Download or read book From Trickster to Badman written by John Willie Roberts and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of behavior both recognizable to them as African people and adaptable to their situation in America. Roberts specifically examines the Afro-American trickster and the trickster tale tradition, the conjurer as folk hero, the biblical heroic tradition, and the badman as outlaw hero.
Download or read book Slavery s Heroes written by Doreen Morrison and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Slavery's Heroes constitutes required reading for all who search for a rich historical resource for understanding the legacy of Baptist witness in Jamaica between 1783 and 1865. Dr Morrison's familiarity with extant original sources furnishes the tools for the coherent articulation of a fresh interpretation that is both credible and compelling." - Dr Neville G Callam, General Secretary, Baptist World Alliance "Dr Morrison has chronicled for us groundbreaking work in "Slavery's Heroes." For the first time we receive research with the quality of an eye witness account on the Ethiopian Baptists who with George Liele introduced Baptist work to Jamaica and the Caribbean and began a trail that led to the emancipation of enslaved people in the Caribbean and the founding of indigenous religions. This book is carefully researched and cogently argued." - Dr Noel L Erskine, Professor of Theology and Ethics, Emory University "Dr Morrison in this study of George Liele and his contemporaries has demonstrated that the modern Christian missionary movement owes more to African American Christianity than has previously been acknowledged. She elucidates skillfully how they dealt with the catholicity and particularities of the Christian faith in their obedience to God in its transmission and in this lies their relevance for our times and place." - Rev Dr Horace O Russell Emeritus Professor of Historical Theology and Dean of Chapel, Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University, St David's, USA; Formerly, President UTCWI, Kingston, Jamaica Coinciding with both the 230 year anniversary of the establishing of the first Baptist Church in Jamaica by the Ethiopian Baptist Society and it's brutal demise almost 150 years ago at Morant Bay, 'Slavery's Heroes' documents its pioneers; the men and women who led by George Liele, advocated for a nation from enslavement to emancipation and beyond. This work offers insight into a people, a faith and a movement which demonstrated boldness, bravery and self-sacrifice, as it sought to achieve freedom for generations of people it knew it would never meet.
Download or read book Collective Biographies of Slave Resistance Heroes written by Lisa A. Crayton and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating and inspirational volume of biographies celebrates the lives of those who railed against slavery. Beginning with an overview of the institution, the narrative turns to biographical examinations of escaped slaves turned social activists, supporters of the Underground Railroad, political activists, journalists, and militant advocates. Readers will understand how the brave contributions of these individuals helped bring about the end of slavery in America.
Download or read book Slaves who Dared written by Mary Garrison and published by White Mane Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the lives and times of outstanding African Americans who were born as slaves and went on to accomplish great things: Josiah Henson, Frederick Douglas, William and Ellen Craft, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Henry Bibb, Booker T. Washington, Susie King Taylor, Nat Love, Robert Smalls, and Sojourner Truth.
Download or read book Be Free Or Die The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls Escape from Slavery to Union Hero written by Cate Lineberry and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a 23-year-old enslaved man named Robert Smalls boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbour and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces. Smalls' courageous and ingenious act freed him and his family from slavery and immediately made him a Union hero. It also challenged much of the country's view of what African Americans were willing to do for their freedom. In 'Be Free or Die, ' Cate Lineberry tells the remarkable story of Smalls' escape and his many accomplishments during the war, including becoming the first black captain of an Army vessel
Download or read book Harriet Tubman written by Lori Mortensen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and led others to freedom on the underground railroad.
Download or read book Heroes Villains Dupes written by Paul E. Ronan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existential question facing the antebellum presidents was how to resolve the dichotomy between the freedoms guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence and the protection of slavery established by the Constitution. This work details how each president dealt with this issue. It then ranks the presidents on the sole criterion of their ability to recognize slavery as the critical threat to national unity, and to act decisively to end the evil and peacefully preserve the Union. The book ends with the beginning of the Civil War – the result of presidents’ efforts.
Download or read book The Underground Railroad Illustrated Edition written by William Still and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 1265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the stories of some 649 slaves who escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad, a secret network formed by abolitionists and former slaves who helped them escape to the North. This book's original aim was to reunite those slaves with their families. But now it has turned into an important historical document that visiblises the existence of those who suffered inhuman cruelty at the hands of Southern Slave Owners and yet had the courage to break free. These unknown heroes and heroines were in true sense the founding fathers of African American Communities. This is why their stories must be heard and brought back from oblivion. A MUST READ! Excerpt: "Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children to escape the horrors of bondage but by flight. Bravely, with her four little ones, with firm faith in God and an ardent desire to be free, she forsook the prison-house, and succeeded, through the aid of my father, to reach a free State. The old familiar slave names had to be changed…" William Still (1821–1902) was an African-American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, writer, historian and civil rights activist. He was chairman of the Vigilance Committee of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and directly aided fugitive slaves by keeping records of their lives and helping families reunite after the abolishment of slavery.
Download or read book Remembering Slavery written by Marc Favreau and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed With the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America’s imagination—and conscience—once again. No group of people better understood the power of slavery’s legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of Remembering Slavery over two decades ago, their memories were recorded on paper, and in some cases on primitive recording devices, by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event, Remembering Slavery captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time, presenting them as an unprecedented, first-person history of slavery in America. Remembering Slavery received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this nature—nationwide reviews as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including Good Morning America, Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, and CNN. Reviewers called the book “chilling . . . [and] riveting” (Publishers Weekly) and “something, truly, truly new” (The Village Voice). With a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, this new edition of Remembering Slavery is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand one of the most basic and essential chapters in our collective history.
