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Two Wings to Fly Away
Author | : Penny Mickelbury |
Publsiher | : Bywater Books |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2019-05-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781612941509 |
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In 1856 Philadelphia, runaway slave Genie Oliver uses her dress shop as a front for her work with the Underground Railroad; and reluctant heiress Abby Read runs a rooming house not just because she hates the life of the idle rich society woman, but because she has no intention of ever marrying a man. When the daughter of Abby's free black servant is grabbed by rogue slave catchers, an unlikely group of people come together, first out of necessity, and then, gradually, in friendship. And in the case of Abby and Genie, something much more.
Walls that Speak
Author | : Ollie Jensen Theisen |
Publsiher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781574412895 |
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"A beautiful tribute to a man and his art"---Review of Texas Books --
New Orleans City Guide
Author | : Works Progress Administration |
Publsiher | : Garrett County Press |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2011-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781891053405 |
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In 1938, under the direction of novelist and historian Lyle Saxon, The Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration produced this delightfully detailed portrait of New Orleans. Containing recipes, photographs and folklore, it is consistently hailed as one of the best books produced about the city. Remarkably, many of the sites and attractions the WPA chronicled in 1938 are still around today.
The Works of J Reeve and L Muggleton the Two Last Prophets of the Only True God Our Lord Jesus Christ Edited by J and I Frost
Author | : John REEVE (Muggletonian, and MUGGLETON (Lodowick)) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 874 |
Release | : 1832 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0024406726 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music
Author | : Allan Moore |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2003-03-13 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781107494534 |
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From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists figure heavily in the mythology of twentieth-century culture. The styles in which they sang have proved hugely influential to generations of popular singers, from the wholesale adoptions of singers like Robert Cray or James Brown, to the subtler vocal appropriations of Mariah Carey. Their own music, and how it operates, is not, however, always seen as valid in its own right. This book provides an overview of both these genres, which worked together to provide an expression of twentieth-century black US experience. Their histories are unfolded and questioned; representative songs and lyrical imagery are analysed; perspectives are offered from the standpoint of the voice, the guitar, the piano, and also that of the working musician. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact the genres have had on mainstream musical culture.
Mapping American Culture
Author | : Wayne Franklin,Michael C. Steiner |
Publsiher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 158729074X |
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Memories of the Enslaved
Author | : Spencer R. Crew,Lonnie G. Bunch III,Clement A. Price |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9798216116622 |
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This book offers a first-person perspective on the institution of slavery in America, providing powerful, engaging interviews from the WPA slave narrative collection that enable readers to gain a true sense of the experience of enslavement. Today's students understandably have a hard time imagining what life for slaves more than 150 years ago was like. The best way to communicate what slaves experienced is to hear their words directly. The material in this concise single-volume work illuminates the lives of the last living generation of enslaved people in the United States—former slaves who were interviewed about their experiences in the 1930s. Based on more than 2,000 interviews, the transcriptions of these priceless interviews offer primary sources that tell a diverse and powerful picture of life under slavery. The book explores seven key topics—childhood, marriage, women, work, emancipation, runaways, and family. Through the examination of these subject areas, the interviews reveal the harsh realities of being a slave, such as how slave women were at the complete mercy of the men who operated the places where they lived, how nearly every enslaved person suffered a beating at some point in their lives, how enslaved families commonly lost relatives through sale, and how enslaved children were taken from their parents to care for the children of slaveholders. The thematic organizational format allows readers to easily access numerous excerpts about a specific topic quickly and enables comparisons between individuals in different locations or with different slaveholders to identify the commonalities and unique characteristics within the system of slavery.
soulscript
Author | : June Jordan |
Publsiher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2004-11-02 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780767918466 |
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Black poets from the early twentieth century and onward come together for a moving anthology, edited and organized by the late, revered poet June Jordan. First published in 1970, soulscript is a poignant, panoramic collection of poetry from some of the most eloquent voices in the art. Selected for their literary excellence and by the dictates of Jordan’s heart, these works tell the story of both collective and personal experiences, in Jordan’s words, “in tears, in rage, in hope, in sonnet, in blank/free verse, in overwhelming rhetorical scream.” Soulscript features works by Jordan and other luminaries like Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Gayl Jines, James Weldon Johnson, Audre Lorde, Claude McKay, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, and Richard Wright, as well as the fresh voices of a turbulent era’s younger writers. Celebrated spoken-word poet Staceyann Chin, an original cast member of Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, has also added an introduction that speaks to Jordan’s legacy, helping to further cement soulscript as a visionary compilation that has already become a modern classic.