The Slaves Gamble

Author : Gene Allen Smith
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137310088

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The Slaves' Gamble by Gene Allen Smith Pdf

A sweeping and original look at American slavery in the early nineteenth century that reveals the gamble slaves had to take to survive Images of American slavery conjure up cotton plantations and African American slaves locked in bondage until the Civil War. Yet early on in the nineteenth century the state of slavery was very different, and the political vicissitudes of the young nation offered diverse possibilities to slaves. In the century's first two decades, the nation waged war against Britain, Spain, and various Indian tribes. Slaves played a role in the military operations, and the different sides viewed them as a potential source of manpower. While surprising numbers did assist the Americans, the wars created opportunities for slaves to find freedom among the Redcoats, the Spaniards, or the Indians. Author Gene Allen Smith draws on a decade of original research and his curatorial work at the Fort Worth Museum in this fascinating and original narrative history. The way the young nation responded sealed the fate of slaves for the next half century until the Civil War. This drama sheds light on an extraordinary yet little known chapter in the dark saga of American history.

Author : Todd Brewster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451693898

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Lincoln's Gamble by Todd Brewster Pdf

An authoritative account of the six-month period during which the 16th President wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War discusses his battles with his generals and cabinet, his struggles with depression and his private doubts about his cause. 50,000 first printing.

Author : Roger Cohen
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385722315

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Soldiers and Slaves by Roger Cohen Pdf

In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent died from this horrific treatment. This is one of the last untold stories of World War II, and Roger Cohen re-creates it in all its blistering detail. Ground down by the crumbling Nazi war machine, the men prayed for salvation from the Allied troops, yet even after their liberation, their story was nearly forgotten. There was no aggressive prosecution of the commandants of the camp and the POWs received no particular recognition for their sacrifices. Cohen tells their story at last, in a stirring tale of bravery and depredation that is essential for any reader of World War II history.

Author : Kerry Newcomb,Frank Schaefer
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504002875

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Titus Gamble by Kerry Newcomb,Frank Schaefer Pdf

At the dawn of Reconstruction, a freed slave comes home to enforce the law For two weeks, Titus has been running. He is so tired and so hungry that part of him yearns to stop and throw himself on the mercy of the dogs. But he knows what happens to runaway slaves, so he presses on until he reaches a Union army camp. He sneaks into the cook tent and is about to help himself to some soup when the cook catches him. Soup is only for soldiers, he tells Titus—so Titus joins up. Four years later, the war is over and Titus is a corporal, with calloused hands and a heart toughened by battle. He gets a commission to return to Shannon, the county where he was born a slave, to act as the lawman for the reconstructed South. But the people of the plantation will accept no rule from a black man—which means that Titus Gamble’s war is not over yet.

Author : Terry Gamble
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062839916

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The Eulogist by Terry Gamble Pdf

From the author of The Water Dancers and Good Family, an exquisitely crafted novel, set in Ohio in the decades leading to the Civil War, that illuminates the immigrant experience, the injustice of slavery, and the debts human beings owe to one another, witnessed through the endeavors of one Irish-American family. Cheated out of their family estate in Northern Ireland after the Napoleonic Wars, the Givens family arrives in America in 1819. But in coming to this new land, they have lost nearly everything. Making their way west they settle in Cincinnati, a burgeoning town on the banks of the mighty Ohio River whose rise, like the Givenses’ own, will be fashioned by the colliding forces of Jacksonian populism, religious evangelism, industrial capitalism, and the struggle for emancipation. After losing their mother in childbirth and their father to a riverboat headed for New Orleans, James, Olivia, and Erasmus Givens must fend for themselves. Ambitious James eventually marries into a prosperous family, builds a successful business, and rises in Cincinnati society. Taken by the spirit and wanderlust, Erasmus becomes an itinerant preacher, finding passion and heartbreak as he seeks God. Independent-minded Olivia, seemingly destined for spinsterhood, enters into a surprising partnership and marriage with Silas Orpheus, a local doctor who spurns social mores. When her husband suddenly dies from an infection, Olivia travels to his family home in Kentucky, where she meets his estranged brother and encounters the horrors of slavery firsthand. After abetting the escape of one slave, Olivia is forced to confront the status of a young woman named Tilly, another slave owned by Olivia’s brother-in-law. When her attempt to help Tilly ends in disaster, Olivia tracks down Erasmus, who has begun smuggling runaways across the river—the borderline between freedom and slavery. As the years pass, this family of immigrants initially indifferent to slavery will actively work for its end—performing courageous, often dangerous, occasionally foolhardy acts of moral rectitude that will reverberate through their lives for generations to come.

