Download or read book Kill the Overseer written by Sarah Juliet Lauro and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games--and the trouble with making history playable Kill the Overseer! profiles and problematizes digital games that depict Atlantic slavery and "gamify" slave resistance. In videogames emphasizing plantation labor, the player may choose to commit small acts of resistance like tool-breaking or working slowly. Others dramatically stage the slave's choice to flee enslavement and journey northward, and some depict outright violent revolt against the master and his apparatus. In this work, Sarah Juliet Lauro questions whether the reduction of a historical enslaved person to a digital commodity in games such as Mission US, Assassin's Creed, and Freedom Cry ought to trouble us as a further commodification of slavery's victims, or whether these interactive experiences offer an empowering commemoration of the history of slave resistance. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Download or read book Crafting the Overseer s Image written by William E. Wiethoff and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of the overseer in four decades, Wiethoff's study bridges historical, legal, and rhetorical scholarship to present a provocative investigation into the multifaceted roles of this oft-forgotten figure in plantation society. Wiethoff canvasses the period from 1650 through 1865 and across a southern expanse that stretches to include the Upper and Deep South. Overseers left scant written evidence about their lives and times, but Wiethoff unearths characterizations constructed by friends and enemies, neighbors and strangers. He also mines the legal record to gauge the impact of legislative and case law rhetoric on public memory.

Download or read book Dishonored The Dunwall Archives written by Various and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artworks, manuscripts, and scraps of information gathered throughout Dunwall are collected at last. It has been a long and difficult journey to archive these tales of our cursed city, but it is my hope that you, reading this now, will take heed, and learn from those gone before you to forge your own destiny. The Dunwall Archives are now yours--what will you do with them now that you know the truth in these pages?

Download or read book Setting Slavery s Limits written by Christopher H. Bouton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using slave trials from antebellum Virginia, Christopher H. Bouton offers the first in-depth examination of physical confrontations between slaves and whites. These extraordinary acts of violence brought the ordinary concerns of enslaved Virginians into focus. Enslaved men violently asserted their masculinity, sought to protect themselves and their loved ones from punishment, and carved out their own place within southern honor culture. Enslaved women resisted sexual exploitation and their mistresses. By attacking southern efforts to control their sexuality and labor, bondswomen sought better lives for themselves and undermined white supremacy. Physical confrontations revealed the anxieties that lay at the heart of white antebellum Virginians and threatened the very foundations of the slave regime itself. While physical confrontations could not overthrow the institution of slavery, they helped the enslaved set limits on their owners’ exploitation. They also afforded the enslaved the space necessary to create lives as free from their owners’ influence as possible. When masters and mistresses continually intruded into the lives of their slaves, they risked provoking a violent backlash. Setting Slavery’s Limits explores how slaves of all ages and backgrounds resisted their oppressors and risked everything to fight back.

Download or read book The Way it was in the South written by Donald Lee Grant and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the black experience in Georgia from the early 1500s to the present, exploring the contradictions of life in a state that was home to both the KKK and the civil rights movement.

Download or read book Kill the Overseer written by Sarah Juliet Lauro and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the representation of slave revolt in video games—and the trouble with making history playable Kill the Overseer! profiles and problematizes digital games that depict Atlantic slavery and “gamify” slave resistance. In videogames emphasizing plantation labor, the player may choose to commit small acts of resistance like tool-breaking or working slowly. Others dramatically stage the slave’s choice to flee enslavement and journey northward, and some depict outright violent revolt against the master and his apparatus. In this work, Sarah Juliet Lauro questions whether the reduction of a historical enslaved person to a digital commodity in games such as Mission US, Assassin’s Creed, and Freedom Cry ought to trouble us as a further commodification of slavery’s victims, or whether these interactive experiences offer an empowering commemoration of the history of slave resistance. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Download or read book A Night at the Cinema written by Andrew Zellgert and published by Andrew Zellgert. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex lost something important…. Stephanie is looking for her destiny… Victoria needs to stop a madman… A Night at the Cinema is the most epic collection of cinema-like stories ever compiled in one place. Thriller… Alex is trapped in the Dissimulate Institute. There are bullies, dangers, and mysteries at every turn. A chilling disturbance operates unseen in the shadows. Biding its time. Fantasy… Stephanie boards a magical steam train hoping to ride to her destiny. When she learns her ex is in trouble, she has to face many dangers to save him and everyone else. Sci-Fi… Victoria had a perfectly ordinary life until one day, she is kidnapped and brought to a higher plane of existence. Beyond comprehension. Beyond cardinality. Stories truly worthy of the cinema. Get the collection today!

