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Book Out of the Black Land

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  • Author : Kerry Greenwood
  • Publisher : Clan Destine Press
  • Release : 2018-09-01
  • ISBN : 0987160311
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Out of the Black Land written by Kerry Greenwood and published by Clan Destine Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams. Ptah-hotep, a young peasant boy studying to be a scribe, wants to live a simple life in a Nile hut with his lover Kheperren and their dog Wolf. But Amenhotep IV appoints him as Great Royal Scribe. Surrounded by bitterly envious rivals and enemies, how long will Ptah-hotep survive? The child-princess Mutnodjme sees her beautiful sister Nefertiti married off to the impotent young Amenhotep. But Nefertiti must bear royal children, so the ladies of the court devise a shocking plan. Kheperren, meanwhile, serves as scribe to the daring teenage General Horemheb. But while the Pharaoh's shrinking army guards the Land of the Nile from enemies on every border, a far greater menace impends. For, not content with his own devotion to one god alone, the newly-renamed Akhnaten plans to suppress the worship of all other gods in the Black Land. His horrified court soon realise that the Pharaoh is not merely deformed, but irretrievably mad; and that the biggest danger to the Empire is in the royal palace itself.

Book The Black Land

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  • Author : Mj Wesolowski
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-10-06
  • ISBN : 9781940250076
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book The Black Land written by Mj Wesolowski and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When American resort tycoon Martin Walker travels to England in hopes of acquiring a lonely island off the northeastern coast, he brings his family along for the trip. Only then does he learn the island's long-abandoned keep carries with it a legacy of terror. Some say the ghosts of Viking raiders, clad in wolf-skins and drunk on slaughter, still haunt its twisted architecture. Some say the island itself is cursed. An ancient, hateful force slumbers within the windswept rock-and the Walker family has awakened it. Can anyone escape THE BLACK LAND? MJ Wesolowski, based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK, has had short stories published in places such as Ethereal Tales and the Midnight Movie Creature Feature anthology. His dark comedy production, Suckers, raised money for the SOPHIE fund (Stamp Out Prejudice, Hatred and Intolerance Everywhere). THE BLACK LAND is his debut novella.

Book Black Land

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  • Author : Nadia Nurhussein
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-06-07
  • ISBN : 0691234620
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Black Land written by Nadia Nurhussein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore how African American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries As the only African nation, with the exception of Liberia, to remain independent during the colonization of the continent, Ethiopia has long held significance for and captivated the imaginations of African Americans. In Black Land, Nadia Nurhussein delves into nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American artistic and journalistic depictions of Ethiopia, illuminating the increasing tensions and ironies behind cultural celebrations of an African country asserting itself as an imperial power. Nurhussein navigates texts by Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, Harry Dean, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, George Schuyler, and others, alongside images and performances that show the intersection of African America with Ethiopia during historic political shifts. From a description of a notorious 1920 Star Order of Ethiopia flag-burning demonstration in Chicago to a discussion of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie as Time magazine’s Man of the Year for 1935, Nurhussein illuminates the growing complications that modern Ethiopia posed for American writers and activists. American media coverage of the African nation exposed a clear contrast between the Pan-African ideal and the modern reality of Ethiopia as an antidemocratic imperialist state: Did Ethiopia represent the black nation of the future, or one of an inert and static past? Revising current understandings of black transnationalism, Black Land presents a well-rounded exploration of an era when Ethiopia’s presence in African American culture was at its height.

Book The Keeper of the Blackland

Download or read book The Keeper of the Blackland written by Christine Soltis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Blackland, the one with kaleidoscopic eyes regulates a land of supernatural beings. The Blackland is a place that is offset from Earth and where power and magic are the center of the universe. The Keeper of the Blackland is Samone, whose job is to divide the line between the mortals and the supernatural. But he has lost his ability to be objective and favors the creatures over the mortals. Written by Christine M. Soltis Copyright (c) April 2018 A SolsticeNightSky Production First Edition, April 2018 Edited by Christie L. Johnson Cover Art by Lee Bradford

Book From Black Land To Fifth Sun

Download or read book From Black Land To Fifth Sun written by Brian Fagan and published by Perseus Books. This book was released on 1998-05-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent archaeologist uses the latest scientific techniques to interpret the spiritual lives of ancient people, explaining how cutting-edge science can take readers beyond the artifacts and into the mystical realm of shamans and spirit mediums, ancestor worship and ritual sacrifice. Photos.

