Author: Russell Duncan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820362050
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Freedom's Shore
Author: Russell Duncan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820362050
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820362050
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Freedom on the Fatal Shore
Author: John Hirst
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1921866322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Freedom on the Fatal Shore brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. This combined edition includes a new foreword by the author. Convicts with their "own time", convicts with legal rights, convicts making money, convicts getting drunk - what sort of prison was this? Hirst describes how the convict colony actually worked and how Australian democracy came into being, despite the opposition of the most powerful. He writes: "This was not a society that had to become free; its freedoms were well established from the earliest times." “Colonial Australia was a more ‘normal’ place than one might imagine from the folkloric picture of society governed by the lash and the triangle, composed of groaning white slaves tyrannised by ruthless masters. The book that best conveys this and has rightly become a landmark in recent studies of the System is J.B. Hirst’s Convict Society and Its Enemies.” —Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore “Anyone with an interest in Australian political culture will find The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy invaluable.” —Professor Colin Hughes, former Electoral Commissioner for the Commonwealth
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1921866322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Freedom on the Fatal Shore brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. This combined edition includes a new foreword by the author. Convicts with their "own time", convicts with legal rights, convicts making money, convicts getting drunk - what sort of prison was this? Hirst describes how the convict colony actually worked and how Australian democracy came into being, despite the opposition of the most powerful. He writes: "This was not a society that had to become free; its freedoms were well established from the earliest times." “Colonial Australia was a more ‘normal’ place than one might imagine from the folkloric picture of society governed by the lash and the triangle, composed of groaning white slaves tyrannised by ruthless masters. The book that best conveys this and has rightly become a landmark in recent studies of the System is J.B. Hirst’s Convict Society and Its Enemies.” —Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore “Anyone with an interest in Australian political culture will find The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy invaluable.” —Professor Colin Hughes, former Electoral Commissioner for the Commonwealth
Freedom from Suffering, a Spiritual Approach
Author: Jon Shore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780938660217
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Becoming free of suffering is now possible. Freedom From Suffering is a clear description of how to dissolve the root causes of depression, pain, anger, fear, anxiety and low self-esteem. The book is purposely kept short and concise to focus primarily on the practical steps and 14 practices for rising above suffering and truly feeling inner peace. Thousands of people have been able to shed the darkness with Jon's methods and you can too.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780938660217
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Becoming free of suffering is now possible. Freedom From Suffering is a clear description of how to dissolve the root causes of depression, pain, anger, fear, anxiety and low self-esteem. The book is purposely kept short and concise to focus primarily on the practical steps and 14 practices for rising above suffering and truly feeling inner peace. Thousands of people have been able to shed the darkness with Jon's methods and you can too.
The Third Shore
Author: Agata Schwartz
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810123118
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
An anthology of prose, selected by the editors, written by women authors from countries that were previously referred to as Eastern Europe, who were born after 1945 and had their texts published after 1989.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810123118
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
An anthology of prose, selected by the editors, written by women authors from countries that were previously referred to as Eastern Europe, who were born after 1945 and had their texts published after 1989.
"Myne Owne Ground"
Author: T. H. Breen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195175379
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free blacks purchased freedom for family members, amassed property, established plantations, and acquired laborers. T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes reconstruct a community in which ownership of property was as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations did not survive makes this a critical and urgent work of history.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195175379
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free blacks purchased freedom for family members, amassed property, established plantations, and acquired laborers. T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes reconstruct a community in which ownership of property was as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations did not survive makes this a critical and urgent work of history.
Patchwork Freedoms
Author: Adriana Chira
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A rich, pathbreaking study on nineteenth-century rural Cuba, and how Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom through litigation and land occupation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A rich, pathbreaking study on nineteenth-century rural Cuba, and how Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom through litigation and land occupation.
Plantations, Slavery & Freedom on Maryland's Eastern Shore
Author: Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 146714102X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
The riveting, heart wrenching story of slave traders and abolitionists, kidnappers and freedmen, cruelty and courage on Maryland's eastern shore. African Americans, both enslaved and free, were vital to the economy of the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War. Maryland became a slave society in colonial days when tobacco ruled. Some enslaved people, like Anthony Johnson, earned their freedom and became successful farmers. After the Revolutionary War, others were freed by masters disturbed by the contradiction between liberty and slavery. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman ran from masters on the Eastern Shore and devoted their lives to helping other enslaved people with their words and deeds. Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg uses local records, including those of her ancestors, to tell a tale of slave traders and abolitionists, kidnappers and freedmen, cruelty and courage.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 146714102X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
The riveting, heart wrenching story of slave traders and abolitionists, kidnappers and freedmen, cruelty and courage on Maryland's eastern shore. African Americans, both enslaved and free, were vital to the economy of the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War. Maryland became a slave society in colonial days when tobacco ruled. Some enslaved people, like Anthony Johnson, earned their freedom and became successful farmers. After the Revolutionary War, others were freed by masters disturbed by the contradiction between liberty and slavery. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman ran from masters on the Eastern Shore and devoted their lives to helping other enslaved people with their words and deeds. Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg uses local records, including those of her ancestors, to tell a tale of slave traders and abolitionists, kidnappers and freedmen, cruelty and courage.
