Download or read book Ain t No Harm to Kill the Devil written by Jeffrey Copeland and published by Paragon House. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most amazing characters in American history was John Fairfield, a member of the Underground Railroad who helped slaves to freedom before the Civil War. His exploits are mentioned by notables such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Levi Coffin (the "President" of the Underground Railroad). All greatly admired him but were shocked by his tactics. Fairfield was the only high-profile abolitionist to charge people for his work. Some assert Fairfield exploited the slaves because he charged relatives in Canada to get their family members to safety, but he used the fees to help concoct elaborate ruses that he used to steal the slaves and help them to freedom. One time he led nineteen slaves to freedom by pretending to be an undertaker taking the body of a slave across the Ohio River to a slave cemetery on the other side. He had one slave (in an open coffin) pretend to be the deceased-and the other eighteen marched in a funeral procession right through the middle of town in plain sight. The townspeople stepped aside, out of respect for the "deceased," and watched him take all of them across the river to their freedom! Another time he pretended to be a poultry dealer, gaining the respect of all in a town, and then stole their slaves. Still another time he passed himself off as a businessman who needed to build boats to take salt to the South for a very profitable venture. He got many of the leading citizens of that town to invest in his project, and when the boats were finished, he chose a moonless night to get all the slaves to the boats-and had them row to freedom. Fairfield was seen by some as a scoundrel, a con-man, and a criminal. Others saw him as a very religious man who believed with all his heart that the evils of slavery needed to be wiped out-and he was willing to go to extremes to help with that cause. Fairfield wasn't as violent as, say, John Brown, but he still got the job done.
Download or read book The Ohio Literary Trail written by Betty Weibel and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ohio Literary Trail celebrates the Buckeye State's role in shaping culture and literature worldwide. Along the trail, developed by the Ohioana Library Association, lie historic homes, museums, library collections and historical markers honoring great authors, poets and influencers of the literary landscape. Following the state's five geographic regions for convenient self-guided tours, curious explorers can walk in the footsteps of Harriet Beecher Stowe and poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. They can view renowned collections of comics, picture book art and Nancy Drew-themed artifacts. Or they can tour the home and farm of Pulitzer Prize winner and conservationist Louis Bromfield. Compiled with care by Betty Weibel, one of the trail's creators, this guide offers something unique for the armchair traveler and the road warrior alike.
Download or read book Enslavement and the Underground Railroad in Missouri and Illinois written by Julie Nicolai and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Path to Freedom in Missouri and Illinois People enslaved here experienced the same horrors as those held captive in other states, and their stories of courage and perseverance are amazing. Priscilla Baltimore purchased her own emancipation and founded a freedom village. Caroline Quarlls escaped to Canada. Many who fled for their lives spent time bunkered in the basement of Hanson House. The region's Congregationalists brought a fiery. brand of abolitionism. And Prairie Park still holds the faded "haint" blue paint traditionally used on slave dwellings. Author Julia Nicolai details these and other adjective stories.
Download or read book The Underground Railroad in Ohio written by Kathy Schulz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ohio was at the heart of it all. During a dark time in United States history, thousands of freedom seekers traveled the Underground Railroad through Ohio. The Buckeye State hosted about half of all fugitive slave traffic of the antebellum era. A mix of Northern and Southern settlers in the state added drama to a struggle that led to major benefits for the state and the country. Unfortunately, this epic past was obscured by silence and secrecy and then distorted with misinformation and folklore--until now. Author and native Ohioan Kathy Schulz accurately details the development and workings of Ohio's Underground Railroad with true stories of Addison White, John Parker and others.
Download or read book The Silent Reefs written by Dorothy Cottrell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Silent Reefs" by Dorothy Cottrell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2013 with total page 1949 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series of novels based on the character of the young orphan Anne Shirley is one of the best selling fiction series worldwide. The stories have been adapted for TV and cinema productions and much more. This edition contains the following novels, all ranked in the order of Anne's age: Anne Of Green Gables Anne Of Avonlea Anne Of The Island Anne's House of Dreams Rainbow Valley Rilla of Ingleside This is the extended and annotated edition including an autobiographical annotation by the author herself.