Book Red Land  Black Land

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  • Author : Barbara Mertz
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2011-01-25
  • ISBN : 0062087169
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Red Land Black Land written by Barbara Mertz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, erudite, and witty glimpse of the human side of ancient Egypt—this acclaimed classic work is now revised and updated for a new generation Displaying the unparalleled descriptive power, unerring eye for fascinating detail, keen insight, and trenchant wit that have made the novels she writes (as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels) perennial New York Times bestsellers, internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz brings a long-buried civilization to vivid life. In Red Land, Black Land, she transports us back thousands of years and immerses us in the sights, aromas, and sounds of day-to-day living in the legendary desert realm that was ancient Egypt. Who were these people whose civilization has inspired myriad films, books, artwork, myths, and dreams, and who built astonishing monuments that still stagger the imagination five thousand years later? What did average Egyptians eat, drink, wear, gossip about, and aspire to? What were their amusements, their beliefs, their attitudes concerning religion, childrearing, nudity, premarital sex? Mertz ushers us into their homes, workplaces, temples, and palaces to give us an intimate view of the everyday worlds of the royal and commoner alike. We observe priests and painters, scribes and pyramid builders, slaves, housewives, and queens—and receive fascinating tips on how to perform tasks essential to ancient Egyptian living, from mummification to making papyrus. An eye-opening and endlessly entertaining companion volume to Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs, Mertz's extraordinary history of ancient Egypt, Red Land, Black Land offers readers a brilliant display of rich description and fascinating edification. It brings us closer than ever before to the people of a great lost culture that was so different from—yet so surprisingly similar to—our own.

Book Farming While Black

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  • Author : Leah Penniman
  • Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 1603587616
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Farming While Black written by Leah Penniman and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latino Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of color. Farming While Black organizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with a concise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming, from business planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and activists whose work informs the techniques described--from whole farm planning, soil fertility, seed selection, and agroecology, to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes, sharing stories of ancestors, and tools for healing from the trauma associated with slavery and economic exploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement.--AMAZON.

Book Egyptian Myth  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book Egyptian Myth A Very Short Introduction written by Geraldine Pinch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explains the cultural and historical background to the fascinating and complex world of Egyptian myth, with each chapter dealing with a particular theme.

Book Quitting America

Download or read book Quitting America written by Randall Robinson and published by Plume. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Debt comes a memoir that charts his journey from the most powerful nation on earth to the tiny tropical island where his wife was born. A #1 Essence bestseller.

Book Lord of the Black Land

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  • Author : Jack Conner
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-09-10
  • ISBN : 9781537620992
  • Pages : 510 pages

Download or read book Lord of the Black Land written by Jack Conner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark times have come to the kingdom of Felgrad. Epic fantasy by New York Times bestselling author Jack Conner. Once one of the jewels of the Crescent, now the dark powers have turned their gaze upon it, and Giorn Wesrain, son of the baron, has become inextricably drawn into the machinations of the Dark Lord, along with his beloved Niara, High Priestess of Illiana. Their love is forbidden, and it will be tested as the armies of the enemy strive against the free kingdoms of the north. Worse, one of their own, Raugst, is in truth an agent of the Dark Lord, and Raugst will soon bend the barony to his will. If Felgrad falls, so too will the rest of the Crescent, and the Dark Lord will be unleashed upon the world. Only Giorn and Niara can stop him, but how can they when the legendary Moonstone, the great artifact of the Light that has kept the fell powers at bay for thousands of years, has been taken? Lord of the Black Land is an epic tale of dark fantasy adventure by New York Times bestselling author Jack Conner. If you like action-packed storytelling with the darkness of George R. R. Martin and the epic sweep of J. R. R. Tolkien, then you'll love Jack Conner's incredible mix of epic fantasy, adventure, romance and war. This print edition includes both Volumes One and Two of the ebooks, making this the complete omnibus edition. The chapter numbers have been reordered for the best possible reading experience.

