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Author | : Francis Bok |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2007-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1429971010 |
In this groundbreaking modern slave narrative, Francis Bok shares his remarkable story with grace, honesty, and a wisdom gained from surviving ten years in captivity. May, 1986: Selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan, seven year old Francis Bok's life was shattered when Arab raiders on horseback, armed with rifles and long knives, burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and women and gathering the young children into a group. Strapped to horses and donkeys, Francis and others were taken north, into lives of slavery under wealthy Muslim farmers. For ten years, Francis lived alone in a shed near the goats and cattle that were his responsibility. Fed with scraps from the table, slowly learning bits of an unfamiliar language and religion, the boy had almost no human contact other than his captor's family. After two failed attempts to escape-each bringing severe beatings and death threats-Francis finally escaped at age seventeen, a dramatic breakaway on foot that was his final chance. Yet his slavery did not end there, for even as he made his way toward the capital city of Khartoum, others sought to deprive him of his freedom. Determined to avoid that fate and discover what had happened to his family on that terrible day in 1986, the teenager persevered through prison and refugee camps for three more years, winning the attention of United Nations officials and being granted passage to America. Now a student and an anti-slavery activist, Francis Bok has made it his life mission to combat world slavery. His is the first voice to speak for an estimated twenty seven million people held against their will in nearly every nation, including our own. Escape from Slavery is at once a riveting adventure, a story of desperation and triumph, and a window revealing a world that few have survived to tell.
Author | : Antonio T. Bly |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2022-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1793632715 |
Escaping Slavery is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America.
Author | : Peggy Caravantes |
Publisher | : Momentum |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-08 |
Genre | : Fugitive slaves |
ISBN | : 9781503825307 |
Engages readers with incredible stories of people who made daring escapes from slavery. With clever plans and the help of the Underground Railroad, these people escaped enslavement to find freedom. Additional features include a Fast Facts spread, informative infographics, critical-thinking questions, a phonetic glossary, a selected bibliography, an index, information about the author, and sources for further research.
Author | : Frederick Douglass |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2017-10-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781978444942 |
Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland around February 1818. He escaped in 1838, but in each of the three accounts he wrote of his life he did not give any details of how he gained his freedom lest slaveholders use the information to prevent other slaves from escaping, and to prevent those who had helped him from being punished.
Author | : Lorene Cary |
Publisher | : Third World Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780883782682 |
Lorene Cary adapted these tales from narratives and records that were first told by William Still who was one of the key organizers of the underground railroad.
Author | : Antonio T. Bly |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2012-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0739170341 |
Escaping Bondage: A Documentary History of Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century New England, 1700–1789 is an edited collection of runaway slave advertisements that appeared in newspapers in eighteenth-century Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. In addition to documenting the New England fugitive, it compliments similar runaway notice compilations. This compilation provides valuable insights into an important chapter in the history of slavery.
Author | : Jehan Jones-Radgowski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2019-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1543512895 |
The mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate soldiers. In the early hours of May 13, 1862, in the midst of the deadly U.S. Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls was about to carry out a perilous plan of escape. Standing at the helm of the ship, Smalls impersonated the captain as he and his crew passed heavily armed Confederate forts to enter Union territory, where escaped slaves were given shelter. The suspenseful escape of the determined crew is celebrated with beautiful artwork and insightful prose, detailing the true account of an unsung American hero.
Author | : Alice L Baumgartner |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1541617770 |
A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.
Author | : John Hope Franklin |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2000-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195084511 |
This bold and precedent-setting study details numerous slave rebellions against white masters, drawn from planters' records, government petitions, newspapers, and other documents. The reactions of white slave owners are also documented. 15 halftones.
Author | : William Craft |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0820340804 |
In 1848 William and Ellen Craft made one of the most daring and remarkable escapes in the history of slavery in America. With fair-skinned Ellen in the guise of a white male planter and William posing as her servant, the Crafts traveled by rail and ship--in plain sight and relative luxury--from bondage in Macon, Georgia, to freedom first in Philadelphia, then Boston, and ultimately England. This edition of their thrilling story is newly typeset from the original 1860 text. Eleven annotated supplementary readings, drawn from a variety of contemporary sources, help to place the Crafts’ story within the complex cultural currents of transatlantic abolitionism.