Generations of Somerset Place: From Slavery to Freedom, Hardcover - Dorothy Spruill Redford

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the institution of slavery ended in 1865, Somerset Place was the third largest plantation in North Carolina. Located in the rural n...

Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped as a child from his village in Africa and shipped to America to begin life as a slave. This book recounts his amazing...

Reducere. Unavailable for several years, Virginia Hamilton's award-winning companion to The People Could Fly traces the history of slavery in America in the ...

Reducere. When Thomas Jefferson travels to Paris in 1784 to negotiate trade treaties for America, he takes the enslaved James Hemings with him as his manserv...

Reducere. "Demonstrates that the 'emancipation generation' bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping rel...

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Reducere. When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history...

Reducere. The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history "A revelatory and fluidly written chronicle. . . . An esse...

Reducere. Never afraid to take on tough cases or tackle difficult issues, here in From Freedom to Slavery Gerry Spence comes at us uncensored, with his passi...

Reducere. Since the earliest days of slavery, African Americans have called on their religious faith in the struggle against oppression. In this book the Bea...

Slavery didn't end with the cessation of trans-Atlantic trade to Americas in the 19th century. Modern day slavery is illegal everywhere yet exists ...

Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Childr...

A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

Reducere. Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was ...

Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (2003) - Books for a Better Life - (First Book)Contributor(s): Author: Francis BokWith: Edward TivnanWinner of the Books for a Better...

Reducere. The legendary Irish revolutionary Michael Collins was known to be an avid reader during his brief career he set up a few underground newspapers. Co...

George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign agai...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Dennis TylerIllustration(s): 5 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 336Collection: CripPublication date...

Reducere. This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These "labor republ...

Reducere. Now that five different generations are on the job simultaneously--from Traditionals to Generation Y to Millennials--it's more important than ever ...

For over fifty years the Maroons of Dominica resisted being enslaved, choosing instead to live free in the country's mountainous interior. They dar...

Reducere. Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slav...

Traces Scarborough's path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce Unive...

DescriptionInvestigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Jam...

Reducere. In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed artist follow the life of ...

Cherish Sade White highlights the challenges of women re-entering society after serving time in prison in Redemption Road. Drawing on her own exper...

Reducere. Has Your Life Been Conscripted by an Economic Religion?Learn How to Free Yourself and Your Life Through the Power of Fastlane EntrepreneurshipBy al...

MY FATHER WAS A SERIAL RAPIST. MY MOTHER WAS A WHORE. MY BROTHER IS A SERIAL KILLER.I ESCAPED THEIR MADNESS AND FORGED MY PATH TO FREEDOM.From the ...

Reducere. Yeonmi Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before has she revealed the most intimate ...

Reducere. International best-selling author and theologian Tom s Hal k shares for the first time the dramatic story of his life as a secretly ordained priest...

Reducere. An expert's take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy. This short book predicts--contrary to the prevailing consensus--tha...

Reducere. Expansive and ambitious yet comprehensive and coherent, From Slavery to Services: The Struggle for Economic Independence in the Caribbean is a tour...

Reducere. Snapshots of the U.S.'s last nine generations--from the creators of the Mindset List media sensationJust as high school graduates in 1957 couldn't ...

Piecing together the story of more than one hundred of his ancestors across the British Isles and beyond from the 1650s to the 1950s, Mark Lowcock ...

Piecing together the story of more than one hundred of his ancestors across the British Isles and beyond from the 1650s to the 1950s, Mark Lowcock ...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why ...

Pulitzer PrizeThis is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people...

Reducere. When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-sp...

Reducere. The path to freedom is filled with questions and uncertainty. Is it possible to truly know who we are? Do our lives have a purpose, or are we just ...

Reducere. Born into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible - certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet did escape nort...

The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical...

Winner of the Casa de las Am�rica Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jos� Maria, set a...

Reducere. It is asserted that domestic slavery has always been a constructive social element: history shows that it has always been destructive. History auth...

Reducere. Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Lesli...

Reducere. The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, has a long history of showcasing new playwrights, and for developing programs that welcome the artistry of youth. The...

Reducere. DescriptionAfrican Americans, both enslaved and free, were vital to the economy of the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War. Maryland bec...

An illuminating commentary on court life from the Tudors to the present day.

Reducere. Covering three generations of Hank Williams, Family Tradition is both unique and vast in scope. Beginning in the present day with Hank III - who ga...