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Book Slave Stealers

Download or read book Slave Stealers written by Timothy Ballard and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow two abolitionists who fought one of the most shockingly persistent evils of the world: human trafficking and sexual exploitation of slaves. Told in alternating chapters from perspectives spanning more than a century apart, read the riveting 19th century first-hand account of Harriet Jacobs and the modern-day eyewitness account of Timothy Ballard. Harriet Jacobs was an African-American, born into slavery in North Carolina in 1813. She thwarted the sexual advances of her master for years until she escaped and hid in the attic crawl space of her grandmother's house for seven years before escaping north to freedom. She published an autobiography of her life, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which was one of the first open discussions about sexual abuse endured by slave women. She was an active abolitionist, associated with Frederick Douglass, and, during the Civil War, used her celebrity to raise money for black refugees. After the war, she worked to improve the conditions of newly-freed slaves. As a former Special Agent for the Department of Homeland Security who has seen the horrors and carnage of war, Timothy Ballard founded a modern-day "underground railroad" which has rescued hundreds of children from being fully enslaved, abused, or trafficked in third-world countries. His story includes the rescue and his eventual adoption of two young siblings--Mia and Marky, who were born in Haiti. Section 2 features the lives of five abolitionists, a mix of heroes from past to present, who call us to action and teach us life lessons based on their own experiences: Harriet Tubman--The "Conductor"; Abraham Lincoln--the "Great Emancipator"; Little Mia--the sister who saved her little brother; Guesno Mardy--the Haitian father who lost his son to slave traders; and Harriet Jacobs--a teacher for us all.

Book The Slave Stealer

Download or read book The Slave Stealer written by John Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternate LCCN: 68-12133.

Book Aiming for Pensacola

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew J. Clavin
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2015-10-12
  • ISBN : 0674088220
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Aiming for Pensacola written by Matthew J. Clavin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad. Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom by paradoxically sojourning deeper into the American South toward an unlikely destination: the small seaport of Pensacola, Florida, a gateway to freedom.

Book History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America

Download or read book History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America written by Henry Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered

Download or read book The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered written by Laura R. Sandy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe "the edges" of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to recover forgotten stories, exceptional cases and contested identities to reveal the forces that shaped America, in the era of "the Long Civil War," c.1830-1877. Offering an unparalleled scope, from the internal politics of southern households to trans-Atlantic propaganda battles, these essays address the fluidity and negotiability of racial and gendered identities, of criminal and transgressive behaviors, of contingent, shifting loyalties and of the hopes of freedom that found expression in refugee camps, court rooms and literary works.

Book Operation Toussaint

Download or read book Operation Toussaint written by Tim Ballard and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adaptation of the documentary film: The story of the ex-special agent featured in Sound of Freedom and a covert anti-trafficking mission in Haiti. Tim Ballard left his post as a special agent for the US Department of Homeland Security to found Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.). Through this organization, Tim and his team plan undercover operations to rescue child sex trafficking victims around the world. To date, they have saved hundreds of children from horrific conditions, which Tim wasn’t able to do when bound by government restrictions. In this book incorporating photos and dialogue adapted from the documentary film of the same name, take an inside look at O.U.R., and their mission to end modern-day slavery—as you join Tim and his Special Forces team on a covert mission to Haiti where they bring a ring of sex traffickers who bribed their way out of jail to justice in Operation Toussaint.

Book Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World

Download or read book Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World written by Edward B. Rugemer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Rugemer’s comparative history, spanning 200 years, reveals the political dynamic between slaves’ resistance and slaveholders’ power in two prosperous slave economies: Jamaica and South Carolina. This struggle led to the abolition of slavery through a law of British Parliament in one case and through violent civil war in the other.

