The Epic Journeys Of Morgan Clarke

Author : Antoine Medley
Publisher : Through Black Eyes Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0991521013

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The Epic Journeys of Morgan & Clarke by Antoine Medley Pdf

"Always remember that there will be times when you will have to stand up. Just be available when you are called. Be available!" Meet Morgan & Clarke-Two inquisitive, fun-loving sisters who, with the help of a magical gift from their grandmother, travel back in time and learn tough life lessons along the way! Their first journey takes them on an unsuspected and dangerous expedition on the Underground Railroad. There, they meet Harriet Tubman, who-with a rifle to ward off pursuers and their ferocious dogs in one hand, and a torch to light the darkness in the other-guides slaves from the South to freedom up North. Morgan and Clarke encounter unforeseen perils on their voyage, but their grandma's quilt shields them from all harm...And gives them the courage to stand up for what's right!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3010 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373401

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The Cumulative Book Index by Anonim Pdf

A world list of books in the English language.

Author : David Dicaire
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786485574

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Jazz Musicians, 1945 to the Present by David Dicaire Pdf

From its very beginnings, the nature of jazz has been to reinvent itself. As the musical genre evolved from its roots--blues, European music, Voodoo ceremonies, and brass bands that played at funerals, parades and celebrations--the sound reflected the tenor of the times, from the citified strains of the Roaring '20s to the Big Band swing of pre-World War II to the bop revolution that grew out of the minimalist sound the war forced upon the art form. That the music continued to develop and evolve is a tribute to the power and creativity of its musicians. Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan, Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Diana Krall, Archie Shepp, Chick Corea, Branford Marsalis, Larry Coryell, and Kenny Kirkland are just some of the jazz greats profiled here. The five major periods of jazz--the bop revolution, hard bop and cool jazz, the avant-garde, fusion, and contemporary--form the basis for the sections in this reference work, with a brief history of each period provided. The artists who were integral to the evolution of each period are then profiled. Each biographical entry focuses on the artist's life and his or her influence on jazz and on music as a whole. A complete discography for each musician is also provided.

Author : Robert Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317914754

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Travel Writing from Black Australia by Robert Clarke Pdf

Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been ‘Aboriginalized’. Aboriginality has been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist brand. This is deeply ironic given the realities of life for many Aboriginal people in Australian society. On the one hand, Aboriginality in the form of artworks, literature, performances, landscapes, sport, and famous individuals is celebrated for the way it blends exoticism, mysticism, multiculturalism, nationalism, and reconciliation. On the other hand, in the media, cinema, and travel writing, Aboriginality in the form of the lived experiences of Aboriginal people has been exploited in the service of moral panic, patronized in the name of white benevolence, or simply ignored. For many travel writers, this irony - the clash between different regimes of valuing Aboriginality - is one of the great challenges to travelling in Australia. Travel Writing from Black Australia examines the ambivalence of contemporary travelers’ engagements with Aboriginality. Concentrating on a period marked by the rise of discourses on Aboriginality championing indigenous empowerment, self-determination, and reconciliation, the author analyses how travel to Black Australia has become, for many travelers, a means of discovering ‘new’—and potentially transformative—styles of interracial engagement.

Author : Henry Wiencek
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466827783

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Master of the Mountain by Henry Wiencek Pdf

Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers—opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money. So far, historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this extraordinary Founding Father who was an emancipationist in his youth and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery; who enjoyed his renown as a revolutionary leader yet kept some of his own children as slaves. But Wiencek's Jefferson is a man of business and public affairs who makes a success of his debt-ridden plantation thanks to what he calls the "silent profits" gained from his slaves—and thanks to a skewed moral universe that he and thousands of others readily inhabited. We see Jefferson taking out a slave-equity line of credit with a Dutch bank to finance the building of Monticello and deftly creating smoke screens when visitors are dismayed by his apparent endorsement of a system they thought he'd vowed to overturn. It is not a pretty story. Slave boys are whipped to make them work in the nail factory at Monticello that pays Jefferson's grocery bills. Parents are divided from children—in his ledgers they are recast as money—while he composes theories that obscure the dynamics of what some of his friends call "a vile commerce." Many people of Jefferson's time saw a catastrophe coming and tried to stop it, but not Jefferson. The pursuit of happiness had been badly distorted, and an oligarchy was getting very rich. Is this the quintessential American story?

