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Biography of an American Bondman by His Daughter

Author : Josephine Brown
Publisher : Mint Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781513278667
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Biography of an American Bondman by His Daughter written by Josephine Brown and published by Mint Editions. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josephine Brown presents a detailed biography of her father, William Wells Brown, who was born on a plantation but escaped to become a successful abolitionist. Biography of an American Bondman by His Daughter is a viable supplement to the original Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive Slave Biography of an American Bondman by His Daughter gives new insight into William Wells Brown's eventful life. Josephine Brown presents a vivid account of his origins which began on a Kentucky plantation. She explains the glaring power imbalance between enslaved people, their overseers and plantation owners. She also explains how her father was hired out to perform various odd jobs including innkeeper, steamboat captain and even slave trafficker. It was a brutal existence where patience and persistence were key to survival. An illuminating record of one of the most prominent figures in the abolitionist movement. Josephine Brown provides an updated history of her father's personal and professional achievements. It's an eye-opening account of William Wells Brown's revolutionary life. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Biography of an American Bondman by His Daughter is both modern and readable.

Biography of an American Bondman

Author : Josephine Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biography of an American Bondman written by Josephine Brown and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biography of an American bondman

Author : Josephine Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Biography of an American bondman written by Josephine Brown and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Black Man

Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Black Man written by William Wells Brown and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biography of an American Bondman

Author : Josephine Brown
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781516951970
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Biography of an American Bondman written by Josephine Brown and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIVE different biographies of the subject of the following pages have been published, during the last seven years, --two in the United States and three in Great Britain. Of these, one was translated into German, and appeared in Dresden, and another was published in the French language in Paris. The writer of this, however, fancies that the relation which she holds to the author of "SKETCHES OF PLACES AND PEOPLE ABROAD," gives her an advantage over those who have preceded her. WILLIAM WELLS BROWN was born on the farm of Dr. John Young, near Lexington, Kentucky, on the 15th of March, 1815. His father's name was George Higgins, half brother to Dr. Young. The Doctor removed to the State of Missouri, and took with him William and his mother, the former being then an infant. Dr. Young located himself in the interior of the State, sixty miles above St. Louis, in a beautiful and fertile valley, a mile from the river. A finer situation for a farm could scarcely have been selected in any part of the country. With a climate favorable to agriculture, and soil rich, the most splendid crops of tobacco, hemp, flax and grain were produced on the new plantation. On this farm, Elizabeth (William's mother) was put to work at field service. Distinguished for her strength both of body and mind, and a woman of great courage, Elizabeth was considered one of the most valuable slaves on the place. Although Dr. Young was not thought to be the hardest of masters, he nevertheless employed, as an overseer, a man whose acts of atrocity could scarcely have been surpassed in any of the slave States. Grove Cook was a large, tall man, with rough features, red hair, grey eyes, and large, bushy eyebrows, which gave his face the appearance of a spaniel dog. Like most negro drivers, Cook was addicted to drunkenness, and when the least intoxicated, would use the whip without mercy upon those with whom he came in contact. This was the man selected by Dr. Young to look after his plantation, and superintend its affairs

Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave

Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave written by William Wells Brown and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of the author's experiences as a slave in St. Louis and elsewhere.

To Tell a Free Story

Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252054636
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book To Tell a Free Story written by William L. Andrews and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of Black autobiography from the colonial era through Emancipation. Beginning with the 1760 narrative by Briton Hammond, William L. Andrews explores first-person public writings by Black Americans. Andrews includes but also goes beyond slave narratives to analyze spiritual biographies, criminal confessions, captivity stories, travel accounts, interviews, and memoirs. As he shows, Black writers continuously faced the fact that northern whites often refused to accept their stories and memories as sincere, and especially distrusted portraits of southern whites as inhuman. Black writers had to silence parts of their stories or rely on subversive methods to make facts tellable while contending with the sensibilities of the white editors, publishers, and readers they relied upon and hoped to reach.

