illustrated biography about Horace King. In 1807, King was born into slavery on a South Carolina planta...

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Reducere. Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditio...

Reducere. People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven in...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Reducere. Patriot, Prisoner, Survivor: An American Family at War is CDR James Bedinger's first-hand account of his life, and in particular, his service and i...

A chronological narrative of the CIA's assassination operations during the Kennedy Administration.Publisher: University of Nebraska PressAuthor(s):...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Barbara E. FrankIllustration(s): 391 Illustrations, color; 12 Maps; 8 Tables, black and whiteNumber o...

Reducere. "A thought-provoking piece of scholarship that sheds light on the complex history of slave breeding in America. Smithers's book will be hotly debat...

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER For years, people have been asking Ezekiel "Zeke" Emanuel, the brash, outspoken, and fiercely loyal eldest brother in the Emanu...

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Frederick Douglass was a key figure in helping to secure the abolition of slavery in America - discover his Narrative this Black History Month. A p...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsAfter the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspa...

Reducere. In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Brid...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a special Bicentennial Edition of Douglass's most famous book which has been published by his direct descendants through Frederi...

Reducere. Patriot, Prisoner, Survivor: An American Family at War is CDR James Bedinger's first-hand account of his life, and in particular, his service and i...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the slave trade *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "It is cert...

Reducere. Ten Generations of an American Family Germany to Georgia is told from the perspective of its 8th generation author. The book travels with the Summe...

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Reducere. The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine documents the life of a Maine dairy-farming family in the 1930s through '60s. The Ames family worked the same land...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the slave trade *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading It has often been said t...

Reducere. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and t...

Reducere. 136 songs of African-American slaves, collected and compiled a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation, are presented here complete with thei...

Reducere. "Throughout his long career, Frederick Douglass cut an imposing figure, renowned as an impassioned abolitionist, a fiery writer and newspaper edito...