The Whipping Man
The Whipping Man

Author: Matthew Lopez

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 0573697094

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Drama / Characters: 3 male It is April, 1865. The Civil War is over and throughout the south, slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated. Into the chaos of war-torn Richmond comes Caleb DeLeon, a young Confederate officer who has been severely wounded. He finds his family's home in ruins and abandoned, save for two former slaves, Simon and John, who wait in the empty house for the family's return. As the three

The Whipping Boy
The Whipping Boy

Author: Sid Fleischman

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2003-04-15

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 0060521228

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A Prince and a Pauper Jemmy, once a poor boy living on the streets, now lives in a castle. As the whipping boy, he bears the punishment when Prince Brat misbehaves, for it is forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. The two boys have nothing in common and even less reason to like one another. But when they find themselves taken hostage after running away, they are left with no choice but to trust each other.

The Whipping Man
The Whipping Man

Author: Alexander DeMarcus

Publisher: America Star Books

Published: 2010-05-11

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 163448259X

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Detective Paris (Ponch) Green and the Motor City Crime Squad faces one of the most dangerous and intellectual serial-killers their city has ever seen.

The Whipping Club
The Whipping Club

Author: Deborah Henry

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 9780984553174

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Chronicles an interfaith (Jewish-Catholic) couple's attempt in 1960s Ireland to save their son from the corrupt orphanage system and their daughter from religious intolerance.

Lash
Lash

Author: Alvin Easter

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781469100265

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“All hands on deck to witness punishment!” Although whippings of men have been a commonly-depicted punishment in the movies ever since the days of the nickelodeon, no book -- until now -- has attempted to document this vital aspect of screen-sadism. By describing and then discussing the movie’s hundred great male-whipping scenes, (ranging from 1932’s Mask of Fu Manchu to 2004’s Passion of the Christ and featuring such famous actors as Burt Lancaster, Alan Ladd, Elvis Presley, and John Wayne), Lash! tries to fill this void with wit, perception, and authority.

Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg

Author: Earl J. Hess

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2016-09-02

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1469628767

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As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817–1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South's military failures but also as the chief whipping boy of the Confederacy. The strongly negative opinions of Bragg's contemporaries have continued to color assessments of the general's military career and character by generations of historians. Rather than take these assessments at face value, Earl J. Hess's biography offers a much more balanced account of Bragg, the man and the officer. While Hess analyzes Bragg's many campaigns and battles, he also emphasizes how his contemporaries viewed his successes and failures and how these reactions affected Bragg both personally and professionally. The testimony and opinions of other members of the Confederate army--including Bragg's superiors, his fellow generals, and his subordinates--reveal how the general became a symbol for the larger military failures that undid the Confederacy. By connecting the general's personal life to his military career, Hess positions Bragg as a figure saddled with unwarranted infamy and humanizes him as a flawed yet misunderstood figure in Civil War history.

Whipping Girl
Whipping Girl

Author: Julia Serano

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1580056237

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This classic manifesto is “a foundational text for anyone hoping to understand transgender politics and culture in the U.S. today.” (NPR) *Named as one of 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time by Ms. Magazine* In Whipping Girl, biologist and trans activist Julia Serano shares her experiences and insights—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole. Serano's well-honed arguments and pioneering advocacy stem from her ability to bridge the gap between the often-disparate biological and social perspectives on gender. In this provocative manifesto, she exposes how deep-rooted the cultural belief is that femininity is frivolous, weak, and passive. In addition to debunking popular misconceptions about being transgender, Serano makes the case that today's feminists and transgender activists must work to embrace and empower femininity—in all of its wondrous forms.

Hamel, the Obeah Man
Hamel, the Obeah Man

Author: Cynric R. Williams

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2010-10-05

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1770481389

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Hamel, the Obeah Man is set against the backdrop of early nineteenth-century Jamaica, and tells the story of a slave rebellion planned in the ruins of a plantation. Though the novel is sympathetic to white slaveholders and hostile to anti-slavery missionaries, it presents a complex picture of the culture and resistance of the island’s black majority. Hamel, the spiritual leader of the rebels, becomes more and more central to the story, and is a surprisingly powerful and ultimately ambiguous figure. This Broadview Edition includes a new foreword by Kamau Brathwaite, as well as a critical introduction and appendices. The extensive appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel, other authors’ and travellers’ descriptions of Jamaica, and historical documents related to slave insurrections and the debate over slavery.

Masterless Men
Masterless Men

Author: Keri Leigh Merritt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-05-08

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 110718424X

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This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

The Half Has Never Been Told
The Half Has Never Been Told

Author: Edward E Baptist

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 0465097685

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A 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.