Troubled Refuge
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Troubled Refuge
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Author : Chandra Manning
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2016-08-16
Troubled Refuge written by Chandra Manning and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-16 with History categories.
From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root of the war they knew was coming, and they began running to the Union army. By the war’s end, nearly half a million had taken refuge behind Union lines in improvised “contraband camps.” These were crowded and dangerous places, with conditions approaching those of a humanitarian crisis. Yet families and individuals—some 12 to 15 percent of the Confederacy’s slave population—took unimaginable risks to reach them, and they became the first places where many Northerners would come to know former slaves en masse, with reverberating consequences for emancipation, its progress, and the Reconstruction that followed. Drawing on records of the Union and Confederate armies, the letters and diaries of soldiers, transcribed testimonies of former slaves, and more, Chandra Manning allows us to accompany the black men, women, and children who sought out the Union army in hopes of achieving autonomy for themselves and their communities. Ranging from the stories of individuals to those of armies on the move to debates in the halls of Congress, Troubled Refuge probes the particular and deeply significant reality of the contraband camps: what they were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united there, forging a dramatically new but highly imperfect alliance between the government and African Americans. That alliance, which would outlast the war, helped destroy slavery and warded off the very acute and surprisingly tenacious danger of re-enslavement. It also raised, for the first time, humanitarian questions about refugees in wartime and legal questions about civil and military authority with which we still wrestle, as well as redefined American citizenship, to the benefit but also to the lasting cost of African Americans. Integrating a wealth of new findings, Manning casts in wholly original light what it was like to escape slavery, how emancipation happened, and how citizenship in the United States was transformed. This reshaping of hard structures of power would matter not only for slaves turned citizens, but for all Americans.
National Wildlife Refuge System Management And Policy Act
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Protection
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
National Wildlife Refuge System Management And Policy Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Protection and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Law categories.
A Weary Land
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Author : Kelly Houston Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2021-03-31
A Weary Land written by Kelly Houston Jones and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-31 with History categories.
In the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years, A Weary Land offers a glimpse of enslaved life on the South’s western margins, focusing on the intersections of land use and agriculture within the daily life and work of bonded Black Arkansans. As they cleared trees, cultivated crops, and tended livestock on the southern frontier, Arkansas’s enslaved farmers connected culture and nature, creating their own meanings of space, place, and freedom. Kelly Houston Jones analyzes how the arrival of enslaved men and women as an imprisoned workforce changed the meaning of Arkansas’s acreage, while their labor transformed its landscape. They made the most of their surroundings despite the brutality and increasing labor demands of the “second slavery”—the increasingly harsh phase of American chattel bondage fueled by cotton cultivation in the Old Southwest. Jones contends that enslaved Arkansans were able to repurpose their experiences with agricultural labor, rural life, and the natural world to craft a sense of freedom rooted in the ability to own land, the power to control their own movement, and the right to use the landscape as they saw fit.
What This Cruel War Was Over
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Author : Chandra Manning
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-04-03
What This Cruel War Was Over written by Chandra Manning and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-03 with History categories.
Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise and narrative verve, Manning explores how the Union and Confederate soldiers came to identify slavery as the central issue of the war and what that meant for a tumultuous nation. This is a brilliant and eye-opening debut and an invaluable addition to our understanding of the Civil War as it has never been rendered before.
