Freedom Bound

Author : Christopher Tomlins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139490931

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Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire process. Freedom Bound tells how colonies were planted in occupied territories, how they were populated with migrants - free and unfree - to do the work of colonizing and how the newcomers secured possession. It tells of the new civic lives that seemed possible in new commonwealths and of the constraints that kept many from enjoying them. It follows the story long past the end of the eighteenth century until the American Civil War, when - just for a moment - it seemed that freedom might finally be unbound.

Author : Jean Rae Baxter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : AEtats-Unis
ISBN : 1553801431

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Fiction. Young Adult Novel. African American Studies. In this, the final instalment of Jean Rae Baxter's best-selling young adult trilogy, eighteen-year-old Charlotte sails from Canada to Charleston in the beleaguered Thirteen Colonies to join her new husband Nick. During these final months of the American Revolution, she must muster all her wit and courage when she has to rescue Nick from being tortured as a spy in an alligator-infested South Carolina swamp. She must also find ways to bring freedom to a pair of teenage runaway slaves she has befriended. FREEDOM BOUND delivers a frank and realistic picture of the slave system and a powerful account of what was at stake for both white and black Loyalists as they prepared to find a new home in the country that was soon to be Canada. Like The Way Lies North and BROKEN TRAIL, the two novels that preceded it, FREEDOM BOUND contains a wealth of carefully researched historical details of one of the least known chapters of our history.

Author : Warren Pleece,Robin Jones
Publisher : Bhp Comics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1910775126

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"All stories are based on research from the Runaway Slaves in Britain project by the University of Glasgow."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Katie Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000257182

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Freedom Bound II by Katie Holmes Pdf

Over generations, Australian women have envisaged a world of freedom. This new collection of documents - letters, songs, poetry, diary extracts - charts the visions that inspired women and the obstacles that confronted them. Exploring twentieth-century Australia, Freedom Bound II shows how intertwined were women's public and personal lives, and how bound by custom, ties, affections and duties. The different meanings of freedom have been shaped by the nature of women's oppression, their quests given focus by their different points of departure. Aboriginal women sought self-determination and the right to keep their children; migrant women sought to affirm culture and family ties, and escape discrimination and poverty. Overburdened mothers wanted relief from continual childbearing and a measure of self-fulfilment. Numerous women have campaigned for freedom from domestic tyranny and male violence. Together with its companion volume, Freedom Bound I, which deals with the period of colonisation, this volume documents the dreams that inspired women, the pleasures and the pain that informed their politics and the desires that enthralled them, even as they bade them to be free. It is an essential resource for students and teachers of Australian women's history.

Author : Patricia Grimshaw
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000949322

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Freedom Bound 1 by Patricia Grimshaw Pdf

Over generations, Australian women have envisaged a world of freedom. This new collection of documents - letters, diary extracts, poems, public speeches - charts the visions that inspired women and the obstacles that confronted them. Dealing with a period from colonisation to early Federation in 1901, Freedom Bound I shows how intertwined were women's public and personal lives, and how bound by custom, ties, affection and duties. The different meanings of freedom have been shaped by the nature of women's oppression, their quests given focus by their different points of departure. Convict women protested - often violently - at the indignities they endured; Aboriginal women protested at the cruelty of the frontier and the paternalism of the mission; and white middle-class women demanded the freedom to participate in the public world. Together with its companion volume, Freedom Bound II, which deals with the twentieth century, this volume documents the dreams that inspired women, the pleasures and pain that informed their politics and the desires that enthralled them, even as they bade them to be free. It is an essential resource for students and teachers of Australian women's history.

Author : Robert Weisbrot
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UCSC:32106012025661

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The movement for black equality set in historical perspective.

Author : Göran Larsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1565630831

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Author : Douglas Flamming
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520239197

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Bound for Freedom by Douglas Flamming Pdf

A definitive, illustrated account of Los Angeles's black community in the half century before World War I details African-American community life and political activism during the city's transformation from a small town to a sprawling metropolis.

