Author: Lee Hawkins
Publisher: Amistad Press
ISBN: 9780062823168
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer exhaustively examines his family's legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience, in this riveting memoir--a soulful, shocking, and spellbinding read that blends the raw power of Natasha Tretheway's Memorial Drive and the insights of Clint Smith's How the Word is Passed. I Am Nobody's Slave tells the story of one Black family's pursuit of the American Dream through the impacts of systemic racism and racial violence. This book examines how trauma from enslavement and Jim Crow shaped their outlook on thriving in America, influenced each generation, and how they succeeded despite these challenges. To their suburban Minnesotan neighbors, the Hawkinses were an ideal American family, embodying strength and success. However, behind closed doors, they faced the legacy of enslavement and apartheid. Lee Hawkins, Sr. often exhibited rage, leaving his children anxious and curious about his protective view of the world. Thirty years later, his son uncovered the reasons for his father's anxiety and occasional violence. Through research, he discovered violent deaths in his family for every generation since slavery, mostly due to white-on-Black murders, and how white enslavers impacted the family's customs. Hawkins explores the role of racism-triggered childhood trauma and chronic stress in shortening his ancestors' lives, using genetic testing, reporting, and historical data to craft a moving family portrait. This book shows how genealogical research can educate and heal Americans of all races, revealing through their story the story of America--a journey of struggle, resilience, and the heavy cost of ultimate success.
I Am Nobody's Slave
Author: Lee Hawkins
Publisher: Amistad Press
ISBN: 9780062823168
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer exhaustively examines his family's legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience, in this riveting memoir--a soulful, shocking, and spellbinding read that blends the raw power of Natasha Tretheway's Memorial Drive and the insights of Clint Smith's How the Word is Passed. I Am Nobody's Slave tells the story of one Black family's pursuit of the American Dream through the impacts of systemic racism and racial violence. This book examines how trauma from enslavement and Jim Crow shaped their outlook on thriving in America, influenced each generation, and how they succeeded despite these challenges. To their suburban Minnesotan neighbors, the Hawkinses were an ideal American family, embodying strength and success. However, behind closed doors, they faced the legacy of enslavement and apartheid. Lee Hawkins, Sr. often exhibited rage, leaving his children anxious and curious about his protective view of the world. Thirty years later, his son uncovered the reasons for his father's anxiety and occasional violence. Through research, he discovered violent deaths in his family for every generation since slavery, mostly due to white-on-Black murders, and how white enslavers impacted the family's customs. Hawkins explores the role of racism-triggered childhood trauma and chronic stress in shortening his ancestors' lives, using genetic testing, reporting, and historical data to craft a moving family portrait. This book shows how genealogical research can educate and heal Americans of all races, revealing through their story the story of America--a journey of struggle, resilience, and the heavy cost of ultimate success.
Publisher: Amistad Press
ISBN: 9780062823168
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer exhaustively examines his family's legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience, in this riveting memoir--a soulful, shocking, and spellbinding read that blends the raw power of Natasha Tretheway's Memorial Drive and the insights of Clint Smith's How the Word is Passed. I Am Nobody's Slave tells the story of one Black family's pursuit of the American Dream through the impacts of systemic racism and racial violence. This book examines how trauma from enslavement and Jim Crow shaped their outlook on thriving in America, influenced each generation, and how they succeeded despite these challenges. To their suburban Minnesotan neighbors, the Hawkinses were an ideal American family, embodying strength and success. However, behind closed doors, they faced the legacy of enslavement and apartheid. Lee Hawkins, Sr. often exhibited rage, leaving his children anxious and curious about his protective view of the world. Thirty years later, his son uncovered the reasons for his father's anxiety and occasional violence. Through research, he discovered violent deaths in his family for every generation since slavery, mostly due to white-on-Black murders, and how white enslavers impacted the family's customs. Hawkins explores the role of racism-triggered childhood trauma and chronic stress in shortening his ancestors' lives, using genetic testing, reporting, and historical data to craft a moving family portrait. This book shows how genealogical research can educate and heal Americans of all races, revealing through their story the story of America--a journey of struggle, resilience, and the heavy cost of ultimate success.