Lydia Maria Child
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Author : Lydia Moland
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-10-07
Lydia Maria Child written by Lydia Moland and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was for a time one of America's most beloved authors, known for household manuals and children's poems, including the immortal "Over the River and Through the Wood." But in 1833, having converted to the abolitionist cause, Child published An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, the first book-length condemnation of slavery printed in the United States. Child's book created an immediate uproar and catapulted her into the life of an activist. Lydia Maria Child became one of the most consequential radicals of nineteenth-century America. In this biography of Child, Lydia Moland foregrounds Child's struggles of conscience and the meaning they held for her life-and, potentially, for ours. In her first career, Lydia Maria Child achieved what almost no woman in history had before-she was a self-sufficient female author. What, then, made her throw it all away to write An Appeal? The scandal of that book caused sales of her other books to plummet, polite society to cast her out, her beloved husband David to be jailed for libel, and the two rendered penniless. Yet Child soon drew untold numbers to the cause of abolition with her writings and her deeds. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Charles Sumner both credit her with their conversion. During the Civil War, the Union Army distributed her words to 300,000 troops to help weary soldiers justify their sacrifice. She spirited endangered abolitionists out of the country, protected activists from angry pro-slavery mobs with her own body, and helped Harriet Jacobs edit Jacobs's autobiography, the most influential slave narrative by a woman in American history. Moland's biography restores this brave and brilliant woman to her proper place in American history while showing how her example answers these urgent questions: When confronted by sanctioned evil or systematic injustice, how should a citizen live? What prompts moral change? When do we have a duty to disobey unjust laws? Child's story is one from the past with much to teach us about our present"--
Exploring The American Civil War Through 50 Historic Treasures
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Author : Julie L. Holcomb
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2021-05-15
Exploring The American Civil War Through 50 Historic Treasures written by Julie L. Holcomb and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-15 with History categories.
Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures brings together historic objects, documents, artwork, and the natural and built environments to tell the full story of this important event in American history. The American Civil War still matters. It matters because the war ¾ its causes and its consequences ¾ continue to influence America as a nation. At its core, the Civil War was about slavery. Began as a fight to secure the future of slavery, the Civil War resulted instead in the abolition of slavery. The complex racial issues at its core, however, remain with us today. Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures begins with the causes of the war, examining objects that tell the story of slavery and its expansion in the nineteenth century. Cultural treasures representing the war years explore the battlefield and the homefront and the men and women caught up in the war as well the ways in which the scale of the war forced technological innovations. Given the centrality of slavery, race, and emancipation in the story of the Civil War, one section presents objects that detail how free and enslaved blacks transformed the war effort and were in turn transformed by the war. In the final section, the historic treasures trace the ongoing impact of the war, including the dramatic increase in the removal of Confederate monuments in the summer of 2020. Each object's story is detailed with color photos that draw readers into the story of the American Civil War. Many of these objects appear here in print for the first time.
Putting Wildlife First
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Author : Commission on New Directions for the National Wildlife Refuge System
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Putting Wildlife First written by Commission on New Directions for the National Wildlife Refuge System and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Wildlife conservation categories.
The Refuge
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Author : Chaz Brenchley
language : en
Publisher: St Martins Press
Release Date : 1989-01-01
The Refuge written by Chaz Brenchley and has been published by St Martins Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Three English girls migrate to London's Refuge, a haven for troubled teenagers, to escape problems at home, only to find that they are trapped in a nightmare from which there is no escape
The Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible
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Author : James Strong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
The Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible written by James Strong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Bible categories.
My Refuge And Strength Touchpoints For Troubled Times
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Christian Art Gifts Incorporated
Release Date : 2021-01-22
My Refuge And Strength Touchpoints For Troubled Times written by and has been published by Christian Art Gifts Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-22 with Religion categories.
Find peace in the midst of your storm when you delve into the biblical wisdom compiled in the My Refuge and Strength Gift Book. The cover of the softcover gift book is a stormy blue, accented with gold foiled stars and a gold foiled lighthouse. The title is foiled in a soft blue and accented with gold foil. This little gift book is organized around various topics that you might be struggling with when you face troubling times. The topics are listed alphabetically, and each topic starts with a Scripture verse and is followed by questions and answers that might pertain to your situation. A short insight is offered at the end of the topic. The bright white inside pages each feature a blue banner speckled with gold foiled stars at the top of the page where each topic is announced in white print. The body of the text is printed in blue and the questions are accented with gold foil. Beautiful illustrated Bible verses are scattered throughout the book for inspiration and meditation. 87 topics are covered and include absence, blessings, caring, death, emotions, faith, grief, happiness, injustice, joy, loss, pain, renewal, safety, tragedy, worry, and more. When you feel the tinge of fear crawl up your spine, turn to the truth of God's Word complied in My Refuge and Strength Gift Book, where you will find loving and merciful answers straight from the Word of God. Blue Cover Design with Gold Foiled Accents, Blue Foiled Title, Foiled Accents on Each Page, 126 Pages, 87 Topics, Size: 6.9 x 4.6 x 0.4 (175 x 117 x 10 mm)