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Book Synopsis Crimes of a Guilty Land by : Brooke Stewart
Download or read book Crimes of a Guilty Land written by Brooke Stewart and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel 'Crimes of a Guilty Land' follows the Hart and Beauchamp families through some turbulent years of the nineteenth century. It opens in the summer of 1825 when young Roger Hart, while enjoying his first visit to the beach in Rhode Island, witnesses a tragedy. The events of that day will haunt him for the rest of his life. Many years later, just prior to the Civil War, Roger Hart becomes involved in a risky undertaking to begin to teach the children of slave families in Virginia. That experience leads him to Harpers Ferry and the disastrous John Brown raid on the US Armory in 1859. There he meets the Beauchamp family who became involved in the John Brown affair with tragic results. The Hart and Beauchamp families find themselves bound together with romance and violence as the Civil War devastates the town of Harpers Ferry and as family members find themselves caught up in the Petersbug Battle of the Crater. Both of the families also become involved with a freed slave family that includes a young boy named Brownie.Ten years after the war, Roger finds himself describing all of those events to a curious Brownie. Brownie is anxious to hear his family's story while Hart is determined to pass on to the boy a sense of goodness and a respect for tolerance along with the need for an education. Hart succeeds, and Brownie grows to become a highly regarded teacher.The reader first meets Brownie as he looks back on his life. It is 1941 and America is at war again. But for Brownie, now a retired teacher in West Virginia, an old struggle is still being waged in this country as he witnesses the continued indignity and cruelty of segregation. A moment of violence causes him to reflect on his own life experience and he is drawn to write down his remembrances of his family's involvement in the struggles during the final years of slavery, the John Brown raid at Harpers Ferry, and then the Civil War and its aftermath. He reflects on how his family has experienced drama and tragedy as well as romance and humor during encounters with intolerance - including racial, religious and economic. Brownie recalls the last words of John Brown as he went to the executioner's gallows. Brown wrote on a slip of paper that “…the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” But after so much blood shed over so many years, Brownie is led to question how much progress has been made during his life time, and then on what a seventy five year old man might be able to contribute to changing things.
Book Synopsis Crimes of a Guilty Land by : Janet L. Meyer
Download or read book Crimes of a Guilty Land written by Janet L. Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guilty Land written by Patrick Van and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Zealot and the Emancipator by : H. W. Brands
Download or read book The Zealot and the Emancipator written by H. W. Brands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery. Brown’s violence pointed ambitious Illinois lawyer and former officeholder Abraham Lincoln toward a different solution to slavery: politics. Lincoln spoke cautiously and dreamed big, plotting his path back to Washington and perhaps to the White House. Yet his caution could not protect him from the vortex of violence Brown had set in motion. After Brown’s arrest, his righteous dignity on the way to the gallows led many in the North to see him as a martyr to liberty. Southerners responded with anger and horror to a terrorist being made into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle between the opposing voices of the fractured nation and won election as president. But the time for moderation had passed, and Lincoln’s fervent belief that democracy could resolve its moral crises peacefully faced its ultimate test. The Zealot and the Emancipator is the thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
Book Synopsis Crimes against the State by : James A. Beckman
Download or read book Crimes against the State written by James A. Beckman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an authoritative survey of America's long and turbulent history of rebellions against laws and institutions of the state, ranging from violent acts of sedition and terrorism to acts of nonviolent civil disobedience against discriminatory or unjust laws. Crimes against the State is an evenhanded and illuminating one-stop resource for understanding acts of rebellion against legal authorities and institutions and the motivations/goals driving them. Special care is taken to differentiate between hostile acts and actors that seek to overthrow or otherwise damage the state and/or targeted demographic groups through violence (such "bad actors" as the January 6 Capitol mob and bombers of abortion clinics) and acts and actors that seek to defy, reform, or improve laws and institutions of the state through nonviolent action (such "good actors" as activists in the civil rights movement). Within these pages, readers will 1) learn how to differentiate between sedition, insurrection, treason, domestic terrorism, espionage, and other acts meant to injure or overthrow the government; 2) gain a deeper understanding of laws, policies, and events that have aroused violent or nonviolent opposition; 3) gain a deeper understanding of the perspectives and motivations of both good actors and bad actors; and 4) learn about state responses to these challenges and threats, from martial law–style crackdowns to new laws and reforms.
Download or read book The Secret Six written by Edward Renehan and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was one of the events which sparked the US Civil War. This study looks at the group of Northern aristocrats who covertly aided Brown, convinced that armed conflict was necessary to purge the United States of the government-sanctioned evil of slavery.
