Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom: The Autobiography of Louis Hughes: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation in th, Paperbac

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 ...

Reducere. The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of...

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. DescriptionBehind the Scenes (1868) is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family of America, especially of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife ...

Reducere. The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.The Origins of Ame...

Reducere. "Behind the Scenes" is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family, especially Mary Todd Lincoln, and is considered controversial for...

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...

DescriptionA graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based...

This study, based on newspapers, journals, oral interviews, and academic studies examines nineteenth and twentieth century cultural changes through...

Reducere. Thomas L. Johnson's remarkable life, wherein he was born into slavery before going on to a successful career as a minister and missionary, is told ...

Reducere. The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America ...

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

After 30 years as a professor in the field of Communication Studies, Dr. Smith reminisces about some of his experiences and how his race and differ...

Reducere. The authors organized this study around two ancestors (great-great grandsons of Gabriel Annance and great-great grandfathers of the authors) who we...

Reducere. Never afraid to take on tough cases or tackle difficult issues, here in From Freedom to Slavery Gerry Spence comes at us uncensored, with his passi...

Reducere. The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history "A revelatory and fluidly written chronicle. . . . An esse...

Reducere. Suppose you had a sailor who served honorably and well in two different navies-that were on opposite sides of the same war-and then wrote a book ab...

DescriptionFrom the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of t...

DescriptionAn accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert M. CitinoFor Frederick the Great, the prescription for warfare was simple: kurz und vives ("short and lively")--wars...

Excerpt: "I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the only disadvantage u...

Reducere. DescriptionSolomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground...

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 ...

Reducere. In 1935, as part of the WPA, President Roosevelt created the Federal Writers Project. This was a very ambitious program designed to put unemployed ...

Reducere. Volume 2 of Interviews with former North Carolina Slaves

Reducere. In this book, Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have assembled an amazing collection of Milton Friedman's best works on freedom. Even more amazing is ...

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--...

Reducere. This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugiti...

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. This book begins from the early 1970s. It tells the story of a boy (the Author) in first person. The author has one brother, one sister, a mother a...

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

Spiritual Warfare, the sequel to Stella Davis's first book, Giving God the Praise, provides teachings on spiritual warfare for both priests and lai...