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Author : Katherine Ayres
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0440418011
Sixteen-year-old Will Spencer leaves home to become a peddler, but gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to go to Kentucky, steal two slaves, and help them reach their brother in Canada.
Author : Katherine Ayres
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613897838
Will Spencer's family has always helped runaway slaves passing through their town as they travel the Underground Railroad. When a runaway slave asks Will to help steal his older brother out of the South to keep him from being sold, Will begins an adventure that will take him into the heart of slavery's evil.
Author : New Hampshire. General Court. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Legislative journals
ISBN : NYPL:33433011445412
Author : Connecticut. Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858017495015
Includes "Statistical tables compiled from the annual returns of the railroad companies of the state."
Author : Connecticut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Connecticut
ISBN : UCAL:B2941551
Author : Connecticut. Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Railroad law
ISBN : UOM:35112102903400
"Together with the annual report of the railroad companies in this state for ... ; to which are added leading statistics prepared by the Commissioners" (varies).
Author : John Brown Dillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025477592
Author : Thomas Browne (LL.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017612120
Author : Thomas Kaufman
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429968362
George Pelecanos calls Thomas Kaufman "a welcome new voice in Washington, D.C., crime fiction." Willis Gidney needs money because he's found a girl. No, no, not that kind of girl. This is an abandoned baby girl. Gidney found her on a case. So he hands the girl to the cops, right? Wrong, because Gidney started life the same way---abandoned. He knows all about D.C.'s juvenile-justice system, having barely survived it himself. That makes it hard to give up the girl. Too bad that unmarried private eyes aren't usually thought of as ideal parents. So now Gidney needs a lawyer, and that means money. Enter Rush Gemelli, a code-writing hacker who pays Gidney to commit a felony. Just a small one. Nothing serious, really, but you know how these things can snowball. Gidney thinks this is a onetime venture, but Gemelli has other ideas. He blackmails Gidney into joining up with his father, Chuck, the head of the motion picture lobby in D.C. And when Chuck's former partner is murdered, it looks like someone may be playing Gidney. Add to that the unwanted attentions of a crazed actress, the D.C. case worker from hell, and the Vietnamese and Salvadoran gangs out to kill him, and it's all Gidney can do to keep from getting his movie ticket punched--permanently. A unique hero, a quirky cast, and a riveting mystery make Steal the Show a winner.
Author : W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199385676
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history. Black Reconstruction in America tells and interprets the story of the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication in 1935, Black Reconstruction has only grown in historical and literary importance. In the 1960s it joined the canon of the most influential revisionist historical works. Its greatest achievement is weaving a credible, lyrical historical narrative of the hostile and politically fraught years of 1860-1880 with a powerful critical analysis of the harmful effects of democracy, including Jim Crow laws and other injustices. With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by David Levering Lewis, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.
Author : Karolyn Smardz Frost
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443454131
For readers of The Underground Railroad, The Known World, Bound for Canaan and The Book of Negroes comes the harrowing story of fifteen-year-old escaped slave Cecelia Reynolds, who slips away to freedom in Canada only to return to her childhood home as a free woman many years later. “Karolyn Smardz Frost deftly situates Cecelia in history. Her evocative descriptions of landscapes and cityscapes capture the various times and places of Cecelia’s story.” —Winnipeg Free Press In this compelling work of narrative non-fiction, Governor General’s Award winner Karolyn Smardz Frost captures Cecelia’s epic story of courage. She was a teenager when she made her dangerous bid for freedom. Escape meant that she would never see her mother or brother again. She would be cut off from Fanny, the young mistress with whom she grew up, but who also owned her. This was a time when people could be property, and when a beloved father could be separated from his wife and children, to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Cecelia found a new life in Toronto’s vibrant African-American expatriate community. There she fell in love with her dashing rescuer, and initiated a correspondence with her former owner that would endure for more than two decades. Widowed, she braved the Fugitive Slave Law to cross back into the United States. When she eventually returned to the Kentucky she had known as a child, she found her home much changed in the wake of war. Reunited with her mother, Cecelia also renewed her complicated relationship with her former mistress. After years apart, the two lived within a few blocks of each other until Fanny’s death. Smardz Frost’s impeccable research and vivid description takes the reader through the Civil War, the shameful backdrop of slavery and the very real and stirring tale of one woman’s struggle for freedom—and her return to her former home on her own terms, despite the risk involved.
Author : Crispian Olver
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781868428212
'In March 2015, I was tasked by Pravin Gordhan, the minister responsible for local government, to root out corruption in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality in the Eastern Cape. Over the following eighteen months, I led the investigations and orchestrated the crackdown as the "hatchet man" for the metro's new Mayor, Danny Jordaan. This is my account of kickbacks, rigged contracts and a political party at war with itself.' How to Steal a City is the gripping insider account of this intervention, which lays bare how Nelson Mandela Bay metro was bled dry by criminal syndicates, and how factional politics within the ruling party abetted that corruption. As a former senior state official and local government 'fixer', Crispian Olver was no stranger to dodgy politicians and broken organisations. Yet what he found in Nelson Mandela Bay went far beyond rigged contracts, blatant conflicts of interest and garden-variety kickbacks. The city's administration had evolved into a sophisticated web of front companies, criminal syndicates and compromised local politicians and officials. The metro was effectively controlled by a criminal network closely allied to a dominant local ANC faction. What Olver found was complete state capture – a microcosm of what has taken place in national government. Olver and his team initiated a clean-up of the administration, clearing out corrupt officials and rebuilding public trust. Then came the ANC's doomed campaign for the August 2016 local government elections. Having lost its way in factional battles and corruption, the divided party went down to a humiliating defeat in its traditional heartland. Olver paid a high price for his work in Nelson Mandela Bay. Intense political pressure and even threats to his personal safety took a toll on his mental and physical health. When his political support was withdrawn, he had to flee the city as the forces stacked against him took their revenge. This is his story.
Author : Family Welfare Society of Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Charities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117816418
Author : Associated Charities of Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Charities
ISBN : UOM:39015074693733
Author : Republican Congressional Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Campaign literature
ISBN : UOM:39015030799673
