Download or read book Frederick Douglass written by Sheila Keenan and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts Douglass's life as a slave, his daring escape to freedom, and how he became the foremost African-American abolitionist of his time.
Download or read book Narrative of William W Brown an American Slave Written by Himself Twelfth Thousand With a Portrait written by William Wells Brown and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portrait of an Abolitionist written by Charles E. Heller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-02-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Luther Stearns became John Brown's single most important financial backer. He personally owned the 200 Sharps rifles Brown brought to Harper's Ferry. Massachusetts Governor John Andrew asked Stearns to recruit the first northern state African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, recently made famous by the Hollywood movie Glory. Stearns was made a major and made Assistant Adjutant General for the Recruitment of Colored Troops. He recruited over 13,000 African-Americans, established schools for their children, and found work for their families. After Emancipation, he worked tirelessly for African-American civil rights. Friends and associates included the Emersons and the Alcotts, Thoreau, Lydia Maria Child, Charles Sumner, Andrew Johnson, and Frederick Douglass.
Download or read book Bound for the Promised Land written by Kate Clifford Larson and published by One World. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*The New York Times Book Review). Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Now, in this magnificent biography, historian Kate Clifford Larson gives us a powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed portrait of Tubman and her times. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical data, Larson presents Harriet Tubman as a complete human being—brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom. A true American hero, Tubman was also a woman who loved, suffered, and sacrificed. Praise for Bound for the Promised Land “[Bound for the Promised Land] appropriately reads like fiction, for Tubman’s exploits required such intelligence, physical stamina and pure fearlessness that only a very few would have even contemplated the feats that she actually undertook. . . . Larson captures Tubman’s determination and seeming imperviousness to pain and suffering, coupled with an extraordinary selflessness and caring for others.”—The Seattle Times “Essential for those interested in Tubman and her causes . . . Larson does an especially thorough job of . . . uncovering relevant documents, some of them long hidden by history and neglect.”—The Plain Dealer “Larson has captured Harriet Tubman’s clandestine nature . . . reading Ms. Larson made me wonder if Tubman is not, in fact, the greatest spy this country has ever produced.”—The New York Sun
Download or read book A Tribute for the Negro written by Wilson Armistead and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1848 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Coloured Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race Authored by Wilson Armistead
Download or read book Narrative of William W Brown an American slave Written by himself Twelfth thousand With a portrait written by William Wells Brown and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book David Ruggles written by Graham Russell Gao Hodges and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty for more than six hundred former bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass. A forceful, courageous voice for black freedom, Ruggles mentored Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William Cooper Nell in the skills of antislavery activism. As a founder of the New York Committee of Vigilance, he advocated a "practical abolitionism" that included civil disobedience and self-defense in order to preserve the rights of self-emancipated enslaved people and to protect free blacks from kidnappers who would sell them into slavery in the South. Hodges's narrative places Ruggles in the fractious politics and society of New York, where he moved among the highest ranks of state leaders and spoke up for common black New Yorkers. His work on the Committee of Vigilance inspired many upstate New York and New England whites, who allied with him to form a network that became the Underground Railroad. Hodges's portrait of David Ruggles establishes the abolitionist as an essential link between disparate groups--male and female, black and white, clerical and secular, elite and rank-and-file--recasting the history of antebellum abolitionism as a more integrated and cohesive movement than is often portrayed.
Download or read book Abolitionism written by Richard S. Newman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in the United States and internationally. Filled with portraits of key abolitionists - including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Anthony Benezet, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Elizabeth Heyrick, Richard Allen, and Angelina Grimké - the book highlights abolitionists' focus on social and political action. From the Underground Railroad and legal aid for oppressed people to legislative lobbying and military service, abolitionists employed every conceivable means to attack slavery and racial injustice. Their collective struggles helped bring down slavery - the most powerful economic and political institution of the age - across the Atlantic world and inspired generations of reformers. Sharply written and highly readable, Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction offers an inspiring portrait of the men and women who dedicated their lives to fighting racial oppression. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Download or read book All on Fire written by Henry Mayer and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the abolitionist used his influence and his weekly newspaper to motivate two generations of activists fighting against slavery.
