Author: Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Panorama of American Life & History
Author: Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A History of American Life
Author: Arthur Meier SchlesingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Americans All
Author: VariousPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Americans All" (Stories of American Life of To-Day) by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Soul by Soul
Author: Walter JOHNSONPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039157
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved.
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LIFE
Author: JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMSA History of American Life
Author: A History of American Life
Author: William Wells Brown: An African American Life
Author: Ezra GreenspanPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393242005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Biography' A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the nineteenth century. Born into slavery in Kentucky, raised on the Western frontier on the farm adjacent to Daniel Boone’s, “rented” out in adolescence to a succession of steamboat captains on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the young man known as “Sandy” reinvented himself as “William Wells” Brown after escaping to freedom. He lifted himself out of illiteracy and soon became an innovative, widely admired, and hugely popular speaker on antislavery circuits (both American and British) and went on to write the earliest African American works in a plethora of genres: travelogue, novel (the now canonized Clotel), printed play, and history. He also practiced medicine, ran for office, and campaigned for black uplift, temperance, and civil rights. Ezra Greenspan’s masterful work, elegantly written and rigorously researched, sets Brown’s life in the richly rendered context of his times, creating a fascinating portrait of an inventive writer who dared to challenge the racial orthodoxies and explore the racial complexities of nineteenth-century America.
A History of American Life
Author: Arthur Meier SchlesingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
American Tapestry
Author: Rachel L. SwarnsPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062204653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and expansive portrait of America itself. In this extraordinary feat of genealogical research—in the tradition of The Hemmingses of Monticello and Slaves in the Family—author Swarns, a respected Washington-based reporter for the New York Times, tells the fascinating and hitherto untold story of Ms. Obama’s black, white, and multiracial ancestors; a history that the First Lady herself did not know. At once epic, provocative, and inspiring, American Tapestry is more than a true family saga; it is an illuminating mirror in which we may all see ourselves.