Picking Cotton

Author : Jennifer Thompson-Cannino,Ronald Cotton,Erin Torneo
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429962151

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Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino,Ronald Cotton,Erin Torneo Pdf

The New York Times best selling true story of an unlikely friendship forged between a woman and the man she incorrectly identified as her rapist and sent to prison for 11 years. Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released, after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed. Two years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face to face-- and forged an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives. With Picking Cotton, Jennifer and Ronald tell in their own words the harrowing details of their tragedy, and challenge our ideas of memory and judgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness.

Author : Sherley Anne Williams
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152014829

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Working Cotton by Sherley Anne Williams Pdf

A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.

Author : Francisco Jiménez
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826317979

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The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez Pdf

A collection of stories about the life of a migrant family.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821333127

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Cotton Production Prospects for the Next Decade by Anonim Pdf

Studies of Economies in Transformation No. 19. Provides comprehensive data for evaluating market reforms in the states of the former Soviet Union. This is the fourth annual compilation of statistical data on the rapidly evolving economies of the former Soviet Union (FSU). It is an indispensable reference, providing even more comprehensive data than the 1994 handbook for evaluating market reforms in the FSU. It converts economic data used by socialist systems to the market-based system of national accounts and incorporates new national currencies in the data. The volume contains both English and Russian versions of the text. Decisionmakers have easy access to key statistics on the 15 independent states through the handbook's comparative tables, which provide cross-country data arranged by subject. Topics include production rates, human resources, and external trade. Country tables give detailed information on essential statistical indicators such as public finance, monetary statistics, employment, and labor. Technical notes and a detailed annex give helpful background information on the statistics. A complete bibliography is provided.

Author : Sven Beckert
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375713965

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Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert Pdf

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.

Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307576040

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A Painted House by John Grisham Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world. A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born ... and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly, bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Luke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives — and change his family and his town forever.... Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

Author : James Agee
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612192130

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Cotton Tenants by James Agee Pdf

A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a 400-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama, at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and literary conventions. Critic Lionel Trilling called it the “most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation.” The origins of Agee and Evans’s famous collaboration date back to an assignment for Fortune magazine, which sent them to Alabama in the summer of 1936 to report a story that was never published. Some have assumed that Fortune’s editors shelved the story because of the unconventional style that marked Famous Men, and for years the original report was presumed lost. But fifty years after Agee’s death, a trove of his manuscripts turned out to include a typescript labeled “Cotton Tenants.” Once examined, the pages made it clear that Agee had in fact written a masterly, 30,000-word report for Fortune. Published here for the first time, and accompanied by thirty of Walker Evans’s historic photos, Cotton Tenants is an eloquent report of three families struggling through desperate times. Indeed, Agee’s dispatch remains relevant as one of the most honest explorations of poverty in America ever attempted and as a foundational document of long-form reporting. As the novelist Adam Haslett writes in an introduction, it is “a poet’s brief for the prosecution of economic and social injustice.”

Author : E. Buford Williamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Cotton picking
ISBN : UVA:X030509959

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Comparative Effects of Mechanical Picking Spindles and Handpicking on Cotton Quality and Spinning Performance in Mississippi, 1960-63 by E. Buford Williamson Pdf

Author : George Thomas Youngblood
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595839117

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I Must Remember This by George Thomas Youngblood Pdf

It was the sober time of the Great Depression, World War II, and general want, but it was also a time to live and enjoy life as much as possible. The memories include two black men, our nearest neighbors, one of whom had a wife and a son. The hard times drew us together. My father was trying to succeed with his sawmill and store so he hired the black men to look after his farm and to look after us. Mama often helped in the store and or in the church so the black man's wife was often our housekeeper, cook, and second mother. The black couple's son was our playmate so the color line was indistinct and we lived on both sides of it. Segregation had crystallized around laws, customs, and public opinion. Some people made a science of it-unwritten but widespread views about what to do under various conditions. Jim Crow was harsh and we saw some horrible things making these memories all the more melancholy and all the more precious because we did some things right.

