Real-life survivors step forward to show readers how they broke free from emotional, mental, and spiritual captivity, finding hope and joy in Christ. The authors present life-transforming guidance for anyone seeking freedom from destructive personal or spiritual conflicts, such as childhood abuse, compulsive thoughts and behaviors, eating disorders, sexual disorders, and depression. (July)
From Bondage to Freedom was written to portray the faithfulness of God in every season I walked through from surviving the genocide at five to surviving sexual abuse at nineteen. This book is not to magnify the traumatic events I faced but to show the power of transformation through Jesus Christ and his everlasting love. The book also shows the mighty ways of God, who can turn our pain into a purpose and our mess into a message to help others overcome their pain and walk a life of freedom. The book was written to bring hope and healing to every person who experienced pain and rejection, who always felt like an outcast to the society because of their past. This book may help a victim or a broken person to know that they don't have to love in bondage forever, for there is a way to freedom where they can experience joy and peace in the midst of their situation. From Bondage to Freedom is also a message of hope that shows how one can move beyond being a victim and become someone who overcomes the pain they faced.
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as “medical superbodies” highly suited for medical experimentation. In Medical Bondage, Cooper Owens examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynecologists created and disseminated medical fictions about their patients, such as their belief that black enslaved women could withstand pain better than white “ladies.” Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing, for decades to come, groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races or nationalities. Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals. It also retells the story of black enslaved women and of Irish immigrant women from the perspective of these exploited groups and thus restores for us a picture of their lives.
An old Jew looks back on his climb from the slums of New York into the rarefied world of wealth and intellect. He describes a romance with his college professor. By the author of A Diving Rock on the Hudson.
Freedom comes from knowing truth—and the One who is the Truth. In this study, readers discover the matchless freedom available in Christ, see God's grace, and take up the armor necessary to stand strong and victorious.
Arising from Bondage is an epic story of the struggle of the Indo-Caribbean people. From the 1830's through World War I hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers were shipped from India to the Caribbean and settled in the former British, Dutch, French and Spanish colonies. Like their predecessors, the African slaves, they labored on the sugar estates. Unlike the Africans their status was ambiguous--not actually enslaved yet not entirely free--they fought mightily to achieve power in their new home. Today in the English-speaking Caribbean alone there are one million people of Indian descent and they form the majority in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. This study, based on official documents and archives, as well as previously unpublished material from British, Indian and Caribbean sources, fills a major gap in the history of the Caribbean, India, Britain and European colonialism. It also contributes powerfully to the history of diaspora and migration.
Assists Latter-day Saints in understanding the principles of the gospel that harmonize so perfectly with the principles in each of the Twelve Steps of recovery. Each chapter is woven around a powerful collection of Book of Mormon scriptures and quotes for latter-day prophets. Thousands of people have already been blessed with increased recovery from otherwise insurmountable problems--addiction, compulsive behaviors, depression, trauma, abuse in childhood or as an adult, as well as the loss of a loverd one--by focusing these true principles on their particular challenges. Conveys a profound testimony that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is equal to any challenge we face.
May you find comfort in knowing that every situation holds a key to learn something! Failure is not the end but the beginning. These pages aims to give you hope for a better life, to better understand yourself and others. That you dont have to live in fear and doubt with images from past experiences holding you back. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. I want to be a little candle spreading the light of love for you, the reader. Never allow anyone to make you feel inferior or unworthy. We are born perfect and in the image of God. We are genetically connected to our family members, so we look like them but we are conditioned to think and react in a certain way because that is the way we were trained to do. This is habits we adopted! The miracle is that we can train ourselves to change those habits into new better ones by setting goals for ourselves. Visualization makes it possible to manifest anything you want in your life. Belief set the way to achieving that goal. Gratitude holds everything intact. Live your life to the fullest and live from the possibility of becoming the best you can be! Henry David Thoreau one time said: If you will endeavour to live the life you have imagined, you will meet with success unexpected in common hours
In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. The antislavery claim was that the negation of chattel status lay in the contracts of wage labor and marriage. Signifying self-ownership, volition, and reciprocal exchange among formally equal individuals, contract became the dominant metaphor for social relations and the very symbol of freedom. This 1999 book explores how a generation of American thinkers and reformers - abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, labor advocates, jurists, moralists, and social scientists - drew on contract to condemn the evils of chattel slavery as well as to measure the virtues of free society. Their arguments over the meaning of slavery and freedom were grounded in changing circumstances of labor and home life on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. At the heart of these arguments lay the problem of defining which realms of self and social existence could be rendered market commodities and which could not.
