Stories of Slavery in New Jersey, Hardcover - Rick Geffken

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. The Jersey Shore has always attracted people seeking relief from summer heat and humidity. Long before Europeans came here, the native Lenape clamm...

Reducere. It's Halloween night, and creatures and critters from near and far are starting to gather outside the front door. And now here comes a whole army o...

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 ...

Reducere. The silver Airstreams and neon signs of the classic American diner brighten New Jersey's highways and Main Streets. But the intrinsic role they hav...

East Coast surf culture from Montauk to Rockaway Beach and Cape MayUnbeknownst to many who live there and to the throngs of tourists who stop by ea...

Reducere. DescriptionShortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area's indig...

Reducere. Monmouth County's past encompasses more than just sandy beaches and rural farm life. George Washington fought at the Battle of Monmouth as the regi...

Reducere. Until 1961, Cherry Hill was known as Delaware Township. From its inception in 1844, Delaware Township was an agrarian community dotted with gristmi...

Reducere. Pine Barrens of New Jersey, Hardcover

Reducere. Diners are where communities across the Garden State go to celebrate milestones, form lifetime bonds and take comfort in food. Daily life at the co...

Reducere. Ocean City, which calls itself "America's Greatest Family Resort, " is today best known for its wide, clean beaches and a yearly bayfront celebrati...

Reducere. Where did Frank Sinatra, Mickey Mantle, Sugar Ray Robinson, Joan Crawford and hundreds of other A-listers along with mobsters like Meyer Lansky eat...

Reducere. Home to more than just tollbooths, The Sopranos and Bruce Springsteen, the Garden State has always been a haven for all things weird and supernatur...

Reducere. Thirty years in the making, this genealogy is best described as a reference work on the VanDerveer family. The author's father could never trace hi...

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...

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. DescriptionFrom the ridgetops of the north to the Pinelands of the south, New Jersey's natural areas display an astonishing variety of plant life. ...

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. This collection of thirty fascinating stories reveals events that helped make New Jersey what it is today. Authors Fran Capo writes with a comedic ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bill CareyTennessee had a smaller percentage of slaves than most other Southern states and was the last state to join the C...

Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeb...

No state has been so frequently mocked, maligned, or misunderstood as New Jersey. Yet the state is filled with amazing places and people who rarely...

David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--...

In Dark Work, Christy Clark-Pujara tells the story of one state in particular whose role was outsized: Rhode Island. Historians have written expans...

DescriptionDescendants of founders of New Jersey reside within the state, across the nation and around the world. Explore the lives and motivations...

Reducere. DescriptionHauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Garden State Reader, beware Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghost...

Reducere. As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That...

Reducere. It's a magical Christmas Eve, and all of the children in your town are sleeping. Well, all of the children but you How could you possibly fall asle...

Deadheads may disagree on which Grateful Dead concert was their best ever, but no one would argue that their performance at Englishtown on Sept. 3,...

The history of the Garden State is filled with well-known events and forgotten happenings. German Americans opened the nation's first kindergarten ...

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. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with t...

Reducere. In the tradition of James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that uncovers competing histories of how slavery is remembered...

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

Reducere. Many Americans are familiar with Thomas Edison's "invention factory" in Menlo Park, where he patented the phonograph, the light bulb and more than ...

The results of climate change make the headlines almost daily. All across America and the globe, communities have to adapt to rising sea levels, in...

Reducere. On June 19, 1865, known as Juneteenth, American slaves in Texas were informed that they had been emancipated. Juneteenth is a very important event ...

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

Reducere. This poignant play, written by current and formerly incarcerated authors uses, gripping truths and soulful dialogue to reveal the human cost of Ame...

Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining templ...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Making the Scene in the Garden State explores New Jersey's rich musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came t...

DescriptionThe Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread...

Reducere. The Guide to the American Revolutionary War in New Jersey: Battles, Raids and Skirmishes, Paperback

Reducere. A History Of Thomas Canfield And Of Matthew Camfield, With A Genealogy Of Their Descendants In New Jersey has been considered by academicians and s...

Reducere. DescriptionCommunities in the United States are chapters in the great story of this country. And while many of these chapters are well known in our...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Erin a. DelaneyDrawn From Life Jersey City, New Jersey is a coloring book based on the photography of Erin A. DeLaney. The ...

Reducere. The results of climate change make the headlines almost daily. All across America and the globe, communities have to adapt to rising sea levels, in...

Reducere. With safety protocols in their infancy and the jet engine still in development, early commercial flight above American cities was too often deadly....