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Author :Sarah Perry Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781721226931 Total Pages :124 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (269 download)
Book Synopsis The Slave Catcher's Wife by : Sarah Perry
Download or read book The Slave Catcher's Wife written by Sarah Perry and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A different America. The same mountains and fields but with professions like slave catching that we no longer have. Central Pennsylvania the place to be as slaves made their way following the railroad line north through a checkerboard with alternating slave catchers and abolitionists on every square. Join Errol Garth as he rides a wave of disfavor with every slave caught and Clara Garth as she anxiously tracks life one needlework project at a time.
Book Synopsis The Slave Catcher's Woman by : James N Littlefield
Download or read book The Slave Catcher's Woman written by James N Littlefield and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgian bounty hunter Coswell Tims lives with his wife Cynthia and a kennel of well-trained and trusty bloodhounds. A lawman of sorts, he makes an honest, respectable living tracking fugitives. Returning home one day after a chase, he finds his home ransacked, his dogs killed, his loyal house servant brutally beaten and his woman, the true love of his life, is missing-abducted, taken, kidnapped. Coswell must now employ all his skills and experience to track down the perpetrator and rescue Cynthia. Expertly researched and vividly written this historical novel (with its memorable cast of characters, intriguing twists and turns, and unencumbered portrayals of life during the pre-civil war south) invites the reader to venture upon an unforgettable, enlightening journey into one of the most controversial periods of our history.
Book Synopsis The Slave Catcher's Woman by : James N. Littlefield
Download or read book The Slave Catcher's Woman written by James N. Littlefield and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Slave Catcher's Woman gives an amazing account of slavery in the Antebellum South from the unlikely viewpoint of a slave catcher who tracks down runaway slaves using his trusted and beloved bloodhounds. Coswell Elias Tims of Milledgeville, GA was deeply enmeshed in the "peculiar institution," yet manages to be an acute observer with a penchant for honest and objective reporting of the world he sees around him. His voice is that of an engaging backwoods storyteller who soon wins the reader's affection with his homespun philosophies and his all-to-familiar human struggles. Not the monster that history suggests, but a man, slave catcher Coswell Tims takes the reader down a trail fraught with violence and fear in this action packed narrative of fistfights, killings, knifings and kidnappings. And woven through it all, looms the powerful presence of the woman named Cynthia, the slave catcher's woman.
Book Synopsis The Slave Catchers by : Stanley W. Campbell
Download or read book The Slave Catchers written by Stanley W. Campbell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thoroughly researched documentation of a historically controversial issue, the author considers the background, passage, and constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law. The author's relation of public opinion and the executive policy regarding the much disputed law will help the reader reach a decision as to whether the law was actually a success or failure, legally and socially. Originally published in 1970. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Book Synopsis Martha and the Slave Catchers by : Harriet Hyman Alonso
Download or read book Martha and the Slave Catchers written by Harriet Hyman Alonso and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Martha Bartlett insists on being a part of the Underground Railroad rescue to bring her brother Jake back home to their abolitionist community in Connecticut. It's 1860 and though African-Americans and mixed-race peoples in the north are supposed to be free, seven-year-old Jake, the orphan of a fugitive slave, is kidnapped by his "owner" and taken south to Maryland. Jake is what we'd now describe as on the autism spectrum, and Martha knows just how reassure him when he's anxious or fearful. Using aliases, disguises, and other subterfuges, Martha artfully dodges Will and Tom, the slave catchers, but struggles to rectify her new reality with her parents' admonition to always tell the truth. She must be brave but not reckless, clever but not dishonest. But being perceived sometimes as white, sometimes as black during the perilous journey has thrown her sense of her own identity into turmoil. Alonso combines fiction and historical fact to weave a suspenseful story of courage, hope and self-discovery in the aftermath of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, while illuminating the bravery of abolitionists who fought against slavery.
Book Synopsis The Slave Catcher's Woman by : James N. Littlefield
Download or read book The Slave Catcher's Woman written by James N. Littlefield and published by Husky Trail Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgian bounty hunter Coswell Tims lives with his wife Cynthia and a kennel of well-trained and trusty bloodhounds. Returning home one day, he finds his home ransacked, his dogs killed, his loyal house servant brutally beaten and his woman, the true love of his life, is kidnapped. Coswell must now employ all his skills and experience to track down the perpetrator and rescue Cynthia. Expertly researched and vividly written this historical novel (with its memorable cast of characters, intriguing twists and turns, and unencumbered portrayals of life during the pre-civil war south) invites the reader to venture upon an unforgettable, enlightening journey into one of the most controversial periods of our history.
Book Synopsis Summary of Ilyon Woo's Master Slave Husband Wife by : Milkyway Media
Download or read book Summary of Ilyon Woo's Master Slave Husband Wife written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of Ilyon Woo's Master Slave Husband Wife in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Master Slave Husband Wife" by Ilyon Woo chronicles the extraordinary escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery in 1848 Georgia. Ingeniously disguised as a white master and his slave, they utilized steamboats and railroads to flee amidst a cholera pandemic, immigration influx, and intense debates over slavery and citizenship. Their story intersects with the women's rights movement and Frederick Douglass's speeches, reflecting the complexities of American society...
