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10 produkter

1. 

   Black Refugees in Canada

   Accounts of Escape During the Era of Slavery

   Av George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick

   Häftad, 2010

   435 kr

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   Thousands of black people sought refuge in Canada before the U.S. Civil War. While most refugees encountered at least some racism among Canadian citizens, many of those same refugees also thrived under the auspices of the Canadian government, which worked to protect blacks from the U.S. slaveowners …

2. 

   Fleeing for Freedom

   Stories of the Underground Railroad as Told by Levi Coffin and William Still

   Av Willene Hendrick, George Hendrick

   E-bok, 2003

   193 kr

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   Selected narratives from the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin and William Still. Here are firsthand descriptions of the experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in the North and in Canada in the years before the Civil War. A …

3. 

   Poems for the People

   Av Carl Sandburg, George Hendrick m. fl.

   Häftad, 2001

   218 kr

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   Seventy-three poems from Sandburg's early years in Chicago, almost all of them never before in print. They show him as a critic of fast-changing conditions in urban America; a walker in the city; a sensitive poet born to immigrant parents. These poems are a reminder of why we revere Sandburg as an …

4. 

   Creole Mutiny

   A Tale of Revolt Aboard a Slave Ship

   Av George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick

   Inbunden, 2003

   283 kr

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   A tale of revolt aboard a nineteenth-century slave ship and the story of the slaves' heroic leader, Madison Washington.

5. 

   Fleeing for Freedom

   Stories of the Underground Railroad as Told by Levi Coffin and William Still

   Av Willene Hendrick, George Hendrick

   Häftad, 2003

   183 kr

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   Selected narratives from the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin and William Still. Here are firsthand descriptions of the experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in the North and in Canada in the years before the Civil War. A …

6. 

   Two Slave Rebellions at Sea

   "The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass and "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville

   Av Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville m. fl.

   Häftad, 2006

   380 kr

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   Fredrick Douglass (1818-1895), a fugitive slave who became the best-known black abolitionist orator and autobiographer, and Herman Melville (1819-1891), a fiction writer recognized for the elusiveness of his meanings, both composed stories about slave revolts at sea. In the decade just before the …

7. 

   Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs; A True Tale of Slavery, by John S. Jacobs

   Av Hendrick, Hendrick W m. fl.

   Häftad, 2006

   409 kr

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   These two slave narratives expand our knowledge of the differing ways males and females coped with enslavement and later ordeals in flight. This popularly-priced anthology contains the often taught Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the recently discovered A True Tale of …

8. 

   M. K. Gandhi's First Nonviolent Campaign

   A Study of Racism in South Africa and the United States

   Av George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick

   Häftad, 2013

   317 kr

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9. 

   James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony

   Av George Hendrick, Helen Howe m. fl.

   Inbunden, 2001

   554 kr

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   This story of James Jones and the Handy Colony is a popular account of one of the most unusual writing colonies ever established in the United States. Between his Army enlistment in 1939 and the wound that sent him to a Memphis hospital in 1943, James Jones suffered the loss of both his mother and …

10. 

    James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony

    Av George Hendrick, Helen Howe m. fl.

    Häftad, 2001

    251 kr

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    This story of James Jones and the Handy Colony is a popular account of one of the most unusual writing colonies ever established in the United States. Between his Army enlistment in 1939 and the wound that sent him to a Memphis hospital in 1943, James Jones suffered the loss of both his mother and …