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Download or read book Moses Brown written by Mack Thompson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Brown carried on a wide range of business activities, seeking profit as capital for humanitarian purposes. He became a reluctant participant and eventually a leader in many reform movements--crusades against slavery and war; efforts to provide education for the underprivileged, orphans, and Afro-Americans; and programs of urban redevelopment and public health. Originally published in 1962. 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 Sons of Providence by : Charles Rappleye
Download or read book Sons of Providence written by Charles Rappleye and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "American Mafioso" comes the story of the Brown brothers, leading slave merchants of Providence, Rhode Island, during the time of the American Revolution.
Download or read book Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African by : Thomas Clarkson
Download or read book An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African written by Thomas Clarkson and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1788 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge for the year 1785 and was influential for Clarkson’s further career. Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He was not only instrmuental in achieving the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which ended British trade in slaves, but also campaigned for the abolition of slavery worldwide.
Book Synopsis The Lost Book of Moses by : Chanan Tigay
Download or read book The Lost Book of Moses written by Chanan Tigay and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man’s quest to find the oldest Bible scrolls in the world and uncover the story of the brilliant, doomed antiquarian accused of forging them. In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira—archaeological treasure hunter and inveterate social climber—showed up unannounced in London claiming to have discovered the oldest copy of the Bible in the world. But before the museum could pony up his £1 million asking price for the scrolls—which discovery called into question the divine authorship of the scriptures—Shapira’s nemesis, the French archaeologist Charles Clermont-Ganneau, denounced the manuscripts, turning the public against him. Distraught over this humiliating public rebuke, Shapira fled to the Netherlands and committed suicide. Then, in 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Noting the similarities between these and Shapira’s scrolls, scholars made efforts to re-examine Shapira’s case, but it was too late: the primary piece of evidence, the parchment scrolls themselves had mysteriously vanished. Tigay, journalist and son of a renowned Biblical scholar, was galvanized by this peculiar story and this indecipherable man, and became determined to find the scrolls. He sets out on a quest that takes him to Australia, England, Holland, Germany where he meets Shapira’s still aggrieved descendants and Jerusalem where Shapira is still referred to in the present tense as a “Naughty boy”. He wades into museum storerooms, musty English attics, and even the Jordanian gorge where the scrolls were said to have been found all in a tireless effort to uncover the truth about the scrolls and about Shapira, himself. At once historical drama and modern-day mystery, The Lost Book of Moses explores the nineteenth-century disappearance of Shapira’s scrolls and Tigay's globetrotting hunt for the ancient manuscript. As it follows Tigay’s trail to the truth, the book brings to light a flamboyant, romantic, devious, and ultimately tragic personality in a story that vibrates with the suspense of a classic detective tale.
Book Synopsis The Life of William J. Brown, of Providence, R.I.: by : William J. Brown
Download or read book The Life of William J. Brown, of Providence, R.I.: written by William J. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ספר הרמון written by Elliot R. Wolfson and published by Harvard Semitic Studies. This book was released on 1988 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quakeriana written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Basic Brown written by Willie L. Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To The Washington Post, he's "The Last Political Showman of the 20th Century." Bill Clinton has called him "the real Slick Willie." Ronald Reagan's secretary of state George Shultz called this famously liberal politician "a man of his word" and endorsed his successful candidacy for mayor of San Francisco. Indeed Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both called upon him for advice and help. He is Willie L. Brown, Jr., and he knows how to get things done in politics, how to work both sides of the aisle to get results. Compared to him, Machiavelli looks meek. And drab. In Basic Brown, this product of rural, segregated Texas and the urban black neighborhoods of San Francisco tells how he rose through the civil rights movement to become the most potent black politician in America through his shrewd understanding and use of political power and political money. He adapts the lessons he has learned so they can be used by anyone -- black, female, male -- intent on acquiring political power. And this master of the political deal demonstrates why deals are not enough, and that political power grows only when public good is being done. Willie Brown shows how some of the most far-reaching and socially advanced legislation in American history -- like gun control, legalized abortion, gay rights, and school funding -- was carried out under his guidance and on his watch, and tells of the ingenuity, the political machinations, and the personal perseverance that were required to enact what now seems to many to be obvious legislation. These are stories of breathtaking, sometimes hilarious ruses and gambits that show that even the most high-minded legislation needs the assistance of the skills of a shark, which is what Willie Brown often sees himself as. Basic Brown is a compendium of insights and stories on the real forces governing power in American political life that will leave you looking at politics anew. It is also the inspiring and funny story of the rise of a gawky teenager in mail-order shoes and trousers who rose to entertain royalty and schoolchildren, superstars and supersize egos, the saintly and the scholarly, while working to transform and open American politics. If you ever wanted to learn how to be slick, a shark, a do-gooder, and a man of your word, Willie L. Brown, Jr., is the storyteller for you.