Infinity's Shore
Author: David Brin
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0307573540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
Nebula and Hugo award-winning author David Brin continues his bestselling Uplift series in this second novel of a bold new trilogy. Imaginative, inventive, and filled with Brin's trademark mix of adventure, passion, and wit, Infinity's Shore carries us further than ever before into the heart of the most beloved and extraordinary science fiction sagas ever written. For the fugitive settlers of Jijo, it is truly the beginning of the end. As starships fill the skies, the threat of genocide hangs over the planet that once peacefully sheltered six bands of sapient beings. Now the human settlers of Jijo and their alien neighbors must make heroic--and terrifying--choices. A scientist must rally believers for a cause he never shared. And four youngsters find that what started as a simple adventure--imitating exploits in Earthling books by Verne and Twain--leads them to the dark abyss of mystery. Meanwhile, the Streaker, with her fugitive dolphin crew, arrives at last on Jijo in a desperate search for refuge. Yet what the crew finds instead is a secret hidden since the galaxies first spawned intelligence--a secret that could mean salvation for the planet and its inhabitants...or their ultimate annihilation.
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0307573540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
Nebula and Hugo award-winning author David Brin continues his bestselling Uplift series in this second novel of a bold new trilogy. Imaginative, inventive, and filled with Brin's trademark mix of adventure, passion, and wit, Infinity's Shore carries us further than ever before into the heart of the most beloved and extraordinary science fiction sagas ever written. For the fugitive settlers of Jijo, it is truly the beginning of the end. As starships fill the skies, the threat of genocide hangs over the planet that once peacefully sheltered six bands of sapient beings. Now the human settlers of Jijo and their alien neighbors must make heroic--and terrifying--choices. A scientist must rally believers for a cause he never shared. And four youngsters find that what started as a simple adventure--imitating exploits in Earthling books by Verne and Twain--leads them to the dark abyss of mystery. Meanwhile, the Streaker, with her fugitive dolphin crew, arrives at last on Jijo in a desperate search for refuge. Yet what the crew finds instead is a secret hidden since the galaxies first spawned intelligence--a secret that could mean salvation for the planet and its inhabitants...or their ultimate annihilation.
Sailing to Freedom
Author: Timothy D. Walker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625345936
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic seaboard. While scholarship on the Underground Railroad has focused almost exclusively on overland escape routes from the antebellum South, this groundbreaking volume expands our understanding of how freedom was achieved by sea and what the journey looked like for many African Americans. With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625345936
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic seaboard. While scholarship on the Underground Railroad has focused almost exclusively on overland escape routes from the antebellum South, this groundbreaking volume expands our understanding of how freedom was achieved by sea and what the journey looked like for many African Americans. With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers.
How I Rafted Through Financial Rapids and Reached the Shore of Freedom
Author: Mark Spencer
Publisher: Mark Spencer
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
"Are you tired of living paycheck to paycheck? Feeling overwhelmed by debt, and struggling to find financial stability? This book is for you. "How I Rafted Through Financial Rapids and Reached the Shore of Freedom" offers a powerful guide to transforming your financial life and finally reaching the freedom you've always dreamed of. In this comprehensive guide, you'll discover: Proven strategies to break free from the cycle of debt and start building wealth. Practical steps to create and stick to a budget that works for your lifestyle. Techniques for managing and growing your savings, even when money is tight. How to develop a strong financial mindset that keeps you motivated and on track. Tips for smart investing, tailored to your risk tolerance and financial goals. Ways to identify and avoid the common financial pitfalls that hold people back. Start making real progress toward financial freedom. Take control of your money and your future. Turn financial struggles into stepping stones toward success. Imagine living without the constant stress of bills piling up, the anxiety of not having enough, or the frustration of feeling trapped by your finances. In this book, you'll learn exactly how to regain control, achieve your goals, and transform your financial situation once and for all. Start living the best life possible. Click READ NOW and begin your journey to financial freedom today, before the price changes"
Publisher: Mark Spencer
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
"Are you tired of living paycheck to paycheck? Feeling overwhelmed by debt, and struggling to find financial stability? This book is for you. "How I Rafted Through Financial Rapids and Reached the Shore of Freedom" offers a powerful guide to transforming your financial life and finally reaching the freedom you've always dreamed of. In this comprehensive guide, you'll discover: Proven strategies to break free from the cycle of debt and start building wealth. Practical steps to create and stick to a budget that works for your lifestyle. Techniques for managing and growing your savings, even when money is tight. How to develop a strong financial mindset that keeps you motivated and on track. Tips for smart investing, tailored to your risk tolerance and financial goals. Ways to identify and avoid the common financial pitfalls that hold people back. Start making real progress toward financial freedom. Take control of your money and your future. Turn financial struggles into stepping stones toward success. Imagine living without the constant stress of bills piling up, the anxiety of not having enough, or the frustration of feeling trapped by your finances. In this book, you'll learn exactly how to regain control, achieve your goals, and transform your financial situation once and for all. Start living the best life possible. Click READ NOW and begin your journey to financial freedom today, before the price changes"