A Letter To A North American Friend
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| Author | : Jonathan W. White |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2021-09-21 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1469665093 |
Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and discrimination that they faced, African Americans now had confidence to write to the president and to seek redress of their grievances. Their letters express the dilemmas, doubts, and dreams of both recently enslaved and free people in the throes of dramatic change. For many, writing Lincoln was a last resort. Yet their letters were often full of determination, making explicit claims to the rights of U.S. citizenship in a wide range of circumstances. This compelling collection presents more than 120 letters from African Americans to Lincoln, most of which have never before been published. They offer unflinching, intimate, and often heart-wrenching portraits of Black soldiers' and civilians' experiences in wartime. As readers continue to think critically about Lincoln's image as the "Great Emancipator," this book centers African Americans' own voices to explore how they felt about the president and how they understood the possibilities and limits of the power vested in the federal government.
| Author | : Thomas McGrath |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 115 |
| Release | : 1985 |
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| Author | : Patty Smith |
| Publisher | : New Words Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2017-10-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780692825839 |
2018 International Book Awards FinalistBest New Non-FictionSelf-Help: RelationshipsThis new book is an important tool for anyone in an abusive relationship. Written in a loose narrative style that makes the reader a part of the story, it empowers and heals combining psychology, counseling, domestic violence, child development, and Christian principles.The author's multilayered background, as well as her own experience and that of a close friend, come together in a book you'll read again and again, and share with a friend.The bonus at the back of the book: a YouTube link to a song written for the book that helps the reader grieve-an essential part of recovery.Follow the journey of an inspired survivor who emerges stronger and wiser after accepting God's gift-a gift she's had all along. Each chapter delivers a message of it's own in a beautifully written, insightful story. Thoughtfully crafted in a short, powerful read, A Letter to a Friend offers renewed hope for love, comfort, and protection.
| Author | : Isaac Mamaysky |
| Publisher | : Carolina Academic Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9781531011031 |
| Author | : John Gorham Palfrey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 1850 |
| Genre | : Slavery |
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| Author | : Steven S. Rogers |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2021-05-25 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1119794773 |
Learn how to address racial wealth disparity in the United States today From the life, professional experiences, and research of former Harvard Business School professor Steven Rogers, comes his boldly stated, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues. This informative epistle investigates the causes of racial wealth disparity in the United States and provides solutions for addressing it. Through extensive data and historical research, anecdotes, teaching, and case studies, it presents practical ways White people can work with and help the Black community. It teaches readers that eliminating the $153,000 wealth gap between Black and White people is the solution to over 75% of our problems and offers solutions to help improve Black-White racial relations in the United States. In straightforward language, filled with facts, stories, advice, and sometimes even humor, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues encourages every White person to share his/her wealth with the Black community—plain and simple. This book recommends that you spend a portion of your annual household budget with Black-owned companies. If more money is spent at Black-owned businesses, those companies can grow and create more jobs for Black people. Rogers also proposes White people make large savings deposits into Black-owned banks. These are the financial institutions that are the backbone of the Black community that provide loans to the Black community for businesses, education, automobiles, and home mortgages. And finally, he resolutely encourages White people to support government reparations to Black Americans who are descendants of Black men and women, who were enslaved from 1619 to 1865. Those who read the book will: Understand the root causes of racial disparities in America Discover how you can personally contribute to reducing the inequality between Black and White people in the United States today Get concrete recommendations on how to redirect your spending to Black-owned institutions to help decrease the racial wealth gap This groundbreaking book provides financial recommendations that you can put into practice today, using his helpful instructions in most of the chapters, to address the systemic inequality between White and Black Americans. Read A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues and be part of the path forward.
| Author | : Franz Kafka |
| Publisher | : Schocken |
| Total Pages | : 527 |
| Release | : 2013-06-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0804150788 |
More than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—to the people in his life, from his years as a student in Prague in the early 1900s to his final months in the sanatorium near Vienna where he died in 1924. Sometimes surprisingly humorous, sometimes wrenchingly sad, these letters, collected after Kafka's death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, include charming notes to school friends; fascinating accounts to Brod about his work in its various stages of publication; correspondence with his publisher, Kurt Wolff, about manuscripts in progress, suggested book titles, type design, and late royalty statements; revealing exchanges with other young writers of the day, including Martin Buber and Felix Weltsch, on life, literature, and girls; and heartbreaking reports to his parents, sisters, and friends on the declining state of his health in the last months of his life.
| Author | : Dax-Devlon Ross |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2021-06-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1250276845 |
In Letters to My White Male Friends, Dax-Devlon Ross speaks directly to the millions of middle-aged white men who are suddenly awakening to race and racism. White men are finally realizing that simply not being racist isn’t enough to end racism. These men want deeper insight not only into how racism has harmed Black people, but, for the first time, into how it has harmed them. They are beginning to see that racism warps us all. Letters to My White Male Friends promises to help men who have said they are committed to change and to develop the capacity to see, feel and sustain that commitment so they can help secure racial justice for us all. Ross helps readers understand what it meant to be America’s first generation raised after the civil rights era. He explains how we were all educated with colorblind narratives and symbols that typically, albeit implicitly, privileged whiteness and denigrated Blackness. He provides the context and color of his own experiences in white schools so that white men can revisit moments in their lives where racism was in the room even when they didn’t see it enter. Ross shows how learning to see the harm that racism did to him, and forgiving himself, gave him the empathy to see the harm it does to white people as well. Ultimately, Ross offers white men direction so that they can take just action in their workplace, community, family, and, most importantly, in themselves, especially in the future when race is no longer in the spotlight.
| Author | : Abigail Adams |
| Publisher | : Belknap Press |
| Total Pages | : 549 |
| Release | : 2010-11-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0674057058 |
“A wonderfully vivid account of the momentous era they lived through, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances that attended the birth of the fledgling nation and the hardships of daily life.” —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to “Miss Adorable,” the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. The letters that span these nearly forty years form the most significant correspondence—and reveal one of the most intriguing and inspiring partnerships—in American history. As a pivotal player in the American Revolution and the early republic, John had a front-row seat at critical moments in the creation of the United States, from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to negotiating peace with Great Britain to serving as the first vice president and second president under the U.S. Constitution. Separated more often than they were together during this founding era, John and Abigail shared their lives through letters that each addressed to “My Dearest Friend,” debating ideas and commenting on current events while attending to the concerns of raising their children (including a future president). Full of keen observations and articulate commentary on world events, these letters are also remarkably intimate. This new collection—including some letters never before published—invites readers to experience the founding of a nation and the partnership of two strong individuals, in their own words. This is history at its most authentic and most engaging.
| Author | : Robert Carmichael-Smyth |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 75 |
| Release | : 2019-12-20 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : |
This work contains a letter sent from Robert Carmichael-Smyth to a friend of his. The main topic of discussion happens to be about the idea of establishing a railway system between the Northeast side of the American continent, all the way to the Northwest side of the continent.