The Slave Lover
Author: Charlie “Chawtoma” Davis
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1634175263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
When NYPD agent Dajahn Rocmah, along with partner Delfori Bagans, receives a distress-call assistance from 911 one rainy Thursday night, little did he know that he would be led to a woman that was like no other he’d met. Except for the fact that Princess Martins Marelli was involved in a domestic argument with her wealthy estranged husband, she seemed to be your typical bombshell blonde—or so Rocmah thought. Princess is in fact anything but vanilla. She comes from a rich ancestry that began on a farm in Georgia between the white farm owner’s son, Luther Martins II, and a black slave girl named Tamalu, Luther Junior’s friend from childhood. The Slave Lover (Chocolate in the Milk) is a unique love story that spans races and generations, from the Civil War to present-day New York City. It follows the struggles and successes of the Martins family amid their interracial backdrop and the pains and pleasures that go along with it.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1634175263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
When NYPD agent Dajahn Rocmah, along with partner Delfori Bagans, receives a distress-call assistance from 911 one rainy Thursday night, little did he know that he would be led to a woman that was like no other he’d met. Except for the fact that Princess Martins Marelli was involved in a domestic argument with her wealthy estranged husband, she seemed to be your typical bombshell blonde—or so Rocmah thought. Princess is in fact anything but vanilla. She comes from a rich ancestry that began on a farm in Georgia between the white farm owner’s son, Luther Martins II, and a black slave girl named Tamalu, Luther Junior’s friend from childhood. The Slave Lover (Chocolate in the Milk) is a unique love story that spans races and generations, from the Civil War to present-day New York City. It follows the struggles and successes of the Martins family amid their interracial backdrop and the pains and pleasures that go along with it.
The Slave
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374506803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374506803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.
Slave Testimony
Author: John W. Blassingame
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807102732
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
“A magisterial and landmark work, one that merits wide and thoughtful readership not only by historians, but, more important, by those of us who count on historians to tell us truly about our past.”—New York Times “A testament to the resilience of the black spirit, faced with a primitive and largely conscienceless regime.”—Bertram Wyatt-Brown, South Atlantic Quarterly “This volume does much more than merely present a rich collection of judiciously selected and skillfully edited sources of the history of slavery; in the process it reveals a host of large-as-life slaves and ex-slaves: Kale, the precocious eleven-year-old Mende of the Amistad rebels, who quickly learned to write eloquent and polished English; Harry McMillan of Beaufort, South Carolina, who talked frankly of black love and marriage; Charlotte Burris of Kentucky, so ‘afflicted’ that her husband was permitted to buy her for only $25.00—‘as much as I was worth,’ she self-effacingly said; and many more. This illumination of the slave as an individual is really what the book is all about.”—Journal of Southern History “A mammoth presentation of two centuries of slave recollections . . . extraordinary firsthand narratives that should become the premier reference volume on the slave experience for years to come.”—Columbia (SC) State “The largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. . . . So valuable a compilation is this study that its real worth cannot be measured for some time to come.”—Richmond News Leader
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807102732
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
“A magisterial and landmark work, one that merits wide and thoughtful readership not only by historians, but, more important, by those of us who count on historians to tell us truly about our past.”—New York Times “A testament to the resilience of the black spirit, faced with a primitive and largely conscienceless regime.”—Bertram Wyatt-Brown, South Atlantic Quarterly “This volume does much more than merely present a rich collection of judiciously selected and skillfully edited sources of the history of slavery; in the process it reveals a host of large-as-life slaves and ex-slaves: Kale, the precocious eleven-year-old Mende of the Amistad rebels, who quickly learned to write eloquent and polished English; Harry McMillan of Beaufort, South Carolina, who talked frankly of black love and marriage; Charlotte Burris of Kentucky, so ‘afflicted’ that her husband was permitted to buy her for only $25.00—‘as much as I was worth,’ she self-effacingly said; and many more. This illumination of the slave as an individual is really what the book is all about.”—Journal of Southern History “A mammoth presentation of two centuries of slave recollections . . . extraordinary firsthand narratives that should become the premier reference volume on the slave experience for years to come.”—Columbia (SC) State “The largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. . . . So valuable a compilation is this study that its real worth cannot be measured for some time to come.”—Richmond News Leader
Half Slave Half Free
Author: David Manning
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300758228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Two homeless beggars meet on the streets of New York in the winter of 1870. One is a handicapped Irish Civil War veteran with a low self-esteem trying to find something in life to hang on to; the other a confident, well-educated former slave trying to make the most of his considerable potential as an accomplished chef. An exploration of the two men's lives is augmented by images brought to life through the magic of the ex-slave's cooking. During the course of this exploration, and subsequent events, it becomes apparent that the veteran has emerged from the war half slave and the slave only half free. Rather than a historic drama, the play comments on the present (often in humorous or absurd tones) through parallels between the 1870s and current issues: homelessness, growing extremes of wealth and poverty, corporate greed, a recent controversial war, and racial/ethnic prejudices.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300758228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Two homeless beggars meet on the streets of New York in the winter of 1870. One is a handicapped Irish Civil War veteran with a low self-esteem trying to find something in life to hang on to; the other a confident, well-educated former slave trying to make the most of his considerable potential as an accomplished chef. An exploration of the two men's lives is augmented by images brought to life through the magic of the ex-slave's cooking. During the course of this exploration, and subsequent events, it becomes apparent that the veteran has emerged from the war half slave and the slave only half free. Rather than a historic drama, the play comments on the present (often in humorous or absurd tones) through parallels between the 1870s and current issues: homelessness, growing extremes of wealth and poverty, corporate greed, a recent controversial war, and racial/ethnic prejudices.
