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Book Captain Canot

Download or read book Captain Canot written by Brantz Mayer and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book Captain Canot  or  Twenty years of an African slaver  by B  Mayer

Download or read book Captain Canot or Twenty years of an African slaver by B Mayer written by Theophilus Conneau and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Captain Canot  Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Download or read book Captain Canot Twenty Years of an African Slaver written by Theodore Canot and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes published as *Adventures of an African Slaver,* this replica of the 1854 first edition restores its original title. All of its unique power remains intact. Adapted from the journals, memoranda, and conversations of French-Italian seafarer and notorious slaver CAPTAIN THEODORE CANOT (1804-1860), this vivid and unexaggerated depiction of the slave trade between Africa and the New World is prized as a firsthand account of every aspect of the industry, from how slaves are purchased to the first reactions of newly arrived slaves to the New World and beyond. Explicit and shocking, this volume is also a startling illustration of the racist attitudes of its day, from Canot's justifications for the slave trade to the introduction by American journalist BRANTZ MAYER (1809-1879), who compiled Canot's material for publication and defended his subject's work. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of American slavery.

Book Captain Canot  Or  Twenty Years of an African Slavor

Download or read book Captain Canot Or Twenty Years of an African Slavor written by Théophile Conneau and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revelations of a slave trader  or Twenty years  adventures of captain Canot  ed  by B  Mayer

Download or read book Revelations of a slave trader or Twenty years adventures of captain Canot ed by B Mayer written by Theodore CANOT and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revelations of a Slave Trader  Or  Twenty Years Adventures of Captain Canot  By Brantz Mayer

Download or read book Revelations of a Slave Trader Or Twenty Years Adventures of Captain Canot By Brantz Mayer written by Theodore CANOT and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Slaver s Log Book

Download or read book A Slaver s Log Book written by Theodore Canot and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1976 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-person account of slave trading in Africa by a ship captain.

Book The Power to Die

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  • Author : Terri L. Snyder
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-08-28
  • ISBN : 022628073X
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book The Power to Die written by Terri L. Snyder and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] well-written exploration of the cultural and legal meanings of slave suicide in British North America . . . far-reaching, compelling, and relevant.” —Choice The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America, they jumped into rivers or out of windows, or even ran into burning buildings. Faced with the reality of enslavement, countless Africans chose death instead. In The Power to Die, Terri L. Snyder excavates the history of slave suicide, returning it to its central place in early American history. How did people—traders, plantation owners, and, most importantly, enslaved men and women themselves—view and understand these deaths, and how did they affect understandings of the institution of slavery then and now? Snyder draws on an array of sources, including ships’ logs, surgeons’ journals, judicial and legislative records, newspaper accounts, abolitionist propaganda and slave narratives to detail the ways in which suicide exposed the contradictions of slavery, serving as a powerful indictment that resonated throughout the Anglo-Atlantic world and continues to speak to historians today.

Book Dictionary of American Biography  Including Men of the Time

Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography Including Men of the Time written by Francis Samuel Drake and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Captain Canot

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  • Author : Theodore Canot - Brantz Mayer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-01-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Captain Canot written by Theodore Canot - Brantz Mayer and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being an account of his career and adventures on the coast, in the interior, on shipboard, and in the west indies. Written out and edited from the Captain's journals, memoranda and conversations.

Book The Hungry Brain

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  • Author : Stephan J. Guyenet, Ph.D.
  • Publisher : Flatiron Books
  • Release : 2017-02-07
  • ISBN : 1250081238
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Hungry Brain written by Stephan J. Guyenet, Ph.D. and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of diabetes or heart disease--yet two thirds of Americans do precisely that. Even though we know better, we often eat too much. Why does our behavior betray our own intentions to be lean and healthy? The problem, argues obesity and neuroscience researcher Stephan J. Guyenet, is not necessarily a lack of willpower or an incorrect understanding of what to eat. Rather, our appetites and food choices are led astray by ancient, instinctive brain circuits that play by the rules of a survival game that no longer exists. And these circuits don’t care about how you look in a bathing suit next summer. To make the case, The Hungry Brain takes readers on an eye-opening journey through cutting-edge neuroscience that has never before been available to a general audience. The Hungry Brain delivers profound insights into why the brain undermines our weight goals and transforms these insights into practical guidelines for eating well and staying slim. Along the way, it explores how the human brain works, revealing how this mysterious organ makes us who we are.

Book Deep Roots

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  • Author : Edda L. Fields-Black
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-20
  • ISBN : 0253002966
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Deep Roots written by Edda L. Fields-Black and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing, Deep Roots fashions a theory of cultural change that encompasses the diversity of communities, cultures, and forms of expression in Africa and the African diaspora.

Book Recaptured Africans

Download or read book Recaptured Africans written by Sharla M. Fett and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000 enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary camps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla Fett reconstructs the social world of these "recaptives" and recounts the relationships they built to survive the holds of slave ships, American detention camps, and, ultimately, a second transatlantic voyage to Liberia. Fett also demonstrates how the presence of slave-trade refugees in southern ports accelerated heated arguments between divergent antebellum political movements--from abolitionist human rights campaigns to slave-trade revivalism--that used recaptives to support their claims about slavery, slave trading, and race. By focusing on shipmate relations rather than naval exploits or legal trials, and by analyzing the experiences of both children and adults of varying African origins, Fett provides the first history of U.S. slave-trade suppression centered on recaptive Africans themselves. In so doing, she examines the state of "recaptivity" as a distinctive variant of slave-trade captivity and situates the recaptives' story within the broader diaspora of "Liberated Africans" throughout the Atlantic world.

Book Sinful Tunes and Spirituals

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  • Author : Dena J. Epstein
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780252071508
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Sinful Tunes and Spirituals written by Dena J. Epstein and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited worksongs and "shouts" of freedmen, in Sinful Tunes and Spirituals Dena J. Epstein traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises. This classic work is being reissued with a new author's preface on the silver anniversary of its original publication.

Book Hog and Hominy

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  • Author : Frederick Douglass Opie
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2010-06-04
  • ISBN : 0231146396
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Hog and Hominy written by Frederick Douglass Opie and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the culinary origins of African American soul food finds the unique cuisine, rooted in the American South, is a mix of European, Asian, African, and Amerindian food cultures.

Book The Letters of Jean Toomer  1919 1924

Download or read book The Letters of Jean Toomer 1919 1924 written by Jean Toomer and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mark Whalen's compilation offers a vital document for understanding the contexts, intellectual debates, and tensions undergirding Toomer's work, including his simultaneous feelings of attraction to and estrangement from rural southern life, the influence of technology on race and urban existence in America and the contradictory pulls of folk culture and modernist experimentation. The collection also charts the motives underlying Toomer's abandonment of the style that distinguished Cane, and his growing fascination with the teachings of the mystic G. I. Gurdjieff in 1924."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The United States and Africa

Download or read book The United States and Africa written by Peter Duignan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-24 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the reciprocal relationship between Africa and North America from the seventeenth-century slave trade onwards, two leading authorities in the field provide a major revision to traditional colonial African history as well as to US history. Departing from prior accounts that tended to emphasise only the role of the colonial metropoles in developing Africa, the authors show how American pioneers - missionaries, traders, prospectors, miners, engineers, scientists, and others - have helped to shape Africa. They also point to the equally important impact made by Africa on the United States through trade and immigration, and through the influence of Africans on the arts and agriculture, among other facets of American life. In a study of exceptionally broad scope, the authors devote particular attention to the development of United States policy regarding Africa, the impact of private enterprise, the operation of governmental lobbies, the administration of foreign aid, and the involvement of Africa in the Cold War.