Family Or Freedom

Author : Emily West
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813136929

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Family Or Freedom by Emily West Pdf

In the antebellum South, the presence of free people of color was problematic to the white population. Not only were they possible assistants to enslaved people and potential members of the labor force; their very existence undermined popular justifications for slavery. It is no surprise that, by the end of the Civil War, nine Southern states had enacted legal provisions for the "voluntary" enslavement of free blacks. What is surprising to modern sensibilities and perplexing to scholars is that some individuals did petition to rescind their freedom. Family or Freedom investigates the incentives for free African Americans living in the antebellum South to sacrifice their liberty for a life in bondage. Author Emily West looks at the many factors influencing these dire decisions -- from desperate poverty to the threat of expulsion -- and demonstrates that the desire for family unity was the most important consideration for African Americans who submitted to voluntary enslavement. The first study of its kind to examine the phenomenon throughout the South, this meticulously researched volume offers the most thorough exploration of this complex issue to date.

Author : Kenneth T. Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317259640

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Family of Freedom by Kenneth T. Walsh Pdf

Barack Obama is the first African American President, but the history of African Americans in the White House long predates him. The building was built by slaves, and African Americans have worked in it ever since, from servants to advisors. In charting the history of African Americans in the White House, Kenneth T. Walsh illuminates the trajectory of racial progress in the US. He looks at Abraham Lincoln and his black seamstress and valet, debates between President Johnson and Martin Luther King over civil rights, and the role of black staff members under Nixon and Reagan. Family of Freedom gives a unique view of US history as seen through the experiences of African Americans in the White House.

Author : Tananarive Due,Patricia Stephens Due
Publisher : One World
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307525345

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Freedom in the Family by Tananarive Due,Patricia Stephens Due Pdf

Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships, its nameless foot soldiers, and its achievements—and an incisive examination of the future of justice in this country. Their mother-daughter journey spanning two generations of struggles is an unforgettable story.

Author : Susan G. Bell,Karen M. Offen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804711712

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Women, the Family, and Freedom by Susan G. Bell,Karen M. Offen Pdf

This is the first book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1750 to 1880. The central issues—motherhood, women's legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women's education and labor—extended to women the struggle by men for personal and political liberty. These issues were political, economic, and religious dynamite. They exploded in debates of philosophers, political theorists, scientists, novelists, and religious and political leaders. This collection emphasizes the debate by juxtaposing prevailing and dissenting points of view at given historical moments (e.g. Madame de Staël vs. Rousseau, Eleanor Marx vs. Pope Leo XIII, Strindberg vs. Ibsen, Simone de Beauvoir vs. Margaret Mead). Each section is preceded by a contextual headnote pinpointing the documents significance. Many of the documents have been translated into English for the first time.

Author : John Witte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3161608763

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Faith, Freedom, and Family by John Witte Pdf

Faith, freedom, and family together form the bedrock of a good life and a just society. But this foundation has suffered seismic shocks from vibrant religious pluralism, profound political changes, and new conceptions of marriage. This volume retrieves the major legal and theological teachings that have shaped these institutions and suggests ways to strengthen and integrate them anew. Part I highlights the work of several scholars of law and religion who have defined and defended the place of faith in law, politics, and society. Part II documents the development of freedom in the West and parries the attacks of skeptics of modern rights. Part III reaffirms the family as a cornerstone of faith and freedom historically and today, even while defending some modern marital reforms. Opening essays by the editors and closing interviews of the author place Witte's work in biographical and intellectual context and map some of the new frontiers and challenges of faith, freedom, and family around the globe.

Author : Susan G. Bell,Karen M. Offen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0804711739

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Women, the Family, and Freedom by Susan G. Bell,Karen M. Offen Pdf

This is the second book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1880 to 1950. The central issues--motherhood, women's legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women's education and labor--extended to women the struggle by men for personal and political liberty. These issues were political, economic, and religious dynamite. They exploded in debates of philosophers, political theorists, scientists, novelists, and religious and political leaders. This collection emphasizes the debate by juxtaposing prevailing and dissenting points of view at given historical moments (e.g. Madame de Staël vs. Rousseau, Eleanor Marx vs. Pope Leo XIII, Strindberg vs. Ibsen, Simone de Beauvoir vs. Margaret Mead). Each section is preceded by a contextual headnote pinpointing the documents significance. Many of the documents have been translated into English for the first time.

Author : Ira Berlin,Leslie S. Rowland
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9781565844407

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Families and Freedom by Ira Berlin,Leslie S. Rowland Pdf

Draws on the letters and personal testimonies of freed slaves to describe the remaking of the African-American family during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras

Author : Herbert G. Gutman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1977-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780394724515

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The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 by Herbert G. Gutman Pdf

An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War.