Our Nig, Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North

Author : Harriet E. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1400031206
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Nig, Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North written by Harriet E. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Nig is a classic of African American Literature that has proven to be an enduring contribution to our understanding of free blacks in the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1859, it was neglected for over a hundred years and is now the subject of renewed scholarly interest. A fascinating fusion of two literary modes of the nineteenth century--the sentimental novel and the slave narrative--Our Nig traces the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl who grows up as an indentured servant to a white Massachusetts family. And now, as new scholarship sheds light on the author's life, our appreciation for Our Nig is enhanced. With a new afterword by Barbara A. White.

Encyclopedia of the American Novel

Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 143814069X
Total Pages : 3854 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Novel written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 3854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.

Women (Re)Writing Milton

Author : Mandy Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000375811
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Women (Re)Writing Milton written by Mandy Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious, and social contexts across the globe and through the centuries. The book encompasses a rich range of different literary genres, artistic media, and academic disciplines and draws on the research of established Milton scholars and new Miltonists. Like the female authors and artists whom they explore, the contributors take up a variety of standpoints. As well as revisiting the work of established figures, the volume brings new female creative artists, new subjects, and new approaches to the study of Milton.

Black Abolitionists in Ireland

Author : Christine Kinealy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000065553
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Abolitionists in Ireland written by Christine Kinealy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the anti-slavery movement in Ireland is little known, yet when Frederick Douglass visited the country in 1845, he described Irish abolitionists as the most ‘ardent’ that he had ever encountered. Moreover, their involvement proved to be an important factor in ending the slave trade, and later slavery, in both the British Empire and in America. While Frederick Douglass remains the most renowned black abolitionist to visit Ireland, he was not the only one. This publication traces the stories of ten black abolitionists, including Douglass, who travelled to Ireland in the decades before the American Civil War, to win support for their cause. It opens with former slave, Olaudah Equiano, kidnapped as a boy from his home in Africa, and who was hosted by the United Irishmen in the 1790s; it closes with the redoubtable Sarah Parker Remond, who visited Ireland in 1859 and chose never to return to America. The stories of these ten men and women, and their interactions with Ireland, are diverse and remarkable.

Slavery in the United States [2 volumes]

Author : Junius P. Rodriguez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851095497
Total Pages : 911 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Slavery in the United States [2 volumes] written by Junius P. Rodriguez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, contextual presentation of all aspects—social, political, and economic—of slavery in the United States, from the first colonization through Reconstruction. For 250 years, slavery was part of the fabric of American life. The institution had an enormous economic impact and was central to the wealth of the agrarian South. It had as great an impact on American culture, cementing racism and other attitudes that echo into the present. This encyclopedia is an ambitious examination of all the issues surrounding slavery: the origins, the justifications, the controversies, and the human drama. These volumes represent the work of 75 distinguished scholars from around the world. Ten thematic essays present a thorough examination of slavery and slave culture, including a rare treatment of slavery from the slave's point of view. Three hundred A–Z entries provide instant access to specific people, issues, and events. Today, slavery's immorality seems obvious. This encyclopedia provides the student or general reader with an in-depth explanation of how the practice evolved and was normalized, then anathematized and abolished.

Practical Virtues

Author : Floyd H. Flake
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060090618
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Practical Virtues written by Floyd H. Flake and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As pastors of one of New York City's largest churches, Reverend Floyd Flake and his wife, Reverend M. Elaine McCollins Flake, are frequently sought after by those in need of guidance. Throughout their ministry, the Flakes have drawn from a distinguished array of stories, letters, hymns, narratives, and poems -- from James Baldwin and Maya Angelou to Arthur Ashe and Colin Powell -- to inspire families to live ethically in an often unethical world. Now, with Practical Virtues, they've gathered their favorites into a single, indispensable collection, paired with spiritual exercises for the soul.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter

Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598535943
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Clotel; or, The President's Daughter written by William Wells Brown and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Brown refashioned himself first as an agent of the Underground Railroad and then as an antislavery activist and self-taught orator and author, eventually becoming a foundational figure of African American literature. His most ambitious work, Clotel; or, the President’s Daughter (1853), the first novel written by an African American, purports to be the history of Thomas Jefferson’s black daughters and granddaughters. Dramatizing the victimization of black women under slavery, the novel measures the yawning chasm between America’s founding ideals and the brutal realities of bondage.

