Buxton

Author : Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545281195

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Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic Gold) by Christopher Paul Curtis Pdf

Master storyteller Christopher Paul Curtis's Newbery Honor novel, featuring his trademark humor and unique narrative voice, is now part of the Scholastic Gold line! Elijah of Buxton, recipient of the Newbery Honor and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. This edition includes exclusive bonus content!Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. Elijah's the first child in town to be born free, and he ought to be famous just for that -- not to mention for being the best at chunking rocks and catching fish. Unfortunately, all that most people see is a "fra-gile" boy who's scared of snakes and tends to talk too much. But everything changes when a former slave steals money from Elijah's friend, who has been saving to buy his family out of captivity in the South. Now it's up to Elijah to track down the thief -- and his dangerous journey just might make a hero out of him, if only he can find the courage to get back home.

Author : Julian Buxton,Ed Macy,Edward Macy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000067915961

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The Ghosts of Charleston by Julian Buxton,Ed Macy,Edward Macy Pdf

Includes ghost stories from the Aiken-Rhett House, the Garden Theater, and the Cooper River Bridge.

Author : Meredith Westgate
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982156725

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The Shimmering State by Meredith Westgate Pdf

A “moving, astounding, and totally unsettling” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author) literary debut following two patients in recovery after an experimental memory drug warps their lives. Lucien moves to Los Angeles to be with his grandmother as she undergoes an experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s using the new drug, Memoroxin. An emerging photographer, he’s also running from the sudden death of his mother, a well-known artist whose legacy haunts him. Sophie has just landed the lead in the upcoming performance of La Sylphide with the Los Angeles Ballet Company. She still waitresses at the Chateau Marmont during her off hours, witnessing the recreational use of Memoroxin—or Mem—among the Hollywood elite. When Lucien and Sophie meet at The Center, founded by an ambitious yet conflicted doctor to treat patients who’ve abused Mem, they have no memory of how they got there—or why they feel so inexplicably drawn to each other. Is it attraction, or something they cannot remember from “before”? “Contemplative and wonderfully evocative, finishing The Shimmering State is like waking from a dream, where you reenter the world with fresh eyes and wonder at the frailty of your own memories” (Jessica Chiarella, author of The Lost Girls).

Author : Dorothy Schwieder,Joseph Hraba,Elmer Schwieder
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587298950

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Buxton by Dorothy Schwieder,Joseph Hraba,Elmer Schwieder Pdf

From 1900 until the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland-Buxton, Iowa. Originally established by the Consolidation Coal Company, Buxton was the largest unincorporated coal mining community in Iowa. What made Buxton unique, however, is the fact that the majority of its 5,000 residents were African Americans—a highly unusual racial composition for a state which was over 90 percent white. At a time when both southern and northern blacks were disadvantaged and oppressed, blacks in Buxton enjoyed true racial integration—steady employment, above-average wages, decent housing, and minimal discrimination. For such reasons, Buxton was commonly known as “the black man's utopia in Iowa.” Containing documentary evidence—including newspapers, census records, photographs, and state mining reports—along with interviews of 75 former residents, Buxton: Work and Racial Equality in a Coal Mining Community (originally published in 1987 and winner of the 1988 Benjamin Shambaugh Award) explored the Buxton experience from a variety of perspectives. The authors—an American historian, a family sociologist, and a race relations sociologist—provided a truly interdisciplinary history of one Iowa's most unique communities. Now, eighty years after the town's demise and fifteen years after Buxton's original publication, the history of this Iowa town remains a compelling story that continues to capture people's imaginations. In Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland, the authors offer further reflections upon their original study and the many former Buxton residents who shared their memories. In the new essay, “A Buxton Perspective,” issues such as social class and the town's continuing legacy are addressed. The voices captured inBuxton, although recorded over twenty years ago, still resonate with exuberance, affection, and poignancy; this expanded edition will bring their amazing stories back to the forefront of Iowa and American history.

Author : Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Slave-trade
ISBN : OXFORD:N10559121

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Abridgment of Sir T. Fowell Buxton's Work Entitled "The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy" by Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton Pdf

Author : Adam Buxton
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780008293352

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Ramble Book: Musings on Childhood, Friendship, Family and 80s Pop Culture by Adam Buxton Pdf

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘An affectionate and revealing account ... Funny, sad, real, rueful.’ The Times ‘Warm, rambling and self-aware’ Guardian The long-awaited, rambling, tender, and very funny memoir from Adam Buxton

Author : Thomas Buxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001925213

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Memoirs of Sir Thomas Powell Buxton by Thomas Buxton Pdf

Author : Cyrus Woodman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89088780192

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The Woodmans of Buxton, Maine by Cyrus Woodman Pdf

Edward Woodman and his family immigrated, probably from Corsham, Wiltshire, England, to Newbury, Massachusetts in 1635. Among his children were Benjamin, Joshua and Edward Woodman.

Author : Rachelle Chase
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781467124386

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Lost Buxton by Rachelle Chase Pdf

Buxton, Iowa, was an unincorporated coal mining town, established by Consolidation Coal Company in 1900. At a time when Jim Crow laws and segregation kept blacks and whites separated throughout the nation, Buxton was integrated. African American and Caucasian residents lived, worked, and went to school side by side. The company provided miners with equal housing and equal pay, regardless of race, and offered opportunities for African Americans beyond mining. Professional African Americans included a bank cashier, the justice of the peace, constables, doctors, attorneys, store clerks, and teachers. Businesses, such as a meat market, a drugstore, a bakery, a music store, hotels, millinery shops, a saloon, and restaurants, were owned by African Americans. For 10 years, African Americans made up more than half of the population. Unfortunately, in the early 1920s, the mines closed, and today, only a cemetery, a few foundations, and some crumbling ruins remain.

Author : Thom. Fowell Buxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10062141

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Memoirs of Sir Thom. Fowell Buxton by Thom. Fowell Buxton Pdf

Author : Paul Coffin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375045852

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The Records of the Church of Christ in Buxton by Paul Coffin Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.

Author : Paul Coffin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752514902

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The Records of the Church of Christ in Buxton, ME by Paul Coffin Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.

Author : Rachelle D.Henry
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467140461

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Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa by Rachelle D.Henry Pdf

Some have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived, worked and attended school together. It was a thriving, one-of-a-kind coal mining town created by the Consolidation Coal Company. This inclusive approach provided opportunity for its residents. Dr. E.A. Carter was the first African American to get a medical degree from the University of Iowa in 1907. He returned to Buxton and was hired by the coal company, where he treated both black and white patients. Attorney George Woodson ran for file clerk in the Iowa Senate for the Republican Party in 1898, losing to a white man by one vote. Author Rachelle Chase details the amazing events that created this unique community and what made it disappear.

Author : Elliott Moss
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780760349700

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Buxton Hall Barbecue's Book of Smoke by Elliott Moss Pdf

Smoke savory meats and vegetables at home and cook signature recipes from the chef-driven kitchen of Buxton Hall Barbecue in Asheville, North Carolina.

Author : Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU54369215

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Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart by Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton Pdf