Book Synopsis Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by : Sarah Hopkins Bradford
Download or read book Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman written by Sarah Hopkins Bradford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1869 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman: By SARAH H. BRADFORD. [Special Illustrated Edition]
Book Synopsis The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I. by : William J. Brown
Download or read book The Life of William J. Brown of Providence, R.I. written by William J. Brown and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional firsthand account of the experiences of people of color in nineteenth-century Rhode Island
Download or read book Bodies Politic written by John Wood Sweet and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sweet offers scholars a capacious history of race in the North and a primer for thinking about the relationship between 'cultures' and identities. . . . Bodies Politic is deeply researched and richly detailed."—William and Mary Quarterly
Book Synopsis Browne/Brown Family History by : Lanette Brightwell
Download or read book Browne/Brown Family History written by Lanette Brightwell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authors maiden name was Brown, so researching this family history was important. This Browne/Brown book concentrates on two different lines of John Sumner Brown's descendants. There are source notations, military, cemetery records, birth, death, marriage, census and other documents and pictures [if available] for family members. Definitely a treasured book for those Brown descendants located in Meriweather Co., Worth, Boston - Thomas County, Georgia. John Sumner Browns ancestry is taken back as far as this researcher could find records. Included is the history of the name and coat of arms pictures. Your family will love this book, especially if you are a descendant. This Browne/Brown Family History book will become a family heirloom to be passed down through generations.
Book Synopsis The Antislavery Debate by : John Ashworth
Download or read book The Antislavery Debate written by John Ashworth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-06-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The marrow of the most important historiographical controversy since the 1970s."—Michael Johnson, University of California, Irvine "A debate of intellectual significance and power. The implications of these essays extend far beyond antislavery, important as that subject undoubtedly is. This will be of major importance to students of historical method as well as the history of ideas and reform movements."—Carl N. Degler, Stanford University
Download or read book Warner Mifflin written by Gary B. Nash and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warner Mifflin—energetic, uncompromising, and reviled—was the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A descendant of one of the pioneering families of William Penn's "Holy Experiment," Mifflin upheld the Quaker pacifist doctrine, carrying the peace testimony to Generals Howe and Washington across the blood-soaked Germantown battlefield and traveling several thousand miles by horse up and down the Atlantic seaboard to stiffen the spines of the beleaguered Quakers, harried and exiled for their neutrality during the war for independence. Mifflin was also a pioneer of slave reparations, championing the radical idea that after their liberation, Africans in America were entitled to cash payments and land or shared crop arrangements. Preaching "restitution," Mifflin led the way in making Kent County, Delaware, a center of reparationist doctrine. After the war, Mifflin became the premier legislative lobbyist of his generation, introducing methods of reaching state and national legislators to promote antislavery action. Detesting his repeated exercise of the right of petition and hating his argument that an all-seeing and affronted God would punish Americans for "national sins," many Southerners believed Mifflin was the most dangerous man in America—"a meddling fanatic" who stirred the embers of sectionalism after the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. Yet he inspired those who believed that the United States had betrayed its founding principles of natural and inalienable rights by allowing the cancer of slavery and the dispossession of Indian lands to continue in the 1790s. Writing in beautiful prose and marshaling fascinating evidence, Gary B. Nash constructs a convincing case that Mifflin belongs in the Quaker antislavery pantheon with William Southeby, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet.
Book Synopsis Parliamentary Papers by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports from Committees by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Reports from Committees written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
