Author: David W. Blight
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156034517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Shares the stories of Wallace Turnage and John Washington, former slaves who, in the midst of chaos during the Civil War, escaped to the North and lived to tell about their experiences.
A Slave No More
Author: David W. Blight
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156034517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Shares the stories of Wallace Turnage and John Washington, former slaves who, in the midst of chaos during the Civil War, escaped to the North and lived to tell about their experiences.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156034517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Shares the stories of Wallace Turnage and John Washington, former slaves who, in the midst of chaos during the Civil War, escaped to the North and lived to tell about their experiences.
Slave No More
Author: Aline Helg
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469649640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early colonization to the American and Haitian revolutions, Spanish American independence, and abolition in the British Caribbean. Helg not only underscores the agency of those who managed to become "free people of color" before abolitionism took hold but also assesses in detail the specific strategies they created and utilized. While recognizing the powerful forces supporting slavery, Helg articulates four primary liberation strategies: flight and marronage; manumission by legal document; military service, for men, in exchange for promised emancipation; and revolt—along with a willingness to exploit any weakness in the domination system. Helg looks at such actions at both individual and community levels and in the context of national and international political movements. Bringing together the broad currents of liberal abolitionism with an original analysis of forms of manumission and marronage, Slave No More deepens our understanding of how enslaved men, women, and even children contributed to the slow demise of slavery.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469649640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early colonization to the American and Haitian revolutions, Spanish American independence, and abolition in the British Caribbean. Helg not only underscores the agency of those who managed to become "free people of color" before abolitionism took hold but also assesses in detail the specific strategies they created and utilized. While recognizing the powerful forces supporting slavery, Helg articulates four primary liberation strategies: flight and marronage; manumission by legal document; military service, for men, in exchange for promised emancipation; and revolt—along with a willingness to exploit any weakness in the domination system. Helg looks at such actions at both individual and community levels and in the context of national and international political movements. Bringing together the broad currents of liberal abolitionism with an original analysis of forms of manumission and marronage, Slave No More deepens our understanding of how enslaved men, women, and even children contributed to the slow demise of slavery.
Slaves No More
Author: Ira Berlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521436922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Three essays present an introduction and history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521436922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Three essays present an introduction and history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War.
No More!
Author: Doreen Rappaport
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763609849
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Combines first-person historical accounts, traditional black spirituals, and passages about the daily lives of slaves to provide a chronicle of slavery in America.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763609849
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Combines first-person historical accounts, traditional black spirituals, and passages about the daily lives of slaves to provide a chronicle of slavery in America.
Diet Slave No More!
Author: Svetlana Kogan,
Publisher: Svetlana Kogan, M.D.
ISBN: 9780692753071
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Hundreds of diet books have been written on the subject of weight loss. Perhaps you thought this was one of them? No, this is not a diet book! In fact, it defies all the existing diets. This book's approach to weight loss is about you-a holistic plan that focuses on you as an individual. As you explore the question "What am I?" you will discover that the tools you need to create lasting change already exist within you. Learn to use them, and your capabilities will seem almost magical-you will be empowered to make amazing strides in improving your overall wellness and losing weight-progress that used to feel impossible. Combining the best of Western and Eastern medicine, Svetlana Kogan, MD, guides you on a journey that will align your mind and body. The path to a healthier you doesn't have to be miserable. Diet Slave No More! makes the journey enjoyable and entertaining. No restrictions. No pills. Just-finally-weight loss that can last! To make this journey even more fun and easier, the author recommends a follow-through virtual companion phone app called "Diet Slave No More!" separately available on iPhone and Android platforms.
Publisher: Svetlana Kogan, M.D.
ISBN: 9780692753071
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Hundreds of diet books have been written on the subject of weight loss. Perhaps you thought this was one of them? No, this is not a diet book! In fact, it defies all the existing diets. This book's approach to weight loss is about you-a holistic plan that focuses on you as an individual. As you explore the question "What am I?" you will discover that the tools you need to create lasting change already exist within you. Learn to use them, and your capabilities will seem almost magical-you will be empowered to make amazing strides in improving your overall wellness and losing weight-progress that used to feel impossible. Combining the best of Western and Eastern medicine, Svetlana Kogan, MD, guides you on a journey that will align your mind and body. The path to a healthier you doesn't have to be miserable. Diet Slave No More! makes the journey enjoyable and entertaining. No restrictions. No pills. Just-finally-weight loss that can last! To make this journey even more fun and easier, the author recommends a follow-through virtual companion phone app called "Diet Slave No More!" separately available on iPhone and Android platforms.
The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina. [Edited by W. M. S.]
