Author: William Greenleaf EliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fugitive slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Story of Archer Alexander from Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863
Author: William Greenleaf EliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fugitive slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Story of Archer Alexander. From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863
Author: William Greenleaf ELIOTPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Heads You Win
Author: Jeffrey ArcherPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250172519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Heads You Win is international #1 bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious and creative work since Kane and Abel, with a final twist that will shock even his most ardent of fans. Leningrad, Russia, 1968: From an early age it is clear that Alexander Karpenko is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, Alexander and his mother will have to escape Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they have an irreversible choice: board a container ship bound for America or one bound for Great Britain. Alexander leaves the choice to a toss of a coin... In a single moment, a double twist decides Alexander’s future. During an epic tale, spanning two continents and thirty years, we follow Alexander through triumph and defeat as he sets out on parallel lives as Alex in New York and Sasha in London. As this unique story unfolds, both come to realize that to find their destiny they must face the past they left behind as Alexander in Russia.
The Story of Archer Alexander
Author: William G. EliotPublisher:
ISBN: 9783348062657
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Story of Archer Alexander
Author: William G. EliotPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332590479
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Excerpt from The Story of Archer Alexander: From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863 I therefore asked the Opinion of several friends, who, like myself, had lived all those years under the Shadow Of the peculiar insti tution, in one or other of the northern tier of the slave States, and who labored faith fully for its abolition, giving the best service of their lives to the cause of freedom, pos sessing their souls in patience while contend ing against what seemed to be an irresistible power. Their concurrence has confirmed me in the Opinion, that, however feebly drawn, a true picture, so far as it goes, is given in these pages of the relation between master and slave, and of the social condition Of slave holding communities. Without claiming to be more than a plain story plainly told, it shows things as they were, and how they were regarded by intelligent and thoughtful people at the time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Story of Archer Alexander
Author: William G. EliotPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330103784
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Excerpt from The Story of Archer Alexander: From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863 The following narrative was prepared without intention of publication; but I have been led to think that it may be of use, not only as a reminiscence of the war of secession, but as a fair presentation of slavery in the Border States for the twenty or thirty years preceding the outbreak of hostilities. I am confirmed in this view by the fact, that, on submitting the manuscript to a leading publishing-house in a Northern city, it was objected to, among other reasons, as too tame to satisfy the public taste and judgment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Story of Archer Alexander from Slavery to Freedom March 30, 1863
Author: William Greenleaf EliotPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781356186327
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
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Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves
Author: Kirk SavagePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691184526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public spaces—specifically in the sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history took place amid struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves probes a host of fascinating questions and remains the only sustained investigation of post-Civil War monument building as a process of national and racial definition. Featuring a new preface by the author that reflects on recent events surrounding the meaning of these monuments, and new photography and illustrations throughout, this new and expanded edition reveals how monuments exposed the myth of a "united" people, and have only become more controversial with the passage of time.
Ghost on the Throne
Author: James RommPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307456609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs—a mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an infant son, Alexander IV, born after his death—were jointly granted the kingship. But six of Alexander’s Macedonian generals, spurred by their own thirst for power and the legend that Alexander bequeathed his rule “to the strongest,” fought to gain supremacy. Perhaps their most fascinating and conniving adversary was Alexander’s former Greek secretary, Eumenes, now a general himself, who would be the determining factor in the precarious fortunes of the royal family. James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world’s greatest empire.
Alexander's Journey
Author: Goodwin Jeff W.Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999116401
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A motivational and empowering story of a young boys battle with rare cancer and how his life was saved by traveling from the U.K. to the US with help from the thin blue line.