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Biography of a Runaway Slave

Author : Miguel Barnet
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810133423
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Biography of a Runaway Slave written by Miguel Barnet and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Originally published in 1966, Miguel Barnet’s Biography of a Runaway Slave provides the written history of the life of Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave, as a fugitive in the wilderness, and as a soldier fighting against Spain in the Cuban War of Independence. A new introduction by one of the most preeminent Afro-Hispanic scholars, William Luis, situates Barnet’s ethnographic strategy and lyrical narrative style as foundational for the tradition of testimonial fiction in Latin American literature. Barnet recorded his interviews with the 103-year-old Montejo at the onset of the Cuban Revolution. This insurgent’s history allows the reader into the folklore and cultural history of Afro-Cubans before and after the abolition of slavery. The book serves as an important contribution to the archive of black experience in Cuba and as a reminder of the many ways that the present continues to echo the past.

The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave

Author : Esteban Montejo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave written by Esteban Montejo and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documentair verhaal gebaseerd op de orale getuigenis van een ex-slaaf over zijn leven voor de afschaffing van de slavernij, ervaringen als weggelopen slaaf, het leven op de plantage als een vrij man en het leven als soldaat tijdens de Cubaanse onafhankelijkheidsoorlog na 1895.

Slave Life in Georgia

Author : Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Life in Georgia written by Brown and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Never Caught

Author : Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501126431
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Never Caught written by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. As the President grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn’t abide: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire. Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, she was denied freedom. So, when the opportunity presented itself one clear and pleasant spring day in Philadelphia, Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England. Yet freedom would not come without its costs. At just twenty-two-years-old, Ona became the subject of an intense manhunt led by George Washington, who used his political and personal contacts to recapture his property. “A crisp and compulsively readable feat of research and storytelling” (USA TODAY), historian and National Book Award finalist Erica Armstrong Dunbar weaves a powerful tale and offers fascinating new scholarship on how one young woman risked everything to gain freedom from the famous founding father and most powerful man in the United States at the time.

The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave

Author : Esteban Montejo
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
ISBN 13 : 9780394718323
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave written by Esteban Montejo and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Narrative of the Life of J.D Green...

Author : J.D Green
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752308400
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Narrative of the Life of J.D Green... written by J.D Green and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Narrative of the Life of J.D Green... by J.D Green

Runaway America

Author : David Waldstreicher
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1466821523
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Runaway America written by David Waldstreicher and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father. Finding slavery at the center of Franklin's life, Waldstreicher proves it was likewise central to the Revolution, America's founding, and the very notion of freedom we associate with both. Franklin was the sole Founding Father who was once owned by someone else and was among the few to derive his fortune from slavery. As an indentured servant, Franklin fled his master before his term was complete; as a struggling printer, he built a financial empire selling newspapers that not only advertised the goods of a slave economy (not to mention slaves) but also ran the notices that led to the recapture of runaway servants. Perhaps Waldstreicher's greatest achievement is in showing that this was not an ironic outcome but a calculated one. America's freedom, no less than Franklin's, demanded that others forgo liberty. Through the life of Franklin, Runaway America provides an original explanation to the paradox of American slavery and freedom.

The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave

Author : John Thompson
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342810284
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave written by John Thompson and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro

Author : Samuel R. Ward
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579105696
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro written by Samuel R. Ward and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

Author : Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Publisher : Aladdin
ISBN 13 : 1534416188
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge written by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brilliant work of US history.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Gripping.” —BCCB (starred review) “Accessible…Necessary.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave, who risked everything for a better life—now available as a young reader’s edition! In this incredible narrative, Erica Armstrong Dunbar reveals a fascinating and heartbreaking behind-the-scenes look at the Washingtons when they were the First Family—and an in-depth look at their slave, Ona Judge, who dared to escape from one of the nation’s Founding Fathers. Born into a life of slavery, Ona Judge eventually grew up to be George and Martha Washington’s “favored” dower slave. When she was told that she was going to be given as a wedding gift to Martha Washington’s granddaughter, Ona made the bold and brave decision to flee to the north, where she would be a fugitive. From her childhood, to her time with the Washingtons and living in the slave quarters, to her escape to New Hampshire, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, along with Kathleen Van Cleve, shares an intimate glimpse into the life of a little-known, but powerful figure in history, and her brave journey as she fled the most powerful couple in the country.

