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Author: Doris Kadish
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2012-10-17
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1781386536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new study brings to life the unique contribution of French women during the early nineteenth century, a key period in the history of colonialism and slavery. It offers in-depth readings of works by five antislavery writers – Germaine de Staël, Claire Duras, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Charlotte Dard and Sophie Doin.
Author: Catherine Kerrison
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1101886242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes a partial Heming's family tree.
Author: Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-04-06
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 022614755X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWashington. The widow Washington ; Martha Dandridge ; Married lady ; Mistress of Mount Vernon ; Revolutionary war ; First lady ; Slaves in the president's house ; Home again -- Jefferson. Martha Wayles ; Mistress of Monticello I ; War in Virginia ; Birth and death at Monticello ; Patsy Jefferson and Sally Hemings ; First lady ; Mistress of Monticello II ; The Hemingses ; Death of Thomas Jefferson -- Madison. Dolley Payne ; Mrs. Madison ; First lady ; Mistress of Montpelier ; Decline of Montpelier ; The widow Madison ; Sale of Montpelier ; In Washington ; Death of Dolley Madison -- Epilogue inside and outside
Author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1101529458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis story of Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, tells a darker piece of America's history from an often unseen perspective-that of three of Jefferson's slaves-including two of his own children. As each child grows up and tells his story, the contradiction between slavery and freedom becomes starker, calliing into question the real meaning of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This poignant story sheds light on what life was like as one of Jefferson's invisible offspring.
Author: Bob Lipscomb
Publisher: Yawn's Books & More, Incorporated
Published: 2016-04-05
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781943529476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a group of settlers move into the Appalachian Mountains, they face the monumental task of carving new farms from a frontier area. For those settlers, the task is made easier because they can rely on slaves they brought with them. But for the slaves, this new area means not just brutally hard work, but separation from families they left behind. And for one of those slaves, a young woman, it means additional indignities: not only is she her owner's slave-she is his daughter as well. The Slave Daughter is based on a true story, now largely shrouded in time. From that story Bob Lipscomb has crafted a novel portraying the slaves' fears and suffering, but by recounting their endurance and courage, he has demonstrated their towering humanity.
Author: Ramin Ganeshram
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780545538237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn expoloration of fifty influential and inspirational women who changed the world. Everyone is buzzing about the president's birthday! Especially George Washington's servants who scurry around the kitchen preparing to make this the best celebration ever. Oh, how George Washington loves his cake! And, oh, how he depends on Hercules, his head chef, to make it for him. Hercules, a slave, takes great pride in baking the president's cake. But this year there is one problem--they are out of sugar. This story, told in the voice of Delia, Hercules' young daughter, is based on real events, and underscores the loving exchange between a very determined father and his eager daughter who are faced with an unspoken, bittersweet reality.
Author: Philip D. Morgan
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 730
ISBN-13: 0807838535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similarities. The result is a detailed and comprehensive view of slave life in the colonial American South. Morgan explores the role of land and labor in shaping culture, the everyday contacts of masters and slaves that defined the possibilities and limitations of cultural exchange, and finally the interior lives of blacks--their social relations, their family and kin ties, and the major symbolic dimensions of life: language, play, and religion. He provides a balanced appreciation for the oppressiveness of bondage and for the ability of slaves to shape their lives, showing that, whatever the constraints, slaves contributed to the making of their history. Victims of a brutal, dehumanizing system, slaves nevertheless strove to create order in their lives, to preserve their humanity, to achieve dignity, and to sustain dreams of a better future.
Author: Gad J. Heuman
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 824
ISBN-13: 9780415213035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. Spanning almost five centuries - the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth - the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern western world.
Author: Edward Ball
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 146689749X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new preface by the author The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, "a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.'"
Author: Kimberly D. Russaw
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1978700490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the expectations and circumstances of women’s lives in ancient Israel have received considerable attention in recent scholarship, to date little attention has been focused on the role of daughters in Hebrew narrative‒‒that is, of yet unmarried female members of the household, who are not yet mothers. Kimberly D. Russaw argues that daughters are more than foils for the males (fathers, brothers, etc.) in biblical narratives and that they often use particular tactics to navigate antagonistic systems of power in their worlds. Institutions and power structures favor the patriarch, sons inherit such privileges and benefits, and wives and mothers are ascribed special status because they ensure the patrilineal legacy by birthing sons; but daughters do not receive such social favor or standing. Instead of privileging daughters, systems and institutions control their bodies, restrict their access, and constrict their movement. Combining philological data, social-science models, and cross-cultural comparisons, Russaw examines the systems that constrict biblical daughters in their worlds and the strategies they employ when hostile social forces threaten their well-being.