Download or read book The Triumph of Eve written by Matt Biers-Ariel and published by SkyLight Paths Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a new journey through the Bible you thought you knew. They may not be quite as you remember them, but each story in this ingenious collection--some whimsical, some serious--finds its roots in a close reading of the Bible and interpretations of it that originated centuries ago. Take a look through God's telescope and see how it all really happened: What was it like to be in Joseph's sandals as his brothers sold him into Egyptian slavery? How did Esther use her pretty face as a tool to save the Hebrew people? And what in the name of ... well, you know who ... happened to the unicorns included on the ark's original passenger manifest? Your guide will be a sassy angel named Gabriella. The territory you cover will be familiar. But the questions and insights that these clever, profound stories will prompt you to grapple with--may surprise you. Biblical characters explored include: Adam * Eve * Cain * Abel * Noah * Sarah * Abraham * Isaac Jacob * Esau * Joseph * Moses * Jonah * Mordechai * Haman * Esther Ahasuerus * Naomi * Ruth *Samson * Delilah * David

Download or read book Moses and Civilization written by Robert A. Paul and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And he details the way Freud's myth corresponds to the unconscious fantasy structure of the obsessional personality - a style of personality dynamics Paul sees as essential to maintaining the bureaucratic institutions that comprise Western civilization's most distinctive features.

Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave written by Frederick Douglass and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Frederick Douglass wrote in 1845. It’s an autobiographic story about slavery and freedom, constant aim to run away from the owner and at last become a free man. One failure follows another one. But in the end the fortune favours Douglass and he runs away on a train to the north, New-York. It would seem he is free now. Suddenly, he realises that his journey isn’t finished yet. He understands that even after he got free he can’t be at real liberty until the slavery is abolished in the USA…

Download or read book Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama written by Alabama. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book African American Southerners in Slavery Civil War and Reconstruction written by Claude H. Nolen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work documents the many roles filled by Southern blacks in the last decades of slavery, the Civil War years, and the following period of Reconstruction. African Americans suffered and resisted bondage in virtually every aspect of their lives, but persevered through centuries of brutality to their present place at the center of American life. Utilizing statements made by former slaves and other sources close to them, the author takes a close look at the culture and lifestyle of this proud people in the final decades of slavery, their experiences of being in the military and fighting in the Civil War, and the active role taken by the Southern blacks during Reconstruction.

Download or read book A People s History of Florida 1513 1876 written by Adam Wasserman and published by Adam Wasserman. This book was released on 2010 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, predicted that the bottom class perspective of history would eventually gain ground, enveloping the old way of narrating history as told by the powerful. Since then, numerous historical events have been redefined through the outlook of common people that were involved from the bottom-up, forever altering how we understand history. No more romantic diatribes glittered in patriotic myths. No more traditional heroes, standardized viewpoints, unquestionable "facts," or generalized falsehoods. Just plain raw truth that is not afraid to stampede powerful governments with the herd of popular outrage. A People's History of Florida follows the People's History tradition, documenting the active involvement of African-Americans, indigenous people, women, and poor whites in shaping the Sunshine State's history.

