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Book Synopsis Notes on a Voyage to New Orleans on the Ship Charles by : Between the Covers Rare Books
Download or read book Notes on a Voyage to New Orleans on the Ship Charles written by Between the Covers Rare Books and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative of a journey from Massachussetts through the Caribbean and to New Orleans aboard a ship departing in December 1823. Narrated by one of nine passengers, the travelogue includes accounts of harsh weather, a suspected pirate attack, encounters with merchant and naval vessels, navigation of the Mississippi Delta, life along the Mississippi, slave plantations, Indians, and life on the ship.
Book Synopsis The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book by : Jim Jordan
Download or read book The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book written by Jim Jordan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-lost letters tell the story of an illegal slave shipment, a desperate Savannah businessman, and the lead-up to the Civil War. In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades, and it shocked a nation already on the path to civil war. Nearly thirty years later, the North American Review published excerpts from thirty of Lamar’s letters, reportedly taken from his letter book, which describe his criminal activities. However, the authenticity of the letters was in doubt until very recently. In the twenty-first century, researcher Jim Jordan found a cache of private papers belonging to Charles Lamar’s father, stored for decades in an attic in New Jersey. Among the documents was Charles Lamar’s letter book—confirming him as the author. The first part of this book recounts the flamboyant and reckless life of Lamar himself, including involvement in southern secession, the slave trade, and a plot to overthrow the government of Cuba. A portrait emerges at odds with Lamar's previous image as a savvy entrepreneur and principled rebel. Instead, we see a man who was often broke and whose volatility sabotaged him at every turn. His involvement in the slave trade was driven more by financial desperation than southern defiance. The second part presents the “Slave-Trader's Letter-Book.” Together with annotations, these seventy long-lost letters shed light on the lead-up to the Civil War from the remarkable perspective of a troubled, and troubling, figure.
Book Synopsis A Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen by : Charles Abbott (Baron Tenterden)
Download or read book A Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen written by Charles Abbott (Baron Tenterden) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Charles Johnson's Novels by : Rudolph P. Byrd
Download or read book Charles Johnson's Novels written by Rudolph P. Byrd and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is truly a major contribution to African American literary criticism, and it promises to elevate Johnson to the place in the literary firmament he so richly deserves." -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University Charles Johnson came of age during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. His fiction bears the imprint of his formal training as a philosopher and his work as a journalist and cartoonist with a well-honed interest in political satire. Mentored by the American writer John Gardner, Johnson is preoccupied with questions of morality, which are informed by his knowledge of Continental and Asian philosophical traditions. In this book, Rudolph Byrd examines Johnson's four novels -- Faith and the Good Thing, Oxherding Tale, Middle Passage (National Book Award Winner), and Dreamer -- under the rubric of philosophical black fiction, as art that interrogates experience. Byrd contends that Johnson suspends, shelves, and brackets all presuppositions regarding African American life. This bracketing accomplished, the African American experience becomes a pure field of appearances within two poles: consciousness and the people or phenomena to which it is related. Johnson's principal themes are identity and liberation. Intent upon the liberation of perception, for the reader and the writer, Johnson's fiction aims at "whole sight," encompassing a plurality of meanings across a symbolic geography of forms, texts, and traditions from within the matrix of African American life and culture. And like a palimpsest, Johnson's texts contain multiple layers of meaning of disparate origins imprinted over time with varying degrees of visibility and significance. Charles Johnson's Novels will appeal to fans of the writer's work, but it also will serve as a helpful guide for readers newly introduced to this brilliant contemporary American writer.
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Book Synopsis The Liberty Ships of World War II by : Greg H. Williams
Download or read book The Liberty Ships of World War II written by Greg H. Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. For the first time, comprehensive information is provided about the builders, the namesakes, and the operators under one cover. Included is a list of all 2,710 Liberty ships delivered by U.S. shipyards, giving each ship's namesake and detailed descriptions of the companies that built the ships and the steamship companies that operated them during the war. This book also details the formation of two shipyards in South Portland, Maine, the Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Co. and the South Portland Shipbuilding Corp. South Portland's shady operations were investigated by the U.S. Congress and resulted in the merger of both companies into the New England Shipbuilding Corporation in April 1943. Also featured is the Jeremiah O'Brien. Built by New England Ship in 1943 and one of only two operational Liberty ships left in the world, its service history and crew information are given along with its postwar restoration and return to Normandy in 1994.
Book Synopsis United States Supreme Court Reports by : United States. Supreme Court
Download or read book United States Supreme Court Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.
Book Synopsis Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 United States Reports) by : Walter Malins Rose
Download or read book Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 United States Reports) written by Walter Malins Rose and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Middle Passage written by Charles Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece—"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…heroic in proportion…fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review)—now with a new introduction from Stanley Crouch. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is lost in the underworld of 1830s New Orleans. Desperate to escape the city’s unscrupulous bill collectors and the pawing hands of a schoolteacher hellbent on marrying him, he jumps aboard the Republic, a slave ship en route to collect members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. Thus begins a voyage of metaphysical horror and human atrocity, a journey which challenges our notions of freedom, fate and how we live together. Peopled with vivid and unforgettable characters, nimble in its interplay of comedy and serious ideas, this dazzling modern classic is a perfect blend of the picaresque tale, historical romance, sea yarn, slave narrative and philosophical allegory. Now with a new introduction from renowned writer and critic Stanley Crouch, this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Middle Passage celebrates a cornerstone of the American canon and the masterwork of one of its most important writers. "Long after we’d stopped believe in the great American novel, along comes a spellbinding adventure story that may be just that" (Chicago Tribune).
Book Synopsis Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States by : United States. Supreme Court
Download or read book Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.
Book Synopsis Forty-niners 'round the Horn by : Charles R. Schultz
Download or read book Forty-niners 'round the Horn written by Charles R. Schultz and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon more than one hundred unpublished diaries, Schultz profiles the individuals who embarked on these journeys and demonstrates how markedly the gold rush voyages differed from general commercial trading and whaling ventures."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports by : Charles Lawrence Thompson
Download or read book Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports written by Charles Lawrence Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Audubon at Sea by : Christoph Irmscher
Download or read book Audubon at Sea written by Christoph Irmscher and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John James Audubon's paintings of birds are as familiar as they are beautiful. But even among his admirers, many may be surprised to learn that Audubon was a gifted writer. In this one-of-a-kind anthology, Christoph Irmscher and Richard J. King have curated a collection of Audubon's coastal and sea writing, which represent Audubon's most compelling and evocative depictions of the natural world and early nineteenth-century American life. The collection is geographically diverse, bringing to light the variety of people and wildlife Audubon met or observed, pulling from the massive Ornithological Biography (1831-1839) as well as the "Autobiography" and journals. The editors supplement the selections with an instructive introduction and powerful coda, section headnotes, explanatory notes, and an appendix linking Audubon's species to current taxonomy and geographic ranges. The book is lavishly illustrated as well. There is much more in Audubon at Sea than descriptions of birds: we have stories of life aboard ship, of travel in early America and Audubon's work habits, the origins of iconic paintings, and, in the end, the carefully drawn commentary on a flawed and, at best, ambiguous hero"--
Book Synopsis Autobiography of Charles Biddle by : Ch. Biddle
Download or read book Autobiography of Charles Biddle written by Ch. Biddle and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of Charles Biddle, vice-president of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania. 1745-1821. Privately printed.
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Download or read book International Marine Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Louisiana Reports by : Louisiana. Supreme Court
Download or read book Louisiana Reports written by Louisiana. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
