I Was Born in Slavery: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Texas, Paperback - Andrew Waters

Reducere. DescriptionWhen you think of early Texas history, you think of freedom fighters at the Alamo and rugged cowboys riding the plains. You usually don'...

Reducere. In his introduction to Prayin' to Be Set Free, Andrew Waters likens the personal accounts of former Mississippi slaves to the music of that state's...

Reducere. From 1936 to 1938, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a part of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, hired writers, editors, and research...

Publisher: Goose Lane EditionsAuthor(s): Andrew HunterNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 228 x 25Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. The laws that governed the institution of slavery in early Texas were enacted over a fifty-year period in which Texas moved through incarnations as...

Reducere. By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackn...

Contributor(s): Editor: Clifton EllisEditor: Rebecca GinsburgCountering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and ...

Reducere. "Was I Born In The Right Family?" is a brief memoir of isolated events that took place in my childhood. Being mistreated and misunderstood raised a...

Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first t...

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

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

In his incisive, moving and revelatoryaccount of returning to Ramallah to introduce his 23-year-old son born in exilein Cairo to his Palestinian fa...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Battle of Cowpens is considered to be one of the most important victories of the American Revolution. On January 17, 1781, Continent...

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 ...

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery m...

Reducere. Winner of the Coral Horton Tullis, Summerfield G. Roberts, and Friends of the Dallas Public Library AwardsBecause Texas emerged from the western fr...

Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonpla...

Reducere. DescriptionWhy I was born in Africa sprouted into being when the author asked herself, amidst her deepest dark night of the soul in 2004, why she h...

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...

Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts ...

Academic research and publication on indigenous slavery in Ghana and in Africa more widely have not received attention commensurate with the import...

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and...

Reducere. DescriptionOut of Slavery: A Novel of Harriet Tubman is a story that follows the perilous path of the Underground Railroad and the tragic costs of ...

Reducere. DescriptionReverend Nehemiah Adams (February 19, 1806 - October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. Biography: He was born in Salem, Mas...

Reducere. The Modern Slavery Agenda: Policy, Politics and Practice Modern slavery , in the form of labour exploitation, domestic servitude, sexual traffickin...

Reducere. Thomas Thistlewood came to Jamaica from Lincolnshire, England in 1750, and lived as an estate overseer and small landowner in western Jamaica until...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten by one of America's most famous slavery abolitionist activists of the mid-nineteenth century, this astonishing book provides a f...

Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference - Madeline Zilfi

Reducere. Dutch and English settlers brought the first enslaved people to New Jersey in the seventeenth century. By the time of the Revolutionary War, slaver...

Reducere. Robert V. Remini, the nation's foremost authority on Andrew Jackson, has over the past three decades published numerous books on Jackson and his pr...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government ...

Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers ...

Reducere. I Was Born A Superhero takes you on the journey of a little boy who discovers his biggest superpower is his mind. By using positive thinking techni...

Reducere. Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the ...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas ...

When the full abolition of slavery appeared on the political agenda in the Atlantic world, the institutional arrangements that underpinned it chang...

DescriptionIn the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to set...

Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory:...

A new global history of slavery from ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present day.

'Long before the friends of African freedom began to agitate for black freedom, the enslaved themselves had created their own strategies of resista...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): O PattersonNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 30Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...