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Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Little Truths better than great Fables: containing information ... for the instruction of children. The third edition. [By William Darton.]
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Author: Little Truths Better Than Great Fables
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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The Truth about Stories
Author: Thomas KingPublisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887846963
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.
The Slave's Little Friends
Author: Carme ManuelPublisher: Universitat de València
ISBN: 8491349618
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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The texts included in this anthology illustrate the wide range of possibilities that abolitionist writings offered to American children during the first half of the nineteenth century. Composing their works under the wings of the antislavery movement, authors responded to the unequal and controversial development of abolitionist politics during the decades that led up to the outbreak of the Civil War. These writers struggled to teach children “to feel right,” and attempted to instruct them to actively respond to the injustice of the slavery system as rendered visible by a harrowing visual archive of suffering bodies compiled by both English and American antislavery promoters. Reading was equated with knowledge and knowledge was equated with moral responsibility, and therefore reading about “the abominations of slavery” became an act of emotional personal transformation. Children were thus turned into powerful agents of political change and potential activists to spread the abolitionist message. Invited to comply with a higher law that entailed the breaking of their nation’s edicts, they were morally rewarded by the Christian God and approvingly applauded by their elders for their violation of these same American regulations. These texts enclosed immeasurable value for young nineteenth-century Americans to fulfill a more democratic and egalitarian role in their future. Undoubtedly, abolitionist writings for children took away American children’s innocence and transformed them into juvenile abolitionists and empowered compassionate citizens.
Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery
Author: J.R. OldfieldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136295917
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade. This work explains how this remarkable expression of support for black people was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth of popular politics in Britain.
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: The Miscellany
Author: Administrator's Sale, by Order of Ephraim Lederer, Attorney, Estate of Moses Polock, Deceased, the Oldest Booksellers in the U.S. Embracing Rare and Scarce Americana ...
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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 105
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The Child and His Book
Author: Mrs. E. M. FieldPublisher: London : Wells Gardner, Darton
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Category : Chapbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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