Escape from Slavery

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429971010
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Escape from Slavery by : Francis Bok

Download or read book Escape from Slavery written by Francis Bok and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking modern slave narrative, Francis Bok shares his remarkable story with grace, honesty, and a wisdom gained from surviving ten years in captivity. May, 1986: Selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan, seven year old Francis Bok's life was shattered when Arab raiders on horseback, armed with rifles and long knives, burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and women and gathering the young children into a group. Strapped to horses and donkeys, Francis and others were taken north, into lives of slavery under wealthy Muslim farmers. For ten years, Francis lived alone in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. Fed with scraps from the table, slowly learning bits of an unfamiliar language and religion, the boy had almost no human contact other than his captor's family. After two failed attempts to escape-each bringing severe beatings and death threats-Francis finally escaped at age seventeen, a dramatic breakaway on foot that was his final chance. Yet his slavery did not end there, for even as he made his way toward the capital city of Khartoum, others sought to deprive him of his freedom. Determined to avoid that fate and discover what had happened to his family on that terrible day in 1986, the teenager persevered through prison and refugee camps for three more years, winning the attention of United Nations officials and being granted passage to America. Now a student and an anti-slavery activist, Francis Bok has made it his life mission to combat world slavery. His is the first voice to speak for an estimated twenty seven million people held against their will in nearly every nation, including our own. Escape from Slavery is at once a riveting adventure, a story of desperation and triumph, and a window revealing a world that few have survived to tell.

Henry's Freedom Box

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338082655
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Henry's Freedom Box by : Ellen Levine

Download or read book Henry's Freedom Box written by Ellen Levine and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.

Red Book and Cotton

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Publisher : Free the Mind
ISBN 13 : 9780966733648
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (336 download)

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Book Synopsis Red Book and Cotton by : John Solomon Sandridge

Download or read book Red Book and Cotton written by John Solomon Sandridge and published by Free the Mind. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Book and Cotton / Journey to True-Freedom is the biographical tale of Nimrod, the author's great-great grandfather, an African American slave who experienced freedom through The Emancipation Proclamation. Nimrod shares his experiences about being a slave, a narrative that's not solely about black-slaves and white-masters. It's more of an examination of the effects of slavery on black's and white's during slavery and the after- effects it would have on their progeny. A look at slavery from a spiritual perspective. His is a story fraught with pain, sorrow, and disappointment and yet beauty, richness, and depth. The reader's mind and soul are captured as it travels the paths of this man's life journey. From childhood pains and dreams through adult life of uncontrollable anger resulting from unbearable personal losses. His saving-grace was, a blue-black ghostly nymph-like figure who lead him to the realization that all Americans, black and white, were living in "enslavement"-- In-Slave-Mental. And all were in need of what he desperately sought and referred to as . . . True-Freedom: love for self, others, The Creator of Life, and peace of mind which comes from mental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual enlightenment.

FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (974 download)

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Book Synopsis FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM. by : JOHN HOPE. FRANKLIN

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The Slavery of Christian Freedom

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Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161739095X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis The Slavery of Christian Freedom by : Arthur L. Porter

Download or read book The Slavery of Christian Freedom written by Arthur L. Porter and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dr. Arthur Porter's inspiring and powerful book,The Slavery of Christian Freedom, you'll learn that even though liberty in Christ is readily available, many Christians seem to return to slavery to sin. But through Dr. Porter's incredible message, your eyes will be opened and your faith in Christ will be strengthened as you discover the keys to overcoming societal conformity and pressure. Dr. Porter's sage advice will help you realize that when you turn your back on the world and your face toward Christ, all distress and anguish becomes bearable. When you learn to accept your freedom and release yourself from sin, you can shout with believers everywhere, 'Slaves at first, but free at last.'

Sweet Taste of Liberty

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019084700X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Sweet Taste of Liberty by : W. Caleb McDaniel

Download or read book Sweet Taste of Liberty written by W. Caleb McDaniel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: in 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500. The decision stuck on appeal. More important than the amount, though the largest ever awarded by an American court in restitution for slavery, was the fact that any money was awarded at all. By the time the case was decided, Ward had become a wealthy businessman and a pioneer of convict leasing in the South. Wood's son later became a prominent Chicago lawyer, and she went on to live until 1912. McDaniel's book is an epic tale of a black woman who survived slavery twice and who achieved more than merely a moral victory over one of her oppressors. Above all, Sweet Taste of Liberty is a portrait of an extraordinary individual as well as a searing reminder of the lessons of her story, which establish beyond question the connections between slavery and the prison system that rose in its place.

5000 Miles to Freedom

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780792278856
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (788 download)

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Book Synopsis 5000 Miles to Freedom by : Judith Bloom Fradin

Download or read book 5000 Miles to Freedom written by Judith Bloom Fradin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen and William Craft were two of the few slaves to ever escape from the Deep South. Their first escape took them to Philadelphia, then on to Boston pursued by slave hunters, and finally 5000 miles across the ocean to England, where they were able to settle peacefully.