Download or read book Harriet Tubman written by Stephen Feinstein and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet Tubmans brave journey from slave to free woman empowered her to help countless other slaves successfully travel the road to freedom. Readers will be inspired by her extraordinary deeds and life.
Download or read book What We Dragged Out of Slavery written by Claude A. Green and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OurStory: What We Dragged Out of Slavery With Us sheds new light on the practices, customs, and events that continue to shape Black Americans today, and on their contributions to national and world culture.
Download or read book Heroes During the Era of Slavery M Thru Z written by Sage Savants and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please Note: Available also "Heroes During the Era of Slavery A thru C" and "Hero During the Era of Slavery D Thru L" Bibliography is included in the last volume. This volume has the MLA references for all the Volumes I, 2 and 3 The underlying principle for this publication is very simple. It is to generate conversation and open the doors of communication. This is a publication to awaken and provoke discussion. Knowingly, from the birth of American, brothers and sisters for humanity have always existed in America. This publication has a user friendly table of content section for quick location of specific people, groups, events and documents. It is a composition that is easy reading. It is a compilation of data and facts, which can open doors to the love of humanity through guidance, justice, faith, principles, sincerity, fervor, compassion, commitment, steadfastness and conviction for helping our brothers and sisters in times of peril. It provides Internet references and documentations in MLA Style whenever for easy accessibility and creditability. Requirements for entries were: 1. Action: Someone pro-active that prompt change support and evidence slaves in bondage; laws, rules, and regulations; attorneys, elected officials and appointees representing, speaking out on behalf of the oppressed; diligent workers who enterprisingly developed the network, transported, hid, fed and assisted slaves escaping to freedom. 2. Benevolence: Someone who shows kindness, sympathy, understanding, generosity and providing aid to the oppressed. 3. Contributor: Someone who helped towards the elimination of human suffering. 4. Courage/fortitude: Someone whose strength of mind enables them to endure adversity to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, and intimidation with human qualities of bravery, courage, patience, forgiveness, tolerance, honesty, perceptiveness, knowledge, self control, perseverance and zest. 5. Hero /heroine: Someone, in the face of danger and adversity display courage, strength and principal who will fights for a cause for some greater good of freedom 6. Leadership: Someone who influences others to commit, follow, organize, and achieve success with integrity and shared values that all are equal 7. Sacrifice: Someone who was devoted to a cause who endured the loss, condemnation, torture and sometimes death for the sake of principle refusing to repudiate their belief or denouncing abolitionism. 8. Virtue: Someone who understands and personified with intensity truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice through temperance, prudence, and courage.
Download or read book We Slaves of Suriname written by Anton de Kom and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton de Kom’s We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. In this classic book, published here in English for the first time, the Surinamese writer and resistance leader recounts the history of his homeland, from the first settlements by Europeans in search of gold through the era of the slave trade and the period of Dutch colonial rule, when the old slave mentality persisted, long after slavery had been formally abolished. 159 years after the abolition of slavery in Suriname and 88 years after its initial publication, We Slaves of Suriname has lost none of its brilliance and power.
Download or read book Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species Humbly Submitted to the Inhabitants of Great Britain written by Ottobah Cugoano and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Be Free or Die The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls Escape from Slavery to Union Hero written by Cate Lineberry and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize*** Henry Louis Gates, Jr: "A stunning tale of a little-known figure in history." Candice Millard: “Be Free or Die makes you want to stand up and cheer.” The astonishing true story of Robert Smalls’ amazing journey from slave to Union hero and ultimately United States Congressman. It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a twenty-three-year-old slave named Robert Smalls did the unthinkable and boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbor and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces. To be unsuccessful was a death sentence for all. Smalls’ courageous and ingenious act freed him and his family from slavery and immediately made him a Union hero while simultaneously challenging much of the country’s view of what African Americans were willing to do to gain their freedom. After his escape, Smalls served in numerous naval campaigns off Charleston as a civilian boat pilot and eventually became the first black captain of an Army ship. In a particularly poignant moment Smalls even bought the home that he and his mother had once served in as house slaves. Cate Lineberry's Be Free or Die is a compelling narrative that illuminates Robert Smalls’ amazing journey from slave to Union hero and ultimately United States Congressman. This captivating tale of a valuable figure in American history gives fascinating insight into the country's first efforts to help newly freed slaves while also illustrating the many struggles and achievements of African Americans during the Civil War.
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave Hero Classics written by Frederick Douglass and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglass cultivated himself to such an extent that the listeners of his lectures doubted if his narratives were true. His autobiography is both a compelling tale of a slave and a contribution to the public discourse on slavery.
Download or read book The Heroic Slave written by Frederick Douglass and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, The Heroic Slave is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social reformer Frederick Douglass, himself a former slave. It is inspired by the true story of Madison Washington, who, along with eighteen others, took control of the slave ship Creole in November 1841 and sailed it to Nassau in the British colony of the Bahamas, where they could live free. This new critical edition, ideal for classroom use, includes the full text of Douglass's fictional recounting of the most successful slave revolt in American history, as well as an interpretive introduction; excerpts from Douglass's correspondence, speeches, and editorials; short selections by other writers on the Creole rebellion; and recent criticism on the novella.