Book Singing in a Strange Land

Download or read book Singing in a Strange Land written by Nick Salvatore and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prizewinning historian pens this biography of C.L. Franklin, the greatest African-American preacher of his generation, father of Aretha, and civil rights pioneer.

Book Carving Out a Living on the Land

Download or read book Carving Out a Living on the Land written by Emmet Van Driesche and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he first envisioned becoming a farmer, author Emmet Van Driesche never imagined his main crop would be Christmas trees, nor that such a tree farm could be more of a managed forest than the conventional grid of perfectly sheared trees. Carving Out a Living on the Land tells the story of how Van Driesche navigated changing life circumstances, took advantage of unexpected opportunities, and leveraged new and old skills to piece together an economically viable living, while at the same time respecting the land's complex ecological relationships. From spoon carving to scything, coppicing to wreath-making, Carving Out a Living on the Land proves that you don't need acres of expensive bottomland to start your land-based venture, but rather the creativity and vision to see what might be done with that rocky section or ditch or patch of trees too small to log. You can lease instead of buy; build flexible, temporary structures rather than sink money into permanent ones; and take over an existing operation rather than start from scratch. What matters are your unique circumstances, talents, and interests, which when combined with what the land is capable of producing, can create a fulfilling and meaningful farming life.

Book Blackland Prairies of the Gulf Coastal Plain

Download or read book Blackland Prairies of the Gulf Coastal Plain written by Evan Peacock and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-03-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a holistic approach, this compilation gathers ecological, historical, and archaeological research written on the distinctive region of the US Southeast called the Gulf coast blackland prairie. Ranging from the last glacial period to the present day, the case studies provide a broad picture of how the area has changed through time and been modified by humans, first with nomadic bands of Indians trailing the grazing animals and then by Euro-American settlers who farmed the rich agricultural area. Contemporary impacts include industrialization, aquaculture, population growth, land reclamation, and wildlife management.

Book I ve Been Here All the While

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  • Author : Alaina E. Roberts
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2021-03-12
  • ISBN : 0812297989
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book I ve Been Here All the While written by Alaina E. Roberts and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of Civil War and Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and whites from the eastern United States fought military and rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from others. Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political rights, until Oklahoma statehood in 1907.

Book The Black Tax

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  • Author : Andrew W. Kahrl
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2024
  • ISBN : 022673059X
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book The Black Tax written by Andrew W. Kahrl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andrew Kahrl's enraging national assessment of legal and financial dispossession proves that African Americans property owners have long been beset by racist practices, invisible obstacles, and hidden traps that leave them vulnerable to economic predation. Kahrl focuses specially on how property taxes have been used to swindle African Americans out of their land, with the cooperation of public officials and courts. These racist regimes fund and reinforce inequity, with blacks paying more in taxes than whites as they lose tremendous inheritable wealth to whites. There is something more fundamental than the "forty acres" of settlement lore: the taxes on them"--

Book Free the Land

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  • Author : Edward Onaci
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2020-04-17
  • ISBN : 1469656159
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Free the Land written by Edward Onaci and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that Black Americans' best remaining hope for liberation was the creation of a sovereign nation-state, the Republic of New Afrika (RNA). New Afrikan citizens traced boundaries that encompassed a large portion of the South--including South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana--as part of their demand for reparation. As champions of these goals, they framed their struggle as one that would allow the descendants of enslaved people to choose freely whether they should be citizens of the United States. New Afrikans also argued for financial restitution for the enslavement and subsequent inhumane treatment of Black Americans. The struggle to "Free the Land" remains active to this day. This book is the first to tell the full history of the RNA and the New Afrikan Independence Movement. Edward Onaci shows how New Afrikans remade their lifestyles and daily activities to create a self-consciously revolutionary culture, and argues that the RNA's tactics and ideology were essential to the evolution of Black political struggles. Onaci expands the story of Black Power politics, shedding new light on the long-term legacies of mid-century Black Nationalism.

Book A Mind to Stay

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  • Author : Sydney Nathans
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-02-20
  • ISBN : 0674977890
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book A Mind to Stay written by Sydney Nathans and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sydney Nathans offers a counterpoint to the narrative of the Great Migration, a central theme of black liberation in the twentieth century. He tells the story of enslaved families who became the emancipated owners of land they had worked in bondage.