If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America
Author: Anne Kamma
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9780439567060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvites readers to revisit the past and see what it was like to grow up as a slave in America.
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Author: Anne Kamma
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9780439567060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvites readers to revisit the past and see what it was like to grow up as a slave in America.
Author: Anne Kamma
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9780329359645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is hard to imagine that, once, a person in America could be "owned" by another person. But from the time the colonies were settled in the 1600s until the end of the Civil War in 1865, millions of black people were bought and sold like goods. Where did the slaves come from? Where did they live when they were brought to this country? What kind of work did they do? With compassion and respect for the enslaved, this book answers questions children might have about this era in American history.
Author: Anne Kamma
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2004-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781417648733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor use in schools and libraries only. Offers readers a look at the life and times of slaves in America from the 1600s through the Civil War by providing answers to basic questions about how slaves were brought here, where they lived when they arrived, and what types of work they were made to do.
Author: Douglas A. Blackmon
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2012-10-04
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1848314132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Author: Ellen Levine
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780590451567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnswers questions about the background of the underground railroad, explains what it was like to be a slave, and describes the hardships faced by fugitive slaves.
Author: Edward E Baptist
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2016-10-25
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 0465097685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.
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Published: 1839
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Francis Bok
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1429971010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this groundbreaking modern slave narrative, Francis Bok shares his remarkable story with grace, honesty, and a wisdom gained from surviving ten years in captivity. May, 1986: Selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan, seven year old Francis Bok's life was shattered when Arab raiders on horseback, armed with rifles and long knives, burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and women and gathering the young children into a group. Strapped to horses and donkeys, Francis and others were taken north, into lives of slavery under wealthy Muslim farmers. For ten years, Francis lived alone in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. Fed with scraps from the table, slowly learning bits of an unfamiliar language and religion, the boy had almost no human contact other than his captor's family. After two failed attempts to escape-each bringing severe beatings and death threats-Francis finally escaped at age seventeen, a dramatic breakaway on foot that was his final chance. Yet his slavery did not end there, for even as he made his way toward the capital city of Khartoum, others sought to deprive him of his freedom. Determined to avoid that fate and discover what had happened to his family on that terrible day in 1986, the teenager persevered through prison and refugee camps for three more years, winning the attention of United Nations officials and being granted passage to America. Now a student and an anti-slavery activist, Francis Bok has made it his life mission to combat world slavery. His is the first voice to speak for an estimated twenty seven million people held against their will in nearly every nation, including our own. Escape from Slavery is at once a riveting adventure, a story of desperation and triumph, and a window revealing a world that few have survived to tell.
Author: Rochelle Riley
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2018-02-05
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0814345158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is a must-read for every American.
Author: Ira Berlin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004-09-30
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780674020832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIra Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later. Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Here, however, Berlin offers a dynamic vision, a major reinterpretation in which slaves and their owners continually renegotiated the terms of captivity. Slavery was thus made and remade by successive generations of Africans and African Americans who lived through settlement and adaptation, plantation life, economic transformations, revolution, forced migration, war, and ultimately, emancipation. Berlin's understanding of the processes that continually transformed the lives of slaves makes Generations of Captivity essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of antebellum America. Connecting the Charter Generation to the development of Atlantic society in the seventeenth century, the Plantation Generation to the reconstruction of colonial society in the eighteenth century, the Revolutionary Generation to the Age of Revolutions, and the Migration Generation to American expansionism in the nineteenth century, Berlin integrates the history of slavery into the larger story of American life. He demonstrates how enslaved black people, by adapting to changing circumstances, prepared for the moment when they could seize liberty and declare themselves the Freedom Generation. This epic story, told by a master historian, provides a rich understanding of the experience of African-American slaves, an experience that continues to mobilize American thought and passions today.