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Author | : Timothy D. Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781625345936 |
In 1858, Mary Millburn successfully made her escape from Norfolk, Virginia, to Philadelphia aboard an express steamship. Millburn's maritime route to freedom was far from uncommon. By the mid-nineteenth century an increasing number of enslaved people had fled northward along the Atlantic seaboard. While scholarship on the Underground Railroad has focused almost exclusively on overland escape routes from the antebellum South, this groundbreaking volume expands our understanding of how freedom was achieved by sea and what the journey looked like for many African Americans. With innovative scholarship and thorough research, Sailing to Freedom highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labor. These ten essays reconsider and contextualize how escapes were managed along the East Coast, moving from the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland to safe harbor in northern cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford, and Boston. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include David S. Cecelski, Elysa Engelman, Kathryn Grover, Megan Jeffreys, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Mirelle Luecke, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Michael D. Thompson, and Len Travers.
Author | : Susan Taylor Brown |
Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2005-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781575058726 |
The true story of a fugitive slave's escape to freedom.
Author | : Captain Rob Lee |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2010-02-12 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0982654200 |
Sail the Seven Seas of Freedom is about changing the way you view the world and your life. The purpose of this book is showing you how to enjoy life each and every day. I will help you rediscover your core values and give you the strength to listen to your inner voice. I want you to stop living an unfulfilling deferred lifestyle and start living a happy, fun, exciting, and fulfilling lifestyle, one with complete freedom! My goal is to help you live the life of your dreams NOW by sharing how we left a normal life and began living the life of our dreams.
Author | : Voldemar Veedam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1959 |
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Author | : John Vigor |
Publisher | : Sheridan House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781574093032 |
John Vigor is a writer and a former South African sailing champion. In 1987, John and his family began their new life in America. He now lives in Washington state.
Author | : John Kretschmer |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1472951638 |
John Kretschmer is sailing's practical philosopher – as much a doer as a thinker. And that is the overarching theme of this chronicle of a sailing life. Often amusing, sometimes poignant, occasionally terrifying but always inspiring, his deeply personal account is a welcome reminder of the good life waiting at sea. With hundreds of thousands of nautical miles under his keel, John's adventures have taken him several times around the world, with challenging crossings of the Atlantic and the Pacific, a narrow escape from a coup in Yemen, an unlikely deliverance from a coral reef off Belize as well as more serene, introspective passages where trade winds are blowing and stories are flowing. His crew has included CEOs, actors, writers, teachers, kids – in essence, everyone. John's narrative is interwoven with practical tips and advice in seamanship, but also, and just as importantly, his hard-won insights about making the most of our lives. He truly believes we find out who we really are, and what we are capable of, far from the shackles of land, when we find a place where time changes shape – days may merge into one another, but minutes are memorable. To live adventurously is to live more fully, and that is the life John Kretschmer continues to live. In this book he shares his simple profundities that will inspire those who live to sail, and those seeking something more rewarding from life.
Author | : LIZ. CLARK |
Publisher | : Patagonia |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-05-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781952338229 |
Author | : Martha Bennett Stiles |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-07-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466825782 |
When Ray Ingle asks his Uncle Thad if he can go to sea with him, he knows his parents won't like it. But they're not around, and anything is better than staying with mean old Uncle Slye! To Ray's great surprise, Uncle Thad agrees to take him on, and soon Ray and his pet capuchin monkey Allie are helping out in the galley of The Newburyport Beauty. Ray knows Cook used to be a slave, though now he's free. But when Ray discovers what Cook is hiding in the kitchen pantry, he gets more involved with the question of slavery than he ever could have imagined!
Author | : Hal Roth |
Publisher | : McGraw Hill Professional |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2003-10-20 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0071778721 |
A new classic from one of the world's most respected sailing authors More than 35 years ago, Hal Roth quit his job as a journalist and went sailing. Since then, he's logged more than 200,000 sea miles. Along the way, Roth also has authored eight voyaging classics, including the 1978 bestseller After 50,000 Miles. Taking that book as its starting point, this handsome new volume incorporates the new technologies and discoveries of the last quarter century along with another 150,000 miles of experience. A compendium of mature, time-tested sea wisdom from one of the world's most respected sailing writers, How to Sail Around the World will tell the reader: How to choose and equip a sailboat for long-distance cruising, with an emphasis on simplicity and a modest budget How to plan and conduct a voyage anywhere in the world How to master the arts of navigation, anchoring, and daily life aboard in exotic places How to cope with storms at sea--the most complete and authoritative treatise on this critical topic ever published
Author | : Michael A. Gomez |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2019-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110849871X |
Captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience.