Passages To Freedom

Author : David Blight
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 006085118X

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Few things have defined America as much as slavery. In the wake of emancipation the story of the Underground Railroad has become a seemingly irresistible part of American historical consciousness. This stirring drama is one Americans have needed to tell and retell and pass on to their children. But just how much of the Underground Railroad is real, how much legend and mythology, how much invention? Passages to Freedom sets out to answer this question and place it within the context of slavery, emancipation, and its aftermath. Published on the occasion of the opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Passages to Freedom brings home the reality of slavery's destructiveness. This distinguished yet accessible volume offers a galvanizing look at how the brave journey out of slavery both haunts and inspires us today.

Author : Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89062201041

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Passages to Freedom by Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen Pdf

Author : Ken Mochizuki
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781430130338

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Passage to Freedom by Ken Mochizuki Pdf

"Listening to the story is even more dramatic than reading it. It should be purchased by every public and school library." - School Library Journal

Author : Mimi Thi Nguyen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352396

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The Gift of Freedom by Mimi Thi Nguyen Pdf

Mimi Thi Nguyen examines the self-interested claims of the United States to provide freedom to others, even as it does so by generating violence and displacement through overpowering warfare.

Author : Gerard Livermore
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781452530147

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Passages to Freedom by Gerard Livermore Pdf

Passages to Freedom: Reflections on the Inner Path recognizes that life presents moments that challenge, through difficult external circumstances, ones inner person. Rather than suggesting surrender to such moments, Gerard Livermore, a holistic counselor and complementary therapist, provides a diverse array of reflections that offer aid and insight along lifes path of self-discovery and transformation. In explaining its approach to fostering individuals inner awareness and personal power, Passages to Freedom notes, At some point in life, many of us encounter what is called the dark night of the soul; a period of often deep and intense suffering that challenges all we believe in and have lived for. This dark night provides us the opportunity (indeed often forces us) to look more deeply into ourselves, to question the nature and meaning of life and living, happiness and purpose. To encourage this self-reflection, Passages to Freedom presents a series of reflections, each of which begins with a memorable observation and then moves to the on-topic insights and guidance. If you have made your way to the point along your lifes path where the obstacles and barriers are no longer ignorable, if you have a sense that something better awaits you, and if you desire to become more deeply aware of both your own inner being and your personal power, then Passages to Freedom: Reflections on the Inner Path will help you tap into these reserves and face with confidence and serenity what life puts before you.

Author : Pheng Cheah
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 023113018X

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Spectral Nationality by Pheng Cheah Pdf

This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism brings the problems of the postcolonial condition to bear on the philosophy of freedom. Going against orthodoxy, Pheng Cheah retraces the universal-rationalist foundations and progressive origins of political organicism in the work of Kant and its development in philosophers in the German tradition such as Fichte, Hegel, and Marx.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604731293

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Passage on the Underground Railroad by Anonim Pdf

A photographer's evocative interpretation of the history and places along the slave's path to freedom

Author : Timothy D. Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1625345933

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Sailing to Freedom by Timothy D. Walker Pdf

In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic seaboard. While scholarship on the Underground Railroad has focused almost exclusively on overland escape routes from the antebellum South, this groundbreaking volume expands our understanding of how freedom was achieved by sea and what the journey looked like for many African Americans. With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers.

Author : Colson Whitehead
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345804327

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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780759509771

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Harriet Tubman by Catherine Clinton Pdf

The definitive biography of one of the most courageous women in American history "reveals Harriet Tubman to be even more remarkable than her legend" (Newsday). Celebrated for her exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman? To John Brown, leader of the Harper's Ferry slave uprising, she was General Tubman. For the many slaves she led north to freedom, she was Moses. To the slaveholders who sought her capture, she was a thief and a trickster. To abolitionists, she was a prophet. Now, in a biography widely praised for its impeccable research and its compelling narrative, Harriet Tubman is revealed for the first time as a singular and complex character, a woman who defied simple categorization. "A thrilling reading experience. It expands outward from Tubman's individual story to give a sweeping, historical vision of slavery." --NPR's Fresh Air

Author : Christine O'Connell Baur
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802092069

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Dante's Hermeneutics of Salvation by Christine O'Connell Baur Pdf

Widely considered one of the greatest works produced in Europe during the Middle Ages, Dante's La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) has influenced countless generations of readers, yet surprisingly few books have attempted to explain the philosophical relevance of this great epic. Dante's Hermeneutics of Salvation takes on this ambitious project. Turning to Heidegger to provide a theoretical framework for her study, Christine O'Connell Baur illustrates how Dante's poem invites its readers to undertake their own existential-hermeneutic journey to freedom. As the pilgrim progresses in his journey, she argues, he moves beyond a merely literal, 'infernal' self-interpretation that is grounded on present attachments to things in the world. If we readers accompany the pilgrim in this hermeneutic conversion, we will see that our own existential commitments can help disclose the meaning of our world and our own finite freedom. A work of considerable importance both for and teachers and students of Dante studies, Dante's Hermeneutics of Salvation will also prove useful to scholars working in medieval studies, philosophy, and literary theory.

Author : Emma Christopher,Cassandra Pybus,Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520940987

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Many Middle Passages by Emma Christopher,Cassandra Pybus,Marcus Rediker Pdf

This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. They depict the cruelty of the captivity, torture, terror, and death involved in the shipping of human cargo over the waterways of the world, which continues unabated to this day. At the same time, these essays highlight the forms of resistance and cultural creativity that have emerged from this violent history. Together, the essays accomplish what no single author could provide: a truly global context for understanding the experience of men, women, and children forced into the violent and alienating experience of bonded labor in a strange new world. This pioneering volume also begins to chart a new role of the sea as a key site where history is made.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1936533804

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The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible by Anonim Pdf

The Slave Bible was published in 1807. It was commissioned on behalf of the Society for the Conversion of Negro Slaves in England. The Bible was to be used by missionaries and slave owners to teach slaves about the Christian faith and to evangelize slaves. The Bible was used to teach some slaves to read, but the goal first and foremost was to tend to the spiritual needs of the slaves in the way the missionaries and slave owners saw fit.

Author : Gregory E. O'Malley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469615349

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Final Passages by Gregory E. O'Malley Pdf

Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807

Author : Yevgeny Zamyatin
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791041807635

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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Pdf