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81) Slavery
Author
Series
Publisher
Connell Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Western slavery goes back 10,000 years to Mesopotamia, today's Iraq, where a male slave was worth an orchard of date palms. Female slaves were called on for sexual services, gaining freedom only when their masters died. This book traces slavery from classical times to the present. It shows how the enforced movement of more than 12 million Africans on to the Atlantic slave ships, and the scattering of more 11 million survivors across the colonies...
Author
Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"In 1870 Benjamin Turner, who spent the first 40 years of his life as a slave, was elected to the U.S. Congress. He was the first African American from Alabama to earn that distinction. In a recreation of Turner's own words, based on speeches and other writings that Turner left behind, co-authors Marti S. Rosner and Frye Gaillard have crafted the story of a remarkable man who taught himself to read when he was young and began a lifetime quest for...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism...
Author
Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1870 Benjamin Turner, who spent the first 40 years of his life as a slave, was elected to the U.S. Congress. He was the first African American from Alabama to earn that distinction. In a recreation of Turner's own words, based on speeches and other writings that Turner left behind, co-authors Marti S. Rosner and Frye Gaillard have crafted the story of a remarkable man who taught himself to read when he was young and began a lifetime quest for...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these "debts," prisoners were sold...
Author
Publisher
High Road Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Abolitionist's Journal is a skillfully researched and deeply engrossing story centering on the life and times of the author's great-great grandfather, George Richardson (1824-1911)--a fervently abolitionist preacher who offered shelter to runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad, served as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War, and founded a school in Texas for freed black slaves after the war, which still stands today as a testament...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Honeydripper: "Tyrone Purvis will try anything to keep his blues lounge, The Honeydripper, alive. So when a popular guitar player fails to slow up for a packed Saturday night, Purvis turns to a young wanderer for help"--From container.
Race to freedom: the Underground Railroad: "Chronicles the dangerous journey of four determined slaves from a cotton plantation in America to the "Promised Land" in Canada."--From container.
Nightjohn: The story of...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"David Ingram was an ordinary seaman of the Elizabethan age. He served on a slave ship captained by John Hawkins, the Queen's slaver. After sailing first to Africa and then taking enslaved people to sell in the Caribbean, the little fleet was nearly destroyed in a furious battle with the Spanish. Ingram and two other marooned men then walked over 3600 miles from Mexico to New Brunswick in eleven months before being rescued. A dozen years later Ingram...
91) The greatest American speeches: the stories and transcripts of the words that changed our history
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Presents speeches given by great Americans that inspired, provoked and changed history.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
HUCKLEBERRY FINN: After being kidnapped by his drunken father, Huck heads down the Mississippi with his buddy Jim and have many adventures. THE PROUD REBEL: After John Chandler's son goes mute following a tregedy, John searches for a doctor who can help him. Before he finds one, he and his family must work off a debt using their talented sheepdog, Lance. When a doctor is found, John has no money to pay for help for his son and must decide whether...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Season One: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, soldiers Lucius Vorenus...
94) Agents of empire: knights, corsairs, Jesuits and spies in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Malcolm takes this document as a point of departure to explore the lives of the entire Bruni family, whose members included an archbishop of the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the Battle of Lepanto--at which the Ottomans were turned back in the Eastern Mediterranean--in 1571, and a highly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A lecture series on the French Revolution. The 25 years between the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bourbon Restoration after Napoleon in 1814 is an astonishing period in world history. This era shook the foundations of the old world and marked a permanent shift for politics, religion, and society ; not just for France, but for all of Europe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Presents a comprehensive of the American Revolution, from the early settlement of the continent, through the crises of the 1760's and 1770's, to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and finally to the election of 1800. Also examines the role played by African Americans and Native Americans.