Author : LIZ. CLARK
Publisher : Patagonia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1952338220

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Swell by LIZ. CLARK Pdf

Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101187579

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Ark by Stephen Baxter Pdf

It's the year 2030. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light years away gives those who remain alive hope. Only a few will be able to make the journey-Holle Groundwater is one of the candidates. If she makes the cut, she will live. If not, she will be left to face a watery death...

Author : Philip D. Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135702717

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Maritime Slavery by Philip D. Morgan Pdf

Think of maritime slavery, and the notorious Middle Passage – the unprecedented, forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic – readily comes to mind. This so-called ‘middle leg’ – from Africa to the Americas – of a supposed trading triangle linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas naturally captures attention for its scale and horror. After all, the Middle Passage was the largest forced, transoceanic migration in world history, now thought to have involved about 12.5 million African captives shipped in about 44,000 voyages that sailed between 1514 and 1866. No other coerced migration matches it for sheer size or gruesomeness. Maritime slavery is not, however, just about the movement of people as commodities, but rather, the involvement of all sorts of people, including slaves, in the transportation of those human commodities. Maritime slavery is thus not only about objects being moved but also about subjects doing the moving. Some slaves were actors, not simply the acted-upon. They were pilots, sailors, canoemen, divers, linguists, porters, stewards, cooks, and cabin boys, not forgetting all the ancillary workers in ports such as stevedores, warehousemen, labourers, washerwomen, tavern workers, and prostitutes. Maritime Slavery reflects this current interest in maritime spaces, and covers all the major Oceans and Seas. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery and Abolition.

Author : Keith Heyer Meldahl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226923291

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Hard Road West by Keith Heyer Meldahl Pdf

The dramatic journeys of the 19th century Gold Rush come to life in this geologist’s tour of the American West and the events that shaped the land. In 1848, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. The dramatic terrain these settlers crossed is so familiar to us now that it is hard to imagine how frightening—even godforsaken—its sheer rock faces and barren deserts once seemed to them. Hard Road West brings their perspective vividly to life, weaving together the epic overland journey of the covered wagon trains and the compelling story of the landscape they encountered. Taking readers along the 2,000-mile California Trail, Keith Meldahl uses settler’s diaries and letters—as well as his own experiences on the trail—to reveal how the geology and geography of the West shaped our nation’s westward expansion. He guides us through a landscape of sawtooth mountains, following the meager streams that served as lifelines through an arid land, all the way to California itself, where colliding tectonic plates created breathtaking scenery and planted the gold that lured travelers west in the first place. “Alternates seamlessly between vivid accounts of the 19th-century journey and lucid explanations of the geological events that shaped the landscape traveled.”—Library Journal

Author : Duncan Clarke
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 1341 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847654557

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Africa: Crude Continent by Duncan Clarke Pdf

Based on thirty years in the global oil game, intimate knowledge of African history and direct experience of over forty countries, this comprehensive book shows that Africa's flaws are not the whole story, when it comes to the continent's history. A definitive yet original account of the rush for Africa's oil, this is also a guide to the hidden face of Africa. Duncan Clarke begins by placing African oil issues in their historical context before tackling the issues of power, nationalism and different parties' strategies for control that have led to today's oil scene. This book is the ultimate reference work on oil in Africa - which is vital to everyone's future around the world.

Author : Althea Prince
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781554830954

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In the Black by Althea Prince Pdf

In a mix of short fiction, poetry, dub poetry and hip hop, some of Black Canada's foremost writers from across generations explore history, community, love, and healing. The collection consists of writing from Catherine Bain, George Elliott Clarke, Gayle Gonsalves, Joanne C. Hillhouse, Clifton Joseph, Dwayne Morgan, Motion, Jelani Nias (J-Wyze), Djanet Sears, Mansa Trotman, and the editor, Althea Prince.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : English literature
ISBN : CUB:U183015817129

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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Campbell,Samuel Carter Hall,Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton,Theodore Edward Hook,Thomas Hood,William Harrison Ainsworth,William Ainsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081643888

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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register by Thomas Campbell,Samuel Carter Hall,Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton,Theodore Edward Hook,Thomas Hood,William Harrison Ainsworth,William Ainsworth Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:74717827

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New Monthly Magazine and Humorist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092691187

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The New Monthly Magazine by Anonim Pdf