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I Was Born a Slave
An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant slave narratives.” They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance,...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
For the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, here is a collection of writings that charts our nation’s long, heroic confrontation with its most poisonous evil. It’s an inspiring moral and political struggle whose evolution parallels the story of America itself. To advance their...
by Carter G. Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In reprinting these orations the editor has endeavored to present them here as nearly as possible in their original form. No effort has been made to improve the English. Published in this form, then, these orations will be of value not only to persons studying the development of the Negro in his use...
Pictures of Slavery in Church and State
Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes on Slavery by John Wesley and Richard Watson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
"Pictures of Slavery in Church and State" written by a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a leading U.S. abolitionist at the time, John Dixon Long (1817 – 1894), is considered to be one of the most influential readings in abolitionist circles. Dixon debated in his book the...
Black Walden
Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Concord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War was fought and here that Thoreau came to "live deliberately" on the shores of Walden Pond. Between the Revolution...
by Kathleen G. Velsor
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
From the arrival of the Quakers in the seventeenth century to the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, Long Island played an important role in the Underground Railroad's work to guide slaves to freedom. In Old Westbury, the Post family established a major stop on the freedom trail with the help...
Why the Dalai Lama Matters
His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is an extraordinary example of a life dedicated to peace, communication, and unity. What he represents, and what he has accomplished, heals and transcends the current tensions between Tibet and China. Why the Dalai Lama Matters explores just why he has earned the world's...
Waiting for the Dalai Lama
Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Why does the issue of Tibet rouse such passions on both sides? To find out, Annelie Rozeboom interviewed Tibetans inside and outside Tibet, as well as Chinese and Western observers and the Dalai Lama himself. As these people explain their experiences, the reader sees why they think the way they do, and...
Death or Liberty
African Americans and Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations,...
The Press and Slavery in America, 1791-1859
The Melancholy Effect of Popular Excitement
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Slavery remains one of the United States’ most troubling failings and its complexities have shaped American ideas about race, economics, politics, and the press since the first days of settlement. Brian Gabrial’s The Press and Slavery in America, 1791–1859 examines those intersections at times...
American Slave Revolts and Conspiracies: A Reference Guide
A Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Provides a comprehensive overview of 10 major slave revolts and examines how those uprisings and conspiracies impacted slaveholding colonies and states from 1663 to 1861.
Offers an overview of American slave revolts and conspiracies to revolt
Explores the context of chronic fear of uprising...
The Short Life of Free Georgia
Class and Slavery in the Colonial South
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
For twenty years in the eighteenth century, Georgia--the last British colony in what became the United States--enjoyed a brief period of free labor, where workers were not enslaved and were paid. The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia created a "Georgia experiment" of...
by Linda Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
An urgent examination into the revived Klan of the 1920s becomes “required reading” for our time (New York Times Book Review).
Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled...
Say It Plain
A Century of Great African American Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.
In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the...