When We Were Slaves
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Once We Were Slaves
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Author : Laura Arnold Leibman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-12
Once We Were Slaves written by Laura Arnold Leibman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-12 with History categories.
An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and--at times--white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race--as well as on the role of religion in racial shift--in the first half of the nineteenth century.
When We Were Slaves
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Author : Work Projects Administration
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-12-18
When We Were Slaves written by Work Projects Administration and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-18 with Social Science categories.
Good Press present to you the complete collection of hundreds of life stories, recorded interviews and incredible vivid testimonies of former slaves from the American southern states, including photos of the people being interviewed and their extraordinary narratives. After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. There were several efforts to record the remembrances of the former slaves. The Federal Writers' Project was one such project by the United States federal government to support writers during the Great Depression by asking them to interview and record the myriad stories and experiences of slavery of former slaves. The resulting collection preserved hundreds of life stories from 17 U.S. states that would otherwise have been lost in din of modernity and America's eagerness to deliberately forget the blot on its recent past. Contents: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia
Because We Were Slaves
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Author : Claire Gorfinkel
language : en
Publisher: Intentional Productions
Release Date : 1998
Because We Were Slaves written by Claire Gorfinkel and has been published by Intentional Productions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Religion categories.
Once We Were Slaves
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Author : Laura Arnold Leibman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2021
Once We Were Slaves written by Laura Arnold Leibman and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Bridgetown (Barbados) categories.
An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and--at times--white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race--as well as on the role of religion in racial shift--in the first half of the nineteenth century.
They Were White And They Were Slaves
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Author : Michael A. Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: Independent History
Release Date : 1992
They Were White And They Were Slaves written by Michael A. Hoffman and has been published by Independent History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
They Were Her Property
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Author : Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-07
They Were Her Property written by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with History categories.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy “Compelling.”—Renee Graham, Boston Globe “Stunning.”—Rebecca Onion, Slate “Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present.”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.
What If White People Were Slaves
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Author : Honesty Brennan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10-21
What If White People Were Slaves written by Honesty Brennan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-21 with categories.
WHAT IF WHITE PEOPLE WERE SLAVES is a story taking place between 1810 and1830 describing the lived experience of three adolescent-aged girls, and the challenges they faced in growing up during the days when white people were slaves here in America. Book One transports each reader to the early 1800s. WHAT IF WHITE PEOPLE WERE SLAVES? Book One Yrs. 1810 - 1830 Racism. Classism. Disenfranchisement. Discrimination. Prejudice. Sexism. A total lack of empathy. The American Dream... N. D. Brennan and Honesty Brennan asks one of the most profound questions of our generation: Do you think white people would understand if they would have been born slaves, and if they're history was ours? WHAT IF WHITE PEOPLE WERE SLAVES? introduces a tale of American history that will shock your system. This book represents storytelling at its finest but in waters that no one has ever dared to tread until now. What If White People Were Slaves essentially provides you and your neighbor with an opportunity to walk in each other's shoes by vicariously exposing you to the privileges and prohibitions that he, she, or that particular sect of our global community finds themselves inadvertently trapped inside of today. Two decades ago, the authors began to imagine a history that was radically different from what we each have experiences: where the roles of the races were inverted, while hypothesizing the type of country that would have consequently resulted. What do you believe would go through the mind of David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, if he was forced to helplessly watch the likes of Kendrick Lamar or Idris Elba savagely yet legally beat and rape a young Taylor Swift, Surrey Cruise, or Elle Fanning in real life, and within a community where everyone knows but no ones cares? In the alternative, would Black Lives still Matter if those black lives were instead white lives, and people of color were the privileged and enfranchised majority? These are the questions that we are possibly incapable of answering truthfully because these hypotheticals are so far-reaching from our dysfunctional reality. But the story of What If White People Were Slaves disturbingly yet wonderfully elevates your imagination where the utterly unimaginable is suddenly realized. Authors Honesty Brennan and N. D. Brennan paint a picture of American history that begins where white people are the slaves, and people of color are the slave masters. Dare to read this amazing lesson in history but only if you are willing to test a paradoxical irony that most Americans have never even imagined. What If White People Were Slaves is America's history, and the saddest story never told. Now...imagine life as we know it, history as we have been taught, but suddenly in the reverse... PREVIEW OF THE BOOK As Nakia and Summer both attempt to adapt to life without Summer's slave master and half-sister, and Nakia's best friend, Yuri, the community is forced to conform to new standards of living after one of the Caulker slaves savagely snuffs out the 9-year old's young life. A new and severely more egregious degree of slavery and global treatment of whites is suddenly instituted, which alters America's history for generations to come. This story reveals how the decision of one, crazed Caulker slave ultimately changed the entire course of history forever...and this is only the first fifteen. What If White People Were Slaves is the saddest tale of America's history never told.
Slave Narratives A Folk History Of Slavery In The United States From Interviews With Former Slaves Kansas Narratives
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Author : United States Work Projects Administration
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Slave Narratives A Folk History Of Slavery In The United States From Interviews With Former Slaves Kansas Narratives written by United States Work Projects Administration and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with categories.
"My name is Clayton Holbert, and I am an ex slave. I am eighty-six years old. I was born and raised in Linn County, Tennessee. My master's name was Pleasant "Ples" Holbert. My master had a fairly large plantation; he had, I imagine, around one hundred slaves." "I was working the fields during the wind-up of the Civil War. They always had a man in the field to teach the small boys to work, and I was one of the boys. I was learning to plant corn, etc. My father, brother and uncle went to war on the Union side." "We raised corn, barley, and cotton, and produced all of our living on the plantation. There was no such thing as going to town to buy things. All of our clothing was homespun, our socks were knitted, and everything. We had our looms, and made our own suits, we also had reels, and we carved, spun, and knitted. We always wore yarn socks for winter, which we made. It didn't get cold, in the winter in Tennessee, just a little frost was all. We fixed all of our cotton and wool ourselves." "For our meat we used to kill fifteen, twenty, or fifty, and sometimes a hundred hogs. We usually had hickory. It was considered the best for smoking meat, when we butchered. Our meat we had then was the finest possible. It had a lot more flavor than that which you get now. If a person ran out of meat, he would go over to his neighbor's house, and borrow or buy meat, we didn't think about going to town. When we wanted fresh meat we or some of the neighbors would kill a hog or sheep, and would divide this, and then when we butchered we would give them part of ours. People were more friendly then then they are now. They have almost lost respect for each other. Now if you would give your neighbor something they would never think of paying it back. You could also borrow wheat or whatever you wanted, and you could pay it back whenever you thrashed."
If You Lived When There Was Slavery In America
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Author : Anne Kamma
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
If You Lived When There Was Slavery In America written by Anne Kamma and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Invites readers to revisit the past and see what it was like to grow up as a slave in America.
We Slaves Of Suriname
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Author : Anton de Kom
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2022-01-19
We Slaves Of Suriname written by Anton de Kom and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.