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by Booker T. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Booker T. Washington was a prominent leader of the African-American community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Washington was born into slavery but would become a prolific author who wrote about extensively about his life experiences and the challenges facing African-Americans during his time. This edition of The Story of Slavery includes a table of contents.
Frederick Douglass
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This biography, written by Booker T. Washington, one of most important post-Civil War African-American thinkers, is an account of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. The biographical account is set within a nation struggling to solve one of the most excruciating social problems that any modern...
Border War
Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri against the free states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Aspects of this struggle--the underground railroad, enforcement...
by William J. Cooper, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1980
The politics of slavery consumed the political world of the antebellum South. Although local economic, ethnic, and religious issues tended to dominate northern antebellum politics, The South and the Politics of Slavery convincingly argues that national and slavery-related issues were the overriding...
Our Nig
or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004
The 1859 novel tracing the life of a mulatto foundling abused by a white family in 19th century New England.
The Hitler Virus
The Insidious Legacy of Adolph Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
More than a half-century after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker, the dictator’s legacy and influence lives on, precisely as he predicted before putting the gun to his head. In the spring of 1945, as it became increasingly clear that the Nazi cause was lost, Hitler dictated his final...
Chinese Education in Singapore
An untold story of conflict and change
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Life as a coolie … sucked.
Strife (the Chinese word tattooed on the wrist of the raised fist) epitomized the struggle of a coolie to make his life better.
The story of the conflict in Singapore’s Chinese community was always told from the viewpoint of the British colonizers. A...
by Michelle Arnosky Sherburne
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Many believe that support for the abolition of slavery was universally accepted in Vermont, but it was actually a fiercely divisive issue that rocked the Green Mountain State. In the midst of turbulence and violence, though, some brave Vermonters helped fight for the freedom of their enslaved Southern...
Medical Bondage
Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor...
by I. Lin Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Human Beings First: A Historical Examination of the Non-Bizarre Delusion of Biological Race takes an in-depth look at the "cultural artifact" of race. Although human beings, regardless of phenotype, are members of the same species, there has been a concerted effort by many to separate people...
On the Laps of Gods
The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
They shot them down like rabbits . . .
September 30, 1919. The United States teetered on the edge of a racial civil war. During the previous three months, racial fighting had erupted in twenty-five cities. And deep in the Arkansas Delta, black sharecroppers were meeting in a humble wooden church,...
Lucretia Mott's Heresy
Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the dual struggles for racial and sexual...
Modern Hatreds
The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Ethnic conflict has been the driving force of wars all over the world, yet it remains an enigma. What is it about ethnicity that breaks countries apart and drives people to acts of savage violence against their lifelong neighbors?
Stuart Kaufman rejects the notion of permanent "ancient hatreds"...
The Slaves' Gamble
Choosing Sides in the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Images of American slavery conjure up cotton plantations and African American slaves locked in bondage until the Civil War. Yet early on in the nineteenth century the state of slavery was very different, and the political vicissitudes of the young nation offered diverse possibilities to slaves. In...