Author : Joanne Grant
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0471327174

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Ella Baker by Joanne Grant Pdf

Praise for ELLA BAKER "Splendid biography . . . a valuable contribution to the growing body of literature on the critical roles of women in civil rights."--Joyce A. Ladner, The Washington Post Book World "The definitive biography of Ella Baker, a force behind the civil rights movement and almost every social justice movement of this century."--Gloria Steinem "This book will be received with plaudits for its empathy, insightfulness, and gendered narration of an astonishingly neglected life that was pivotal in the pursuit of American justice and humanity."--David Levering Lewis Pulitzer Prize-winning author of W. E. B. Du Bois "Pathbreaking. By illuminating the little-known story of how profoundly Ella Baker influenced the most radical activists of the era, Grant's graceful portrayal reveals Miss Baker's transformative impact on recent history."--Kathleen Cleaver

Author : Rosalie Turner
Publisher : Season of Harvest
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Slavery
ISBN : 0967948339

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Slave traders capture 13 yr.old Anta Majigeen Ndiaye, a village princess. Anta's family dies on a slave ship and Anta begins her quest for freedom. The road to freedom takes her from Africa to Spanish East Florida-from village to plantation--from a blanket on a dirt floor of a thatched hut to her master's bed. Inspired by the life of Anna Kingsley. Kingsley Plantation is now a National Park in Florida.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Antique Collector's Club
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1935935089

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Bound to Freedom by Anonim Pdf

"Many think slavery ended with the demise of the trans-Atlantic trade, but sadly, that's far from true. An estimated 36 million live without dignity or rights and although slavery is illegal in every country, it continues to persist in allas a crime against humanity. Lisa Kristine s indelible images seek to unify humanity and inform the viewer of the tangible humanness of individuals enslaved today. Lisa was invited to the Vatican as a witness to the signing of the Declaration to Eradicate Modern Day Slavery by 2020. When Pope Francis gathered twenty-five of the world's distinguished faith leaders the message was clear slavery is not a political issue it is a crime against humanity, against all people. Her journey sheds light on the need for a global shift from dependence on slave labor, to fair trade labor systems available and active in many parts of the world today. It is not simply a story about slavery, but liberation. In order to create change, we must first visualize what is required to free those enslaved today. [Bound to freedom] focuses on inspiring us to engage in the reality of slavery to make us aware of the depth of its reach and insist we begin to look for solutions across faiths, communities, and the world. The call is for a renewed commitment to cooperate and to empower those enslaved to be seen."--

Author : Baris Buyukokutan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472132805

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Bound Together by Baris Buyukokutan Pdf

Bound Together takes a new look at twentieth-century Turkey, asking whether its current condition was inevitable; what it will take for Turkish women and men to regain their lost freedoms; and what the Turkish case means for the prospects of freedom and democracy elsewhere. Contrasting the country's field of poetry, where secularization was the joint work of pious and nonpious people, with its field of the novel, where the usual Turkish pattern prevailed, it inquires into the nature of western-nonwestern difference.

Author : Kate Clifford Larson
Publisher : One World
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307514769

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Bound for the Promised Land by Kate Clifford Larson Pdf

The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*The New York Times Book Review). Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Now, in this magnificent biography, historian Kate Clifford Larson gives us a powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed portrait of Tubman and her times. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical data, Larson presents Harriet Tubman as a complete human being—brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom. A true American hero, Tubman was also a woman who loved, suffered, and sacrificed. Praise for Bound for the Promised Land “[Bound for the Promised Land] appropriately reads like fiction, for Tubman’s exploits required such intelligence, physical stamina and pure fearlessness that only a very few would have even contemplated the feats that she actually undertook. . . . Larson captures Tubman’s determination and seeming imperviousness to pain and suffering, coupled with an extraordinary selflessness and caring for others.”—The Seattle Times “Essential for those interested in Tubman and her causes . . . Larson does an especially thorough job of . . . uncovering relevant documents, some of them long hidden by history and neglect.”—The Plain Dealer “Larson has captured Harriet Tubman’s clandestine nature . . . reading Ms. Larson made me wonder if Tubman is not, in fact, the greatest spy this country has ever produced.”—The New York Sun

Author : Tera W. Hunter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674979246

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Bound in Wedlock by Tera W. Hunter Pdf

Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize Winner of the Mary Nickliss Prize Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This discriminatory legacy traces back to centuries of slavery, when the overwhelming majority of black married couples were bound in servitude as well as wedlock, but it does not end there. Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Drawing from plantation records, legal documents, and personal family papers, it reveals the many creative ways enslaved couples found to upend white Christian ideas of marriage. “A remarkable book... Hunter has harvested stories of human resilience from the cruelest of soils... An impeccably crafted testament to the African-Americans whose ingenuity, steadfast love and hard-nosed determination protected black family life under the most trying of circumstances.” —Wall Street Journal “In this brilliantly researched book, Hunter examines the experiences of slave marriages as well as the marriages of free blacks.” —Vibe “A groundbreaking history... Illuminates the complex and flexible character of black intimacy and kinship and the precariousness of marriage in the context of racial and economic inequality. It is a brilliant book.” —Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother

Author : Dennis B. Fradin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0395970172

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Bound for the North Star by Dennis B. Fradin Pdf

True stories of fugitive slaves.