John Washington's Civil War: A Slave Narrative, Paperback - Crandall Shifflett

Reducere. In 1872, just seven years after his emancipation, a thirty-four-year-old former slave named John Washington penned the story of his life, calling i...

Mary Prince was born into slavery in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda. While she was later living in London, her autobiography, The History of Mary Princ...

Reducere. Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red Ri...

Reducere. Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering experiences in her life when she was separated fro...

Reducere. From the national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes a moving coming-of-age tale set in the tumultuous sixties that harkens t...

Reducere. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglas...

By the grace of God, I am here today to tell my story; a tribute to God to shout to the world how awesome he is and the determination I had to find...

Reducere. Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller This Modern Library edition combines two of the most impor...

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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 ...

As we mark the centenary of the end of World War One, this astonishing book collects over five hundred remarkable photographs and rarely seen mater...

Reducere. The summer of 1861 finds Shelby Campbell nervously exiting President Jefferson Davis's office, somewhat taken aback by his new commission; he'll be...

Reducere. An American Slave: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave Frederic...

The story of the young Prudence Crandall's stout-hearted resistance to danger and violence inspirits us in the same way. There really was a patriot...

When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Wash...

How dark money and big data were unleashed upon a divided and austerity ravaged population. They reached into our social divides and pulled us apar...

An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials The preeminent American slave narrative first publ...

Reducere. ``Now, `` said he, ``if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a s...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave - Frederick Douglass

"Describes the Siege of Vicksburg and the Battle of Gettysburg, including Pickett's Charge, that turned the tide of the American Civil War. Include...

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*Includes pictures *Includes stories about the fugitive slave law and accounts about it *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further r...

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Reducere. An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds ...

Reducere. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglas...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave By Frederick Douglass

The landscape of the Marvel Universe is changing, and it's time to choose: Whose side are you on? A conflict has been brewing from more than a year...

In 1204, the great Angevin Empire created by the joining of the dynasties of Henry II of England and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, was fragmenti...

Publisher: The Mercier Press LtdAuthor(s): John O'DonovanIllustration(s): 14 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2022Di...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Douglass Frederick DouglassAuthor: Frederick DouglassAuthor: Douglass begins by saying that he does not know his birthday a...

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. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas an American Slave By Frederick Douglas

As the only book of its kind in the New Testament, Revelation can be difficult to understand, and for readers without specialized training, the his...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. With a meticulous...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Deadliest War in American History No other war in the history of the United States has sparked as much debate and conflict a...

Reducere. The pigpen cipher, the Devil's Coffee Mill, and germ warfare were all a part of the Civil War, but you won't learn that in your history booksDiscov...

Douglass's memoir, first published in 1845, is the moving narrative of twenty-one years of enslavement and escape to freedom. In a new introduction...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frederick DouglassDouglass' powerful account of his journey from slave, by way of determined self education, to being one o...

Reducere. "The History of Mary Prince - A West Indian Slave" is a 1831 autobiography of Mary Prince (1788-1833), a British abolitionist and autobiographer. B...

DescriptionThe Landmark Julius Caesar is the definitive edition of the five works that chronicle the mil-itary campaigns of Julius Caesar. Together...

DescriptionAmerica's evolution during the mid-19th century just prior to the Civil War was amazing. The six-fold increase in population from 1800 t...

Reducere. "The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar des...

A real-life story of falling into the captivity of sex traffickers after responding to a fake advert for creche work in Amsterdam. A heartbreaking ...

The first detailed account of Oxford's as the "Royalist Capital" to appear for almost 75 years examines Oxford's experience in the English Civil Wa...