Nobody's Slave
Author: Tim Vicary
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781482343472
Category : Slave trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of two boys on a voyage that transforms their lives. Base on a true story from the time of Queen Elizabeth I, it looks at the slave trade from two different sides. Madu, a young African, is captured by the English slave-trader, Sir John Hawkins. Tom Oakley is a young English sailor in charge of the slaves on Hawkins' ship. When the boys first meet, they hate each other. But as the story develops, their roles are reversed, and they become closer friends than either would have once thought possible.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781482343472
Category : Slave trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of two boys on a voyage that transforms their lives. Base on a true story from the time of Queen Elizabeth I, it looks at the slave trade from two different sides. Madu, a young African, is captured by the English slave-trader, Sir John Hawkins. Tom Oakley is a young English sailor in charge of the slaves on Hawkins' ship. When the boys first meet, they hate each other. But as the story develops, their roles are reversed, and they become closer friends than either would have once thought possible.
Slave Species of the Gods
Author: Michael Tellinger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591438071
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Our origins as a slave species and the Anunnaki legacy in our DNA • Reveals compelling new archaeological and genetic evidence for the engineered origins of the human species, first proposed by Zecharia Sitchin in The 12th Planet • Shows how the Anunnaki created us using pieces of their own DNA, controlling our physical and mental capabilities by inactivating their more advanced DNA • Identifies a recently discovered complex of sophisticated ruins in South Africa as the city of the Anunnaki leader Enki Scholars have long believed that the first civilization on Earth emerged in Sumer some 6,000 years ago. However, as Michael Tellinger reveals, the Sumerians and Egyptians inherited their knowledge from an earlier civilization that lived at the southern tip of Africa and began with the arrival of the Anunnaki more than 200,000 years ago. Sent to Earth in search of life-saving gold, these ancient Anunnaki astronauts from the planet Nibiru created the first humans as a slave race to mine gold--thus beginning our global traditions of gold obsession, slavery, and god as dominating master. Revealing new archaeological and genetic evidence in support of Zecharia Sitchin’s revolutionary work with pre-biblical clay tablets, Tellinger shows how the Anunnaki created us using pieces of their own DNA, controlling our physical and mental capabilities by inactivating their more advanced DNA--which explains why less than 3 percent of our DNA is active. He identifies a recently discovered complex of sophisticated ruins in South Africa, complete with thousands of mines, as the city of Anunnaki leader Enki and explains their lost technologies that used the power of sound as a source of energy. Matching key mythologies of the world’s religions to the Sumerian clay tablet stories on which they are based, he details the actual events behind these tales of direct physical interactions with “god,” concluding with the epic flood--a perennial theme of ancient myth--that wiped out the Anunnaki mining operations. Tellinger shows that, as humanity awakens to the truth about our origins, we can overcome our programmed animalistic and slave-like nature, tap in to our dormant Anunnaki DNA, and realize the longevity and intelligence of our creators as well as learn the difference between the gods of myth and the true loving God of our universe.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591438071
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Our origins as a slave species and the Anunnaki legacy in our DNA • Reveals compelling new archaeological and genetic evidence for the engineered origins of the human species, first proposed by Zecharia Sitchin in The 12th Planet • Shows how the Anunnaki created us using pieces of their own DNA, controlling our physical and mental capabilities by inactivating their more advanced DNA • Identifies a recently discovered complex of sophisticated ruins in South Africa as the city of the Anunnaki leader Enki Scholars have long believed that the first civilization on Earth emerged in Sumer some 6,000 years ago. However, as Michael Tellinger reveals, the Sumerians and Egyptians inherited their knowledge from an earlier civilization that lived at the southern tip of Africa and began with the arrival of the Anunnaki more than 