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Author | : Michael Reynolds |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2024-04-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385425794 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author | : Harriet Jacobs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780393870787 |
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, detailing her escape North and the racism she faced in freedom. The Norton Library edition presents the text of the first (1861) edition, with explanatory endnotes and an introduction by Evie Shockley (Rutgers University).
Author | : Lydia R. Diamond |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0810127164 |
Throughout her career as a playwright, Lydia R. Diamond has boldly challenged assumptions about African American culture. In Harriet Jacobs, she turns one of the greatest American slave narratives, Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, into a penetrating, rousing work of theater. Jacob's story - serialized in the New York Tribune until it was deemed too graphic, and eventually published in book form in 1861 - exposed the sexual harrassment and abuse of slave girls and women at the hands of their masters. Harriet Jacobs: A Play organically incorporates theatrical elements that extend the book's enormous power. Though harrowing, Harriet Jacobs undertakes the necessary task of reenvisioning a difficult chapter in American history. -- from back cover.
Author | : Railey Jane Savage |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2021-09-01 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1493053698 |
From the Gilded Age through WWII, America was rife with ne’er-do-wells on a never-ending search for the next big score. Between 1850 and 1950 lawlessness melded with ingenuity, fueled by optimism and ruthlessness: America was dangerous, buzzing, and where opportunity came to take flight. The perfect conditions for swindlers. The gall and gumption of their hustles strain credulity. Fake diamond fields? War with Canada? Sir Francis Drake’s unclaimed fortune? Apparently, all was fair in the quest for something-for-nothing. The scammers in this volume range from the undeniably unscrupulous, to the ill and ill-advised. Fans of clever schemes and schadenfreude alike will be entertained by these tales of the rise and fall of some of America’s greatest swindlers.
Author | : Frederick Douglass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : |
Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.
Author | : Thomas Faughnan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Crimean War, 1853-1856 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Asbury Harpending |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Harpending's reminiscences of financial wheeling and dealing in Arizona and California in the second half of the 19th century. Harpending had interests almost everywhere: railroads, land, high finance and, of course, mining. The great Arizona diamond mine hoax of the title is a fascinating episode from California history, which fooled most everybody involved. It was a famous diamond hoax and swindle that netted the principals over $500,000 in the early 1870s, which the author exposed.
Author | : Thomas Faughnan |
Publisher | : Hunter, Rose |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Crimean War, 1853-1856 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daemon Fairless |
Publisher | : Random House Canada |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2018-03-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0345812948 |
With a rare clarity and fearless honesty, journalist Daemon Fairless tackles the horrors and compulsions of male violence from the perspective of someone who struggles with violent impulses himself, creating a non-fiction masterpiece with the narrative power of novels such as Fight Club and A History of Violence. A man, no matter how civilized, is still an animal--and sometimes a dangerous one. Men are responsible for the lion's share of assault, rape, murder and warfare. Conventional wisdom chalks this up to socialization, that men are taught to be violent. And they are. But there's more to it. Violence is a dangerous desire--a set of powerful and inherent emotions we are loath to own up to. And so there remains a hidden geography to male violence--an inner ecosystem of rage, dominance, blood-lust, insecurity and bravado--yet to be mapped. Mad Blood Stirring is journalist Daemon Fairless's riveting first-person travelogue through this territory as he seeks to understand the inner lives of violent men and, ultimately, himself.