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African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom

Author : Ashley Towle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666905720
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom written by Ashley Towle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book examines how African Americans in the South made sense of the devastating loss of life unleashed by the Civil War and emancipation. During and after the war, African Americans died in vast numbers from battle, disease, and racial violence. While freedom was a momentous event for the formerly enslaved, it was also deadly. Through an investigation into how African Americans reacted to and coped with the passing away of loved ones and community members, Ashley Towle argues that freedpeople gave credence to their free status through their experiences with mortality. African Americans harnessed the power of death in a variety of arenas, including within the walls of national and private civilian cemeteries, in applications for widows’ pensions, in the pulpits of black churches, around séance tables, on the witness stand at congressional hearings, and in the columns of African American newspapers. In the process of mourning the demise of kith and kin, black people reconstituted their families, forged communal bonds, and staked claims to citizenship, civil rights, and racial justice from the federal government. In a society upended by civil war and emancipation, death was political.

A New Birth of Freedom

Author : Charles L. Black
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300153637
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book A New Birth of Freedom written by Charles L. Black and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many . . . unwritten rights are somehow inherent in the American scheme of democracy. So where do these freedoms come from? . . . One of the nation`s most venerated thinkers about such matters offers a provocative and refreshing way to answer that question."—Neil A. Lewis, New York Times Book Review "An appealing interpretation of the founding papers."—Michael G. Radigan, New York Law Journal "A remarkably interesting book. It offers a way of looking at the Constitution that I had not thought about before."—Sanford Levinson, School of Law, University of Texas at Austin One of the most respected scholars of constitutional law here argues for a national commitment to human rights based on his interpretation of three critical documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution, and the "citizenship" and "privileges and immunities" clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The book presents a powerful case for reviewing and renewing the basis of our most important human rights.

Why We Can't Wait

Author : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807001139
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Why We Can't Wait written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” was widely circulated and published in numerous periodicals. After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter in Why We Can’t Wait, which tells the story of African American activism in the spring and summer of 1963. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by King, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. Often applauded as King’s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can’t Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace of school desegregation and civil rights legislation, King observed that by 1963—during which the country celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation—Asia and Africa were “moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence but we still creep at a horse-and-buggy pace.” King examines the history of the civil rights struggle, noting tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality, and asserts that African Americans have already waited over three centuries for civil rights and that it is time to be proactive: “For years now, I have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’”

The Black Athlete Revolt

Author : Shaun M. Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538153254
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Black Athlete Revolt written by Shaun M. Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Athlete Revolt is the first book to take a historical and contemporary look at how Black athletes have used their influence to move beyond protests and create substantial change for Black Americans. Spanning from the civil rights movement to today, this book reveals the ever-evolving and important role of Black athlete activism.

Death Or Liberty

Author : Douglas R. Egerton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199782253
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Death Or Liberty written by Douglas R. Egerton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, the author offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800.

Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North

Author : Graham Russell Hodges
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780945612513
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North written by Graham Russell Hodges and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the development of a single African American community in eastern New Jersey, Hodges examines the experience of slavery and freedom in the rural north. This unique social history addresses many long held assumptions about the experience of slavery and emancipation outside the south. For example, by tracing the process by which whites maintained "a durable architecture of oppression" and a rigid racial hierarchy, it challenges the notions that slavery was milder and that racial boundaries were more permeable in the north. Monmouth County, New Jersey, because of its rich African American heritage and equally well-preserved historical record, provides an outstanding opportunity to study the rural life of an entire community over the course of two centuries. Hodges weaves an intricate pattern of life and death, work and worship, from the earliest settlement to the end of the Civil War.

Slavery, War, and a New Birth of Freedom

Author : Jeffrey H. Hacker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459830
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Slavery, War, and a New Birth of Freedom written by Jeffrey H. Hacker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery, War, and a New Birth of Freedom: 1840s-1877, a new title in the six-title series History Through Literature: American Voices, American Themes, provides insights and analysis regarding the history, literature, and cultural climate of the eras of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. It brings together informational text and primary documents that cover notable historic events and trends, authors, literary works, social movements, and cultural and artistic themes. Slavery, War, and a New Birth of Freedom begins with an interdisciplinary Chronology that identifies, defines, and places in context the notable historical events, literary works, authors' lives, and cultural landmarks of the period. This is followed by a comprehensive overview essay that summarizes the era's major historical trends, social movements, cultural and artistic themes, literary voices, and enduring works as reflections of each other and the spirit of the times. The core content comprises 20-30 articles on representative writers of the period, along with excerpts from essential literary works that highlight a historical theme, sociocultural movement, or the confluence of the two. These excerpts serve the Common Core emphasis on "informational texts from a broad range of cultures and periods", including "stories, drama, poetry, and literary nonfiction".

Sick from Freedom

Author : Jim Downs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199908788
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Sick from Freedom written by Jim Downs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of the bitterest ironies in American history--that the emancipation of the slaves, seen as one of the great turning points in U.S. history, had devastating consequences for innumerable freed people. Drawing on massive new research into the records of the Medical Division of the Freedmen's Bureau-a nascent national health system that cared for more than one million freed slaves-he shows how the collapse of the plantation economy released a plague of lethal diseases. With emancipation, African Americans seized the chance to move, migrating as never before. But in their journey to freedom, they also encountered yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, and exposure. To address this crisis, the Medical Division hired more than 120 physicians, establishing some forty underfinanced and understaffed hospitals scattered throughout the South, largely in response to medical emergencies. Downs shows that the goal of the Medical Division was to promote a healthy workforce, an aim which often excluded a wide range of freedpeople, including women, the elderly, the physically disabled, and children. Downs concludes by tracing how the Reconstruction policy was then implemented in the American West, where it was disastrously applied to Native Americans. The widespread medical calamity sparked by emancipation is an overlooked episode of the Civil War and its aftermath, poignantly revealed in Sick from Freedom.

