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Author | : Fidelis Morgan |
Publisher | : Fidelis Morgan |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0957074352 |
London 1699. Anastasia Ashby de la Zouche, Baroness Penge, Countess of Clapham, former mistress to Charles II, has fallen on hard times. Cast into the notorious Fleet Prison by the bum-bailiffs, she is forced to turn to journalism: gathering salacious tit-bits for a scandal sheet. But the Countess and Alpiew, her maidservant, encounter more intrigue than they bargained for when a mysterious woman hires them to follow her husband Beau, whom she suspects of adultery. Their pursuit of Beau leads them to playhouses, lecture halls, the half-constructed St Paul's' Cathedral and the dives of Alsatia, only to end abruptly in a Covent Garden churchyard - leaving the Countess and Alpiew implicated in a murder. And worse is to follow, for to unravel their only clue to the identity of the real killer they must penetrate the mysteries of alchemy.
Author | : Michael Bundock |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2015-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300213905 |
This compelling book chronicles a young boy’s journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London’s literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life. Francis Barber, born in Jamaica, was brought to London by his owner in 1750 and became a servant in the household of the renowned Dr. Samuel Johnson. Although Barber left London for a time and served in the British navy during the Seven Years’ War, he later returned to Johnson’s employ. A fascinating reversal took place in the relationship between the two men as Johnson’s health declined and the older man came to rely more and more upon his now educated and devoted companion. When Johnson died he left the bulk of his estate to Barber, a generous (and at the time scandalous) legacy, and a testament to the depth of their friendship. There were thousands of black Britons in the eighteenth century, but few accounts of their lives exist. In uncovering Francis Barber’s story, this book not only provides insights into his life and Samuel Johnson’s but also opens a window onto London when slaves had yet to win their freedom.
Author | : D. J. Munro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-07-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781999605513 |
Slave to Fortune is an award-winning historical novel. Tom Cheke's world is turned upside-down when he is kidnapped and enslaved by Barbary corsairs. Tom carves out a promising, new life only to have it shattered again when he falls into the hands of a knight of the Order of St John and into a turbulent world of ciphers, spies and assassinations.
Author | : Elizabeth Yates |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1989-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140341587 |
A Newbery Medal Winner When Amos Fortune was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction. Although his freedom had been taken, Amos never lost his dinity and courage. For 45 years, Amos worked as a slave and dreamed of freedom. And, at age 60, he finally began to see those dreams come true. "The moving story of a life dedicated to the fight for freedom."—Booklist
Author | : Shomari Wills |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2018-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062437542 |
“By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”—Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden Figures Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of industrious, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success. Mary Ellen Pleasant, used her Gold Rush wealth to further the cause of abolitionist John Brown. Robert Reed Church, became the largest landowner in Tennessee. Hannah Elias, the mistress of a New York City millionaire, used the land her lover gave her to build an empire in Harlem. Orphan and self-taught chemist Annie Turnbo-Malone, developed the first national brand of hair care products. Mississippi school teacher O. W. Gurley, developed a piece of Tulsa, Oklahoma, into a “town” for wealthy black professionals and craftsmen that would become known as “the Black Wall Street.” Although Madam C. J Walker was given the title of America’s first female black millionaire, she was not. She was the first, however, to flaunt and openly claim her wealth—a dangerous and revolutionary act. Nearly all the unforgettable personalities in this amazing collection were often attacked, demonized, or swindled out of their wealth. Black Fortunes illuminates as never before the birth of the black business titan.
Author | : Ronald M. Lamothe |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1847010423 |
The Anglo-Egyptian re-conquest of Sudan - Churchill's 'River War' - has been well chronicled from the British point of view, but we still know little about its front line troops, the Sudanese soldiers of the Egyptian Army. Making use of unpublished primary sources and published material located in the United Kingdom and Sudan, Slaves of Fortune provides an historiographic correction. It argues that nineteenth-century Sudanese slave soldiers were social beings and historical actors, shaping both European and African destinies, just as their own lives were being transformed by imperial forces. -- Jacket.
Author | : F. Alexander Magoun |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Finola O'Kane |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 2023-03-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1526150980 |
Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays. Grounded in history, it integrates perspectives from art historians, architectural and landscape historians, and literary scholars to produce a genuinely interdisciplinary collection that spans from 1620-1830: the high point of European colonialism. By exploring imperial, national and familial relationships from their building blocks of plantation, migration, property and trade, it finds new ways to re-create and question how slavery made the Atlantic world.
Author | : Keith Hopkins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1981-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521281812 |
The enormous size of the Roman empire and the length of time it endured call for an understanding of the institutions which sustained it. In this book, Keith Hopkins, who is both classicist and sociologist, uses various sociological concepts and methods to gain new insights into how traditional Roman institutions changed as the Romans acquired their empire. He examines the chain reactions resulting from increased wealth; various aspects of slavery, especially manumission and the cost of freedom; the curious phenomenon of the political power wielded by eunuchs at court; and in the final chapter he discusses the Roman emperor's divinity and the circulation of untrue stories, which were a currency of the political system. Professor Hopkins has developed an exciting approach to social questions in antiquity and his book should be of interest to all students of ancient history and of historical sociology.
Author | : Laura Adams Armer |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486492885 |
Story, told in beautiful poetic prose, of the training of a present-day Navajo Indian boy who feels a vocation to become a medicine man.