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Ancestors of Worthy Life

Author : Teresa S. Moyer
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813072956
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Ancestors of Worthy Life written by Teresa S. Moyer and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the lives of the enslaved at the historic site of Mount Clare Enslaved African Americans helped transform the United States economy, culture, and history. Yet these individuals' identities, activities, and sometimes their very existence are often all but expunged from historically preserved plantations and house museums. Reluctant to show and interpret the homes and lives of the enslaved, many sites have never shared the stories of the African Americans who once lived and worked on their land. One such site is Mount Clare near Baltimore, Maryland, where Teresa Moyer pulls no punches in her critique of racism in historic preservation. In her balanced discussion, Moyer examines the inextricably entangled lives of the enslaved, free Black people, and white landowners. Her work draws on evidence from archaeology, history, geology, and other fields to explore the ways that white privilege continues to obscure the contributions of Black people at Mount Clare. She demonstrates that a landscape's post-emancipation history can make a powerful statement about Black heritage. Ultimately she argues that the inclusion of enslaved persons in the history of these sites would honor these "ancestors of worthy life," make the social good of public history available to African Americans, and address systemic racism in America. Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Leading a Worthy Life

Author : Leon R. Kass
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641770996
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Leading a Worthy Life written by Leon R. Kass and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer offering authoritative guidance, the young are now at sea—regarding work, family, religion, and civic identity. The true, the good, and the beautiful have few defenders, and the higher cynicism mocks any innocent love of wisdom or love of country. We are supercompetent regarding efficiency and convenience; we are at a loss regarding what it’s all for. Yet because the old orthodoxies have crumbled, our “interesting time” paradoxically offers genuine opportunities for renewal and growth. The old Socratic question “How to live?” suddenly commands serious attention. Young Americans, if liberated from the prevailing cynicism, will readily embrace weighty questions and undertake serious quests for a flourishing life. All they (and we) need is encouragement. This book provides that necessary encouragement by illuminating crucial—and still available—aspects of a worthy life, and by defending them against their enemies. With chapters on love, family, and friendship; human excellence and human dignity; teaching, learning, and truth; and the great human aspirations of Western civilization, it offers help to both secular and religious readers, to people who are looking on their own for meaning and to people who are looking to deepen what they have been taught or to square it with the spirit of our times.

Tracing Your Ancestors' Lives

Author : Barbara J. Starmans
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473879736
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Tracing Your Ancestors' Lives written by Barbara J. Starmans and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing Your Ancestors Lives is not a comprehensive study of social history but instead an exploration of the various aspects of social history of particular interest to the family historian. It has been written to help researchers to go beyond the names, dates and places in their pedigree back to the time when their ancestors lived. Through the research advice, resources and case studies in the book, researchers can learn about their ancestors, their families and the society they lived in and record their stories for generations to come. Each chapter highlights an important general area of study. Topics covered include the family and society; domestic life; birth life and death; work, wages and economy; community, religion and government. Barbara J. Starmanss handbook encourages family historians to immerse themselves more deeply in their ancestors time and place. Her work will give researchers a fascinating insight into what their ancestors lives were like.

A Memento of Ancestors and Ancestral Homes

Author : Margaret Rives King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Memento of Ancestors and Ancestral Homes written by Margaret Rives King and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ancestors:

Author : Brandon Massey
Publisher : Dafina
ISBN 13 : 0758264615
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book The Ancestors: written by Brandon Massey and published by Dafina. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead. Some evils are so great that they transcend death. In Brandon Massey's "The Patriarch," a young writer travels to the hushed backwoods of Mississippi, where dangerous secrets surface as a generations-old feud comes to bone-chilling new life. . . Buried. The souls of the mistreated always find a way to be heard. In L.A. Banks's "Ev'ry Shut Eye Ain't Sleep," violent visions haunt a man--until he's handed an opportunity to right the wrongs of the past and prevent unspeakable acts from occurring once again. . . Forgotten. When horrors are covered up and lost, our ancestors must find a way--even in death--to tell their tales. In Tananarive Due's "Ghost Summer," ancestors haunt the nights of two children. And when a grisly discovery is made, these ancestors will make their mark on both the dead and the living. . . "Massey ventures into areas unexplored by most other black novelists. The result is artful and stunning." --Chicago Tribune "Tananarive Due is creating classics." --Tina McElroy Ansa "Banks's writing is lush and detailed, fully bringing her characters to life (or unlife), weaving a complex world of Good vs. Evil with its own intricate hierarchy." --Fangoria Magazine

