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Memories of the Enslaved: Voices from the Slave Narratives
Voices from the Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
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.
• Provides a historical overview of the scholarship...
A Guest in the House of Hip-Hop
How Rap Music Taught a Kid from Kentucky What a White Ally Should Be
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2018
Born in rural Kentucky, Mickey Hess grew up listening to the militant rap of Public Enemy while living in a place where the state song still included the word “darkies.” Listening to hip-hop made Hess think about what it meant to be white, while the environment in small-town Kentucky encouraged...
Friday Bridge: Becoming a Muslim, Becoming Everyone's Business
The Trilogy of Life Itself, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Think you know someone? Then think again. This book blows stereotypes out of the window and makes you stop and analyse what you think you know about the world we live in. Racism, raving and religion, it’s all in here. A book about self discovery, inner strength and never giving up. An...
Hunting Season
Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration
In November of 2008, Marcelo Lucero, a thirty-seven-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was brutally attacked and murdered by a group of teenagers as...
100 Questions and Answers About East Asian Cultures
An introductory cultural competence guide for Americans about the customs, history, politics and languages background of people from China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
This basic, introductory guide answers 100 of the questions people ask in everyday conversation. It informs Americans about workers, students and guests from East Asia including China, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, South and North Korea, Japan and Mongolia. Find answers about culture, customs, holidays,...
Slavery's Constitution
From Revolution to Ratification
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were directly concerned with slaves and the interests...
by William R. Daniel
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
A little over one hundred years after the legendary shootout at the OK Corral, a radicalSouth Chicago preacher named Frances Thomas moved to Miracle Valley, Arizona. She broughtnot only her congregation, but also a dangerous cocktail of fanaticism, faith healing, bigotry,and dynamite. Believing that...
by Kat Smutz
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves who laid down their lives in war so that Americans could be free, American Slavery in an Hour covers the...
The Slave's Cause
A History of Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social...
by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Austin Steward
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Slave Narrative Six Pack 3 presents six more essential texts:
Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs.
Escaping in a Chest: The Lear Green Story by William Still.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Written by Herself
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2016
Here is one of the few slave narratives written by a women. Slavery is a terrible thing, but it is far more terrible and harrowing for women than for men. Harriet Jacobs was owned by a brutal master who beat his slaves regularly and subjected them to indignations that were far worse. Jacobs eventually...
by Aldo Schiavone
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The slave and gladiator Spartacus has been the subject of myth-making in his own time and of movie-making in ours. Aldo Schiavone brings him squarely into the arena of serious history. Spartacus emerges here as the commander of an army, whose aim was to incite Italy to revolt against Rome and to strike at the very heart of the imperial system.
by Matt Hlinak, Geoffrey Wingard, Joseph Svinth
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
The origins of Asian martial arts in the United States reach back to the Pacific Rim and immigration. This anthology is dedicated to the profoundly significant period—roughly from mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century—in which gifted Japanese taught...
New York Burning
Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner
In New York Burning,Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. In the...