Download or read book Face of Freedom written by Emma Carlson Berne and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass--abolitionist, writer, political activist, reformer--has been called the most important African-American of the 1800s. He was also the most photographed American of the 1800s. Douglass, who escaped enslavement to work tirelessly on behalf of his fellow African-Americans, realized the importance of photography in ending slavery and achieving civil rights. The many portraits of Douglass showed the world what freedom and dignity looked like.
Download or read book Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World written by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.
Download or read book Exposing Slavery written by Matthew Fox-Amato and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839, slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass had come to see how sitting for a portrait could help them project humanity and dignity amidst northern racism. In the first decade of the medium, enslaved people had begun entering southern daguerreotype studios of their own volition, posing for cameras, and leaving with visual treasures they could keep in their pockets. And, as the Civil War raged, Union soldiers would orchestrate pictures with fugitive slaves that envisioned racial hierarchy as slavery fell. In these ways and others, from the earliest days of the medium to the first moments of emancipation, photography powerfully influenced how bondage and freedom were documented, imagined, and contested. By 1865, it would be difficult for many Americans to look back upon slavery and its fall without thinking of a photograph. Exposing Slavery explores how photography altered and was, in turn, shaped by conflicts over human bondage. Drawing on an original source base that includes hundreds of unpublished and little-studied photographs of slaves, ex-slaves, free African Americans, and abolitionists, as well as written archival materials, it puts visual culture at the center of understanding the experience of late slavery. It assesses how photography helped southerners to defend slavery, enslaved people to shape their social ties, abolitionists to strengthen their movement, and soldiers to pictorially enact interracial society during the Civil War. With diverse goals, these peoples transformed photography from a scientific curiosity into a political tool over only a few decades. This creative first book sheds new light on conflicts over late American slavery, while also revealing a key moment in the relationship between modern visual culture and racialized forms of power and resistance.
Download or read book Mrs Frank S Churchill Portrait Collection of Abolitionists written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed photographs and lithographs of men and women associated with the U.S. anti-slavery movement.
Download or read book The Abolitionist written by New-England Anti-Slavery Society and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed look at the abolitionist movement in America, including the religious, social, and political factors that underpinned it. The authors delve into the complex history of slavery in America and the resistance that emerged against it, offering a compelling portrait of the people and movements that fought for abolition. Anyone interested in American history, civil rights, or social justice will find this book to be a fascinating and informative read. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Free at Last written by Arna Bontemps and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1971 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass played one of the most extraordinary roles in American history. Born a slave, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, whose counsel was sought by the President of his country. He remembered his mother only when she slipped at night into the slave children's hut to hold him close in her arms before being summoned to the fields. In his teens, he worked as a slave calking ships beside free men. At twenty-one, he escaped the cruelties of slavery by an evasive flight to Philadelphia, disguised as a sailor. He found sanctuary in New Bedford, Massachusetts, with his new bride, the plain, dark Anna who had the glamor of freedom, while he must be haunted through the years by the threat of capture and return to slavery. Douglass's eloquent description of life as a slave soon became the inspiration of abolitonist meetings organized by such white leaders as William Lloyd Garrison and William A. White, who would rhetorically ask the spellbound audiences, "Is this a Man or a Thing?" at rallies similar to those held on campuses today. With his autobiography a best seller at home and abroad, Douglass toured the anti-slavery meetings of the British Isles where for the first time he was accorded the respect due an honored white man. It was two English women who arranged to purchase of his freedom and another who disrupted the tranquility of his home. Publisher of The North Star and active underground agent, he became implicated in John Brown's plot that aborted at Harpers Ferry, forcing Douglass to flee abroad. On is return he pursued his campaign for the emancipation of his race. President Lincoln invited him to his inaugural reception and called him "my friend," Johnson made him Marshal of the District of Columbia, and Harrison appointed him Minister to Haiti. He bought Robert E. Lee's home and on the death of the long-suffering Anna he took a white bride to the consternation of his friends. Arna Bontemps has drawn a vivid portrait of this unique champion of the freedom of his people.
Download or read book Only Passing Through written by Anne F. Rockwell and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring story of how a woman, born a slave, transformed herself into one of the most profound voices of the abolitionist movement.
Download or read book Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World written by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the late sixteenth century to abolition in 1888.
