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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434970841
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Trials of War: A Journey Toward Freedom written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lee Raymond Baker, Sr.
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780805975116
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (751 download)
Download or read book The Trials of War written by Lee Raymond Baker, Sr. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244385
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
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.
Author : Du Hua
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477210636
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)
Download or read book The Escapes and My Journey to Freedom written by Du Hua and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was born in the warzone. The invasions of the North Vietnamese Communists had caused total destruction throughout the entirety of his parents village when he was just four years of age. He had witnessed the killings and the brutality of the evil Communists throughout his childhood. After the Fall of Saigon, his family had suffered great hardship from the Vietcong. It was clear that there was no future for the young generation; his family had determined to find ways for their son to escape the Communist regime. He had tried numerous times to escape with no success; nevertheless, God had protected him and he did not get killed or caught by the Vietcong. He finally escaped successfully on his eleventh attempt and his boat was so lucky to get rescued by a German ship in the unforgiving ocean. He settled in the United States of America after years of long waiting in the refugee camp. He has found the life of freedom and dignity in America from the hell of the evil Communists. He has appreciated so much about his new country harboring him and he was determined to serve and help protect the freedom and democracy for his new motherland. He joined the United States Navy and became a sailor, serving multiple deployments. He was very happy and dreamed to become a Navy jet fighter pilot someday. Unfortunately, he got injured while performing his duty. His medical separation from the US Navy saddened his heart and soul. Now he, as a disable veteran, had to fight for survival for himself and his family with two small daughters. He had to return to college and further his education. He overcame all major obstacles and impediments mentally and physically; he graduated from a Doctor of Pharmacy program from Nova Southeastern University. Since then, he has been working as a pharmacist to support his family. He was extremely happy to have another opportunity to serve his patients, his community. However, his old injury continues to aggravate him over the years; nonetheless, he continues to fight to support his family and serve the people he loves.
Author : Herb Rothman
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480845752
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Journey to Freedom written by Herb Rothman and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yehuda Roitmentz is a boy growing up in pre-World War I Germany. His father is one of the few Jewish officers who served in the Kaisers army. His mother and uncle are determined to instill in Yehuda all the knowledge and traditions of his Jewish religion. He grows into an ambitious, well-educated man who takes over his fathers clothing factory and makes it thrive. However, everything changes when the Nazis come to power. Life becomes stressful, difficult, and even dangerous as anti-Semitic laws make earning a living almost impossible for Jews. Yehuda is soon forced to manufacture uniforms for the German army, even as he joins the resistance movement in the hopes of disrupting the Nazis as much as possible. Yehudas resistance earns him a place in a concentration camp, but he is able to flee to Poland. Now, he must find a way for his wife and their baby to travel across Germany to join him. How can one man stand up to the Nazi agendaespecially when the Gestapo has put him on their Most Wanted List? It will take ingenuity, heroism, but most importantly, love to triumph over those who wish him dead and to find the freedom he seeks.
Author : Jacqueline Bernard
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558610248
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Journey Toward Freedom written by Jacqueline Bernard and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1990 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born a slave in 1797, Sojourner Truth eventually gained her freedom and travelled the nation crusading against slavery and promoting civil liberties, women's rights, prison reform, and better working conditions. In JOURNEY TOWARD FREEDOM, Bernard gives vivid expression to the great courage, wit, and common sense that made Sojourner Truth an inspirational champion for change in the United States. "Quietly factual when it suits her story, but lyrical when the demand arises, Jacqueline Bernard has succeeded on nearly every account." -- New York Times.
Author : Kent Blansett
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300240414
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Journey to Freedom written by Kent Blansett and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the Red Power Indigenous rights movement A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington, DC. The life of this pivotal Akwesasne Mohawk activist is explored in an important new biography based on extensive archival research and key interviews with activists and family members. Historian Kent Blansett offers a transformative and new perspective on the Red Power movement of the turbulent 1960s and the dynamic figure who helped to organize and champion it, telling the full story of Oakes’s life, his fight for Native American self-determination, and his tragic, untimely death. This invaluable history chronicles the mid-twentieth century rise of Intertribalism, Indian Cities, and a national political awakening that continues to shape Indigenous politics and activism to this day.