Download or read book The Devil s Work written by Paul Bedford and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Finch sets out on a long, forlorn ride to find the man who killed his young wife. Unknown to Jack, Dawson Cayne, the man who committed the senseless murder, was working for a revengeful bitter old man, and that included taking out Jubal as well. Whilst recovering from a gunshot wound in a border sanatorium, Connie Kettle makes an appearance, and Jack quickly realizes there is more to his life than trailing a killer. But Cayne wants to prolong the torment, attempting to make Jack pay a dreadful price for a crime he didn't even commit. When the paths of the two men cross on the Arizona - Mexico border, innocent people are drawn into the conflict, some paying with their lives. Jack considers riding away, but too much is involved. He has to confront the never-ending torment, finally meet the killer on terms that should only favour a ruthless, contract gunman.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-12-10 with total page 6532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition includes: Anne of Green Gables Series: Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne of the Island Anne of Windy Poplars Anne's House of Dreams Anne of Ingleside Rainbow Valley Rilla of Ingleside Emily Starr Trilogy: Emily of New Moon Emily Climbs Emily's Quest The Story Girl Series The Story Girl The Golden Road Pat of Silver Bush Series Pat of Silver Bush Mistress Pat Other Novels Kilmeny of the Orchard The Blue Castle Magic for Marigold A Tangled Web Jane of Lantern Hill Short Stories: Chronicles of Avonlea The Hurrying of Ludovic Old Lady Lloyd Each in His Own Tongue Little Joscelyn The Winning of Lucinda Old Man Shaw's Girl Aunt Olivia's Beau Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's Pa Sloane's Purchase The Courting of Prissy Strong The Miracle at Carmody The End of a Quarrel Further Chronicles of Avonlea Aunt Cynthia's Persian Cat The Materializing of Cecil Her Father's Daughter Jane's Baby The Dream-Child The Brother Who Failed The Return of Hester The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily Sara's Way The Son of his Mother The Education of Betty In Her Selfless Mood The Conscience Case of David Bell Only a Common Fellow Tannis of the Flats... Poetry Collected Letters Autobiography: The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels with Anne of Green Gables, an orphaned girl, mistakenly sent to a couple, who had intended to adopt a boy. Anne novels made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and she went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 3 written by Mike Ashley and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third new collection of historical murder and mystery stories A brilliant new collection of thirty stories of mystery and intrigue spread over three thousand years, from Ancient Egypt to spies on the Titanic. Selected by bestselling editor Mike Ashley, the stories include brand new contributions as well as rare reprints, from writers such as Ian Rankin, Lynda Robinson, Sharan Newman, Gail Frazer, Gillian Linscott and Peter Tremayne. Among the characters featured are the Queen of Sheba, Attila the Hun, Hildegarde of Bingen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry the Navigator and Benjamin Franklin. And with settings as far-ranging as Botany Bay and ancient Pisa, New Amsterdam and old Edinburgh, ancient Greece and the court of Kublai Khan.
Download or read book Anne of Green Gables Collection Anne of Green Gables Anne of the Island and More Anne Shirley Books written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 2006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't Miss a Moment with Anne Shirley in this Anne of Green Gables Bundle This bundle includes: • Anne of Green Gables • Anne of Avonlea • Anne of the Island • Anne's House of Dreams • Rainbow Valley • Rilla of Ingleside • Chronicles of Avonlea • Further Chronicles of Avonlea This Anne of Green Gables Collection has been professionally formatted for e-readers and contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.
Download or read book Lost Delta Found written by John W. Work and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blues Hall of Fame Inductee—Named a "Classic of Blues Literature" by the Blues Foundation, 2019 This remarkable book recovers three invaluable perspectives, long thought to have been lost, on the culture and music of the Mississippi Delta. In 1941 and ’42 African American schol-ars from Fisk University—among them the noted composer and musicologist John W. Work III, sociologist Lewis Wade Jones, and graduate student Samuel C. Adams Jr.—joined folklorist Alan Lomax of the Library of Congress on research trips to Coahoma County, Mississippi. Their mission was “to document adequately the cultural and social backgrounds for music in the community.” Among the fruits of the project were the earliest recordings by the legendary blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. The hallmark of the study was to have been a joint publication of its findings by Fisk and the Library of Congress. While this publication was never completed, Lost Delta Found is composed of the writings, interviews, notes, and musical transcriptions produced by Work, Jones, and Adams in the Coahoma County study. Their work captures, with compelling immediacy, a place, a people, a way of life, and a set of rich musical traditions as they existed in the 1940s. Illustrated with photos and more than 160 musical transcriptions.
Download or read book The Small Window written by Linda Teigland Clark and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-06-15 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thorald homestead was located near the banks of St. Peters River in the southern portion of Wisconsin Territory. One day this region would become part of the great state of Minnesota; the river would be renamed the Minnesota River; and near the old homestead, a city would rise and identify itself after Chief Mankato of the Mdewakanton Sioux. Pa and the twins worked hard to turn that rich black earth into life and subsistence for his wife and five younguns. When the unpredictable weather fought his labor and sweat and the land turned against him, survival rose to new heights. And Pa caught the dream of the new land It was 1848. Pa followed his dream; he was taking his family to the Promised Land, a land called California Pa taught his family that God will not shut a door without opening a window. He said it was Gods Way of leading His Children. And during these hard times, Pa added that it was the North wind that made the Vikings. What he didnt tell Laurin, his 17 year-old-daughter, was how small and difficult getting through that window might be or how long and strong that North wind might blow Laurin, like her father, dreamed big ...until tragedy struck! When cholera claimed the lives of her parents and older brothers in the Humboldt Sink, she had to find that window set her own sail against that staunch wind Only she remained to do it! She had to find a way not just to survive the trek over the Sierra and into California, but to survive and be safe, once they arrived in this untamed land dominated by men, gold, and greed. It wasnt for herself but for her younger brother, age 7, and sister, age 4. They were her responsibility their future; their very lives depended upon her. They couldnt go back; there was no back! She loved them she had to find a way Join Laurin as she transforms into Hardluck Lin and becomes a part of the early history of the California Gold Rush.