Black Prometheus

Author : Jared Hickman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190272589
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Black Prometheus written by Jared Hickman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prometheus myth, for several reasons became a crucial site for conceptualizing human liberation in the immanent space of a finite globe structured by white domination and black slavery. The titan's defiant theft of fire from the regnant gods was translated through a high-stakes racial coding either as an 'African' revolt against the cosmic status quo that augured a pure autonomy, a black revolutionary immanence against which idealist philosophers like Hegel defined their projects and slaveholders defended their lives and positions. Or as a 'Caucasian' reflection of the divine power evidently working in favor of Euro-Christian civilization that transmuted the naked egoism of conquest into a righteous heteronomy-Euro-Christian civilization's mobilization by the Absolute or its internalization of a transcendent principle of universal Reason.

Passing and the Fictions of Identity

Author : Elaine K. Ginsberg
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822317647
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Passing and the Fictions of Identity written by Elaine K. Ginsberg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passing refers to the process whereby a person of one race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation adopts the guise of another. Historically, this has often involved black slaves passing as white in order to gain their freedom. More generally, it has served as a way for women and people of color to access male or white privilege. In their examination of this practice of crossing boundaries, the contributors to this volume offer a unique perspective for studying the construction and meaning of personal and cultural identities. These essays consider a wide range of texts and moments from colonial times to the present that raise significant questions about the political motivations inherent in the origins and maintenance of identity categories and boundaries. Through discussions of such literary works as Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, The Autobiography of an Ex–Coloured Man, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Hidden Hand, Black Like Me, and Giovanni’s Room, the authors examine issues of power and privilege and ways in which passing might challenge the often rigid structures of identity politics. Their interrogation of the semiotics of behavior, dress, language, and the body itself contributes significantly to an understanding of national, racial, gender, and sexual identity in American literature and culture. Contextualizing and building on the theoretical work of such scholars as Judith Butler, Diana Fuss, Marjorie Garber, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., Passing and the Fictions of Identity will be of value to students and scholars working in the areas of race, gender, and identity theory, as well as U.S. history and literature. Contributors. Martha Cutter, Katharine Nicholson Ings, Samira Kawash, Adrian Piper, Valerie Rohy, Marion Rust, Julia Stern, Gayle Wald, Ellen M. Weinauer, Elizabeth Young

William Wells Brown

Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820336343
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book William Wells Brown written by William Wells Brown and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into slavery in Kentucky, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was kept functionally illiterate until after his escape at the age of nineteen. Remarkably, he became the most widely published and versatile African American writer of the nineteenth century as well as an important leader in the abolitionist and temperance movements. Brown wrote extensively as a journalist but was also a pioneer in other literary genres. His many groundbreaking works include Clotel, the first African American novel; The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom, the first published African American play; Three Years in Europe, the first African American European travelogue; and The Negro in the American Rebellion, the first history of African American military service in the Civil War. Brown also wrote one of the most important fugitive slave narratives and a striking array of subsequent self-narratives so inventively shifting in content, form, and textual presentation as to place him second only to Frederick Douglass among nineteenth-century African American autobiographers. Ezra Greenspan has selected the best of Brown's work in a range of fields including fiction, drama, history, politics, autobiography, and travel. The volume opens with an introductory essay that places Brown and his work in a cultural and political context. Each chapter begins with a detailed introductory headnote, and the contents are closely annotated; there is also a selected bibliography. This reader offers an introduction to the work of a major African American writer who was engaged in many of the important debates of his time.