Author : Lawrence Hutton
Publisher : Lawrence Hutton
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692074554

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From Cotton to Crack by Lawrence Hutton Pdf

The black is turning to crack cocaine as an escape from worry and depression of live in general. The young men work the street corners from dusk to dawn. Now as they make money from the sweat and blood of our men and the backs and knees of our women ask you, why does history repeats itself? We as a people need to wake up and put the drugs and guns down. Not just crack, all of it. First, they had us picking cotton now they have us selling crack. They say we are savages. We were never savages, we are a culture.

Author : William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786031177

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Support Your Local Deputy by William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone Pdf

A Wyoming sheriff has his hands full trying to keep the peace in this action-packed Western adventure from the USA Today-bestselling author… Welcome to the peaceful little town of Doubtful, Wyoming, which has more than its fair share of kill-crazy gunslicks, back-shooters, and flat-out dirty desperadoes. It also has a sheriff named Cotton Pickens, who tries his best to keep law and order without getting his head blown off before breakfast. Doubtful's Got A New Deputy. . .For The Moment Cotton Pickens got where he is by virtue of a quick draw and slow wit. He knows the difference between lawbreakers you have to lock up. . .and the kind you might as well just let go. Deputy Rusty Irons, though, ain't the sharpest tool in the shed. Someone kidnapped Rusty's mail order brides. They were probably doing Irons a favor, but a deputy in love is blind. As for the carny barkers, medicine show con artists, and revival-meeting fly-by-nighters who pass through Doubtful. . .Cotton just tries to keep the traveling hucksters moving. But in one terrible moment it all goes to hell. That's when Doubtful explodes in a frenzy of killing and bloodshed. That's when a lawman like Cotton earns his pay by looking evil straight in the eye. Of course, there's also the matter of keeping his new deputy alive and in one piece.

Author : Edward E Baptist
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465097685

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The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E Baptist Pdf

Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.

Author : Keri Leigh Merritt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107184244

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Masterless Men by Keri Leigh Merritt Pdf

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

Author : Ron Hall,Denver Moore
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781418525651

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Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall,Denver Moore Pdf

A critically acclaimed #1 New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies in print! Now a major motion picture. Gritty with pain, betrayal, and brutality, this incredible true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love. Meet Denver, raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana until he escaped the “Man” in the 1960’s by hopping a train. Untrusting, uneducated, and violent, he spends 18 years on the streets of Dallas and Fort Worth. Meet Ron Hall, a self-made millionaire in the world of high-priced deals—an international arts dealer who moves between upscale New York galleries and celebrities. It seems unlikely that these two men would meet under normal circumstances, but when Deborah Hall, Ron's wife, meets Denver, she sees him through God's eyes of compassion. When Deborah is diagnosed with cancer, she charges Ron with the mission of helping Denver. From this request, an extraordinary friendship forms between Denver and Ron, changing them both forever. A tale told in two unique voices, Same Kind of Different as Me weaves two completely different life experiences into one common journey. There is pain and laughter, doubt and tears, and in the end a triumphal story that readers will never forget. Continue this story of friendship in What Difference Do It Make?: Stories of Hope and Healing, available now. Same Kind of Different as Me also is available in Spanish.

Author : B. Traven
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374722531

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The Cotton-Pickers by B. Traven Pdf

The first novel from the elusive author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Set in the 1920s in Mexico, B. Traven’s The Cotton-Pickers tells the story of Gerald Gales, who drifts in and out of jobs--on a cotton plantation, an oil field, in a pastry shop, and on a ranch--exposing the dangerous exploitation at each station and fomenting workers’ rights along the way. Adventurous, funny, and full of humanity, The Cotton-Pickers challenges and delights readers to this day. "B. Traven is coming to be recognized as one of the narrative masters of the twentieth century." The New York Times