200,000 years ago. Sent to Earth in search of life-saving gold, these ancient Anunnaki astronauts from the planet Nibiru created the first humans as a slave race to mine gold--thus beginning our global traditions of gold obsession, slavery, and god as dominating master. Revealing new archaeological and genetic evidence in support of Zecharia Sitchin’s revolutionary work with pre-biblical clay tablets, Tellinger shows how the Anunnaki created us using pieces of their own DNA, controlling our physical and mental capabilities by inactivating their more advanced DNA--which explains why less than 3 percent of our DNA is active. He identifies a recently discovered complex of sophisticated ruins in South Africa, complete with thousands of mines, as the city of Anunnaki leader Enki and explains their lost technologies that used the power of sound as a source of energy. Matching key mythologies of the world’s religions to the Sumerian clay tablet stories on which they are based, he details the actual events behind these tales of direct physical interactions with “god,” concluding with the epic flood--a perennial theme of ancient myth--that wiped out the Anunnaki mining operations. Tellinger shows that, as humanity awakens to the truth about our origins, we can overcome our programmed animalistic and slave-like nature, tap in to our dormant Anunnaki DNA, and realize the longevity and intelligence of our creators as well as learn the difference between the gods of myth and the true loving God of our universe.
Uncle Tom's Cabin "Slave No More"
Author: Brian Stewart
Publisher: Boat Angel Outreach Center
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
It is said that the freedom from slavery would not have been possible without the public sentiment that was created when the Novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was released by Harriet Beecher Stowe. All over the world the cry for freedom was heard. This musical is true to the tale of Uncle Tom. He was a godly man who chose to lay down his life that others would find salvation. This is a wonderful musical version of the very important novel that ended slavery in America.
Publisher: Boat Angel Outreach Center
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
It is said that the freedom from slavery would not have been possible without the public sentiment that was created when the Novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was released by Harriet Beecher Stowe. All over the world the cry for freedom was heard. This musical is true to the tale of Uncle Tom. He was a godly man who chose to lay down his life that others would find salvation. This is a wonderful musical version of the very important novel that ended slavery in America.
The Mafia's Slave
Author: Sasha Writes
Publisher: Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Nina is a 22 years old pretty, but spoilt brat. Only daughter of a multi billionaire. She's rude, always gets what she wants... name it. And she doesn't give a damn about anyone; no one at all. All she cares about is being the princess. But one day, Nina's perfect life was interrupted when she suddenly got kidnapped from her home by some strange people who took her to who they referred to as "their boss". Jericho. That's his name. A hurt soul;.a dark heart. He doesn't know what it means to smile anymore as there was only one thing on his mind - revenge. He was a drug Lord - a popular Mafia Boss. And after getting prepared for so long, he finally set out to accomplish his revenge mission. And the first thing he does was kidnapping the arrogant daughter of his enemy - Nina - and bending her to his will.
Publisher: Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Nina is a 22 years old pretty, but spoilt brat. Only daughter of a multi billionaire. She's rude, always gets what she wants... name it. And she doesn't give a damn about anyone; no one at all. All she cares about is being the princess. But one day, Nina's perfect life was interrupted when she suddenly got kidnapped from her home by some strange people who took her to who they referred to as "their boss". Jericho. That's his name. A hurt soul;.a dark heart. He doesn't know what it means to smile anymore as there was only one thing on his mind - revenge. He was a drug Lord - a popular Mafia Boss. And after getting prepared for so long, he finally set out to accomplish his revenge mission. And the first thing he does was kidnapping the arrogant daughter of his enemy - Nina - and bending her to his will.
Letters from a Slave Boy
Author: Mary E. Lyons
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689878672
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689878672
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.