Born A Slave Died A Pioneer
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Born A Slave Died A Pioneer
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Author : Seth Mallios
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2019-11-01
Born A Slave Died A Pioneer written by Seth Mallios and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Spectacular recent discoveries from the Nathan Harrison cabin site offer new insights and perspectives into the life of this former slave and legendary California homesteader. “In many ways, it is a quintessential American story because of the fact that slavery was the American story.”—Julia A. King, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than Nathan Harrison. His is a story with prominent themes of overcoming staggering obstacles, forging something-from-nothing, and evincing gritty perseverance. In a lifetime of hard-won progress, Harrison survived the horrors of slavery in the Antebellum South, endured the mania of the California Gold Rush, and prospered in the rugged chaos of the Wild West. From the introduction: According to dozens of accounts, Harrison would routinely greet visitors to his remote Southern California hillside property with the introductory quip, “I’m N——r Nate, the first white man on the mountain.” This is by far the most common direct quote in all of the extensive Harrison lore. If it is possible to get past current-day shock and outrage over the inflammatory racial epithet, one can begin to contextualize and appreciate the ironic humor, ethnic insight, and dualistically crafted identities Harrison employed in this profound statement.
Free Frank
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Author : Juliet E.K. Walker
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-10-21
Free Frank written by Juliet E.K. Walker and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-21 with History categories.
The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extraordinary. We first learn details of Frank's life when in 1795 his owner moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky. We know that he married Lucy, a slave on a neighboring farm, in 1799. Later he was allowed to hire out his time, and when his owner moved to Tennessee, Frank was left in charge of the Kentucky farm. During the War of 1812, he set up his own saltpeter works, an enterprise he maintained until he left Kentucky. In 1817 he purchased his wife's freedom for $800; two years later he bought his own liberty for the same price. Now free, he expanded his activities, purchasing land and dealing in livestock. With his wife and four of his children, Free Frank left Kentucky in 1830 to settle on a new frontier. In Pike County, Illinois, he purchased a farm and later, in 1836, platted and successfully promoted the town of New Philadelphia. The desire for freedom was an obvious spur to his commercial efforts. Through his lifetime of work he purchased the liberty of sixteen members of his family at a cost of nearly $14,000. Goods and services commanded a premium in the life of the frontier. Free Frank's career shows what an exceptional man, through working against great odds, could accomplish through industry, acumen, and aggressiveness. His story suggests a great deal about business activity and legal practices, as well as racial conditions, on the frontier. Juliet Walker has performed a task of historical detection in recreating the life of Free Frank from family traditions, limited personal papers, public documents, and secondary sources. In doing so, she has added a significant chapter to the history of African Americans.
I Was Born A Slave
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Author : Yuval Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 1999
I Was Born A Slave written by Yuval Taylor and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The narratives in this volume include tales of Africa, pirate ships, wild animals, witches; a slave who had ten owners, and another who led a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites; the kidnapping of a white woman and her rescue by a slave; the nightmarish tortures of the infamous Mr. Gooch; the tragicomic experiences of a pair of "white slaves"; and the story of the "original Uncle Tom."--
Aunt Clara Brown
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Author : Linda Lowery
language : en
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Aunt Clara Brown written by Linda Lowery and has been published by Millbrook Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
As a successful former slave, Clara Brown used her money to help other freed slaves get a new start in life. In 1859 Clara bought her own freedom and headed west to Colorado to find her daughter, who was sold when she was just a little girl. Clara didn't find her daughter there, but she did get rich. The people she helped became her family, and she became known as "Aunt" Clara Brown.
Invisible Founders
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Author : Lynn Rainville
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2019-06-14
Invisible Founders written by Lynn Rainville and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-14 with Social Science categories.
Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. This volume tells the story of the invisible founders of a college founded by and for white women. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. In the process, Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution — one that serves as a microcosm of the American South.
Critical Public Archaeology
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Author : Camille Westmont
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-09-13
Critical Public Archaeology written by Camille Westmont and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Social Science categories.
Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present. Contributors to this volume explore public perceptions of museum interpretations as well as public archaeology projects related to changing perceptions of immigration, the working classes, and race.