The Price of Freedom

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802721664
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis The Price of Freedom by : Judith Bloom Fradin

Download or read book The Price of Freedom written by Judith Bloom Fradin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Price took a chance at freedom by crossing the frozen Ohio river from Kentucky into Ohio one January night in 1856, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was fully enforced in every state of the union. But the townspeople of Oberlin, Ohio, believed there that all people deserved to be free, so Price started a new life in town-until a crew of slave-catchers arrived and apprehended him. When the residents of Oberlin heard of his capture, many of them banded together to demand his release in a dramatic showdown that risked their own freedom. Paired for the first time, highly acclaimed authors Dennis & Judith Fradin and Pura Belpré award-winning illustrator Eric Velasquez, provide readers with an inspiring tale of how one man's journey to freedom helped spark an abolitionist movement.

The Underground Railroad

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0345804325
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Book Synopsis The Underground Railroad by : Colson Whitehead

Download or read book The Underground Railroad written by Colson Whitehead and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

Free Book

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Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418588652
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Book Synopsis Free Book by : Brian Tome

Download or read book Free Book written by Brian Tome and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am a fanatic about freedom. And I'm fanatical about coming at you hard in this book." Maybe you're not as free as you think you are. Even worse, you may have been duped into believing that a "balanced" life is the key to happiness (it isn't) or that a relationship with God is about layering on rules and restrictions (nope). Whether it’s media-fueled fear, something a parent or teacher said that you just can’t shake, or even the reality of dark spiritual forces bent on keeping you down, something is holding you back from the full-on freedom God intends for you. The Bible says, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." Not fear. Not guilt. Not morality. Freedom. You can have the sort of joy you thought only kids could have. The day of freedom is here.

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244385
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Book Synopsis Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by : Eric Foner

Download or read book Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad written by Eric Foner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the city’s underground-railroad agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their significance little understood. Building on fresh evidence—including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York—Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is inspiring—full of memorable characters making their first appearance on the historical stage—and significant—the controversy over fugitive slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person by person, family by family.

Onesimus

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Publisher : Nurturing Faith Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781635280579
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Onesimus by : Estill Jones

Download or read book Onesimus written by Estill Jones and published by Nurturing Faith Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a 15-year-old boy, Onesimus' world is turned upside down when his parents are murdered and the murderers sell him into slavery, transporting him from his home in Lystra to Laodicea. Join him on his pathway toward freedom-and an unexpected newfound faith.

Between Slavery and Freedom

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742551156
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Book Synopsis Between Slavery and Freedom by : Julie Winch

Download or read book Between Slavery and Freedom written by Julie Winch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the “borderlands” between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the Civil War. However they had navigated their way out of bondage – through flight, through military service, through self-purchase, through the working of the law in different times and in different places, or because they were the offspring of parents who were themselves free – they were determined to enjoy the same rights and liberties that white people enjoyed. In a concise narrative and selected primary documents, noted historian Julie Winch shows the struggle of black people to gain and maintain their liberty and lay claim to freedom in its fullest sense. Refusing to be relegated to the margins of American society and languish in poverty and ignorance, they repeatedly challenged their white neighbors to live up to the promises of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. Winch’s accessible, concise, and jargon-free book, including primary sources and the latest scholarship, will benefit undergraduate students of American history and general readers alike by allowing them to judge the evidence for themselves and evaluate the authors’ conclusions.

South to Freedom

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Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541617770
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Book Synopsis South to Freedom by : Alice L Baumgartner

Download or read book South to Freedom written by Alice L Baumgartner and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.

Steal Away Home

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Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433690632
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Book Synopsis Steal Away Home by : Matt Carter

Download or read book Steal Away Home written by Matt Carter and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Johnson and Charles Spurgeon lived worlds apart. Johnson, an American slave, born into captivity and longing for freedom--- Spurgeon, an Englishman born into relative ease and comfort, but, longing too for a freedom of his own. Their respective journeys led to an unlikely meeting and an even more unlikely friendship, forged by fate and mutual love for the mission of Christ. Steal Away Home is a new kind of book based on historical research, which tells a previously untold story set in the 1800s of the relationship between an African-American missionary and one of the greatest preachers to ever live.

From Slavery to Freedom: Narrative Of The Life, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Up From Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk. Illustrated

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Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
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Download or read book From Slavery to Freedom: Narrative Of The Life, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Up From Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk. Illustrated written by Frederick Douglass and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American history is the part of American history that looks at the past of African Americans or Black Americans. Of the 10.7 million Africans who were brought to the Americas until the 1860s, 450 thousand were shipped to what is now the United States. Most African Americans are descended from Africans who were brought directly from Africa to America and became slaves. The future slaves were originally captured in African wars or raids and transported in the Atlantic slave trade. Our collection includes the following works: Narrative Of The Life by Frederick Douglass. The impassioned abolitionist and eloquent orator provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. Powerful by portrayal of the brutality of slave life through the inspiring tale of one woman's dauntless spirit and faith. Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington. Washington rose to become the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day. He describes events in a remarkable life that began in slavery and culminated in worldwide recognition. The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois. W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Contents: 1. Frederick Douglass: Narrative Of The Life 2. Harriet Ann Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 3. Booker Taliaferro Washington: Up From Slavery 4. W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk

Escape from Slavery the True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America

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ISBN 13 : 9780605000148
Total Pages : pages
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