Book Synopsis Master Slave Husband Wife by : Ilyon Woo
Download or read book Master Slave Husband Wife written by Ilyon Woo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography “A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and disability to hide in public on their journey to the North, where they became famous abolitionists while evading bounty hunters.” —The Pulitzer Prizes Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North. Along the way, they dodged slave traders, military officers, and even friends of their enslavers, who might have revealed their true identities. The tale of their adventure soon made them celebrities, and generated headlines around the country. Americans could not get enough of this charismatic young couple, who traveled another 1,000 miles criss-crossing New England, drawing thunderous applause as they spoke alongside some of the greatest abolitionist luminaries of the day—among them Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown. But even then, they were not out of danger. With the passage of an infamous new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, all Americans became accountable for returning refugees like the Crafts to slavery. Then yet another adventure began, as slave hunters came up from Georgia, forcing the Crafts to flee once again—this time from the United States, their lives and thousands more on the line and the stakes never higher. With three epic journeys compressed into one monumental bid for freedom, Master Slave Husband Wife is an American love story—one that would challenge the nation’s core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all—one that challenges us even now.
Book Synopsis They Were Her Property by : Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Download or read book They Were Her Property written by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy “Compelling.”—Renee Graham, Boston Globe “Stunning.”—Rebecca Onion, Slate “Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present.”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.
Book Synopsis The Bondwoman's Narrative by : Hannah Crafts
Download or read book The Bondwoman's Narrative written by Hannah Crafts and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2002-04-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right. When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Crafts, a young slave on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, runs away in a bid for her freedom up North. Pursued by slave hunters, imprisoned by a mysterious and cruel captor, held by sympathetic strangers, and forced to serve a demanding new mistress, she finally makes her way to freedom in New Jersey. Her compelling story provides a fascinating view of American life in the mid-1800s and the literary conventions of the time. Written in the 1850's by a runaway slave, THE BONDSWOMAN'S NARRATIVE is a provocative literary landmark and a significant historical event that will captivate a diverse audience.
Book Synopsis Sapphira and the Slave Girl by : Willa Cather
Download or read book Sapphira and the Slave Girl written by Willa Cather and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940. It is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave. The book balances an atmospheric portrait of antebellum Virginia against an unblinking view of the lives of Sapphira's slaves.
Book Synopsis The Plantation Mistress by : Catherine Clinton
Download or read book The Plantation Mistress written by Catherine Clinton and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1984-02-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master. "The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it.
Book Synopsis Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by : Ellen Craft
Download or read book Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom written by Ellen Craft and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-25 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition of "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom" is a written account by Ellen Craft and William Craft first published in 1860. Their book reached wide audiences in Great Britain and the United States and it represents one of the most compelling of the many slave narratives published before the American Civil War. Ellen (1826–1891) and William Craft (1824 - 1900) were slaves from Macon, Georgia in the United States who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.
Download or read book Song Yet Sung written by James McBride and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale set against a backdrop of slave rights conflicts in the nineteenth-century Chesapeake Bay region finds young runaway Liz Spocott inadvertently inspiring a slave breakout from the attic prison of a notorious slave thief who vengefully calls slave catcher Denwood Long out of retirement. 100,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis Fighting the Slave-hunters in Central Africa by : Alfred James Swann
Download or read book Fighting the Slave-hunters in Central Africa written by Alfred James Swann and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Runaway Slaves by : John Hope Franklin
Download or read book Runaway Slaves written by John Hope Franklin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could. For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations of the American South have remained shrouded. Historians thought, for instance, that slaves were generally pliant and resigned to their roles as human chattel, and that racial violence on the plantation was an aberration. In this precedent setting book, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, significant numbers of slaves did in fact frequently rebel against their masters and struggled to attain their freedom. By surveying a wealth of documents, such as planters' records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, this book shows how slaves resisted, when, where, and how they escaped, where they fled to, how long they remained in hiding, and how they survived away from the plantation. Of equal importance, it examines the reactions of the white slaveholding class, revealing how they marshaled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established patrols to hunt down escaped slaves. Reflecting a lifetime of thought by our leading authority in African American history, this book provides the key to truly understanding the relationship between slaveholders and the runaways who challenged the system--illuminating as never before the true nature of the South's "most peculiar institution."
Book Synopsis Master Slave Husband Wife by : Ilyon Woo
Download or read book Master Slave Husband Wife written by Ilyon Woo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1848, a young enslaved couple named Ellen and William Craft traveled openly by rail, coach and steamship from Macon, Georgia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen, who passed for white, disguised herself as a wealthy disabled man, with William as "his" slave. Woo follows their journey north, and in joining the abolitionist lecture circuit. When the new Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 put them at risk, they fled from the United States. Their very existence challenged the nation's core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all. -- Adapted from jacket.
