Bricks Without Straw

Author : Sharon Ann Lewis
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534917853

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In 1994 I started generating a book. "Making Bricks Without Straw," title is from the Book of Exodus in the Bible. Chapter 5 talks about how the children of God who had been in slavery for 400 when God told Moses to go to Pharaoh and tell him to let the Israelites travel for 3 days in the wilderness to worship God. Pharaoh hardened his heart. He told the slave masters to no longer provide straw for the Israelites who were making bricks using straw and mud. This was going to make God's people work harder because Pharaoh also said that in addition to them now having to find straw, they still had to meet their quota for the day. When I read this scripture in the Bible, I am looking at myself in the mirror. From 1994 until today, I have made bricks with no straw. This book is a little long because it deals with my daily thoughts during the initial phase of my Bipolar Disorder diagnosis through me obtaining my Ph.D. in Chemistry. I wrote about everything that was hurting my soul. I hope that this book will help anyone who reads the title and the scripture and thinks to themselves, Amen.

Author : Albion W. Tourgée
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : North Carolina
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004835661

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Author : Albion W Tourgee,Sampson Low and Co
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101848616X

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Author : David A. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : African Americans
ISBN : WISC:89058582271

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A comprehensive history of African-Americans in Texas

Author : Elmer Louis Kayser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015030547627

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Author : John Morgan Dederer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020411216

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Author : Albion Winegar Tourgee
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1973-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0807124648

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Albion W. Tourgée, a former Union officer from Ohio, came to North Carolina in search of economic opportunity after the collapse of the Confederacy. A young man and a fearless advocate of freedmen’s rights, he soon became a radical Republican leader and a prominent figure in local politics. After he quit the South in 1874, Tourgée published a succession of novels and stories which made him famous. Bricks Without Straw, one of his two best-selling novels, is not only a moving story but an important commentary on the Reconstruction process in the South. This new edition of the book remains faithful to the original, which appeared in 1880. In his introduction, Profession Otto H. Olsen gives a comprehensive evaluation of the book and its author, and their impact on the era of Reconstruction. Tourgée was an astute and reliable observer of the Reconstruction scene. In Bricks Without Straw he concentrated on the problems and the continuing dilemma of freed slaves. Led by Nimbus Ware, a “good enough nigger but might aggravating to the white folk,” and Eliab Hill, a crippled mulatto preacher, former slaves begin their postwar experience by availing themselves of the educational, economic, and political opportunities of freedom. But as soon as federal protection is withdrawn, their existence becomes precarious in the face of the Ku Klux Klan and resentful southern whites. The novel conveys a true sense of the trials and accomplishments of a severely handicapped black population caught in the oppressive racist environment of the postwar South. But, as Professor Olsen points out, the book’s pioneering—and still pertinent—literary achievement is its repudiation of racist stereotypes and its effective portrayal of the essential humanity of the freed black slaves.

Author : Albion Winegar Tourgée
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664588760

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Step into the world of Albion W. Tourgée's political fiction masterpiece, 'Bricks Without Straw', as it unravels the tumultuous era of Reconstruction in the American South. Unlike its contemporaries, this novel daringly gives voice to emancipated slaves, shedding light on their struggles and aspirations. Through the eyes of Tourgée, a Radical Republican deeply involved in shaping North Carolina's destiny, witness the harrowing consequences of Klan terrorism, civil rights violations, and political corruption.

Author : Albion Winegar Tourgée
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368348755

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Reproduction of the original.

Author : Albion W. Tourgée
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780822392347

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A classic of American political fiction first published in 1880, a mere three years after Reconstruction officially ended, Bricks Without Straw offers an inside view of the struggle to create a just society in the post-slavery South. It is unique among the white-authored literary works of its time in presenting Reconstruction through the eyes of emancipated slaves. As a leading Radical Republican, the author, Albion W. Tourgée, played a key role in drafting a democratized Constitution for North Carolina after the Civil War, and he served as a state superior court judge during Reconstruction. Tourgée worked closely with African Americans and poor whites in the struggle to transform North Carolina’s racial and class politics. He saw the ravages of the Ku Klux Klan firsthand, worked to bring the perpetrators of Klan atrocities to justice, and fought against what he called the “counter-revolution” that destroyed Reconstruction. Bricks Without Straw is Tourgée’s fictionalized account of how Reconstruction was sabotaged. It is a chilling picture of violence against African Americans condoned, civil rights abrogated, constitutional amendments subverted, and electoral fraud institutionalized. Its plot revolves around a group of North Carolina freedpeople who strive to build new lives for themselves by buying land, marketing their own crops, setting up a church and school, and voting for politicians sympathetic to their interests, until Klan terrorism and the ascendancy of a white supremacist government reduce them to neo-slavery. This edition of Bricks Without Straw is enhanced by Carolyn L. Karcher’s introduction, which sets the novel in historical context and provides an overview of Albion W. Tourgée’s career, a chronology of the significant events of both the Reconstruction era and Tourgée’s life, and explanatory notes identifying actual events fictionalized in the novel.

Author : Al Bruno Ph.D.
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664218758

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What has happened to our youth? How did it all go south so fast? Hardly any of them give up a seat to an elderly person or a pregnant woman—and profanity against bus drivers, teachers, police officers and everyone else has become a rite of passage. Drug use and violence no longer strike fear in their hearts. Even worse, they’re entitled, believing everything should be theirs even if they have not worked hard for it. Meanwhile, parents have given up on parenting, preferring to turn over their children to the government or society to be reared. Al Bruno, Ph.D., a longtime educator and former chaplain, highlights the epidemics that have ravaged our youth in Bricks without Straw. He offers guidance on how to: take back our children, guide them, and teach them about the Lord; prepare children for the difficult life they will face as adults; teach children right from wrong; instill a love of learning in children. With youth crime surging, a waning work ethic, and children hurling insults at each other at every opportunity, the stakes could not be higher. Whether you’re an educator, parent, grandparent, or community leader, you’ll grasp the problem and find solutions in this book.

Author : Daniel Nayeri
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781536223439

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Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow by Daniel Nayeri Pdf

“Language lovers as well as those who appreciate the artistry of a perfectly compact novella will consider this collection a treasure.” —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review) This bold collection of novellas by Daniel Nayeri features four modern riffs on classic genres that explore universally compelling themes such as identity and belonging, betrayal and friendship, love and mortality. Included are: Straw House: A Western sizzling with suspense, set in a land where a rancher grows soulless humans and a farmer grows living toys. Wood House: A science-fiction tale set in a future where reality and technology blend imperceptibly, and a teenage girl must save the world from a nano-revolution. Brick House: A detective story set in modern New York City, featuring a squad of “wish police” and a team of unlikely detectives. Blow: A comedic love story told by none other than Death himself, portrayed as a handsome and charismatic hero who may steal your heart in more ways than one.

Author : Jonas A. Jonasson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015066581631

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Author : Alain Touraine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1438789327

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Author : Samantha Harvey
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802148841

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The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey Pdf

“Sleeplessness gets the Susan Sontag illness-as-metaphor treatment in this pensive, compact, lyrical inquiry into the author’s nighttime demons.” —Kirkus Reviews In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help. The Shapeless Unease is Harvey’s darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomnia, an immersive interior monologue of a year without one of the most basic human needs. Original and profound, and narrated with a lucid breathlessness, this is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and the will to survive, from “this generation’s Virginia Woolf” (Telegraph). “Captures the essence of fractious emotions—anxiety, fear, grief, rage—in prose so elegant, so luminous, it practically shines from the page. Harvey is a hugely talented writer, and this is a book to relish.” —Sarah Waters, New York Times–bestselling author “Harvey writes with hypnotic power and poetic precision about—well, about everything: grief, pain, memory, family, the night sky, a lake at sunset, what it means to dream and what it means to suffer and survive . . . The big surprise is that this book about ‘shapeless unease’ is, in the end, a glittering, playful and, yes, joyful celebration of that glorious gift of glorious life.” —Daily Mail “What a spectacularly good book. It is so controlled and yet so wild . . . easily one of the truest and best books I’ve read about what it’s like to be alive now, in this country.” —Max Porter, award-winning author of Lanny