Slave Breeding

Author : Gregory D. Smithers
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059151
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Slave Breeding written by Gregory D. Smithers and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated the sexual practices and marital status of enslaved African Americans to reproduce new generations of slaves for profit. In this bold and provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. He argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South. By placing African American histories and memories of slave breeding within the larger context of America’s history of racial and gender discrimination, Smithers sheds much-needed light on African American collective memory, racialized perceptions of fragile black families, and the long history of racially motivated violence against men, women, and children of color.

Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents [2 volumes]

Author : Herbert C. Covey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents [2 volumes] written by Herbert C. Covey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents takes readers on an insightful journey through the life experiences of African Americans over the centuries, capturing African American experiences, challenges, accomplishments, and daily lives, often in their own words. This two-volume set provides readers with a balanced collection of materials that captures the wide-ranging experiences of African American people over the history of North America. Volume 1 begins with the enslavement and transportation of slaves to North America and ends with the Civil War; Volume 2 continues with the beginning of Reconstruction through the election of Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency. Each volume provides a chronology of major events, a historic overview, and sections devoted to domestic, material, economic, intellectual, political, leisure, and religious life of African Americans for the respective time spans. Volume 1 covers a wide variety of topics from a multitude of perspectives in such areas as enslavement, life during the Civil War, common foods, housing, clothing, political opinions, and similar topics. Volume 2 addresses the civil rights movement, court cases, life under Jim Crow, Reconstruction, busing, housing segregation, and more. Each volume includes 100–110 primary sources with suggested readings from government publications, court testimony, census data, interviews, newspaper accounts, period appropriate letters, Works Progress Administration interviews, sermons, laws, diaries, and reports.

How Free Is Free?

Author : Leon F. Litwack
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067426164X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book How Free Is Free? written by Leon F. Litwack and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For more than a century, black southerners learned to live with betrayed expectations, diminishing prospects, and devastated aspirations. Their odyssey includes some of the most appalling examples of terrorism, violence, and dehumanization in the history of this nation. But, as Leon Litwack graphically demonstrates, it is at the same time an odyssey of resilience and resistance defined by day-to-day acts of protest: the fight for justice poignantly recorded in the stories, songs, images, and movements of a people trying to be heard. For black men and women, the question is: how free is free? Despite two major efforts to reconstruct race relations, injustices remain. From the height of Jim Crow to the early twenty-first century, struggles over racism persist despite court decisions and legislation. Few indignities were more pronounced than the World War II denial of basic rights and privileges to those responding to the call to make the world safe for democratic values—values that they themselves did not enjoy. And even the civil rights movement promise to redeem America was frustrated by change that was often more symbolic than real. Although a painful history to confront, Litwack’s book inspires as it probes the enduring story of racial inequality and the ongoing fight for freedom in black America with power and grace.

A New Birth of Freedom

Author : Charles Lund Black (Jr.)
Publisher : Putnam Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A New Birth of Freedom written by Charles Lund Black (Jr.) and published by Putnam Adult. This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the view that Americans have lost sight of the foundations of the Declaration of Independence, human rights, and the ninth and fourteenth amendments to the constitution and describes what should be done to insure their review and renewal.

The New Negro

Author : Alain Locke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Negro written by Alain Locke and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Families and Freedom

Author : Ira Berlin
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1565844408
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Families and Freedom written by Ira Berlin and published by The New Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the letters and personal testimonies of freed slaves to describe the remaking of the African-American family during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras

Christianity and Race in the American South

Author : Paul Harvey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022641549X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Race in the American South written by Paul Harvey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of race and religion in the American South is infused with tragedy, survival, and water—from St. Augustine on the shores of Florida’s Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. Determination, resistance, survival, even transcendence, shape the story of race and southern Christianities. In Christianity and Race in the American South, Paul Harvey gives us a narrative history of the South as it integrates into the story of religious history, fundamentally transforming our understanding of the importance of American Christianity and religious identity. Harvey chronicles the diversity and complexity in the intertwined histories of race and religion in the South, dating back to the first days of European settlement. He presents a history rife with strange alliances, unlikely parallels, and far too many tragedies, along the way illustrating that ideas about the role of churches in the South were critically shaped by conflicts over slavery and race that defined southern life more broadly. Race, violence, religion, and southern identity remain a volatile brew, and this book is the persuasive historical examination that is essential to making sense of it.

Death and the American South

Author : Craig Thompson Friend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107084202
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Death and the American South written by Craig Thompson Friend and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and the American South is an edited collection of twelve never-before-published essays, featuring leading senior scholars as well as influential up-and-coming historians. The contributors use a variety of methodological approaches for their research and explore different parts of the South and varying themes in history.

The Cause of Freedom

Author : Jonathan Scott Holloway
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190915196
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Cause of Freedom written by Jonathan Scott Holloway and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race, slavery, and ideology in colonial North America -- Resistance and African American identity before the Civil War -- War, freedom, and a nation reconsidered -- Civilization, race, and the politics of uplift -- The making of the modern Civil Rights Movement(s) -- The paradoxes of post-civil rights America -- Epilogue: Stony the road we trod.