Author : Charlotte J. Marky
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1602478473
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Journey to Freedom written by Charlotte J. Marky and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Author Charlotte J. Marky as she takes you through an unforgettable and exciting Journey to Freedom. The perilous journey takes you through the devastation and destruction of World War II, the rise of communism, and the persecution of an evil dictatorship. Experience the 1956 Hungarian freedom fight. The story of a small nation having the courage to challenge the mighty Soviet Union. The ultimate defeat of the Hungarians and the brutal consequences of Soviet retaliation. Walk in the footsteps of the author as she flees from Hungary. After eleven months in refugee camps, she took the first exhilarating breath of freedom. The author captures the experiences of life in the United States, the land of freedom, prosperity, and opportunity. Follow Author Charlotte J. Marky on her thrilling Journey to Freedom when at last she finds perfect freedom. A precious gift freely given to all whose hearts are open to receive it.
Author : Conrad Taylor
Publisher : TCF Business Group
ISBN 13 : 0984839216
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book PATH to FREEDOM: My Story of Perseverance written by Conrad Taylor and published by TCF Business Group. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love nonfiction, which reads like a novel, multiple award-winning "PATH to FREEDOM: My Story of Perseverance" is for you. The Smithsonian Institution displays the inspirational memoir in its Anacostia Museum Library. Little about Conrad Taylor's upbringing in a remote mining town in Guyana, South America, prepared him for West Point - at the height of the Vietnam War. An extraordinary opportunity for most, the highly-regimented United States Military Academy was a life-changer for him. Enduring culture shock and surviving rude awakenings hardened the rigorous West Point Experience. And, Third World politics after West Point - because of West Point - tested it severely. The truth-is-stranger-than-fiction memoir has a simple proposition. Fly-or-die!" PATH to FREEDOM: My Story of Perseverance" describes what happened upon Taylor's return to a government turned repressive, anti-American, and paranoid - overnight. The Soviet-leaning, Cold-War-era dictatorship feared regime change. Its power-hungry leaders obsessed about him being a spy for the United States. His was the impossible task of proving that he was not - or else! The historically-accurate, coming-of-age book provides a unique prism through which to see the cultural trauma of emigration, the unique experience that is West Point, the personal side of Cold-War-era geopolitics, and the mayhem of Third World politics. The view will be nostalgic for some, shocking to many, and enlightening for others. Its subtly-threaded love story will enchant - at the very least. The Smithsonian Institution archives PATH to FREEDOM: My Story of Perseverance in its Anacostia Museum Library for the book's reference value. The renowned research complex selected the memoir for its insights about the history and culture of black people in the Western Hemisphere.
Author : Whit Taylor
Publisher : Little, Brown Ink
ISBN 13 : 0759557667
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom written by Whit Taylor and published by Little, Brown Ink. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating graphic novel biography about Harriet Tubman sheds new light on one of American history's bravest heroes. Harriet Tubman did something exceptionally courageous: She escaped slavery. Then she did something impossible: She went back. She underwent some thirteen missions to rescue around seventy enslaved people, using and expanding a network of abolitionists that became known as the Underground Railroad. She spent her life as an activist, speaking out for Black people and women's suffrage. This modern account of her trip to save her brothers is detailed and authentic. Illustrated with care for the historical record, it offers insight into the life and mind of Tubman, displaying her as a woman with an unshakable desire to break the chains of an unjust society. It is a perfect anti-racist narrative for our times and deepens an understanding of just what freedom means to those who must fight for it.
Author : Patty Sanders
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638440247
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)
Download or read book My Journey to Freedom written by Patty Sanders and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What she doesn't know is that she is waking up to a nightmare that will change her normal to living in hell's kitchen. What is worse, knowing what you lost or begging for something you can never have again? From fighting demons in the night to losing someone I never thought I could live without, this journey takes me on a warfare in the mind. It shows that when you reach a new level with God, you will fight a devil you have never encountered. My journey is desperate with a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. It's my journey to freedom.
Author : Gail Shaffer Blankenau
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496238605
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Journey to Freedom written by Gail Shaffer Blankenau and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her fourth solo album, Michelle Williams takes listeners on a faith-filled journey. It also includes the single Say Yes, which features her fellow Destiny's Child members Kelly Rowland and Beyonce.
Author : Arkady Ostrovsky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399564187
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Russia written by Arkady Ostrovsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD FINALIST FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR “Fast-paced and excellently written…much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable.” —New York Times “Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis.” –The Wall Street Journal The breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of optimism around the world, but Russia today is actively involved in subversive information warfare, manipulating the media to destabilize its enemies. How did a country that embraced freedom and market reform 25 years ago end up as an autocratic police state bent once again on confrontation with America? A winner of the Orwell Prize, The Invention of Russia reaches back to the darkest days of the cold war to tell the story of Russia's stealthy and largely unchronicled counter revolution. A highly regarded Moscow correspondent for the Economist, Arkady Ostrovsky comes to this story both as a participant and a foreign correspondent. His knowledge of many of the key players allows him to explain the phenomenon of Valdimir Putin - his rise and astonishing longevity, his use of hybrid warfare and the alarming crescendo of his military interventions. One of Putin's first acts was to reverse Gorbachev's decision to end media censorship and Ostrovsky argues that the Russian media has done more to shape the fate of the country than its politicians. Putin pioneered a new form of demagogic populism --oblivious to facts and aggressively nationalistic - that has now been embraced by Donald Trump.
