Slavery and abolition of slavery

Since 1776, the Founding generation has been portrayed as creators of a new world where liberty and freedom were the inherent birthright of all peoples.

This book provides new perspectives into a subject that historians have largely overlooked.

Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums examines the challenges faced within the field of Caribbean Museology.

The mythic story of English America's origins has long focused on the Mayflower pilgrims and their 1620 democratic compact.

Durante mucho tiempo, la emancipación de los esclavos se consideró fruto de la acción de abolicionistas liberales y blancos.

My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass, an expansion of his earlier Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, discussing in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty.

El proyecto de estas crónicas temáticas fue galardonado en 2017 con la Beca Michael Jacobs de crónica viajera otorgada por la Fundación Gabriel García Márquez para el Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano- FNPI-, el Hay Festival y la Michael Jacobs Travel Writing Foundation.

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Since thousands of years, slavery in every form has been the root cause of misery and crime in every society it has crept in.

'I am a woman's rights.

John Newton is now best remembered as an Anglican clergyman and the author of the hymn Amazing Grace.

Dark like the skies on a moonless night, this is the color of our skin.

Sehr geehrte Leserinnen und Leser,vielen Dank, dass Sie mein Buch gekauft haben.

My Bondage and My Freedom - Frederick Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written with the aid of Frederick Douglass, a diffusion of his earlier Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, discussing in extra element his transition from bondage to liberty.

The story of Frederick Douglass is passionate, harrowing, and inspiring.

Esta novela de Carlos Bardem es vibrante como novela de aventuras y sorprendente por la calidad de la investigacion historica que lo sostiene.

'In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of liberty - it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.

Books of 2021, The Economist 'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today.

Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the hearts and minds of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience.

This is the first comprehensive history of pre-Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals and militant abolitionists on the long road to the failed slave revolt of Harpers Ferry in 1859.

Now a major BBC TV drama, starring Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry and Hayley Atwell.

WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD COSMOPOLITAN'S 10 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2023'Fresh and propulsive .

This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series.

The most famous memoir of its kind and a key text in the anti-slavery movement, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass tells the striking and emotionally charged story of one man's journey from slavery to freedom.

This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series.

'In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of liberty - it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.

The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEA TIMES BEST PAPERBACK 2022, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 2021, OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK AND BARACK OBAMA SELECTION'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and political' ObserverLandry and Prentiss are two brothers born into slavery, finally freed as the American Civil War draws to its bitter close.

Stephen Budiansky holds that virtually everything previously written about dogs is either wrong or misguided.

This is the first comprehensive history of pre-Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals and militant abolitionists on the long road to the failed slave revolt of Harpers Ferry in 1859.

This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves and the stories of people who have helped them.

What is the place of Amanda Smith in American history?

Este ensayo nos traslada al África Subsahariana, en un principio con un hecho de la etapa colonial americana prácticamente desconocido donde Buenos Aires, por entonces capital del Virreinato del Río de la Plata, debía administrar e incorporar bajo su jurisdicción  esos territorios del continente africano.

Este libro analiza la presencia de los africanos esclavizados en el departamento del Cauca, Colombia.

With the recent success of the movie and book "e;Twelve Years A Slave"e; in mind, this title, as the name imports, gives a true picture of the state of Slavery in the United States in the first half of the 19th century.

En aquest recull d'articles publicats al diari Ara l'any 2012, Albert Sánchez Piñol recupera cinc exterminis ignorats de diversos grups ètnics que han desaparegut en el no-res, i s'han endut amb ells una manera única de viure l'experiència humana.

Another example of the fictitious slave narrative is this book, An Account of a Female Slave (1857), which suggests the narrative only in title.

Samuel Ringgold Ward was born in the State of Maryland about the year 1817.