Author: John B. NEWHALLPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A Glimpse of Iowa in 1846; or, the Emigrant's Guide and State Directory; with a description of the new purchase ... Second edition
Author: John B. NEWHALLA Glimpse of Iowa in 1846; Or, the Emigrant's Guide, and State Directory; with a Description of the New Purchase
Author: John Bailey NewhallA Glimpse of Iowa in 1846, Or, The Emigrant's Guide and State Directory
Author: John Bailey NewhallPublisher:
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A Glimpse of Iowa in 1846
Author: John B. NewhallPublisher:
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
A Glimpse of Iowa in 1846
Author: John Bailey NewhallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Appraisal of Potawatomi Tracts in Iowa and Kansas, 1846
Author: William Gordon MurrayPublisher:
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Category : Potawatomi Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Forbidden Fruit
Author: Betty DeRamusPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743482639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold stories of ordinary men and women who took extraordinary measures, risking life and limb to be together. It's the story of couples who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to defy the system that allowed slave masters to breed and sell people like cattle. Some broke the taboo against interracial marriage, putting their lives in the most severe peril. In one remarkable story, a Georgia couple who fled slavery wearing multiple disguises sailed for England with bounty hunters and federal troops on their trail. A fugitive slave from Virginia spent seventeen arduous years searching for his wife. A Missouri slave fell in love with his white Mormon neighbor and escaped to Canada to be with her, putting pepper in his shoes to throw dogs off the scent at night and hiding in trees by day. Betty DeRamus gleaned these amazing stories from descendants of runaway slave couples, unpublished memoirs, Civil War records, books, magazines, and dozens of previously untapped sources. Beautifully and compassionately written, this important book reveals a chapter of American history that is shameful but is about triumph as well as torture, achievement as well as degradation, and indomitable love as well as hate.
Freedom by Any Means
Author: Betty DeRamusPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439156484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Following up Betty DeRamus’s Essence bestselling Forbidden Fruit, Freedom by Any Means follows the story of extraordinary acts of courage and love by Blacks in the American slave era with beautifully written and inspiring stories of how slaves used the law—against all odds—to gain freedom for themselves and loved ones. In Freedom by Any Means, Betty DeRamus explains that “Much of what we think we know about African American history isn't completely true.” Slave freedom isn’t limited to the usual story—slaves gained their freedom by running away, being freed by their owners, buying their way out of bondage, or having someone else buy them. But history doesn’t account for the slaves who bluffed their way to freedom, sidestepped tricks and traps, won lawsuits, or even gained their freedom by their cooking. Riveting and surprising, DeRamus captures the tumultuous lives of the humans in inhumane situations who were able to salvage their families and marriages and achieve freedom together against tremendous odds. It takes a broader look at the various extraordinary ways that enslaved and dehumanized people achieved freedom and the means to a self-determined life. Among these people are visionaries who not only survived against the odds, but prospered—building businesses, owning land and other property. Freedom by Any Means also features the return of many of the beloved figures from her previous book Forbidden Fruit, including Lucy Nichols, Al and Margaret Wood, and Sylvia and Louis Stark. This inspiring account, steeped in rich historical research, attests to the resolve of the human spirit and reveals how men and women were willing to risk it all to escape the slavery.
A Check List of Iowa Imprints 1838-1860
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
American Imprints Inventory: A check list of Iowa imprints, 1838-1860
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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