Slave To The Dream

Author : Gaylan D. Wright
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781478787426

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Slave to the Dream by Gaylan D. Wright Pdf

We seek meaning, purpose and love. I believe once you find yours, you must pay back and help others to find theirs. My book is about overcoming chaos through desperation and what some people call divine intervention. Know the journey is the beginning of any success. - Gaylan D Wright Hi Gaylan! First of all: Congratulations! I read your book the day after your book signing party. I knew before I even began reading, I would not want to put it down. True! I turned to the first page and didn't put it down until the last page. It was a riveting story. Thanks Gretchen. I joined the US Air Force and was in basic training when I turned 18. Basic training was a blast and I really enjoyed the teamwork. While there I learned my hometown was a violent place. Most people looked at me as if I had brought Chicago with me to basic. Basic was my first experience in pure competition. We competed against all of the other flights of troops for awards in every phase of training. Turns out it was the perfect way to start someone off. Once I graduated it wasn't long before I changed that idea of competition towards the United States enemies. I just knew I had to be better than any human counterpart in another country which had bad aims for my country. I carried that throughout my career: When I was supposed to be at work, I was there; When I was supposed to do my job, I could, When i was asked to work with no days off, I knew it would make me stronger and smarter; When I was asked to go forward alone, then maintain all equipment, contact headquarters with status updates daily, and do this for seven days while the rest of the team was getting prepared to arrive. Even though I was only 19, I revelled in the responsibility. I was not good when I wasn't at work but no one can ever say I failed them with any responsibility given to me by my superiors. When I was done, I joined the Wyoming Highway Patrol. This experience isn't in my current book but I could be convinced to write about it if "Slave to the Dream" has enough interest. The Highway Patrol was more cops and robbers and some really crazy stuff along the way. I retired from them after 18 years. I can't say in short now, but my book will appeal to readers who are interested in a story about overcoming chaos within desperation, achieving personal transformation and the wisdom gained from a life of trials and triumphs. I'm telling this story with the hope that more people will realize they can still make a human contribution regardless of what they did way back in the seventh grade. You really don't need a reason to help someone, now. Success is also in the pursuit. Gaylan

Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674074880

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River of Dark Dreams by Walter Johnson Pdf

River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.

Author : Ashley Bryan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481456913

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Freedom Over Me by Ashley Bryan Pdf

Newbery Honor Book Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, Ashley Bryan offers a moving and powerful picture book that contrasts the monetary value of a person with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away. Imagine being looked up and down and being valued as less than chair. Less than an ox. Less than a dress. Maybe about the same as…a lantern. This gentle yet deeply powerful way goes to the heart of how a slave is given a monetary value by the slave owner, tempering this with the one thing that can’t be bought or sold: dreams. Inspired by the actual will of a plantation owner that lists the worth of each and every one of his “workers,” the author has created collages around that document, and others like it. Through fierce paintings and expansive poetry, he imagines and interprets each person’s life on the plantation, as well as the life their owner knew nothing about—their dreams and pride in knowing that they were worth far more than an overseer or madam ever would guess. Visually epic, and never before done, this stunning picture book is unlike anything you’ve seen.

Author : Kari J. Winter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820338378

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The American Dreams of John B. Prentis, Slave Trader by Kari J. Winter Pdf

As a young man, John B. Prentis (1788–1848) expressed outrage over slavery, but by the end of his life he had transported thousands of enslaved persons from the upper to the lower South. Kari J. Winter's life-and-times portrayal of a slave trader illuminates the clash between two American dreams: one of wealth, the other of equality. Prentis was born into a prominent Virginia family. His grandfather, William Prentis, emigrated from London to Williamsburg in 1715 as an indentured servant and rose to become the major shareholder in colonial Virginia's most successful store. William's son Joseph became a Revolutionary judge and legislator who served alongside Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and James Madison. Joseph Jr. followed his father's legal career, whereas John was drawn to commerce. To finance his early business ventures, he began trading in slaves. In time he grew besotted with the high-stakes trade, appeasing his conscience with the populist platitudes of Jacksonian democracy, which aggressively promoted white male democracy in conjunction with white male supremacy. Prentis's life illuminates the intertwined politics of labor, race, class, and gender in the young American nation. Participating in a revolution in the ethics of labor that upheld Benjamin Franklin as its icon, he rejected the gentility of his upbringing to embrace solidarity with “mechanicks,” white working-class men. His capacity for admirable thoughts and actions complicates images drawn by elite slaveholders, who projected the worst aspects of slavery onto traders while imagining themselves as benign patriarchs. This is an absorbing story of a man who betrayed his innate sense of justice to pursue wealth through the most vicious forms of human exploitation.

Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199723980

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Dreams of Africa in Alabama by Sylviane A. Diouf Pdf

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda , to Africa, on a bet that he could "bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses." He won the bet. This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describes their experience of slavery alongside American-born enslaved men and women. After emancipation, the group reunited from various plantations, bought land, and founded their own settlement, known as African Town. They ruled it according to customary African laws, spoke their own regional language and, when giving interviews, insisted that writers use their African names so that their families would know that they were still alive. The last survivor of the Clotilda died in 1935, but African Town is still home to a community of Clotilda descendants. The publication of Dreams of Africa in Alabama marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association (2007)

Author : Gaylan D Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977219519

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Slave to the Dream by Gaylan D Wright Pdf

"The American Dream need not forever be deferred." - JFK What is success? Is it money, or a prestigious job title, or a house and car? In this personal exploration of the American Dream, Gaylan Wright discusses his path to personal fulfillment during an eventful eighteen years with the Wyoming Highway Patrol. From routine traffic stops to unthinkable tragedy, the highway patrol sees the best and worst of human nature. Wright examines the training process, the brotherhood of service, and the ups and downs of working as a state trooper. With candor, thoughtfulness, and humor, Wright illuminates the daily life of the thin blue line and provides insights about personal character, racial injustices, and the ways people can contribute to making the world a better place.

