The Slavery of Death

Reducere. 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. DescriptionWinner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological AssociationCo-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, ...

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

From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham...

Reducere. I wrote this book to enlighten people of the historic role the Arab Muslim world has played and continues to play in slavery. Much of the populatio...

In Counterlife Christopher Freeburg poses a question to contemporary studies of slavery and its aftereffects: what if freedom, agency, and dominati...

Reducere. The lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American SouthDespite dramatic social transformations in the United State...

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

Reducere. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from A...

Reducere. The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for12 years a powerful, riveting condemnation of slav...

Reducere. This is a bilingual French-English edition of correspondence relating to the theme of early French slavery. Mongin's letters are an invaluable sour...

Reducere. This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a black...

DescriptionA man forced into slavery seeks cold-blooded revenge on those who took his freedom. From Fabien Nury, the award winning writer of the be...

The first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, charting the course of ...

Reducere. 'An old score shall be settled. The Legion of the Sword of Doom shall conquer the City of Irsmuncast and bring its people into slavery. I swear by ...

Reducere. Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death in the nation. Its burial grounds sho...

Two decades before the Civil War, Elijah P. Lovejoy used his newspaper to demand an end to slavery - dangerous beliefs that turned deadly as mobs r...

Reducere. She was destined to Die.He was born to Kill.Cassandra has known nothing but suffering and slavery for her whole life. Unjustly condemned to death, ...

Reducere. She was destined to Die.He was born to Kill.Cassandra has known nothing but suffering and slavery for her whole life. Unjustly condemned to death, ...

Reducere. Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff a...

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul...

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. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important essays. Contained in this volume are the follow...

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important essays. Contained in this volume are the follow...

Reducere. Slavery Of Faith...the quietly kept story of a young woman's escape through the jungles of Jonestown, Guyana the morning of the massacre November 1...

Reducere. DescriptionThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civi...

In this second edition, Ancient Rome presents an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the death of Augustus, with two new chapte...

DescriptionTopher and Skibby are well on their way to freedom after a desperate escape from their ancient cotton plantation-until catastrophe strik...

Reducere. DescriptionThe milestones of Asheville's long history are well known to locals, but so many interesting stories are all but forgotten. Thankfully, ...

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. Samuel A'Court Ashe was a Confederate infantry captain in the War Between the States and celebrated editor, historian, and North Carolina legislato...

Reducere. After his wife's untimely death, a powerful sorcerer dedicates his life to seeking revenge against all womankind. He turns his captives into beauti...

Reducere. Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 - 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulste...

Reducere. Bound To Lose Destined To Win, is an Inspiring, Uplifting book of freedom, Which Almighty God delivered Dr. Earthquake Kelley, from voodoo and sorc...

Reducere. One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones.The Know...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Kris ManjapraIllustration(s): 1x8pp mono insetNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 24...

Reducere. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery; it's the only life she has ever known. Now, with the death of her mistress, there is a chance she will be giv...

Reducere. In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a ...

The Price of Freedom in 1848 is a historical novel based on the story of seventy-five people being held as slaves who were freed by their Quaker ma...

Reducere. This books explains how the Federal Reserve works, points out that it is not a U.S. Government Bank and that its agenda and policies are designed t...

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

Reducere. USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde returns to the Royal Houses series with House of Shadows: the story of Kerrigan Argon, a half-Fae, half-hum...

DescriptionAn introduction to antiracism, a powerful tradition crucial for energizing American democracyOn August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Vir...

Reducere. When Yvonna decides to take revenge on the organization which sold her into sexual slavery, resulting in a lifelong battle with a mental illness, s...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking study, Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece. Myth and Society in Ancient Greece takes us...

Through the magnificent literary, scholarly, and psychological analysis of the text that is her trademark, Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg tackles the end...

Reducere. When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people--th...

DescriptionThe American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodie...

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. The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man an...

Exploring how the figure of the "wild child" in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and th...

Reducere. Macon County, North Carolina - 1829Storm clouds are gathering over the Blue Ridge Mountains. Andrew Jackson has signed legislation sealing the fate...

Reducere. Macon County, North Carolina - 1829Storm clouds are gathering over the Blue Ridge Mountains.Andrew Jackson has signed legislation sealing the fate ...

Reducere. A masterpiece of historical adventure, Skeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the co...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass's dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America. Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass sec...

Reducere. Juan Cabrillo and his crew aboard the Oregon take on modern-day pirates for a surprising new client in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestsell...

DescriptionA Book of Secrets tells the story of a West African girl hunting for her lost brother through an Elizabethan underworld of spies, plots ...

Reducere. "A lushly romantic adventure story set in the North African desert in 1914, told by the impeccable Lady Treal as she reminisces in her London town ...

In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of t...

Reducere. In Fernando Valverde's América, "sorrow is ancient." Mournfully lyrical, politically sharp, with a sweeping view of American roots, dysfunctions, a...

Galahad in the Gilded Age is the story of George William Curtis, regarded at the beginning of his career as little more than a handsome, amusing yo...

Are we as a species headed towards extinction? As our economic system renders our planet increasingly inhospitable to human life, powerful individu...

'I can't see It's dark everywhere. What place is this? Where am I?'Jeya was only four years old and was terrified as she tried to peer about the da...

Reducere. From martyr to insult, how "Uncle Tom" has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Just...

Reducere. DescriptionHollywood. Las Vegas. Beverly Hills. A world of corrupt movie moguls, heartless kidnappers, and innocent girls sold into slavery by thei...

Reducere. Set against the background of the antebellum slave trade, Drums and Shadows traces the persistence of African heritage in the culture of blacks liv...

Reducere. Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, s...

Reducere. The truth has been buried more than one hundred years . . . Leading a small army of slaves, Nat Turner was a man born with a mission: to set the ca...

Reducere. Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Sojourner Truth was mistreated by a streetcar conductor. She took him to court-...

DescriptionSet amidst the real world events which occurred following the Jacobite rising of 1745, Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel "Kidnapped" i...