Download or read book Rainbow Valley written by L. M. Montgomery and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this charming Anne of Green Gables novel, Anne’s children discover a special place where they befriend the children of a widowed minister. It’s been more than a decade since Anne Shirley married her childhood sweetheart, Gilbert Blythe, and these days the happy couple is busy with six young children of their own. But parenting is even more of a challenge for Glen St. Mary’s new minister. As a widower, Rev. John Meredith has had trouble looking after his four rambunctious youngsters since their arrival in town. Though the Meredith children have developed a bad reputation, they’ve also found friendship with the Blythe kids, often playing together in a hollow known as Rainbow Valley. When Jem Blythe’s scheme to help them behave goes terribly wrong, a new plan emerges—to find Reverend Meredith a new wife.
Download or read book The Collected Unabridged Anne Shirley Stories 12 Books Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne of the Island Anne s House of Dreams Rainbow Valley Rilla of Ingleside Chronicles of Avonlea etc written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 3050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: “The Collected Unabridged Anne Shirley Stories” contains 12 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Anne Shirley is a fictional character introduced in the 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Table of contents: Anne of Green Gables (1908) Anne of Avonlea (1909) Anne of the Island (1915) Anne's House of Dreams (1917) Rainbow Valley (1919) Rilla of Ingleside (1921) Chronicles of Avonlea (1912) Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920) The Story Girl (1911) The Golden Road (Sequel to The Story Girl, 1913) Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910) The Watchman and Other Poems (1916) There are two books in the Anne of Green Gables series which were published after 1922 and can't yet be included in this collection because of copyright restrictions in the USA: "Anne of Windy Poplars" (1936) and "Anne of Ingleside" (1939). Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 – 1942), was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.
Download or read book Rainbow Valley written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rainbow Valley written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having seen his portmanteaus safely housed in the hotel he chose, and having appointed his dinner hour, Barbox Brothers went out for a walk in the busy streets. And now it began to be suspected by him that Mugby Junction was a Junction of many branches, invisible as well as visible, and had joined him to an endless number of by-ways. For, whereas he would, but a little while ago, have walked these streets blindly brooding, he now had eyes and thoughts for a new external world.
Download or read book Anne of Green Gables Series written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by Sunsong Creations. This book was released on with total page 3126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne is a bright, outgoing, and eager to please girl, who endears herself to her adopted family, and to readers. Enjoy her stories and other books by Lucy Maud Montgomery in this collection which includes: --11 Full Length Books from the Bestselling Author Lucy Maud Montgomery --Links to 11 Free Full Length Audiobooks--Over 76 Hours of Audio Entertainment! -Easy to use clickable Table of Contents, with links to each book and chapter -Bonus: A Fan Resource List of Films & TV Shows Based on the Anne of Green Gables Series All that at an unbeatable price of only 99 cents! Books Included In This Collection: -Anne of Green Gables -Anne of Avonlea -Anne of the Island: -Anne's House of Dreams: -Rainbow Valley -Rilla of Ingleside -Chronicles of Avonlea -Further Chronicles of Avonlea Plus Bonus Books: -The Story Girl -The Golden Road -Kilmeny of the Orchard ****** A talented cast of actors do dramatic readings of the books. Links to 11 Free, Full Length Audiobooks by L.M. Montgomery: -Anne of Green Gables (over 9 1/2 hours of audiobook entertainment) -Anne of Avonlea (8 1/2 hours of audio) -Anne of the Island (Almost 8 hours of audio) -Anne's House of Dreams (7 1/2 hours of audio) -Rainbow Valley (almost 9 hours of audio) -Rilla of Ingleside (11 hours of audio) -Chronicles of Avonlea (Over 6 hours of audio) -Further Chronicles of Avonlea (Over 6 1/2 hours of audio) -The Story Girl (Over 8 1/2 hours of audio) -The Golden Road (Over 7 1/2 hours of audio) -Kilmeny of the Orchard (Almost 4 hours of audio) Buy Now for Only 99 Cents! For More Book Collections At A Great Price, Search for "Sunsong Collection" ******
