Author: Mary Lesley AmesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley
Author: Mary Lesley AmesLife and Letter of Peter and Susan Lesley
Author: Mary Lesley AmesPublisher:
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Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Peter and Susan Lesley
Author: Charles Gordon AmesPublisher:
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Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
To Free a Family
Author: Sydney NathansPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067426620X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price—remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family’s fate. This story is anchored in two extraordinary collections of letters and diaries, that of her former North Carolina slaveholders and that of the northern family—Susan and Peter Lesley—who protected and employed her. Sydney Nathans’s sensitive and penetrating narrative reveals Mary Walker’s remarkable persistence as well as the sustained collaboration of black and white abolitionists who assisted her. Mary Walker and the Lesleys ventured half a dozen attempts at liberation, from ransom to ruse to rescue, until the end of the Civil War reunited Mary Walker with her son and daughter. Unlike her more famous counterparts—Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs, and Sojourner Truth—who wrote their own narratives and whose public defiance made them heroines, Mary Walker’s efforts were protracted, wrenching, and private. Her odyssey was more representative of women refugees from bondage who labored secretly and behind the scenes to reclaim their families from the South. In recreating Mary Walker’s journey, To Free a Family gives voice to their hidden epic of emancipation and to an untold story of the Civil War era.
Memoir of Rufus Ellis, Including Selections from His Journal and Letters
Author: Arthur Blake EllisBulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: Henry Darwin Rogers, 1808–1866
Author: Patsy GerstnerPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817358196
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Henry Darwin Rogers is a familiar figure in the history of American geology, especially as the director of the first state geological surveys of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Although best remembered for the survey work, Rogers considered his theory of mountain elevation to be his most important scientific legacy. Based on studies of the Appalachian Mountains, Rogers's elevation theory was the first American explanation of the dynamics of elevation. As a study of the Pennsylvania survey, this volume offers new insight into the origin and problems associated with early surveys. As a study of Rogers's life and work, it presents a portrait of a man with strong convictions and dedication and examines the development and application of his ideas.
Freedom's Dawn
Author: Louis DeCaroPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442236736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
John Brown’s failed raid on the federal armory in Harper’s Ferry Virginia served as a vital precursor to the Civil War, but its importance to the struggle for justice is free standing and exceptional in the history of the United States. In Freedom's Dawn, Louis DeCaro, Jr., has written the first book devoted exclusively to Brown during the six weeks between his arrest and execution. DeCaro traces his evolution from prisoner to convicted felon, to a prophetic figure, then martyr, and finally the rise of his legacy. In doing so he touches upon major biographical themes in Brown’s story, but also upon antebellum political issues, violence and terrorism, and the themes of political imprisonment and martyrdom.