Author: Charles Wesley McKinney
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761852301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book offers a groundbreaking long-term study of Wilson County, North Carolina. Charting the evolution of Wilson's civil rights movement, McKinney argues that African Americans in Wilson created an expansive notion of freedom that influenced every aspect of life in the region and directly confronted the state's reputation for moderation.
Greater Freedom
Author: Charles Wesley McKinney
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761852301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book offers a groundbreaking long-term study of Wilson County, North Carolina. Charting the evolution of Wilson's civil rights movement, McKinney argues that African Americans in Wilson created an expansive notion of freedom that influenced every aspect of life in the region and directly confronted the state's reputation for moderation.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761852301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book offers a groundbreaking long-term study of Wilson County, North Carolina. Charting the evolution of Wilson's civil rights movement, McKinney argues that African Americans in Wilson created an expansive notion of freedom that influenced every aspect of life in the region and directly confronted the state's reputation for moderation.
The Greater Freedom
Author: Alya Mooro
Publisher: Little A
ISBN: 9781542041218
Category : Egyptians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Little A
ISBN: 9781542041218
Category : Egyptians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Paradoxes of Freedom
Author: Sidney Hook
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520347285
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520347285
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
Making Freedom
Author: Chandler B. Saint
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819568546
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The inspiring story of an 18th-century New England slave who emancipated himself
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819568546
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The inspiring story of an 18th-century New England slave who emancipated himself
Dismal Freedom
Author: J. Brent Morris
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469668262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement; however, what may have impeded the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousands of maroons—people who had emancipated themselves from enslavement and settled beyond the reach of enslavers—established new lives of freedom in a landscape deemed worthless and inaccessible by whites. Dismal Freedom unearths the stories of these maroons, their lives, and their struggles for liberation. Drawing from newly discovered primary sources and archeological evidence that suggests far more extensive maroon settlement than historians have previously imagined, award-winning author J. Brent Morris uncovers one of the most exciting yet neglected stories of American history. This is the story of resilient, proud, and determined people who made the Great Dismal Swamp their free home and sanctuary and who played an outsized role in undermining slavery through the Civil War.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469668262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement; however, what may have impeded the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousands of maroons—people who had emancipated themselves from enslavement and settled beyond the reach of enslavers—established new lives of freedom in a landscape deemed worthless and inaccessible by whites. Dismal Freedom unearths the stories of these maroons, their lives, and their struggles for liberation. Drawing from newly discovered primary sources and archeological evidence that suggests far more extensive maroon settlement than historians have previously imagined, award-winning author J. Brent Morris uncovers one of the most exciting yet neglected stories of American history. This is the story of resilient, proud, and determined people who made the Great Dismal Swamp their free home and sanctuary and who played an outsized role in undermining slavery through the Civil War.
Freedom River
Author: Doreen Rappaport
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630831301
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630831301
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
A Taste of Freedom
Author: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 080279467X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An old man in India recalls how, when he was a young boy, he got his first taste of freedom as he and his brother joined the great Muhatma Gandhi on a march to the sea to make salt, in defiance of British law.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 080279467X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An old man in India recalls how, when he was a young boy, he got his first taste of freedom as he and his brother joined the great Muhatma Gandhi on a march to the sea to make salt, in defiance of British law.
Into Great Freedom
Author: Mark Hartfiel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781794110625
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"The whole of the Christian life is like a great pilgrimage to the house of the father...a journey of conversion." - Saint John Paul IINo longer ruled by Egyptian captivity, the Israelites wandered for forty years in the wilderness before crossing over into the Promised Land. This ancient account is a foreshadowing of every soul's journey into Paradise. Wherever you are in your spiritual life, this unforgettable forty day adventure out of bondage and into greater spiritual freedom has something for everyone.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781794110625
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"The whole of the Christian life is like a great pilgrimage to the house of the father...a journey of conversion." - Saint John Paul IINo longer ruled by Egyptian captivity, the Israelites wandered for forty years in the wilderness before crossing over into the Promised Land. This ancient account is a foreshadowing of every soul's journey into Paradise. Wherever you are in your spiritual life, this unforgettable forty day adventure out of bondage and into greater spiritual freedom has something for everyone.
Freedom on the Offensive
Author: William Michael Schmidli
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501765167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In Freedom on the Offensive, William Michael Schmidli illuminates how the Reagan administration's embrace of democracy promotion was a defining development in US foreign relations in the late twentieth century. Reagan used democracy promotion to refashion the bipartisan Cold War consensus that had collapsed in the late 1960s amid opposition to the Vietnam War. Over the course of the 1980s, the initiative led to a greater institutionalization of human rights—narrowly defined to include political rights and civil liberties and to exclude social and economic rights—as a US foreign policy priority. Democracy promotion thus served to legitimize a distinctive form of US interventionism and to underpin the Reagan administration's aggressive Cold War foreign policies. Drawing on newly available archival materials, and featuring a range of perspectives from top-level policymakers and politicians to grassroots activists and militants, this study makes a defining contribution to our understanding of human rights ideas and the projection of American power during the final decade of the Cold War. Using Reagan's undeclared war on Nicaragua as a case study in US interventionism, Freedom on the Offensive explores how democracy promotion emerged as the centerpiece of an increasingly robust US human rights agenda. Yet, this initiative also became intertwined with deeply undemocratic practices that misled the American people, violated US law, and contributed to immense human and material destruction. Pursued through civil society or low-cost military interventions and rooted in the neoliberal imperatives of US-led globalization, Reagan's democracy promotion initiative had major implications for post–Cold War US foreign policy.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501765167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In Freedom on the Offensive, William Michael Schmidli illuminates how the Reagan administration's embrace of democracy promotion was a defining development in US foreign relations in the late twentieth century. Reagan used democracy promotion to refashion the bipartisan Cold War consensus that had collapsed in the late 1960s amid opposition to the Vietnam War. Over the course of the 1980s, the initiative led to a greater institutionalization of human rights—narrowly defined to include political rights and civil liberties and to exclude social and economic rights—as a US foreign policy priority. Democracy promotion thus served to legitimize a distinctive form of US interventionism and to underpin the Reagan administration's aggressive Cold War foreign policies. Drawing on newly available archival materials, and featuring a range of perspectives from top-level policymakers and politicians to grassroots activists and militants, this study makes a defining contribution to our understanding of human rights ideas and the projection of American power during the final decade of the Cold War. Using Reagan's undeclared war on Nicaragua as a case study in US interventionism, Freedom on the Offensive explores how democracy promotion emerged as the centerpiece of an increasingly robust US human rights agenda. Yet, this initiative also became intertwined with deeply undemocratic practices that misled the American people, violated US law, and contributed to immense human and material destruction. Pursued through civil society or low-cost military interventions and rooted in the neoliberal imperatives of US-led globalization, Reagan's democracy promotion initiative had major implications for post–Cold War US foreign policy.
Journey to Freedom
Author: Gilbert Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781581341911
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Chosen by the Maker to do great things, a dreamer and unlikely hero named Chip leads the Whitefoot Mouse army to protect their royal family and defend their homeland against the invasion of domineering Brown Rats.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781581341911
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Chosen by the Maker to do great things, a dreamer and unlikely hero named Chip leads the Whitefoot Mouse army to protect their royal family and defend their homeland against the invasion of domineering Brown Rats.