The New International Encyclopd̆ia

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The New International Encyclopd̆ia written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New International Encyclopaedia

Author : Daniel Coit Gilman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New International Encyclopaedia written by Daniel Coit Gilman and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New International Encyclopæeia

Author : Daniel Coit Gilman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New International Encyclopæeia written by Daniel Coit Gilman and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New International Encyclopædia

Author : Daniel Coit Gilman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New International Encyclopædia written by Daniel Coit Gilman and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

We Are Our Ancestors

Author : Richard F. Weaver
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434992381
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book We Are Our Ancestors written by Richard F. Weaver and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Descendants of James and Peter Noyes

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Descendants of James and Peter Noyes written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Spirituality

Author : Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761872612
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book African Spirituality written by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the Akan in Ghana as a paradigmatic African representative group, African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors, Third Edition offers a unique African developmental praxis to eternal life immortality. Indeed, this way of life is predicated on the awareness and application of certain intrinsic values, which, if followed, lead to eternal life. As a way of living, African spirituality begins when an individual becomes morally and ethically responsible for one’s own actions while engaged on an ethical path (Ɔbra Bↄ) in pursuance of one’s unique career endeavor (Nkrabea). Though an individual quest, society is, however, the arbiter of one’s ethical and moral life, when society confers on the person adjudged a success the stage title of Nana. At old age, Ɔbra Bↄ ends as an active endeavor. However, as repositories of wisdom, senior elders continue to inculcate in succeeding generations the principles, art, and mastery of ideal life (Ɔbra pa). Then upon death, senior elders are transformed into deities, bequeathing to living descendants names worthy of evocation and worship. Indeed, this book is the first study of its kind to draw on the experiences of an entire people, their psychological dispositions and effects on the Akan during adulthood. Thus, this book brings a unique perspective to the study of spirituality, religion, developmental psychological theory, what it means to achieve perfection as an elder on earth, and upon death join the esteemed company of the Nananom Nsamanfo (Ancestors).

Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas

Author : Charles Kendall Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas written by Charles Kendall Adams and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Remembering the Dead

Author : Sentus Francis Dikwe
Publisher : LIT Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3643962819
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Dead written by Sentus Francis Dikwe and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering the dead is a topic which connects various cultures and traditions. The reception of the African tradition of ancestorship is a theological enrichment in the ecumenical discussions all over the world. In our time, the exchange of gifts plays a great role in promoting unity of the Churches. Especially the concepts of African theology with the incomparable special position of Jesus Christ as "proto ancestor" are important for the interconfessional dialogues. The veneration of the ancestors in Africa can be a help to begin ecumenical discussions in this regional context on the question of the veneration of the saints. According to African tradition the ancestors also have influence on the process of purification. Therefore, the veneration of the ancestors contributes to providing answers to the ecumenical controversies about the understanding of the eschatological purification. Sentus Francis Dikwe SDS, born in 1980 in Morogoro, Tanzania, ordained priest of the Salvatorian Congregation. He attained doctorate in theology 2020 in Munster, Germany.

The American Year Book

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The American Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings

Author : Ruth Alexandra Symes
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473855438
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings written by Ruth Alexandra Symes and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialization, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words.

Dreaming with the Ancestors

Author : Shirley Boteler Mock
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806186089
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming with the Ancestors written by Shirley Boteler Mock and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and scholarly attention, but women's roles have largely been absent from that discussion. Now a scholar who gained an insider's perspective into the Black Seminole community in Texas and Mexico offers a rare and vivid picture of these women and their contributions. In Dreaming with the Ancestors, Shirley Boteler Mock explores the role that Black Seminole women have played in shaping and perpetuating a culture born of African roots and shaped by southeastern Native American and Mexican influences. Mock reveals a unique maroon culture, forged from an eclectic mixture of religious beliefs and social practices. At its core is an amalgam of African-derived traditions kept alive by women. The author interweaves documentary research with extensive interviews she conducted with leading Black Seminole women to uncover their remarkable history. She tells how these women nourished their families and held fast to their Afro-Seminole language — even as they fled slavery, endured relocation, and eventually sought new lives in new lands. Of key importance were the "warrior women" — keepers of dreams and visions that bring to life age-old African customs. Featuring more than thirty illustrations and maps, including historic photographs never before published, Dreaming with the Ancestors combines scholarly analysis with human interest to open a new window on both African American and American Indian history and culture.