Author: William RayPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Poems, on Various Subjects, Religious, Moral, Sentimental and Humorous
Author: William RayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Poems, on Various Subjects
Author: William RayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Horrors of Slavery
Author: William RayPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813545676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Barbary pirates in Africa targeted sailors for centuries, often taking slaves and demanding ransom in exchange. First published in 1808, Horrors of Slavery is the tale of one such sailor, captured during the United States's first military encounter with the Islamic world, the Tripolitan War. William Ray, along with three hundred crewmates, spent nineteen months in captivity after his ship, the Philadelphia, ran aground in the harbor of Tripoli. Imprisoned, Ray witnessed-and chronicled-many of the key moments of the military engagement. In addition to offering a compelling history of a little-known war, this book presents the valuable perspective of an ordinary seaman who was as concerned with the injustices of the U.S. Navy as he was with Barbary pirates. Hester Blum's introduction situates Horrors of Slavery in its literary, historical, and political contexts, bringing to light a crucial episode in the early history of our country's relations with Islamic states. A volume in the Subterranean Lives series, edited by Bradford Verter
Poems
Author: William RayPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Road to Seneca Falls
Author: Judith WellmanPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252092821
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Feminists from 1848 to the present have rightly viewed the Seneca Falls convention as the birth of the women's rights movement in the United States and beyond. In The Road To Seneca Falls, Judith Wellman offers the first well documented, full-length account of this historic meeting in its contemporary context. The convention succeeded by uniting powerful elements of the antislavery movement, radical Quakers, and the campaign for legal reform under a common cause. Wellman shows that these three strands converged not only in Seneca Falls, but also in the life of women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is this convergence, she argues, that foments one of the greatest rebellions of modern times. Rather than working heavy-handedly downward from their official "Declaration of Sentiments," Wellman works upward from richly detailed documentary evidence to construct a complex tapestry of causes that lay behind the convention, bringing the struggle to life. Her approach results in a satisfying combination of social, community, and reform history with individual and collective biographical elements. The Road to Seneca Falls challenges all of us to reflect on what it means to be an American trying to implement the belief that "all men and women are created equal," both then and now. A fascinating story in its own right, it is also a seminal piece of scholarship for anyone interested in history, politics, or gender.
Harlequin Empire
Author: David WorrallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317315499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. It argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a plebeian Enlightenment.
Catalogue of American Poetry
Author: Caleb Fiske HarrisPublisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late Hon. Albert G. Greene
Author: Albert Gorton GreenePublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Catalogue of the private Library of the late Hon. A. G. Greene. To be sold by auction, etc
Author: Albert Gorton GREENEPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1
Author: Patrick D. BowenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004300694
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1: White American Muslims before 1975 is the first in-depth study of the thousands of white Americans who embraced Islam between 1800 and 1975. Drawing from little-known archives, interviews, and rare books and periodicals, Patrick D. Bowen unravels the complex social and religious factors that led to the emergence of a wide variety of American Muslim and Sufi conversion movements. While some of the more prominent Muslim and Sufi converts—including Alexander Webb, Maryam Jameelah, and Samuel Lewis—have received attention in previous studies, White American Muslims before 1975 is the first book to highlight previously unknown but important figures, including Thomas M. Johnson, Louis Glick, Nadirah Osman, and T.B. Irving.