The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 1853-1861, Paperback - Frederick Law Jr. Olmsted

Reducere. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known for designing parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and the grounds of the Capitol in Wash...

Reducere. "My own observation of the real condition of the people of our Slave States, gave me ... an impression that the cotton monopoly in some way did the...

In antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less equal. Kathryn Olivarius exp...

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

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

Master landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is renowned for his public parks, but few know the extent of his accomplishment in mee...

AwardsLukas Prize ProjectDescriptionIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminat...

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Reducere. In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaig...

This book describes the background and present state of pest management in cotton crops throughout the world. Cotton is one of the most economicall...

Reducere. Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about. Best remembered for his lan...

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An authoritative selection of the writings of one of the most important early American writersPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Cotton Mat...

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

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

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...

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: Douglass Frederick DouglassAuthor: Frederick DouglassAuthor: Douglass begins by saying that he does not know his birthday a...

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

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The Lake District boasts some of the most stunning mountain scenery in the country, providing a dramatic backdrop to many of the rides. This book d...

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...

Frederick Douglass's pioneering autobiography that played a key part in the abolition of slavery.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Frederick Dougl...

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

Reducere. Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, h...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, h...

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...

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

Reducere. Printed cotton sacks are currently fashionable aspects for material culture research, particularly in the costume and quilt history communities. In...

Reducere. Tim Cotton has been a police officer for more than thirty years. The writer in him has always been drawn to the stories of the people he has met al...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass's autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, is widely regarded as a classic of American nin...

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment available of how primary elections have contributed to the US political system for over a centu...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

Discover the REAL truth behind African American History.You will be amazed to learn about some of the great African Americans and their legacies.He...

Reducere. DescriptionThis classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when ...

Reducere. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiography by a young mother and fugitive slave published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the ...

Published in 1845, this little book was widely read by the public in the North who knew little about the inner workings of slavery. It was favorabl...

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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 ...

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