Author : Claire Thompson
Publisher : Elloras Cave Pub Incorporated
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1419952617

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Slaves to Love by Claire Thompson Pdf

Slave Gamble He won me in a card game. Yes, it sounded crazy to Zoe too, but when David Turner won an evening with the lovely young woman, it was one she wouldn't soon forget. With gentle dominance, David was to take Zoe on a journey of erotic submission that would leave her breathless and begging for more. Face of Submission Kate would do anything to please her dominant lover, Kevin. When he wants to invite an old flame to play, things take an unexpected turn. The past lover is a dominant bisexual man named Mark, who is used to taking just exactly what he wants. Kate goes along, not knowing what to expect, but fascinated with the homoerotic interplay between the two men. Jewel Thief Elena was a gorgeous jewel thief with a mission-to rob the home of one of the most eligible bachelors in Westchester County, Jack London. His return put a crimp in her burglary efforts. Jack offered her a choice-be handed over to the authorities or submit sexually for one week to him. Elena understood the terms, or thought she did. What she didn't expect was a crash course in erotic submission and BDSM.

Author : Jonathan D. Martin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 067401149X

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Divided Mastery by Jonathan D. Martin Pdf

Divided Mastery explores a curiously neglected aspect of the history of American slavery: the rental of slaves. Though few slaves escaped being rented out at some point in their lives, this is the first book to describe the practice, and its effects on both slaves and the peculiar institution. Martin reveals how the unique triangularity of slave hiring created slaves with two masters, thus transforming the customary polarity of master-slave relationships. Drawing upon slaveholders' letters, slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, legislative petitions, and court records, Divided Mastery ultimately reveals that slave hiring's significance was paradoxical. The practice bolstered the system of slavery by facilitating its spread into the western territories, by democratizing access to slave labor, and by promoting both production and speculation with slave capital. But at the same time, slaves used hiring to their advantage, finding in it crucial opportunities to shape their work and family lives, to bring owners and hirers into conflict with each other, and to destabilize the system of bondage. Martin illuminates the importance of the capitalist market as a tool for analyzing slavery and its extended relationships. Through its fresh and complex perspective, Divided Mastery demonstrates that slave hiring is critical to understanding the fundamental nature of American slavery, and its social, political, and economic place in the Old South.

Author : William A. Blair,Karen Fisher Younger
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807895415

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Lincoln’s Proclamation by William A. Blair,Karen Fisher Younger Pdf

The Emancipation Proclamation, widely remembered as the heroic act that ended slavery, in fact freed slaves only in states in the rebellious South. True emancipation was accomplished over a longer period and by several means. Essays by eight distinguished contributors consider aspects of the president's decision making, as well as events beyond Washington, offering new insights on the consequences and legacies of freedom, the engagement of black Americans in their liberation, and the issues of citizenship and rights that were not decided by Lincoln's document. The essays portray emancipation as a product of many hands, best understood by considering all the actors, the place, and the time. The contributors are William A. Blair, Richard Carwardine, Paul Finkelman, Louis Gerteis, Steven Hahn, Stephanie McCurry, Mark E. Neely Jr., Michael Vorenberg, and Karen Fisher Younger.

