Author: James WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Narrative of James Williams
Author: James WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama (Classic Reprint)
Author: Honorary Professor of Philosophy and Member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization James WilliamsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259525363
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Excerpt from Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama The cardinal principle of slavery, that a. Slave is not to be ranked among sentient beings, but among things, as afi' article of property, a chattel personal, obtains as undoubted law, in all the slave states. (judge Stroud's sketch of Slave Laws, p. 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.
Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, who was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama
Author: Narrative of James Williams
Author: James WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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This book contains the memoir of James Williams, an American slave who was for several years a driver on a cotton plantation in Alabama.
Black Samson
Author: Jeremy SchipperPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190689803
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Before Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King was identified with Moses, African Americans identified those who challenged racial oppression in America with Samson. In Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon, Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper tell the story of how this biblical character became an icon of African American literature. Along the way, Schipper and Junior introduce readers to a cast of historical characters -- many of whom became American icons themselves -- including Fredrick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton and others. From stories of slave rebellions to the Harlem Renaissance to the civil rights era and the Black Power movement, invoking the biblical character of Samson became a powerful way for African American intellectuals, activists, and artists to voice strategies and opinions about race relations in America. As this provocative book reveals, the story of Black Samson became the story of our nation's contested racial history.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2576
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We Shall Be No More
Author: Richard BellPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674064798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Suicide is a quintessentially individual act, yet one with unexpectedly broad social implications. Though seen today as a private phenomenon, in the uncertain aftermath of the American Revolution this personal act seemed to many to be a public threat that held no less than the fate of the fledgling Republic in its grip. Salacious novelists and eager newspapermen broadcast images of a young nation rapidly destroying itself. Parents, physicians, ministers, and magistrates debated the meaning of self-destruction and whether it could (or should) be prevented. Jailers and justice officials rushed to thwart condemned prisoners who made halters from bedsheets, while abolitionists used slave suicides as testimony to both the ravages of the peculiar institution and the humanity of its victims. Struggling to create a viable political community out of extraordinary national turmoil, these interest groups invoked self-murder as a means to confront the most consequential questions facing the newly united states: What is the appropriate balance between individual liberty and social order? Who owns the self? And how far should the control of the state (or the church, or a husband, or a master) extend over the individual?With visceral prose and an abundance of evocative primary sources, Richard Bell lays bare the ways in which self-destruction in early America was perceived as a transgressive challenge to embodied authority, a portent of both danger and possibility. His unique study of suicide between the Revolution and Reconstruction uncovers what was at stake-personally and politically-in the nation's fraught first decades.
The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
Author: Henry BibbPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 029916893X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
First published in 1849 and largely unavailable for many years, The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb is among the most remarkable slave narratives. Born on a Kentucky plantation in 1815, Bibb first attempted to escape from bondage at the age of ten. He was recaptured and escaped several more times before he eventually settled in Detroit, Michigan, and joined the antislavery movement as a lecturer. Bibb’s story is different in many ways from the widely read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. He was owned by a Native American; he is one of the few ex-slave autobiographers who had labored in the Deep South (Louisiana); and he writes about folkways of the slaves, especially how he used conjure to avoid punishment and to win the hearts of women. Most significant, he is unique in exploring the importance of marriage and family to him, recounting his several trips to free his wife and child. This new edition includes an introduction by literary scholar Charles Heglar and a selection of letters and editorials by Bibb.
Narrative of James Williams : an American Slave WHO was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation...
Author: James WilliamsPublisher:
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