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by Caryl Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
In this fascinating inquiry into the African Diaspora, Caryl Phillips embarks on a soul-wrenching journey to the three major ports of the transatlantic slave trade.
Juxtaposing stories of the past with his own present-day experiences, Phillips combines his remarkable skills as a travel essayist...
by James Ciment
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africa's first republic
In 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty itself. They went under the banner...
by BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, W.E. BURGHARDT DuBOIS
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Contents
I. THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEGRO RACE IN SLAVERY
By Booker T. Washington
II. THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEGRO RACE SINCE ITS EMANCIPATION
By Booker T. Washington
III. THE ECONOMIC REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH
By W.E. Burghardt DuBois
IV. RELIGION IN THE SOUTH
By W.E. Burghardt DuBois
by Carter G. Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Carter G. Woodson was a major influence on African-American thought in much of the twentieth century through his editorship of The Journal of Negro History, which was renamed the Journal of African American History in 2001, and the three complete works presented here:
A Century of Negro...
by Ezra Asher Cook
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2015
"To the old Ku-Klux Klan which rode through the south in the days following the civil war the new Ku-Klux Klan is a relative only in name.
It is not tied by blood. It holds the same position to its southern aristocratic forbear as an imposter in social life does to some illustrious gentleman...
Lincoln’s Proclamation
Emancipation Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The Emancipation Proclamation, widely remembered as the heroic act that ended slavery, in fact freed slaves only in states in the rebellious South. True emancipation was accomplished over a longer period and by several means. Essays by eight distinguished contributors consider aspects of the president's...
History of the American Abolitionism
1787-1861: Narratives of the Ordinance of 1787, Compromise of 1820, Annexation of Texas, Mexican War, Abolition Riots, Slave Rescues, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Bill of 1854
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "History of the American Abolitionism" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. History of American abolitionism; its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation...
by Mac Griswold
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and...
by Dr. Eric R. Jackson, Richard Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Nearly a century after the American Revolution, the waters of the Ohio River provided a real and complex barrier for the United States to navigate. While this waterway was a symbol of freedom and equality for thousands of enslaved black Americans who had escaped from the horrible institution of enslavement,...
by Tom Calarco
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Because of its clandestine nature, much of the history of the Underground Railroad remains shrouded in secrecy--so much so that some historians have even doubted its importance. After decades of research, Tom Calarco recounts his experiences compiling evidence to give credence to the legend's oral history...
Slave
My True Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende.
Mende was sold to a wealthy Arab family who lived...
Troubled Refuge
Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States.
Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the...
Manifiesto mexicano
Cómo perdimos el rumbo y cómo recuperarlo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Una lectura obligada para ciudadanos críticos y propositivos.
Este es un libro lleno de rabia y amor perro por el México maltrecho que debemos rescatar. Es una crónica del hartazgo, del enojo con la cleptocracia que se rota en el poder, con los privilegios inmerecidos de los cómodamente...
John Brown, Abolitionist
The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration of the paradox of a man steeped in the Bible but more than willing to kill for his abolitionist...