Author : Gaylan D. Wright
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781478795452

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Slave to the Dream by Gaylan D. Wright Pdf

"The American Dream need not forever be deferred." - JFK. What is success? Is it money, or a prestigious job title, or a house and car? In this personal exploration of the American Dream, Gaylan Wright discusses his path to personal fulfillment during an eventful eighteen years with the Wyoming Highway Patrol. From routine traffic stops to unthinkable tragedy, the highway patrol sees the best and worst of human nature. Wright examines the training process, the brotherhood of service, and the ups and downs of working as a state trooper. With candor, thoughtfulness, and humor, Wright illuminates the daily life of the thin blue line and provides insights about personal character, racial injustices, and the ways people can contribute to making the world a better place.

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : BL:A0018645082

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Poems on Slavery by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pdf

Author : Solomon A. Minta
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469108520

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The Dreamland Springs by Solomon A. Minta Pdf

The Dream of a Slave Son Slave Son tells much about the early Africans and their slave ancestors. In the novel, a child is born and later at the age of eighteen is captured into slavery to continue life in the new world as a slave. Before his birth, the author narrates the processes to include every aspect of the African social fabric and culture based on the rules and regulations their ancestors instructed. A family among the Akans of Ghana is used as a base to tell the story, which is almost true of every family in Africa. Most African families emigrated due to family disputes, lack of procreation in marriage, puberty rituals before a girl could be given to marriage, and the rule by elders, chiefs, and queen mothers. The life of the ancestors before the slave trade is still practiced today by many cultures in Africa today. On the contrary, the African prince, who was shipped to the plantations in the New World, lived a horrible life as a slave under his owner who gave him his name. The type of life the slaves lived before emancipation and immediately after emancipation is addressed in Slave Son to educate the readers, especially those in the nonslave-holding countries to be more aware of what the African ancestors endured as slaves. By reading Slave Son, people of African descent would understand and respect each other as people of the same blood belonging to the same ancestry tree. ?

Author : Federal Writers Project
Publisher : Native American Book Publishers
Page : 1435 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1938-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781878592781

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Georgia Slave Narratives by Federal Writers Project Pdf

From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compiled under the Franklin Roosevelt administration during the New Deal and economic relief and recovery program. Each entry represents an oral history of a former slave or a descendant of a former slave and his or her personal account of life during slavery and emancipation. These interviews were published as type written records that were difficult to read. This new edition has been enlarged and enhanced for greater legibility. No library collection in Georgia would be complete without a copy of Georgia Slave Narratives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015025383236

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The Slave's Dream and Other Stories by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594643

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Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

"A novel that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Mason & Dixon - like Huckleberry Finn, like Ulysses - is one of the great novels about male friendship in anybody's literature." - John Leonard, The Nation Charles Mason (1728–1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733–1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as reimagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. Unreflectively entangled in crimes of demarcation, Mason & Dixon take us along on a grand tour of the Enlightenment’s dark hemisphere, from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back to England, into the shadowy yet redemptive turns of their later lives, through incongruities in conscience, parallaxes of personality, tales of questionable altitude told and intimated by voices clamoring not to be lost. Along the way they encounter a plentiful cast of characters, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Samuel Johnson, as well as a Chinese feng shui master, a Swedish irredentist, a talking dog, and a robot duck. The quarrelsome, daring, mismatched pair—Mason as melancholy and Gothic as Dixon is cheerful and pre-Romantic—pursues a linear narrative of irregular lives, observing, and managing to participate in the many occasions of madness presented them by the Age of Reason.

Author : Robin Santos Doak,Philip Schwarz
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438106526

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Slave Rebellions by Robin Santos Doak,Philip Schwarz Pdf

The transatlantic slave trade and the fugitive slave laws in the late 18th century led to a significant increase in the number of people seeking freedom. Runaway slaves were often aided in their escape by a growing network of people who saw slavery as morally reprehensible. This work explores this intriguing time in American history.

Author : Amanda Downum
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849979191

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Dreams of Shreds and Tatters by Amanda Downum Pdf

When Liz Drake's best friend vanishes, nothing can stop her nightmares. Driven by the certainty he needs her help, she crosses a continent to search for him. She finds Blake comatose in a Vancouver hospital, victim of a mysterious accident that claimed his lover's life – in her dreams he drowns. Blake's new circle of artists and mystics draws her in, but all of them are lying or keeping dangerous secrets. Soon nightmare creatures stalk the waking city, and Liz can't fight a dream from the daylight world: to rescue Blake she must brave the darkest depths of the Dreamlands. Even the attempt could kill her, or leave her mind trapped or broken. And if she succeeds, she must face the monstrous Yellow King, whose slave Blake is on the verge of becoming forever.

Author : Matthew Kachur,Philip Schwarz
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438106533

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The Slave Trade by Matthew Kachur,Philip Schwarz Pdf

Traces the history of the transatlantic slave trade between Africa and the Americas.