Book Synopsis Guilty land by : Patrick Van Rensburg
Download or read book Guilty land written by Patrick Van Rensburg and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Crime of Poverty by : Henry George
Download or read book The Crime of Poverty written by Henry George and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Comprehensive Criminal Digest by : Chunilal Harilal Vakil
Download or read book The Comprehensive Criminal Digest written by Chunilal Harilal Vakil and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mary Edwards Walker by : Dale L. Walker
Download or read book Mary Edwards Walker written by Dale L. Walker and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) defied the conventions of her era. Born and raised on a farm in Oswego, New York, Walker became one of a handful of female physicians in the nation-and became a passionate believer in the rights of women. Despite the derision of her contemporaries, Walker championed freedom of dress. She wore slacks--or "bloomers" as they were popularly known--rather than the corsets and voluminous ground-dragging petticoats and dresses she believed were unhygenic and injurious to health. She lectured and campaigned for woman's suffrage and for prohibition, and against tobacco, traditional male-dominated marriage vows, and any issue involving the sublimation of her sex. From the outset of the Civil War, Walker volunteered her services as a physician. Despite almost universal opposition from army commanders and field surgeons, Walker served at Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Chickamauga, and other bloody theaters of the war. She ministered to wounded and maimed soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict. Captured by Confederates near Chattanooga in 1864, she served four months in a Southern prison hellhole where she nursed and tended to wounded prisoners of war. For her services in the war, in 1865 Mary Edwards Walker was awarded the Medal of Honor, becoming the only woman in American history to receive the nation's highest award for military valor. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Texas criminal reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Criminal Code, 1892, 55-56 Victoria, Chap. 29, Together with An Act to Amend the Canada Temperance Amendment Act, 1888, Being Chapter 26 of the Same Session by : Canada
Download or read book The Criminal Code, 1892, 55-56 Victoria, Chap. 29, Together with An Act to Amend the Canada Temperance Amendment Act, 1888, Being Chapter 26 of the Same Session written by Canada and published by Samuel Edward Dawson, Queen's Printer. This book was released on 1892 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bail Book by : Shima Baradaran Baughman
Download or read book The Bail Book written by Shima Baradaran Baughman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the causes for mass incarceration of Americans and calls for the reform of the bail system. Traces the history of bail, how it has come to be an oppressive tool of the courts, and makes recommendations for reforming the bail system and alleviating the mass incarceration problem.
Book Synopsis 1859-1861. Harper's Ferry-Lincoln inauguration. 1892 by : Hermann Von Holst
Download or read book 1859-1861. Harper's Ferry-Lincoln inauguration. 1892 written by Hermann Von Holst and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Bright and Guilty Place by : Richard Rayner
Download or read book A Bright and Guilty Place written by Richard Rayner and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Book of the Year The Los Angeles Times • The Washington Post Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, and celebrity scandals. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates and a DA taking bribes to throw trials. In A Bright and Guilty Place, Richard Rayner narrates the entwined lives of two men, Dave Clark and Leslie White, who were caught up in the crimes, murders, and swindles of the day. Over a few transformative years, as the boom times shaded into the Depression, the adventures of Clark and White would inspire pulp fiction and replace L.A.’s reckless optimism with a new cynicism. Together, theirs is the tale of how the city of sunshine went noir.
Book Synopsis The Enforcer (The Taskforce Series, Book 3) by : Marliss Melton
Download or read book The Enforcer (The Taskforce Series, Book 3) written by Marliss Melton and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ATF Special Agent Tobias Burke is undercover in West Virginia, infiltrating a militia led by Captain Dylan Connelly, suspected of murdering the Secretary of Defense Dylan, once the Army's battalion leader of Mortuary Affairs, now works as a physician at the local Veterans Hospital, while leading her late-father's Seventh Amendment Militia. When Tobias Burke shows up to enlist, with his ladies-man humor and lovable Labrador retriever, Dylan knows his killer charm hides an ulterior motive. As evidence against Dylan mounts, Tobias's instincts--and then his heart--betray him into wondering if Dylan is being framed. Now, with Dylan's militia locked in a stand-off with the FBI and the nation watching the drama unfold on television, Tobias stares down the barrel of the most difficult choice in his life: expose the real killer and clear Dylan's name, or follow orders. REVIEWS: "...a well-written tale, steeped in the hardships of those who have experienced the horrors of war. THE ENFORCER is in a league of its own." ~Natasza Waters, InD’tale Magazine THE TASKFORCE SERIES, in order The Protector The Guardian The Enforcer THE ECHO PLATOON SERIES, in order Danger Close
Download or read book Harpers Ferry written by James A. Beckman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harpers Ferry, located at the confluence of the beautiful Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers, offers visitors a breathtaking view described by Thomas Jefferson as a scene worth a voyage across the Atlantic. From George Washingtons 1796 establishment of the federal armory, through John Browns 1859 raid to foment slave rebellion and Civil War battles, and to one of the first successful colleges for African Americans, Harpers Ferry has played a significant role in Americas history. Hundreds of vintage postcards, many of which are very scarce today, depict this history, the various scenic views and buildings in town, and the daily lives of townspeople over the last century.
