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To Free a Family
The Journey of Mary Walker
Häftad, 2013
452 kr
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What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that of thousands who …
Mind to Stay
White Plantation, Black Homeland
Inbunden, 2017
300 kr
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The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind to Stay offers a counterpoint to the narrative of the Great Migration. Sydney Nathans tells the rare story of people who moved from being enslaved to …
Daniel Webster and Jacksonian Democracy
Häftad, 2020
567 kr
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Originally published in 1973. Professor Nathans illuminates the changes wrought by Jacksonian democracy on the career of Daniel Webster, a major political figure, and on the destiny of a major political party, the Whigs. Daniel Webster was a creative anachronism in the Jacksonian era. His career …
Freedom's Mirage
Virgil Bennehan''s Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile
E-bok, 2024
306 kr
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Freedom’s Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South’s largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Black and white people alike. Emancipated in 1848 but required to …
Freedom's Mirage
Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile
Inbunden, 2024
1191 kr
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Freedom's Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South's largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Blacks and whites alike. Emancipated in 1848 but required to leave …
Freedom's Mirage
Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile
Häftad, 2024
319 kr
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Freedom's Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South's largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Blacks and whites alike. Emancipated in 1848 but required to leave …
Freedom's Mirage
Virgil Bennehan''s Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile
E-bok, 2024
306 kr
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Freedom’s Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South’s largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Black and white people alike. Emancipated in 1848 but required to …
Quest for Progress
The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1870-1920
Häftad, 1983
209 kr
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Few would have guessed in 1870 that within fifty years North Carolina would be the most industrialized state in the South. The Quest for Progress recounts that half-century of turbulent change and growth. It is the fourth volume in The Way We Lived in North Carolina, a pioneering series that uses …
