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Many Thousand Gone
Author | : Virginia Hamilton |
Publsiher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995-12-12 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0785784853 |
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For use in schools and libraries only. Recounts the journey of slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.
Many Thousands Gone
Author | : Ira Berlin |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674020820 |
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Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep South, or embraced Christianity. Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the Revolution. In telling their story, Ira Berlin, a leading historian of southern and African-American life, reintegrates slaves into the history of the American working class and into the tapestry of our nation. Laboring as field hands on tobacco and rice plantations, as skilled artisans in port cities, or soldiers along the frontier, generation after generation of African Americans struggled to create a world of their own in circumstances not of their own making. In a panoramic view that stretches from the North to the Chesapeake Bay and Carolina lowcountry to the Mississippi Valley, Many Thousands Gone reveals the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king. We witness the transformation that occurred as the first generations of creole slaves--who worked alongside their owners, free blacks, and indentured whites--gave way to the plantation generations, whose back-breaking labor was the sole engine of their society and whose physical and linguistic isolation sustained African traditions on American soil. As the nature of the slaves' labor changed with place and time, so did the relationship between slave and master, and between slave and society. In this fresh and vivid interpretation, Berlin demonstrates that the meaning of slavery and of race itself was continually renegotiated and redefined, as the nation lurched toward political and economic independence and grappled with the Enlightenment ideals that had inspired its birth.
Her Stories
Author | : Virginia Hamilton |
Publsiher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0590473700 |
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Nineteen stories focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women.
South to Freedom
Author | : Alice L Baumgartner |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781541617773 |
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A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.
Saltwater Slavery
Author | : Stephanie E. Smallwood |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674043774 |
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This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market. Saltwater Slavery is animated by deep research and gives us a graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves. The result is both a remarkable transatlantic view of the culture of enslavement, and a painful, intimate vision of the bloody, daily business of the slave trade.
While I Was Gone
Author | : Sue Miller |
Publsiher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2002-11-26 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9780345420749 |
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The "New York Times" bestseller called "quietly gripping" by "USA Today" demonstrates how impulses can fracture even the most stable family. Despite her loving family and beautiful home, Jo Becker is restless. Then an old roommate reappears, bringing back Jo's memories of her early 20s. Jo's obsession with that period in her life--and the crime that ended it--draws her back to a horrible secret.
Many Thousand Gone
Author | : Virginia Hamilton |
Publsiher | : Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : UOM:49015002062124 |
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Book of a Thousand Days
Author | : Shannon Hale |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2010-05-03 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781408812990 |
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When a beautiful princess refuses to marry the prince her father has chosen, her father is furious and locks her in a tower. She has seven long years of solitude to think about her insolence. But the princess is not entirely alone - she has her maid, Dashti. Petulant and spoilt, the princess eats the food in their meagre store as if she were still at court, and Dashti soon realises they must either escape or slowly starve. But during their captivity, resourceful Dashti discovers that there is something far more sinister behind her princess's fears of marrying the prince, and when they do break free from the tower, they find a land laid to waste and the kingdom destroyed. They were safe in the tower, now they are at the mercy of the evil prince with a terrible secret. Thrilling, captivating, and a masterful example of storytelling at its best. The princess's maid is a feisty and thoroughly modern heroine, in this wonderfully timeless story.