Book The Guilt of Slavery and the Crime of Slaveholding

Download or read book The Guilt of Slavery and the Crime of Slaveholding written by George Barrell Cheever and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book River Rover Chronicles 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joyce Kramer
  • Publisher : Balboa Press
  • Release : 2015-11-25
  • ISBN : 1504345150
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book River Rover Chronicles 2 written by Joyce Kramer and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southwest Georgias past is like a kaleidoscope. Each turn presents more happenings and more adventures. In River Rover Chronicles 2, we will go on a journey that will take us back through time to when Georgia was born. Then, we venture on ahead to the present. We will take part in the events which shaped our heritage. In this book, you will learn of an explosion of such magnitude that it was felt hundreds of miles away; hunt the largest bird to ever exist on Earth, which lived in Georgia; meet pirates and the feisty girl that tamed them; make your way through a dense swamp to survive an Indian battle, and more. So, come alongif you dare!!

Book The Results of Slavery

Download or read book The Results of Slavery written by Augustin Cochin and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them  1763 1865

Download or read book Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them 1763 1865 written by Harriet C. Frazier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of French rule of Missouri in 1720 through this state's abolition of slavery in 1865, liberty was always the goal of the vast majority of its enslaved people. The presence in eastern Kansas of a host of abolitionists from New England made slaveholding risky business. Many religiously devout persons were imprisoned in Missouri for "slave stealing." Based largely on old newspapers, prison records, pardon papers, and other archival materials, this book is an account of the legal and physical obstacles that slaves faced in their quest for freedom and of the consequences suffered by persons who tried to help them. Attitudes of both slave holders and abolitionists are examined, as is the institution's protection in both the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution. The book discusses the experiences of particular individuals and examines the Underground Railroad on Missouri's borders. Appendices provide details from two Spanish colonial census reports, a list of abolitionist prison inmates with details about their time served, and the percentages of African Americans still in bondage in 16 jurisdictions from 1820 to 1860.

Book Flush Times and Fever Dreams

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  • Author : Joshua D. Rothman
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2012-11-01
  • ISBN : 0820344664
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Flush Times and Fever Dreams written by Joshua D. Rothman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the “Arkansas morass” in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves. Stewart’s adventure led to a sensational trial and a wildly popular published account that would ultimately help trigger widespread violence during the summer of 1835, when five men accused of being professional gamblers were hanged in Vicksburg, nearly a score of others implicated with a gang of supposed slave thieves were executed in plantation districts, and even those who tried to stop the bloodshed found themselves targeted as dangerous and subversive. Using Stewart’s story as his point of entry, Joshua D. Rothman details why these events, which engulfed much of central and western Mississippi, came to pass. He also explains how the events revealed the fears, insecurities, and anxieties underpinning the cotton boom that made Mississippi the most seductive and exciting frontier in the Age of Jackson. As investors, settlers, slaves, brigands, and fortune-hunters converged in what was then America’s Southwest, they created a tumultuous landscape that promised boundless opportunity and spectacular wealth. Predicated on ruthless competition, unsustainable debt, brutal exploitation, and speculative financial practices that looked a lot like gambling, this landscape also produced such profound disillusionment and conflict that it contained the seeds of its own potential destruction. Rothman sheds light on the intertwining of slavery and capitalism in the period leading up to the Panic of 1837, highlighting the deeply American impulses underpinning the evolution of the slave South and the dizzying yet unstable frenzy wrought by economic flush times. It is a story with lessons for our own day. Published in association with the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication.

Book Rebels and Runaways

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry E. Rivers
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2012-06-22
  • ISBN : 0252036913
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Rebels and Runaways written by Larry E. Rivers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variety of sources, Larry Eugene Rivers discusses Florida's unique historical significance as a runaway slave haven dating back to the seventeenth century. In moving detail, Rivers illustrates what life was like for enslaved blacks whose families were pulled asunder as they relocated and how they fought back any way they could to control small parts of their own lives. Identifying slave rebellions such as the Stono, Louisiana, Denmark (Telemaque) Vesey, Gabriel, and the Nat Turner insurrections, Rivers argues persuasively that the size, scope, and intensity of black resistance in the Second Seminole War makes it the largest sustained slave insurrection in American history.

Book The Spectator

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1889
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 972 pages

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Primary Source History of Slavery in the United States

Download or read book A Primary Source History of Slavery in the United States written by Allison Crotzer Kimmel and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Uses primary sources to tell the story of slavery in the United States"--

Book Studies on Slavery

Download or read book Studies on Slavery written by John Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: