Author: United States
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Author: Alvan Stewart
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Jeff Forret
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108493033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 485

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Explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.

Author: Edward S. Abdy
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Author: Lauret Savoy
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619026686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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With a New Preface by the Author Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its people and the land. Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life–defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land—lie largely eroded and lost. A provocative and powerful mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.–Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons. Gifted with this manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence, she delves through fragmented histories—natural, personal, cultural—to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America. "Every landscape is an accumulation," reads one epigraph. "Life must be lived amidst that which was made before." Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of memory—and to be one.

Author:
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Category : Antigua
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Paul Finkelman
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 188636348X
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Winner, Joseph A. Andrews Award from the American Association of Law Libraries, 1986. Provides a detailed discussion and analysis of the pamphlet materials on the law of slavery published in the United States and Great Britain.

Author: Jenny Masur
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439666032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Many of the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad lived and worked in Washington, D.C. Men and women, black and white, operatives and freedom seekers - all demonstrated courage, resourcefulness and initiative. Leonard Grimes, a free African American, was arrested for transporting enslaved people to freedom. John Dean, a white lawyer, used the District courts to test the legality of the Fugitive Slave Act. Anna Maria Weems dressed as a boy in order to escape to Canada. Enslaved people engineered escapes, individually and in groups, with and without the assistance of an organized network. Some ended up back in slavery or in jail, but some escaped to freedom. Anthropologist and author Jenny Masur tells their stories.

Author: Dred Scott
Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781376982930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1722

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