I Was Born In Slavery
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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."--
I Was Born A Slave
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Author : Jennifer Fleischner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
I Was Born A Slave written by Jennifer Fleischner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Traces the life of a slave who suffered mistreatment from her master, spent years as a fugitive from slavery in North Carolina, and was eventually released to freedom with her children.
I Was Born In Slavery
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Author : Andrew Waters
language : en
Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher
Release Date : 2003
I Was Born In Slavery written by Andrew Waters and has been published by John F. Blair, Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with African Americans categories.
First-person narratives of 27 former Texas slaves edited from WPA slave narratives.
I Was Born In Slavery
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Author : Andrew Waters
language : en
Publisher: Blair
Release Date : 2003
I Was Born In Slavery written by Andrew Waters and has been published by Blair this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First-person narratives of 27 former Texas slaves edited from WPA slave narratives.
I Was Born A Slave
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Author : Yuval Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
I Was Born A Slave written by Yuval Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with African Americans categories.
I Was Born A Slave 1849 1866
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Author : Yuval Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
I Was Born A Slave 1849 1866 written by Yuval Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with African Americans categories.
Born A Slave
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Author : Marian Hoefnagel
language : en
Publisher: 14 - The Time of Your Life
Release Date : 2018-10
Born A Slave written by Marian Hoefnagel and has been published by 14 - The Time of Your Life this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10 with Slavery categories.
Their grandmother is a slave, their mother is a slave. And the 14 year-old twins Kwasi and Maisa are also slaves. In this this book, three generations talk about experiencing slavery as a teenager. Their stories are of misery, sorrow, and pain--but also of courage, love, and family.
Twelve Years A Slave
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Author : SOLOMON NORTHUP
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-12-29
Twelve Years A Slave written by SOLOMON NORTHUP and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Twelve years a slave - Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having at the end of that time been kidnapped and sold into Slavery, where I remained, until happily rescued in the month of January, 1853, after a bondage of twelve years-it has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.
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.
A People Born To Slavery
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Author : Marshall T. Poe
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
A People Born To Slavery written by Marshall T. Poe and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with History categories.
Many Americans and Europeans have for centuries viewed Russia as a despotic country in which people are inclined to accept suffering and oppression. What are the origins of this stereotype of Russia as a society fundamentally apart from nations in the West, and how accurate is it? In the first book devoted to answering these questions, Marshall T. Poe traces the roots of today's perception of Russia and its people to the eyewitness descriptions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European travelers. His fascinating account—the most complete review of early modern European writings about Russia ever undertaken—explores how the image of "Russian tyranny" took hold in the popular imagination and eventually became the basis for the notion of "Oriental Despotism" first set forth by Montesquieu. Poe, the preeminent scholar of these valuable primary sources, carefully assesses their reliability. He argues convincingly that although the foreigners exaggerated the degree of Russian "slavery," they accurately described their encounters and correctly concluded that the political culture of Muscovite autocracy was unlike that of European kingship. With his findings, Poe challenges the notion that all Europeans projected their own fantasies onto Russia. Instead, his evidence suggests that many early travelers produced, in essence, reliable ethnographies, not works of exotic "Orientalism."