Autobiography of James L. Smith

Author : James Lindsay Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of James L. Smith written by James Lindsay Smith and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad

Author : John P. Parker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393348016
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad written by John P. Parker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998-01-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Surpasses all previous slave narratives…Usually we need to invent our American heroes. With the publication of Parker's extraordinary memoir, we seem to have discovered the genuine article." —Joseph J. Ellis, Civilization In the words of an African American conductor on the Underground Railroad, His Promised Land is the unusual and stirring account of how the war against slavery was fought—and sometimes won. John P. Parker (1827—1900) told this dramatic story to a newspaperman after the Civil War. He recounts his years of slavery, his harrowing runaway attempt, and how he finally bought his freedom. Eventually moving to Ripley, Ohio, a stronghold of the abolitionist movement, Parker became an integral part of the Underground Railroad, helping fugitive slaves cross the Ohio River from Kentucky and go north to freedom. Parker risked his life—hiding in coffins, diving off a steamboat into the river with bounty hunters on his trail—and his own freedom to fight for the freedom of his people.

Young Frederick Douglass

Author : Dickson J. Preston
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421425947
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Young Frederick Douglass written by Dickson J. Preston and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly regarded biography traces the life and times of Frederick Douglass, from his birth on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818 to 1838, when he escaped from slavery to emerge upon the national scene.

Autobiography of a Runaway Slave

Author : Esteban Montejo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Runaway Slave written by Esteban Montejo and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave

Author : Esteban Montejo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave written by Esteban Montejo and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shadrach Minkins

Author : Gary Collison
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029798
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Shadrach Minkins written by Gary Collison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 15, 1851, Shadrach Minkins was serving breakfast at a coffeehouse in Boston when history caught up with him. The first runaway to be arrested in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, this illiterate Black man from Virginia found himself the catalyst of one of the most dramatic episodes of rebellion and legal wrangling before the Civil War. In a remarkable effort of historical sleuthing, Gary Collison has recovered the true story of Shadrach Minkins’ life and times and perilous flight. His book restores an extraordinary chapter to our collective history and at the same time offers a rare and engrossing picture of the life of an ordinary Black man in nineteenth-century North America. As Minkins’ journey from slavery to freedom unfolds, we see what day-to-day life was like for a slave in Norfolk, Virginia, for a fugitive in Boston, and for a free Black man in Montreal. Collison recreates the drama of Minkins’s arrest and his subsequent rescue by a band of Black Bostonians, who spirited the fugitive to freedom in Canada. He shows us Boston’s Black community, moved to panic and action by the Fugitive Slave Law, and the previously unknown community established in Montreal by Minkins and other refugee Blacks from the United States. And behind the scenes, orchestrating events from the disastrous Compromise of 1850 through the arrest of Minkins and the trial of his rescuers, is Daniel Webster, who through the exigencies of his dimming political career, took the role of villain. Webster is just one of the familiar figures in this tale of an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. Others, such as Frederick Douglass, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Harriet Jacobs, and Harriet Beecher Stowe (who made use of Minkins’s Montreal community in Uncle Tom’s Cabin), also appear throughout the narrative. Minkins’ intriguing story stands as a fascinating commentary on the nation’s troubled times—on urban slavery and Boston abolitionism, on the Underground Railroad, and on one of the federal government’s last desperate attempts to hold the Union together.

Autobiografía de Un Esclavo

Author : Juan Francisco Manzano
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814325384
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Autobiografía de Un Esclavo written by Juan Francisco Manzano and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of ISCV'95, the successor to previous Workshops on Computer Vision, comprise 104 refereed papers on topics in optical flow, matching/stereo, motion, object recognition, low-level vision, CAD-based vision, stereo, deformable models, systems and applications, tracking, segmentation and grouping, active vision, aerial image analysis, and integration/texture. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR