Author: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher StowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Uncle Tom's cabin; or, Life among the lowly. Illustr. ed. Designs by Billings
Author: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher StowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher StowePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019433140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin has been one of the most influential books of the 19th century in America and abroad. This story, first published in 1852, is a powerful and brave account of how slavery destroyed the lives of black people in the United States by portraying the stories of Tom, Eliza, Topsy, and other enslaved individuals. With powerful storytelling and beautiful illustrations, this book remains a must-read, highlighting the power of resistance and compassion in the face of oppression. Anyone interested in American history, Black history, or the evolution of the abolitionist movement should consider this book essential. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly. Illustr. Ed. Designs by Billings
Author: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher StowePublisher:
ISBN: 9780461883176
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Catalog ... of the American Historical Library, Collection of Alfred S. Manson, Boston, Mass
Author: Alfred Small MansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Spectacles of Reform
Author: Amy E. HughesPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472118625
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In the nineteenth century, long before film and television brought us explosions, car chases, and narrow escapes, it was America's theaters that thrilled audiences, with “sensation scenes” of speeding trains, burning buildings, and endangered bodies, often in melodramas extolling the virtues of temperance, abolition, and women's suffrage. Amy E. Hughes scrutinizes these peculiar intersections of spectacle and reform, revealing the crucial role that spectacle has played in American activism and how it has remained central to the dramaturgy of reform. Hughes traces the cultural history of three famous sensation scenes—the drunkard with the delirium tremens, the fugitive slave escaping over a river, and the victim tied to the railroad tracks—assessing how these scenes conveyed, allayed, and denied concerns about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. These images also appeared in printed propaganda, suggesting that the coup de théâtre was an essential part of American reform culture. Additionally, Hughes argues that today’s producers and advertisers continue to exploit the affective dynamism of spectacle, reaching an even broader audience through film, television, and the Internet. To be attuned to the dynamics of spectacle, Hughes argues, is to understand how we see. Her book will interest not only theater historians, but also scholars and students of political, literary, and visual culture who are curious about how U.S. citizens saw themselves and their world during a pivotal period in American history.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Color of Christ
Author: Edward J. BlumPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807837377
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions--from witch hunts to web pages, Harlem to Hollywood, slave cabins to South Park, Mormon revelations to Indian reservations--to show how Americans remade the Son of God visually time and again into a sacred symbol of their greatest aspirations, deepest terrors, and mightiest strivings for racial power and justice. The Color of Christ uncovers how, in a country founded by Puritans who destroyed depictions of Jesus, Americans came to believe in the whiteness of Christ. Some envisioned a white Christ who would sanctify the exploitation of Native Americans and African Americans and bless imperial expansion. Many others gazed at a messiah, not necessarily white, who was willing and able to confront white supremacy. The color of Christ still symbolizes America's most combustible divisions, revealing the power and malleability of race and religion from colonial times to the presidency of Barack Obama.
Racial Innocence
Author: Robin BernsteinPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081478707X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"In Racial Innocence, Robin Bernstein argues that the concept of "childhood innocence" has been central to U.S. racial formation since the mid-nineteenth century. Children--white ones imbued with innocence, black ones excluded from it, and others of color erased by it--figured pivotally in sharply divergent racial agendas from slavery and abolition to antiblack violence and the early civil rights movement. Bernstein takes up a rich archive including books, toys, theatrical props, and domestic knickknacks which she analyzes as "scriptive things" that invite or prompt historically-located practices while allowing for resistance and social improvisation. Integrating performance studies with literary and visual analysis, Bernstein offers singular readings of theatrical productions from blackface minstrelsy to Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; literary works by Joel Chandler Harris, Harriet Wilson, and Frances Hodgson Burnett; material culture including Topsy pincushions, Uncle Tom and Little Eva handkerchiefs, and Raggedy Ann dolls; and visual texts ranging from fine portraiture to advertisements for lard substitute. Throughout, Bernstein shows how "innocence" gradually became the exclusive province of white children--until the Civil Rights Movement succeeded not only in legally desegregating public spaces, but in culturally desegregating the concept of childhood itself." -- Publisher's description.
Fiction, 1876-1983: Titles
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author: Margaret Holbrook HildrethPublisher: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description