Author : General Jerry Boykin
Publisher : FaithWords
ISBN 13 : 0446537586
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Never Surrender written by General Jerry Boykin and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978, Jerry Boykin joined what would become the world's premier Special Operations unit, Delta Force. The only promise: "A medal and a body bag." What followed was a .50 caliber round in the chest and a life spent with America's elite forces bringing down warlords and war criminals, despots, and dictators. In Colombia, his task force hunted the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. In Panama, he helped capture the brutal dictator Manuel Noriega, liberating a nation. From Vietnam to Iran to Mogadishu, Lt. General Jerry Boykin's life reads like an action-adventure novel. Boykin's powerful story will keep you riveted as he reveals how his military duty worked in tandem with his faith to bring him through the bloody storms of foreign battle-and through the political firestorm that ambushed him in his own country.
Author : Egon Balas
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815606257
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Will to Freedom written by Egon Balas and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will to Freedom is an eyewitness account of the social and political upheaval that shook Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. As an underground resistance fighter, political prisoner, fugitive, and Communist Party official, Egon Balas charts his journey from idealistic young Communist to disenchanted dissident. Attracted by its anti-Nazi stance, Balas joined the Hungarian Communist Party in 1942, after Hungary had entered the war on Hitler’s side. He helped organize work stoppages and distributed antiwar leaflets. In his memoir, he offers a compelling account first of his eventual imprisonment and ordeal under torture and then of his escape and life in hiding. Later, Balas rose to high positions in postwar Romania. Arrested again, this time by the Communist authorities, he spent two years in solitary confinement. Unbroken, he was released after Stalin's death but was never forgiven for his refusal co cooperate in the staging of a show trial. Disenchanted with the regime, Balas started a new life as a self-educated applied mathematician and, after several unsuccessful attempts, was finally able to leave Romania as a Jewish emigrant in the mid-sixties.
Author : James Oliver Horton
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813531802
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Hard Road to Freedom written by James Oliver Horton and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Hard Road to Freedom was released, it has garnered universal acclaim. Rutgers University Press is pleased to announce the availability of this book in two separate volumes for courses in African American history that span two semesters. Volume I includes the following chapters: -Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade -The Evolution of Slavery in British North America -Slavery and Freedom in the Age of Revolution -The Early Republic and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom -Slavery and the Slave Community -Free People of Color and the Fight against Slavery -From Militancy to Civil War Features of Volume I include: -Timelines for each chapter -Sidebars, highlighting significant African Americans (some well known, some lesser known) -Transcriptions of significant historical documents, ranging from autobiographies, legal decrees, speeches, and military orders
Author : Jack M. Beermann
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700634207
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Journey to Separate but Equal written by Jack M. Beermann and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame Decuir’s Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era, Jack Beermann tells the story of how, in Hall v. Decuir, the post–Civil War US Supreme Court took its first step toward perpetuating the subjugation of the non-White population of the United States by actively preventing a Southern state from prohibiting segregation on a riverboat in the coasting trade on the Mississippi River. The Journey to Separate but Equal offers the first complete exploration of Hall v. Decuir, with an in-depth look at the case’s record; the lives of the parties, lawyers, and judges; and the case’s social context in 1870s Louisiana. The book centers around the remarkable story of Madame Josephine Decuir and the lawsuit she pursued because she had been illegally barred from the cabin reserved for White women on the Governor Allen riverboat. The drama of Madame Decuir’s fight against segregation’s denial of her dignity as a human and particularly as a woman enriches our understanding of the Reconstruction era, especially in Louisiana, including political and legal changes that occurred during that time and the plight of people of color who were freed from slavery but denied their dignity and rights as American citizens. Hall v. Decuir spanned the pivotal period of 1872–1878, during which White segregationist Democrats “redeemed” the South from Republican control. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Hall overturned the application of an 1869 Louisiana statute prohibiting racial segregation in Madame Decuir’s case because of the status of the Mississippi River as a mode of interstate commerce. The decision represents a crucial precedent that established the legal groundwork for the entrenchment of Jim Crow in the law of the United States, leading directly to the Court’s adoption of “separate but equal” in Plessy v. Ferguson.
