Download or read book Been in the Storm So Long written by Leon F. Litwack and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution." Contents 1. "The Faithful Slave" 2. Black Liberators 3. Kingdom Comin' 4. Slaves No More 5. How Free is Free? 6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About 7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions 8. Back to Work: The New Dependency 9. The Gospel and the Primer 10. Becoming a People
Download or read book Been in the Storm So Long written by Leon Frank LITWACK and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slavery s Storm written by Bentley Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stand the Storm written by Edward Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stand the Storm written by Breena Clarke and published by Tantor Media Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still plagued by constant struggle and sacrifice, in this novel marked by love and tragedy.
Download or read book Slavery by Another Name written by Douglas A. Blackmon and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Download or read book The Gathering Storm 1787 1829 written by Mary Barr Sisson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the spread of slavery to the Old Southwest and zeroes in on the daring efforts of African Americans to end slavery and improve life for free blacks, efforts that ranged from revolutions to the establishment of the new nation of Liberia.
Download or read book Stand the Storm written by Edward Reynolds and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best short history of the African slave trade in print, tracing the impact of the trade on both Africa and the West, showing the resilience of African societies, and along the way demolishing a good many historical myths. "Remarkably comprehensive, clearly and simply written, and uncluttered with figures and tables."--Choice.
Download or read book South to Freedom written by Alice L Baumgartner and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.
Download or read book Snow Storm in August written by Jefferson Morley and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1835, the city of Washington simmered with racial tension as newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, outnumbering slaves for the first time. Among the enslaved was nineteen-year-old Arthur Bowen, who stumbled home drunkenly one night, picked up an axe, and threatened his owner, respected socialite Anna Thornton. Despite no blood being shed, Bowen was eventually arrested and tried for attempted murder by district attorney Francis Scott Key, but not before news of the incident spread like wildfire. Within days Washington’s first race riot exploded as whites, fearing a slave rebellion, attacked the property of free blacks. One of their victims was gregarious former slave and successful restaurateur Beverly Snow, who became the target of the mob’s rage. With Snow-Storm in August, Jefferson Morley delivers readers into an unknown chapter in history with an absorbing account of this uniquely American battle for justice.
Download or read book America s Longest Siege written by Joseph Kelly and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] vivid and engrossing study of slavery in and around one of its trading hubs, Charleston, SC . . . an important contribution to Southern antebellum history.” —Library Journal In America’s Longest Siege, historian Joseph Kelly captures the toxic mix of nationalism, paternalism, and wealth that made Charleston the center of the nationwide debate over slavery and the tragic act of secession that doomed both the city and the South. Thoroughly researched and compulsively readable, America’s Longest Siege offers a new take on the Civil War and the culture that made it inevitable. “Lays bare the decades-long campaign of rationalization and intimidation that revivified and reinforced the institution of slavery and dragged the United States into disunion and civil war . . . this masterful study is a timely and important reminder of the consequences that result when ideological extremists succeed in drowning out the voices of reason.” —Peter Quinn, author of Hour of the Cat
Download or read book The Stormy Present written by Adam I. P. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cover " -- "Contents" -- "Preface " -- "Introduction: The Dogmas of the Quiet Past" -- "Chapter One: Barricades on Broadway: Mobs and the Problem of Revolution in American Politics" -- "Chapter Two: Order and the Problem of Law: Fugitive Slaves and the Constitution" -- "Chapter Three: Storm over Kansas: Slavery Expansion and the Problem of Violence" -- "Chapter Four: An Engine for Freedom: Popular Sovereignty and Political Convergence" -- "Chapter Five: Fear on the Campaign Trail: The Election of 1860" -- "Chapter Six: The Essence of Anarchy: Secession and the War against Slaveholders" -- "Chapter Seven: How a Conservative People Conducted a Long War " -- "Conclusion: After the Storm" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "Index" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "J" -- "K " -- "L " -- "M" -- "N " -- "O" -- "P" -- "R " -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V" -- "W
Download or read book American Slavery as it is written by Theodore Dwight Weld and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlas of Slavery written by James Walvin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because of its huge geographic and chronological span. This book uses a unique atlas format to present the story of slavery, explaining its historical importance and making this complex story and its geographical setting easy to understand.
Download or read book Ebony and Ivy written by Craig Steven Wilder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading African-American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy, revealing that our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
Download or read book SLAVE S DIARY written by Kenneth R. McClelland and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young African boy named Kimbo was kidnapped while on a hunt with his father. From the jungle, hes taken to a trading post, an island slave stronghold, and then hes sold to a company that sends him through the Slave Trade Triangle on a cramped ship bound for America. The ship suffers a storm, a mutiny, and many needless deaths, but Kimbo survives the journey, only to be sold as property to various owners in nineteenth-century Virginia. Eventually, he gains his freedom, through the help of a minister. On his journey to freedom, Kimbo escapes captivity, rescues a lost white girl, gets caught by a paddy roller, and eventually finds real freedom at the cross. With the help of the American Colonization Society, he returns to Liberia, Africa, with most of his family, to carry out his ministry. The Slaves Diary is the story of a man who chronicled his life as a slave in America, going from master to master, but making friends during his trials wherever he finds them, and finally gaining his freedom through a minister who helps him adjust to life as a free man.
Download or read book In the Wake written by Christina Sharpe and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness—Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation. Initiating and describing a theory and method of reading the metaphors and materiality of "the wake," "the ship," "the hold," and "the weather," Sharpe shows how the sign of the slave ship marks and haunts contemporary Black life in the diaspora and how the specter of the hold produces conditions of containment, regulation, and punishment, but also something in excess of them. In the weather, Sharpe situates anti-Blackness and white supremacy as the total climate that produces premature Black death as normative. Formulating the wake and "wake work" as sites of artistic production, resistance, consciousness, and possibility for living in diaspora, In the Wake offers a way forward.
