Author: McAlister Coleman
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Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Pioneers of Freedom
Author: McAlister Coleman
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Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Pages : 222
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Pioneers of American Freedom. Origin of Liberal and Radical Thought in America ... Translated from the German by Arthur E. Briggs. [With a Bibliography and a Portrait.].
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Pioneers of American Freedom
Author: Rudolf Becker
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Category : Liberalism
Languages : en
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Category : Liberalism
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Pioneers of Freedom. Being Stories of Nonconformity ... Illustrated, Etc
Author: Arthur Mitchell CHIRGWIN
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Pages : 100
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Pioneers of Freedom
Author: Olʹga Forš
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Pages : 390
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Pioneers for Freedom
Author: R. C. Henderson
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Languages : en
Pages : 105
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Pages : 105
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Epic Journeys of Freedom
Author: Cassandra Pybus
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807055182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dangers can the exhilaration of success be comprehended and the unspeakable misery of failure be appreciated.--Ira Berlin, from the Foreword During the American Revolution, thousands of slaves fled their masters to find freedom with the British. Epic Journeys of Freedom is the astounding story of these runaways and the lives they made on four continents. Having emancipated themselves, with the rhetoric about the inalienable rights of free men ringing in their ears, these men and women struggled tenaciously to make liberty a reality in their own lives. This alternative narrative of freedom fought for and won is uniquely compelling; historian Cassandra Pybus's groundbreaking research has uncovered individual stories of runaways who left America to forge difficult new lives in far-flung corners of the British Empire. Harry, for example, one of George Washington's slaves, escaped from Mount Vernon in 1776, was evacuated to Nova Scotia in 1783, and eventually relocated to Sierra Leone in West Africa with his wife and three children. Ralph Henry, who ran away from the Virginia firebrand Patrick Henry in 1776, took a similar path to precarious freedom in Sierra Leone, while others, such as John Moseley and John Randall, were evacuated with the British forces to England. Stranded in England without skills or patronage during a period of high unemployment, they were among thousands of newly freed poor blacks who struggled just to survive. While some were relocated to Sierra Leone, others, like Moseley and Randall, found themselves transported to the distant penal colony of Botany Bay, in Australia. Epic Journeys of Freedom, written in the best tradition of history from the bottom up, is a fascinating insight into the meaning of liberty; it will change forever the way we think about the American Revolution.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807055182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dangers can the exhilaration of success be comprehended and the unspeakable misery of failure be appreciated.--Ira Berlin, from the Foreword During the American Revolution, thousands of slaves fled their masters to find freedom with the British. Epic Journeys of Freedom is the astounding story of these runaways and the lives they made on four continents. Having emancipated themselves, with the rhetoric about the inalienable rights of free men ringing in their ears, these men and women struggled tenaciously to make liberty a reality in their own lives. This alternative narrative of freedom fought for and won is uniquely compelling; historian Cassandra Pybus's groundbreaking research has uncovered individual stories of runaways who left America to forge difficult new lives in far-flung corners of the British Empire. Harry, for example, one of George Washington's slaves, escaped from Mount Vernon in 1776, was evacuated to Nova Scotia in 1783, and eventually relocated to Sierra Leone in West Africa with his wife and three children. Ralph Henry, who ran away from the Virginia firebrand Patrick Henry in 1776, took a similar path to precarious freedom in Sierra Leone, while others, such as John Moseley and John Randall, were evacuated with the British forces to England. Stranded in England without skills or patronage during a period of high unemployment, they were among thousands of newly freed poor blacks who struggled just to survive. While some were relocated to Sierra Leone, others, like Moseley and Randall, found themselves transported to the distant penal colony of Botany Bay, in Australia. Epic Journeys of Freedom, written in the best tradition of history from the bottom up, is a fascinating insight into the meaning of liberty; it will change forever the way we think about the American Revolution.
Pioneers of Freedom in North Carolina
Author: Henry O'Reilly
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Pages : 2
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Pioneers of Freedom
Author: Anne Elkins
Publisher: Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc
ISBN: 9781613467008
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Where did we come from and where are we going? Who will lead and who will follow? The United States is a baby of a country. The Revolutionary War gave birth to the War of 1812, which shared a century with the American Civil War. As the nation grows, it needs only the best of citizens. John Payne just graduated from Transylvania Law School in Lexington, Kentucky, not into a life of mere work and play, but one where he must learn that love, war, and imminent death are all woven into the fabric of everyday life. John knows his country needs him, but that his family needs him even more. How will John and the Payne family deal with the pressing problems in this new country—war with England, westward expansion, the slave question—and how can he lead by example? What legacy will he leave for those who follow after him? the Payne family spreads from the rivers of Kentucky to the hills of Indiana, and on into the Midwestern plains, growing in both number and character—character that exemplified a country. Pioneers of Freedom explores the kinship between man, God, and country, and what it means to have loved and lost. For any lover of history, this book begs us to ask questions about those who have gone before us, but also about what legacy we ourselves will leave. Author Anne Elkins goes deep into her own past to decipher what is fact and what is fiction. It is this history, laced with great men as well as lesser ones, that beckons us all to look at how we arrived in this country.
Publisher: Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc
ISBN: 9781613467008
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Where did we come from and where are we going? Who will lead and who will follow? The United States is a baby of a country. The Revolutionary War gave birth to the War of 1812, which shared a century with the American Civil War. As the nation grows, it needs only the best of citizens. John Payne just graduated from Transylvania Law School in Lexington, Kentucky, not into a life of mere work and play, but one where he must learn that love, war, and imminent death are all woven into the fabric of everyday life. John knows his country needs him, but that his family needs him even more. How will John and the Payne family deal with the pressing problems in this new country—war with England, westward expansion, the slave question—and how can he lead by example? What legacy will he leave for those who follow after him? the Payne family spreads from the rivers of Kentucky to the hills of Indiana, and on into the Midwestern plains, growing in both number and character—character that exemplified a country. Pioneers of Freedom explores the kinship between man, God, and country, and what it means to have loved and lost. For any lover of history, this book begs us to ask questions about those who have gone before us, but also about what legacy we ourselves will leave. Author Anne Elkins goes deep into her own past to decipher what is fact and what is fiction. It is this history, laced with great men as well as lesser ones, that beckons us all to look at how we arrived in this country.
Pioneers of Freedom ... With an Introduction by Norman Thomas
Author: MacAlister COLEMAN
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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