Slave Life in Georgia
Author: John Brown
Publisher:
Published: 1855
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13:
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Georgia Slave Narratives
Author: Federal Writers Project
Publisher: Native American Book Publishers
Published: 1938-01-01
Total Pages: 1435
ISBN-13: 1878592785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compiled under the Franklin Roosevelt administration during the New Deal and economic relief and recovery program. Each entry represents an oral history of a former slave or a descendant of a former slave and his or her personal account of life during slavery and emancipation. These interviews were published as type written records that were difficult to read. This new edition has been enlarged and enhanced for greater legibility. No library collection in Georgia would be complete without a copy of Georgia Slave Narratives.
Georgia Slave Narratives
Author: Federal Writers' Project
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2006-07
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1557090130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAutobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia
Author: Patrick Tailfer
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2010-03
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 1429023074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWon’t Lose This Dream
Author: Andrew Gumbel
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2024-09-03
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1620979284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe “heartfelt” (Shelf Awareness) story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students Published to wide acclaim, Won’t Lose This Dream is the “illuminating” (Times Literary Supplement) story of a public university that has blazed an extraordinary trail for lower-income and first-generation students in downtown Atlanta, the birthplace of the civil rights movement. “A powerful story of institutional transformation” (bestselling author Beverly Daniel Tatum), Won’t Lose This Dream shows how Georgia State University has upended the conventional wisdom about low-income students by harnessing the power of big data to identify and remove obstacles that previously stopped them from graduating—an earthshaking achievement that is reverberating across every college campus today. “Drawing on extensive on-the-ground reporting” (Kirkus Reviews), Andrew Gumbel delivers a thrilling, blow-by-blow account of visionary leaders who overcame fierce resistance, and the remarkable students whose resilience and determination inspired the work at every stage. Their success shows how the promise of social advancement through talent and hard work, the essence of the American dream, can be rekindled even in an age of deep inequalities and divisive politics. “A superb work for anyone interested in higher education” (Library Journal), Won’t Lose This Dream “lays out a persuasive vision for reform” (Publishers Weekly) and a concrete vision of higher ed that works for all Americans.
Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast
Author: Charles Colcock Jones
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0820343552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his family's rice and cotton plantation. It has been out of print and largely unavailable until now. Jones saw the stories as a coastal variation of Joel Chandler Harris's inland dialect tales and sought to preserve their unique language and character. Through Jones' rendering of the sound and syntax of nineteenth-century Gullah, the lively stories describe the adventures and mishaps of such characters as "Buh Rabbit," "Buh Ban-Yad Rooster," and other animals. The tales range from the humorous to the instructional and include stories of the "sperits," Daddy Jupiter's "vision," a dying bullfrog's last wish, and others about how "buh rabbit gained sense" and "why the turkey buzzard won't eat crabs."
Chained in Silence
Author: Talitha L. LeFlouria
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2015-04-27
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1469622483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this vivid work of history, Talitha L. LeFlouria draws from a rich array of primary sources to piece together the stories of these women, recounting what they endured in Georgia's prison system and what their labor accomplished. LeFlouria argues that African American women's presence within the convict lease and chain-gang systems of Georgia helped to modernize the South by creating a new and dynamic set of skills for black women. At the same time, female inmates struggled to resist physical and sexual exploitation and to preserve their human dignity within a hostile climate of terror. This revealing history redefines the social context of black women's lives and labor in the New South and allows their stories to be told for the first time.
The Class of '65
Author: Jim Auchmutey
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2015-03-31
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1610393554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, whose members devoutly and publicly supported racial equality. When he refused to insult and attack his school's first black students in 1964, Greg was mistreated as badly as they were: harassed and bullied and beaten. In the summer after his senior year, as racial strife in Americus -- and the nation -- reached its peak, Greg left Georgia. Forty-one years later, a dozen former classmates wrote letters to Greg, asking his forgiveness and inviting him to return for a class reunion. Their words opened a vein of painful memory and unresolved emotion, and set him on a journey that would prove healing and saddening. The Class of '65 is more than a heartbreaking story from the segregated South. It is also about four of Greg's classmates -- David Morgan, Joseph Logan, Deanie Dudley, and Celia Harvey -- who came to reconsider the attitudes they grew up with. How did they change? Why, half a lifetime later, did reaching out to the most despised boy in school matter to them? This noble book reminds us that while ordinary people may acquiesce to oppression, we all have the capacity to alter our outlook and redeem ourselves.
Georgia Narratives
Author: Federal Writers' Project (Ga.)
Publisher:
Published: 1941
Total Pages:
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStories I Stole from Georgia
Author: Wendell Steavenson
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2004-02-24
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780802140678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir of life in Georgia after the fall of Communism introduces readers to the memorable, and sometimes insane, people who struggled to dominate the republics--and survive in them--after the decline of Soviet power.