Author: John Andrew Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina by John Andrew Jackson, first published in 1862, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina by John Andrew Jackson, first published in 1862, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
No More, No More
Author: Daniel E. Walker
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452906785
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
However urban slave societies might have differed from their rural counterparts, they still relied on a concerted assault on the psychological, social, and cultural identity of their African-descended inhabitants to maintain power and control. This ambitious book looks at how people of African descent in two such societies--Havana and New Orleans in the nineteenth century--created and maintained their own forms of cultural resistance to the slave regime's assault and, in the process, put forth autonomous views of sell and the social landscape. In Havana's annual Dia de Reyes festival and in the weekly activities that took place at New Orleans's Congo Square, author Daniel Walker identities specific cultural beliefs and activities that Africans brought to the New World and modified in order to withstand and contest the dehumanizing effects of oppression. "No More, No More crosses disciplinary boundaries as well, elucidating the economic, social, cultural, and demographic operations at work in two cities and the wide-scale efforts at cultural resistance embodied in public performances.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452906785
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
However urban slave societies might have differed from their rural counterparts, they still relied on a concerted assault on the psychological, social, and cultural identity of their African-descended inhabitants to maintain power and control. This ambitious book looks at how people of African descent in two such societies--Havana and New Orleans in the nineteenth century--created and maintained their own forms of cultural resistance to the slave regime's assault and, in the process, put forth autonomous views of sell and the social landscape. In Havana's annual Dia de Reyes festival and in the weekly activities that took place at New Orleans's Congo Square, author Daniel Walker identities specific cultural beliefs and activities that Africans brought to the New World and modified in order to withstand and contest the dehumanizing effects of oppression. "No More, No More crosses disciplinary boundaries as well, elucidating the economic, social, cultural, and demographic operations at work in two cities and the wide-scale efforts at cultural resistance embodied in public performances.
A Slave No More
Author: David W. Blight
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0156035480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage—and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation. Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new addition to this imperative part of American history—the firsthand accounts of two slaves, John Washington and Wallace Turnage, who through a combination of intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, reached the protection of the occupying Union troops and found emancipation. In A Slave No More, David W. Blight enriches the authentic narrative texts of these two young men using a wealth of genealogical information, handed down through family and friends. Blight has reconstructed their childhoods as sons of white slaveholders, their service as cooks and camp hands during the Civil War, and their struggle to stable lives among the black working class in the north, where they reunited their families. In the previously unpublished manuscripts of Turnage and Washington, we find history at its most intimate, portals that offer a startling new answer to the question of how four million people moved from slavery to liberty. Here are the untold stories of two extraordinary men whose stories, once thought lost, now take their place at the heart of the American experience—as Blight rightfully calls them, “heroes of a war within the war.” “These powerful memoirs reveal poignant, heroic, painful and inspiring lives.”—Publishers Weekly
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0156035480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage—and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation. Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new addition to this imperative part of American history—the firsthand accounts of two slaves, John Washington and Wallace Turnage, who through a combination of intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, reached the protection of the occupying Union troops and found emancipation. In A Slave No More, David W. Blight enriches the authentic narrative texts of these two young men using a wealth of genealogical information, handed down through family and friends. Blight has reconstructed their childhoods as sons of white slaveholders, their service as cooks and camp hands during the Civil War, and their struggle to stable lives among the black working class in the north, where they reunited their families. In the previously unpublished manuscripts of Turnage and Washington, we find history at its most intimate, portals that offer a startling new answer to the question of how four million people moved from slavery to liberty. Here are the untold stories of two extraordinary men whose stories, once thought lost, now take their place at the heart of the American experience—as Blight rightfully calls them, “heroes of a war within the war.” “These powerful memoirs reveal poignant, heroic, painful and inspiring lives.”—Publishers Weekly
More Than a Slave
Author: Margaret D. Pagan
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 157567839X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A historical novel to stir the heart! Katherine Ferguson's parents are slaves in the late 1700s. Her mother escapes to New York only to be sold into slavery yet again, this time with her newborn, Katy. As her mother faces being taken away, she prays a desperate prayer, giving the little Katy over to God. More Than a Slave is a story of perseverance and inspiration about Katherine Ferguson, who became a pioneer in the Sunday school movement.
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 157567839X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
A historical novel to stir the heart! Katherine Ferguson's parents are slaves in the late 1700s. Her mother escapes to New York only to be sold into slavery yet again, this time with her newborn, Katy. As her mother faces being taken away, she prays a desperate prayer, giving the little Katy over to God. More Than a Slave is a story of perseverance and inspiration about Katherine Ferguson, who became a pioneer in the Sunday school movement.
Blind No More
Author: Jonathan Daniel Wells
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820354856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre-Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union. Jonathan Daniel Wells explores the cause of disunion as the persistent determination on the part of enslaved people that they would flee bondage no matter the risks. By protesting against kidnappings and fugitive slave renditions, they brought slavery to the doorstep of the free states, forcing those states to recognize the meaning of freedom and the meaning of states' rights in the face of a federal government equally determined to keep standing its divided house. Through these actions, African Americans helped northerners and westerners question whether the constitutional compact was still worth upholding, a reevaluation of the republican experiment that would ultimately lead not just to Civil War but to the Thirteenth Amendment, ending slavery. Wells contends that the real story of American freedom lay not with the Confederate rebels nor even with the Union army but instead rests with the tens of thousands of self-emancipated men and women who demonstrated to the Founders, and to succeeding generations of Americans, the value of liberty.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820354856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre-Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union. Jonathan Daniel Wells explores the cause of disunion as the persistent determination on the part of enslaved people that they would flee bondage no matter the risks. By protesting against kidnappings and fugitive slave renditions, they brought slavery to the doorstep of the free states, forcing those states to recognize the meaning of freedom and the meaning of states' rights in the face of a federal government equally determined to keep standing its divided house. Through these actions, African Americans helped northerners and westerners question whether the constitutional compact was still worth upholding, a reevaluation of the republican experiment that would ultimately lead not just to Civil War but to the Thirteenth Amendment, ending slavery. Wells contends that the real story of American freedom lay not with the Confederate rebels nor even with the Union army but instead rests with the tens of thousands of self-emancipated men and women who demonstrated to the Founders, and to succeeding generations of Americans, the value of liberty.