Download or read book The State Records of North Carolina written by North Carolina and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inside View of Slavery Or A Tour Among the Planters written by Charles Grandison Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Documents for America s History Volume 1 written by Melvin Yazawa and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to accompany America’s History, Seventh Edition, this primary-source reader offers a chorus of voices from the past to enrich the study of U.S. history. Document selections written by both celebrated historical figures and ordinary people demonstrate the diverse history of America while putting a human face on historical experience. A broad range of documents, from speeches and petitions to personal letters and diary entries, paints a vivid picture of the social and political lives of Americans, encouraging student engagement with the textbook material. Brief introductions place each document in historical context, and questions for analysis help link the individual primary sources to larger historical themes.

Download or read book Seeds of Revolution written by Iam A. Freeman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs From Che Guevara Bob Marley Mao Tse Tung George Jackson Noam Chomsky Patrice Lumumba Leonard Peltier Richard Pryor Bruce Lee H. Rap Brown Will Rogers Kwame Ture Plato Chief Seattle Maurice Bishop Anne Wilson Schaef Martin Luther King, Jr. Mahatma Gandhi Helen Keller Stevie Wonder Buddha Fidel Castro Ptah-Hotep Denzel Washington Socrates Karl Marx Arundhati Roy Paul Robeson Zhuge Liang Malcolm X Confucius Sekou Toure Marvin Gaye Mother Jones Hugo Chavez Kwame Nkrumah Ho Chi Minh Amilcar Cabral Eugene V. Debs Jose Mart James Loewen Marcus Garvey Augusto Sandino Aesops Fables Harriet Tubman Chief Joseph Frantz Fanon Mark Twain Simon Bolivar Thomas Sankara Lao Tzu Miriam Makeba Howard Zinn Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Subcomandante Marcos Mumia Abu-Jamal Kim Il Sung Sitting Bull W.E.B. Du Bois Red Cloud Paramahansa Yogananda David Walker Assata Shakur Albert Camus Steve Biko KRS-One George Santayana Carter G. Woodson Black Hawk Muhammad Ali John Lennon Chuck D John H. Clarke I Ching Jean-Jacques Rousseau Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Victor Hugo Salvador Allende Dick Gregory Emiliano Zapata Oprah Winfrey Upton Sinclair Bill Cosby Cesar Chavez John Brown Various International Proverbs Jack London Henry David Thoreau Frederick Douglass Emma Goldman Michael Jordan George Orwell Rage Against The Machine Albert Einstein Kareem Abdul-Jabar Voltaire Thomas Carlyle Lauryn Hill Sojourner Truth Depak Chopra The Bible Prophet Muhammad Rumi V.I. Lenin Meister Eckhart Fred Hampton Michael Moore The Tao George Carlin Ralph Nader Rosa Parks Margaret Storm Jameson Louis Farrakhan Nina Simone Yuri Kochiyama Woody Guthrie Bertrand Russell Rosa Luxemburg Willie Nelson Joan Baez Bhagavad-Gita Gen. Smedley Butler Fyodor Dostoyevsky Duke Ellington Ralph Waldo Emerson Jawanza Kunjufu Erich Fromm Jimi Hendrix Big Elk Fannie Lou Hamer Immanuel Kant Ziggy Marley Poor Richards Almanac Public Enemy Bill Russell Kenneth Stampp Spock Peter Tosh Nat Turner Desmond Tutu Sun Tzu Booker T. Washington Saul Alinsky The Zulu Declaration Brother A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs On God Faith Endurance Agitate Organize Unity Commun-all-ism Comrades Enemies No (Know) Sellouts United Snakes of America The Rich & Greedy Warmongers The Slick, Selfish & Wicked The Humble, Righteous & Just Resistance Independence Criticism/Self-Criticism Time Tell-Lie-Vision Poverty/Class Struggle Poli-tricks The (In) Just-Us System Women Children Family Pride Death Culture History Slavery The African Holocaust The Question of Race Religion Money Work Education Knowledge & Wisdom Political Power Socialism Revolution Free the Land Afreeka God