Author : Roger Cohen
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400044856

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Soldiers and Slaves by Roger Cohen Pdf

In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent died from this horrific treatment. This is one of the last untold stories of World War II, and Roger Cohen re-creates it in all its blistering detail. Ground down by the crumbling Nazi war machine, the men prayed for salvation from the Allied troops, yet even after their liberation, their story was nearly forgotten. There was no aggressive prosecution of the commandants of the camp and the POWs received no particular recognition for their sacrifices. Cohen tells their story at last, in a stirring tale of bravery and depredation that is essential for any reader of World War II history.

Author : Louisiana. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044078678976

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana by Louisiana. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : Jason Berry
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469647159

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City of a Million Dreams by Jason Berry Pdf

In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm--a city legendary for its noisy, complicated, tradition-rich splendor. In City of a Million Dreams, Jason Berry delivers a character-driven history of New Orleans at its tricentennial. Chronicling cycles of invention, struggle, death, and rebirth, Berry reveals the city's survival as a triumph of diversity, its map-of-the-world neighborhoods marked by resilience despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods. Berry orchestrates a parade of vibrant personalities, from the founder Bienville, a warrior emblazoned with snake tattoos; to Governor William C. C. Claiborne, General Andrew Jackson, and Pere Antoine, an influential priest and secret agent of the Inquisition; Sister Gertrude Morgan, a street evangelist and visionary artist of the 1960s; and Michael White, the famous clarinetist who remade his life after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. The textured profiles of this extraordinary cast furnish a dramatic narrative of the beloved city, famous the world over for mysterious rituals as people dance when they bury their dead.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : NYPL:33433006871382

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Louisiana Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Blair
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458782366

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Lincolns Proclamation by Blair Pdf

Analysts as diverse as Frederick Douglass and historian Richard Hofstadter have ardently criticized Lincoln's ''passive'' attitude toward abolition. These critics frequently point out that the Emancipation Proclamation was, in practical terms, meaningless, since it freed only those slaves in areas under Confederate control and left slaves in the Union border states in bondage. In this fine work of counter revisionism, history professor Guelzo strives to resurrect the traditional image of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. Despite Lincoln's frequent assertions that the preservation of the Union was his paramount goal, Guelzo insists that Lincoln was committed to abolition once hostilities commenced. His repudiation of efforts by John Fremont to liberate slaves were merely tactical retreats, according to Guelzo, and when he deemed the moment appropriate, Lincoln struck a mortal blow against the institution. Guelzo marshals considerable evidence to support his views, but this is hardly the final word on the subject. Still, his work is a valuable counterweight to those who too easily dismiss the importance of the document and Lincoln's role in eliminating slavery. Jay Freeman.

Author : James A. Warren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135909000

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Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c.1800-1945 by James A. Warren Pdf

During the nineteenth century there was a huge increase in the level and types of gambling in Thailand. Taxes on gambling became a major source of state revenue, with the government establishing state-run lotteries and casinos in the first half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, over the same period, a strong anti-gambling discourse emerged within the Thai elite, which sought to regulate gambling through a series of increasingly restrictive and punitive laws. By the mid-twentieth century, most forms of gambling had been made illegal, a situation that persists until today. This historical study, based on a wide variety of Thai- and English-language archival sources including government reports, legal cases and newspapers, places the criminalization of gambling in Thailand in the broader context of the country’s socio-economic transformation and the modernization of the Thai state. Particular attention is paid to how state institutions, such as the police and judiciary, and different sections of Thai society shaped and subverted the law to advance their own interests. Finally, the book compares the Thai government’s policies on gambling with those on opium use and prostitution, placing the latter in the context of an international clampdown on vice in the early twentieth century.

Author : Sergio Lussana
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813166957

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My Brother Slaves by Sergio Lussana Pdf

Trapped in a world of brutal physical punishment and unremitting, back-breaking labor, Frederick Douglass mused that it was the friendships he shared with other enslaved men that carried him through his darkest days. In this pioneering study, Sergio A. L