Up From Slavery
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Author : Booker T. Washington
language : en
Publisher: Ratna Sagar P Limited
Release Date : 2014-06-05
Up From Slavery written by Booker T. Washington and has been published by Ratna Sagar P Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Up from Slavery of the Ratna Sagar Classics Series is an enriched edition that any keen reader of literature will be pleased to have. The book includes a brief, well-written introduction to the autobiography, annotations that are comprehensive, covering not only the meanings of words and phrases peculiar to the period in which the book was written, but explaining any concept or historical event that may not be easily understood or recalled, a summary at the end of each chapter that is concise yet sufficiently detailed to provide a faithful reproduction of the chapter, critical notes at the end of each chapter that present an analysis of the chapter so that the reader can identify the nuances, allusions, and underlying meanings, and therefore appreciate the story better, general notes at the end of the book that discuss the life and character of the author, and the role he played in the fight against racial prejudice, photographs of the author and important people and memorable moments in his life, suggestions for further reading and website links that the reader will find informative and helpful. Described as 'full of practical wisdom and sound common sense', Up from Slavery is the autobiography of one of America's most influential black leaders, Booker Taliaferro Washington, from his birth as a slave till he was about forty-four years old and a leading force in the uplift of the black race. An inspiring story of a man's victory over poverty, ignorance, and racial prejudice to lead his people to knowledge and self-reliance, it is bound to enthuse many young people to devote themselves to some noble and worthwhile cause. An outstanding African-American educator, author, orator, and a dominant leader of the African-American community in the South between 1880 and 1915, Booker was born to a slave woman on the Burroughs tobacco plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. His father was a white man from a neighbouring plantation. Since his childhood, as Booker saw white children of his age sitting at desks and reading books, he craved for education, a right denied to the slaves. At the time the American Civil War ended in 1865, and the slaves became officially free, Booker was nine years old, uneducated, poor, and directionless. He moved with his family to Malden, West Virginia, where his mother joined his stepfather, Washington Ferguson, a runaway slave. Being from a poor family, Booker had to work in a salt mine. Noticing his interest in learning, his mother got him a book from which he learnt the alphabet and to read and write basic words. In 1866, he got a job as a houseboy of the wife of a coal miner. Although a very strict lady with her servants, she allowed him to go to school for an hour every day when she saw his maturity, integrity, and intelligence, as well as his burning desire for education. In 1872, he left home and walked 500 miles to Hampton Institute in Virginia. Along the way he took up odd jobs to support himself. He worked as a janitor of the school to help pay for his tuition. His hard work soon earned him a scholarship. It was here that he learnt the importance of getting a practical education. Graduating with good grades from Hampton in 1875, he later returned to the Institute as an instructor. Between 1876 and 1965, the Jim Crow Laws were passed, which were state and local laws that required racial segregation to be introduced in all public facilities in the Southern states, with a 'separate but equal' status for African-Americans. In these times of despair and pessimism for the blacks in America, Booker decided to write the story of his life in an effort to improve the image of the black community. He thought his story of transformation from a slave to the leader of his community would inspire the African-Americans to follow his path, and also make the whites realize that the blacks could look forward to a bright future. His autobiography was published in 1901 under the name Up From Slavery. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama for coloured people which he and a few members of his staff and the students of the Institute built with their own hands. He travelled all over the countryside promoting the school and raising money. The Institute taught the students not only book knowledge, but also an industrial trade, as Booker believed that it was important for the black people to be able to earn a living. He was soon recognized as the nation's foremost black educator, a pioneer of black education in the United States, a well-known orator, and an outspoken critic of racism. The Tuskegee Institute, which started in a shanty, grew to possess several buildings, with about 200 members of staff and over 2,000 students when he passed away. Booker remained the head of the Institute till his death in 1915.
Born In Blackness Africa Africans And The Making Of The Modern World 1471 To The Second World War
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Author : Howard W. French
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2021-10-12
Born In Blackness Africa Africans And The Making Of The Modern World 1471 To The Second World War written by Howard W. French and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with History categories.
Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the “New World.” Still others point to the development of the scientific method, or the spread of Judeo-Christian beliefs; and so on, ad infinitum. The history of Africa, by contrast, has long been relegated to the remote outskirts of our global story. What if, instead, we put Africa and Africans at the very center of our thinking about the origins of modernity? In a sweeping narrative spanning more than six centuries, Howard W. French does just that, for Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe’s dehumanizing engagement with the “dark” continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe’s yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies sequestered away in the heart of West Africa. Creating a historical narrative that begins with the commencement of commercial relations between Portugal and Africa in the fifteenth century and ends with the onset of World War II, Born in Blackness interweaves precise historical detail with poignant, personal reportage. In so doing, it dramatically retrieves the lives of major African historical figures, from the unimaginably rich medieval emperors who traded with the Near East and beyond, to the Kongo sovereigns who heroically battled seventeenth-century European powers, to the ex-slaves who liberated Haitians from bondage and profoundly altered the course of American history. While French cogently demonstrates the centrality of Africa to the rise of the modern world, Born in Blackness becomes, at the same time, a far more significant narrative, one that reveals a long-concealed history of trivialization and, more often, elision in depictions of African history throughout the last five hundred years. As French shows, the achievements of sovereign African nations and their now-far-flung peoples have time and again been etiolated and deliberately erased from modern history. As the West ascended, their stories—siloed and piecemeal—were swept into secluded corners, thus setting the stage for the hagiographic “rise of the West” theories that have endured to this day. “Capacious and compelling” (Laurent Dubois), Born in Blackness is epic history on the grand scale. In the lofty tradition of bold, revisionist narratives, it reframes the story of gold and tobacco, sugar and cotton—and of the greatest “commodity” of them all, the twelve million people who were brought in chains from Africa to the “New World,” whose reclaimed lives shed a harsh light on our present world.
Slaves In The Family
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Author : Edward Ball
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2017-10-24
Slaves In The Family written by Edward Ball and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-24 with History categories.
Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new preface by the author The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, "a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.'"
Born A Slave
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Author : The Federal Writers' Project
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-06-18
Born A Slave written by The Federal Writers' Project and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-18 with categories.
BORN A SLAVE - Portraits of Ex-Slaves - An Introduction to the Slave Narratives From The Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938.Fragments of the Narratives complimented with a Photograph of the ex-slave giving testimony of their days in bondage. In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sponsored a Federal Writers' Project dedicated to chronicling the experience of slavery as remembered by former slaves. African-American men and women born into slavery were interviewed. Their stories were recorded and transcribed. Over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Writers' Project. These ex-slaves provided first-hand accounts of their experiences and knowledge of life on southern plantations. Their narratives remain a potent resource for understanding how America's slaves lived and died. These fragments of slave life offer a broad view of slavery in North America, allowing readers to explore and research areas of slavery such as work, sickness, punishments, resistance, escape, family life, food, marriage, relationships with masters, overseers and religious beliefs. Before the American Civil War, some authors wrote fictional accounts of slavery to create support for abolitionism. The prime example is Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The success of her novel and the social tensions of the time brought a response by white southern writers, such as William Gilmore Simms and Mary Eastman, who published what were called anti-Tom novels. Both kinds of novels were bestsellers in the 1850s. A total of about 600,000 enslaved people were imported into the Thirteen Colonies and the U.S, constituting 5% of the twelve million enslaved people brought from Africa to the Americas. The great majority of enslaved Africans were transported to sugar colonies in the Caribbean and to Brazil. Some reports have estimated that close to two million slaves were brought to the American South from Africa and the West Indies during the centuries of the Atlantic slave trade. Approximately 20% of the population of the American South over the years has been African American, and as late as 1900, 9 out of every 10 African Americans lived in the South. Slave and ex-slave narratives are important not only for what they tell us about African American history and literature, but also because they reveal to us the complexities of the dialogue between whites and blacks in this country in the last two centuries, particularly for African Americans. The Library of Congress offers its online collection of more than 2300 interview transcripts. The site also contains pictures and sound recordings related to the Federal Writers' Project. In total there are now 33 volumes of the slave narratives.Slave Narrative Volumes1. Alabama Narratives 2. Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 3. Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 4. Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 5. Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 6. Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 7. Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 8. Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 9. Florida Narratives 10. Georgia Narratives, Part 1 11. Georgia Narratives, Part 2 12. Georgia Narratives, Part 3 13. Georgia Narratives, Part 4 14. Indiana Narratives 15. Kansas Narratives 16. Kentucky Narratives 17. Maryland Narratives 18. Mississippi Narratives 19. Missouri Narratives 20. North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 21. North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 22. Ohio Narratives 23. Oklahoma Narratives 24. South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 25. South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 26. South Carolina Narratives, Part 3 27. South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 28. Tennessee Narratives 29. Texas Narratives, Part 1 30. Texas Narratives, Part 2 31. Texas Narratives, Part 3 32. Texas Narratives, Part 4 33. Virginia Narratives