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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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A history and a genealogy of the Ladner family who are descendants of Christian Ladner who came to the Gulf Coast in 1719. The families lived in Mississippi, Louisiana, etc.
Author: Elaine G. Miller
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Author: Saket Soni
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643753681
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor—an "eye-opening" "must-read" told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship (The New York Times Book Review). In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi. He was one of five hundred men trapped in squalid Gulf Coast “man camps,” surrounded by barbed wire, watched by guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Recruiters had promised them good jobs and green cards. The men had scraped up $20,000 each for this “opportunity” to rebuild hurricane-wrecked oil rigs, leaving their families in impossible debt. During a series of clandestine meetings, Soni and the workers devised a bold plan. In The Great Escape, Soni traces the workers’ extraordinary escape, their march on foot to Washington, DC, and their twenty-three-day hunger strike to bring attention to their cause. Along the way, ICE agents try to deport the men, company officials work to discredit them, and politicians avert their eyes. But none of this shakes the workers’ determination to win their dignity and keep their promises to their families. Weaving a deeply personal journey with a riveting tale of twenty-first-century forced labor, Soni takes us into the lives of the immigrant workers the United States increasingly relies on to rebuild after climate disasters. The Great Escape is the gripping story of one of the largest human trafficking cases in modern American history—and the workers’ heroic journey for justice.
Author: Jerry Heitzmann
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Author: John Cuevas
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496816102
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Cat Island, just off the Mississippi Gulf Coast shoreline, has been home to some of the most dramatic events and remarkable stories in the nation's history. While some of these stories are fact, others are colorful fables passed down through the ages with such conviction they have become true in the hearts and minds of many. Between fact and fiction is the undeniable reality: Cat Island is one of the most historically significant landmarks on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Featuring over 160 black-and-white photographs by Jason Taylor and a foreword by Mississippi's Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, John Cuevas's Discovering Cat Island guides readers through Cat Island with stories and histories of twenty-nine sites--both real and imagined--of the legendary barrier island. Originally owned by the Cuevas family as part of a Spanish land grant to Juan de Cuevas in 1781, Cat Island boasts a colorful history that includes events related to the notorious pirate Jean Lafitte and the outlaw James Copeland, both of whom were thought to have buried their stolen treasure somewhere on the island; the Battle of New Orleans; and the War of 1812. The island served as one of the staging areas for the Seminole forced to abandon their homes and take part in the Trail of Tears. In the twentieth century, the island was a convenient transfer point for gangsters and local bootleggers shipping booze during Prohibition before becoming a US military training camp site during World War II. In 1988, Cat Island became the location of the first oil drilling ever in the Mississippi Sound and in 2010 was one of the islands devastated by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Author: John Cuevas
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786485787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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Just off the coast of the Gulf Islands National Seashore lies Cat Island, an isolated, T-shaped sliver of sand with a remarkable past. A coveted hiding place for Jean Lafitte's pirate treasure in the late eighteenth century and illegal booze during Prohibition, Cat Island also witnessed the first shots of the Battle of New Orleans, an encampment for Seminoles during the Trail of Tears and the first lighthouses on the Mississippi coast. As a child, author John Cuevas learned that his family had owned and lived on the island for three generations beginning with his ancestor, Juan de Cuevas, referred to as "The King of Cat Island," who received it by way of a Spanish land grant. In this engaging work, Cuevas chronicles the historic events that occurred on the island's shores and offers a tribute to the legacy of one of the Gulf Coast's pioneer families.
Author: John Cuevas
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439673136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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The countryside between Mobile and New Orleans teems with memorials, but few historic spots occasion pause for reflection like the Old Biloxi Cemetery. Burials go back to the eighteenth-century French settlement, when Biloxi was the planned capital of the Louisiana territory. Secrets abound in the old cemetery--not exactly buried, since many prominent inhabitants sealed unsolved mysteries with their final remains in the aboveground tombs developed here. Author John Cuevas explores the fascinating history of the cemetery, including the massive restoration of the iconic resting place of his ancestor Juan de Cuevas, great-grandfather to more than nine thousand Gulf Coast families.
Author: Jim Calaway
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460218582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Romance and adventure abound in this fictional tale of a traveling man. Betrayed, broken and broke, Cody Jackson embarks on an odyssey of spellbinding adventure and sensuous, sizzling romance. He travels the world following wretched career demands, exploring relationships along the way. He is constantly searching for that one special woman who encompasses honesty, kindness and commitment. Although Cody does not always make the best choices, his sense of right and wrong, and his strong will, must endure if he is to weave his way back to his determined search for his soul mate, the love of a lifetime. The author of "One Man's Odyssey" writes from his own experiences, enduring career trials and demands that try one's mind, physical being and soul.
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Author: Bruce R. Hare
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815629382
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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This seventeen-essay volume is a comprehensive assessment of the complex relationships of racism, sexism, and classism both within and between the Pan-African community and the larger American society. It offers new twenty-first-century approaches for cooperatively and simultaneously addressing these significant social problems.