Author : Floyd Saunders
Publisher : Fastpencil Incorporated
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1607464144

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Family Financial Freedom by Floyd Saunders Pdf

You might be struggling to make ends meet, but achieving true financial freedom is still possible. The good news is virtually anyone with a desire to learn and the willingness to plan can achieve a considerable degree of financial security. This book is a road map to the personal financial freedom you want and deserve. There are no quick-rich schemes here, just common sense advice on how to manage your money, protect your family from risks and start making the moves to being more financial secure.

Author : David Peterson del Mar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230339668

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The American Family by David Peterson del Mar Pdf

Traces the movement from mutualism to individualism in the context of American family life. Families survived or even flourished during colonization, Revolution, slavery, immigration and economic upheaval. In the past century, prosperity created a culture devoted to pleasure and individual fulfilment.

Author : Avril Carruthers
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101633748

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Freedom from Toxic Relationships by Avril Carruthers Pdf

A guide to leaving painful, destructive relationships behind—both at home and at work Toxic relationships often come disguised as seemingly normal ones. These subtly destructive relationships are characterized by the slow erosion of self-esteem, a loss of personal identity, or a growing desire to please friends, partners, and family members who are impossible to please. In this uplifting and informative book, transpersonal psychotherapist Avril Carruthers will take a close look at adult relationships to show why we get involved in toxic relationships in the first place, and instruct the reader on how to recognize if they’re involved in one. Once the toxic relationship is identified, the author shows the reader how to begin their journey toward healing and how to meet the world with a new kind of confidence, so that the cycle of toxic relationships can be broken once and for all. What Carruthers teaches is just how possible it can be to learn how to recognize the manipulative or sweetly corrosive partner, the family dynamics that make Christmas and other get-togethers seem like hell, or the nightmare boss who causes daily torment—and that we can learn to leave these painful, destructive patterns behind forever.

Author : David M. Carder,Earl R. Henslin,John S. Townsend III,William Henry Cloud,Alice Brawand
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781575675244

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Unlocking Your Family Patterns by David M. Carder,Earl R. Henslin,John S. Townsend III,William Henry Cloud,Alice Brawand Pdf

Revised and updated from the original, this honest and forthwright look at families of all shapes and sizes will help you down the path of healing (whether you know you need it or whether yo're just not sure). Unlocking Your Family Patterns combines decades worth of counseling wisdom and pastoral care insights into this one practical resource. Your past may hurt, and your family's patterns may have left emotional scars, but your future has not been laid in stone yet. There is hope for healing, there are lessons to learn, and there are paths toward family health. Using clinical, biblical and practical examples to help you uncover the patterns your family has lived in, this book might lead you toward the family u-turn you've been looking for.

Author : Marie Alena Castle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1937276996

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Culture Wars by Marie Alena Castle Pdf

Boldly stated and passionately supported, this argument against religious influence on the American government and legal system analyzes the impact that religion has on culture in the United States. The book makes the claim that many laws based on religious beliefs, specifically theology promoted in the Middle Ages, are misattributed as long-standing social values and that changing the theology itself threatens the religious institution supporting it--igniting a cultural war engulfed in fear and resulting in political dysfunction. It reveals that from sexuality to family planning to the tax system, religious doctrines direct American life without accounting for difference. Castle provides strategies for overcoming the imposition of religious views and demonstrates the value in standing up for a secular nation where morality is not tied to one particular religious group. This revised and expanded edition provides additional information on the origins and activities of the religious right, and its assault on women's, reproductive, and LGBT rights. It analyzes the Trump Administration's threat to those rights, and it provides case studies of the havoc religious rightists have wrought in states they control, focusing on Mike Pence's Indiana and Sam Brownback's Kansas.

Author : William G. Thomas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300256277

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A Question of Freedom by William G. Thomas Pdf

The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George’s County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court. Between 1787 and 1861, these lawsuits challenged the legitimacy of slavery in American law and put slavery on trial in the nation’s capital. Piecing together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in the archives, William Thomas tells an intricate and intensely human story of the enslaved families (the Butlers, Queens, Mahoneys, and others), their lawyers (among them a young Francis Scott Key), and the slaveholders who fought to defend slavery, beginning with the Jesuit priests who held some of the largest plantations in the nation and founded a college at Georgetown. A Question of Freedom asks us to reckon with the moral problem of slavery and its legacies in the present day.

Author : Steven Slate ,Mark W. Scheeren,Michelle L. Dunbar
Publisher : BRI Publishing
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780983471356

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The Freedom Model for Addictions by Steven Slate ,Mark W. Scheeren,Michelle L. Dunbar Pdf