The Negro's Complaint: a Poem. To which is Added, Pity for Poor Africans. [A Children's Book. With Coloured Woodcuts.]
Author: William Cowper
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Published: 1826
Total Pages: 36
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Author: William Cowper
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Published: 1826
Total Pages: 36
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Publisher: Gale and the British Library
Published: 1826
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9781535813891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carme Manuel
Publisher: Universitat de València
Published: 2022-04-13
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 8491349618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe texts included in this anthology illustrate the wide range of possibilities that abolitionist writings offered to American children during the first half of the nineteenth century. Composing their works under the wings of the antislavery movement, authors responded to the unequal and controversial development of abolitionist politics during the decades that led up to the outbreak of the Civil War. These writers struggled to teach children “to feel right,” and attempted to instruct them to actively respond to the injustice of the slavery system as rendered visible by a harrowing visual archive of suffering bodies compiled by both English and American antislavery promoters. Reading was equated with knowledge and knowledge was equated with moral responsibility, and therefore reading about “the abominations of slavery” became an act of emotional personal transformation. Children were thus turned into powerful agents of political change and potential activists to spread the abolitionist message. Invited to comply with a higher law that entailed the breaking of their nation’s edicts, they were morally rewarded by the Christian God and approvingly applauded by their elders for their violation of these same American regulations. These texts enclosed immeasurable value for young nineteenth-century Americans to fulfill a more democratic and egalitarian role in their future. Undoubtedly, abolitionist writings for children took away American children’s innocence and transformed them into juvenile abolitionists and empowered compassionate citizens.
Author: Eric Fretz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-03-23
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0313380570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work examines the fascinating life and art of the African American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). Jean-Michel Basquiat was barely out of his teens when he rocketed to the center of New York's art scene. He was 27 when he died of a heroin overdose. Always controversial, Basquiat is now established as a major contemporary painter whose unique work continues to enthrall. Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography covers the artist's Brooklyn childhood, his teenage years as a homeless graffiti painter, and his rise through the art world. Along with a discussion of his life and work, including his use of Afrocentric themes, the book offers background on related contemporary art movements. Special attention is given to Basquiat's friendship with Keith Haring and collaborations with Andy Warhol. The book also explores Basquiat's difficult relations with gallery owners and other authority figures, his problems with drug use, and his early death. A final chapter covers his continuing relevance and ongoing influence.
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 616
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 778
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of California (System). Institute of Library Research
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 876
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacob Riis
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 145850042X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel Hundley
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2008-10
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1429014989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2006-05-30
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 0810119714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wide-ranging consideration of the nature and significance of Pushkin's African heritage Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. This child, later known as Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was to become Peter's godson and to live to a ripe old age, having attained the rank of general and the status of Russian nobility. More important, he was to become the great-grandfather of Russia's greatest national poet, Alexander Pushkin. It is the contention of the editors of this book, borne out by the essays in the collection, that Pushkin's African ancestry has played the role of a "wild card" of sorts as a formative element in Russian cultural mythology; and that the ways in which Gannibal's legacy has been included in or excluded from Pushkin's biography over the last two hundred years can serve as a shifting marker of Russia's self-definition. The first single volume in English on this rich topic, Under the Sky of My Africa addresses the wide variety of interests implicated in the question of Pushkin's blackness-race studies, politics, American studies, music, mythopoetic criticism, mainstream Pushkin studies. In essays that are by turns biographical, iconographical, cultural, and sociological in focus, the authors-representing a broad range of disciplines and perspectives-take us from the complex attitudes toward race in Russia during Pushkin's era to the surge of racism in late Soviet and post-Soviet contemporary Russia. In sum, Under the Sky of My Africa provides a wealth of basic material on the subject as well as a series of provocative readings and interpretations that will influence future considerations of Pushkin and race in Russian culture.