Author : Don Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0962787000
The Last Plantation
Don Wright
The Last Plantation
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The Last Plantation
Itabari Njeri
Author : Itabari Njeri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015041001200
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The author of "Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone" presents a provocative, timely examination of racial identity. Itabari Njeri lays out with precision and power how limited racial definitions contribute to the psychological slavery that makes the mind "the last plantation".
The Last Plantation
James R. Jones
Author : James R. Jones
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691223643
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A revealing look at the covert and institutionalized racism lurking in the congressional workplace Racism continues to infuse Congress’s daily practice of lawmaking and shape who obtains congressional employment. In this timely and provocative book, James Jones reveals how and why many who work in Congress call it the “Last Plantation.” He shows that even as the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s and antidiscrimination laws were implemented across the nation, Congress remained exempt from federal workplace protections for decades. These exemptions institutionalized inequality in the congressional workplace well into the twenty-first century. Combining groundbreaking research and compelling firsthand accounts from scores of congressional staffers, Jones uncovers the hidden dynamics of power, privilege, and resistance in Congress. He reveals how failures of racial representation among congressional staffers reverberate throughout the American political system and demonstrates how the absence of diverse perspectives hampers the creation of just legislation. Centering the experiences of Black workers within this complex landscape, he provides valuable insights into the problems they face, the barriers that hinder their progress, and the ways they contest entrenched inequality. A must-read for anyone concerned about social justice and the future of our democracy, The Last Plantation exposes the mechanisms that perpetuate racial inequality in the halls of Congress and challenges us to confront and transform this unequal workplace that shapes our politics and society.
The Last Plantation
Betty Lane Maddox
Author : Betty Lane Maddox
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480964235
The Last Plantation by Betty Lane Maddox Pdf
The Last Plantation By: Betty Lane Maddox Betty Lane Maddox was born to Melvin and Robert Duncan Walls in Hollandale, Mississippi. Both of her parents are now deceased. She is the second of twelve children: Rose Smith, Melvin Walls Jr. (deceased), Maxine Walls, Linda Park, Joyce Walls, Rosie Adams, Raymond Walls, Lester Walls, Billy Walls, Sheila Turnipseed, and Lisa Wells. Time was hard when Maddox was young. She grew up on many plantation chopping and picking cotton for the white plantation owners. You never got ahead. At the end of the year, her father had no money coming in because it was all spent on food, a pair of shoes for school from the boss man’s store, and for the shack they lived in. It was years before Maddox even knew what money was and looked like. Maddox has gone through so much in her life. She has been married to a beautiful man for twenty-five years. She is saved by God’s grace and a member of The Christian Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church of Rev. Tyran T. Laws in Chicago, Illinois. Maddox made history when she worked the 2012 re-election campaign of President Obama. She helped make the re-election of the first black president happen. Maddox has come a long way from a sharecropper’s daughter.
The Plantation Mistress
Catherine Clinton
Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780394722535
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This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master. "The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it.
The Last English Plantation
Janice Shinebourne
Author : Janice Shinebourne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043120364
The Last English Plantation by Janice Shinebourne Pdf
Twee weken beschreven uit het leven van de 12-jarige June waarin ze geconfronteerd wordt met haar Indo-Chinese achtergrond, het verlies van goede vriendschappen, het arriveren van Engelse troepen.
Slave against Slave
Jeff Forret
Author : Jeff Forret
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807174319
Slave against Slave by Jeff Forret Pdf
In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until after Reconstruction, contemporary records bear witness to its regular presence among enslaved populations. Using a vast array of primary sources, Slave against Slave explores the roots of and motivations for such violence and the ways in which slaves, masters, churches, and civil and criminal laws worked to hold it in check. Far from focusing on violence alone, the book also deepens understanding of morality among the enslaved, revealing how they sought to prevent violence and punish those who engaged in it. With this groundbreaking work, Forret has opened a new line of inquiry into the study of American slavery.
The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation
John Baker
Author : John Baker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416567417
The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation by John Baker Pdf
Traces the author's thirty-year research into his slave ancestry, describing the history of the massive tobacco plantation where his ancestors worked and his family's extensive genealogical legacy.
It's OK to Leave the Plantation
Clarence Mason Weaver
Author : Clarence Mason Weaver
Publisher : Reeder Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89081298614
It's OK to Leave the Plantation by Clarence Mason Weaver Pdf
"This book discusses some of the family and environmental contributions that led to my change from liberal to conservative. It also discusses how Black Americans came from slavery to freedom [and] ... examines the 'Plantation mentality' that still plagues us today."--Preface, p. i.
Barracoon
Zora Neale Hurston
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780062748225
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston Pdf
New York Times Bestseller • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s Best of the Year • BookRiot’s Best Audio Books of 2018 • The Atlantic’s Books Briefing: History, Reconsidered • Atlanta Journal Constitution, Best Southern Books 2018 • The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Books 2018 • “A profound impact on Hurston’s literary legacy.”—New York Times “One of the greatest writers of our time.”—Toni Morrison “Zora Neale Hurston’s genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece.”—Alice Walker A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation’s history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo’s firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo’s past—memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War. Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo’s unique vernacular, and written from Hurston’s perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.
The Plantation [eBook - Biblioboard]
George McNeill
Author : George McNeill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : FICTION
ISBN : OCLC:1119643724
The Plantation [eBook - Biblioboard] by George McNeill Pdf
In the days of pre-Civil War slavery––the unforgettable novel of a shocking portion of our American heritage. The time was not all magnolia blossoms and crinolines. It was more than romance and splendor. It was debauchery and slavery, gambling tables and dens of iniquity. It was murder and forgiveness. It was all the great contradiction of life in a golden era...
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves
Trevor Burnard
Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226639246
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves by Trevor Burnard Pdf
"As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men men who, as Trevor Burnard sees it, lacked any better options for making money. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because to speak bluntly it worked. These economically successful and ethically monstrous plantations required racial divisions to exist, but their successes were always measured in gold, rather than skin or blood. Burnard argues that the best example of plantations functioning as intended is not those found in the fractious and poor North American colonies, but those in their booming and integrated commercial hub, Jamaica. Sure to be controversial, this book is a major intervention in the scholarship on slavery, economic development, and political power in early British America, mounting a powerful and original argument that boldly challenges historical orthodoxy."--
The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
Mac Griswold
Author : Mac Griswold
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466837010
The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island by Mac Griswold Pdf
Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago. In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large—twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide—had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, New York, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, The Manor is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering. It is a monumental achievement.
Slavery by Another Name
Douglas A. Blackmon
Author : Douglas A. Blackmon
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848314139
Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon Pdf
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Back of the Big House
John Michael Vlach
Author : John Michael Vlach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015027250235
Back of the Big House by John Michael Vlach Pdf
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
