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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Husband and wife William and Ellen Craft's break from slavery in 1848 was perhaps the most extraordinary in... Læs mere
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The Confederate State of Richmond: A Biography of the Capital (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Blending official documents and city council minutes with personal diaries and newspaper accounts, Emory Thomas vividly recounts the... Læs mere
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Flight: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned African American woman who passes, for a time, as white. When her family moves to Atlanta, she embarks on a lifelong lesson about what it really means to belong to a people.
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Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers - George Washington Cable, Grace King, Lafcadio Hearn, and Kate Chopin -... Læs mere
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Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta's Hinterlands (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this study of the communities on both sides of the Savannah River in Georgia and South Carolina, J.... Læs mere
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Bite Every Sorrow: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Barbara Ras, a poet exquisitely heedful of nuance both physical and visceral, cinches deserved renown with this prize-winning debut collection. Bite Every Sorrow invites the reader to embrace beauty, loss, outrage, and the world in all its particular heartbreaks and hilarities.
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Black Shawl: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Emanates from Kathryn Stripling Byer's fascination with female ballad singers in southern Appalachia, whose voices haunt the mountains still, and from the image of a black net or shawl... Læs mere
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Louisiana Sugar Plantations During the Civil War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This early work by the esteemed historian Charles P. Roland draws from an abundance of primary sources to describe how the Civil War brought south Louisiana's sugarcane industry to the brink of extinction, and disaster to the lives of civilians both black and white.
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Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
First published in 1865, Belle Boyd's memoir of her experiences as a Confederate spy has stood the test of time and interest. In this new edition, Kennedy-Nolle and Faust... Læs mere
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All Saints: New and Selected Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Like the feast day recalled in its title, this collection of twenty poems venerates the dead. Brenda Marie Osbey invokes, impersonates, and converses with her Afro-New... Læs mere
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Behind the Lines in the Southern Confederacy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this groundbreaking study, Charles Ramsdell explores the causes of the South's defeat in the Civil War. Finding traditional military explanations insufficient, he argues that deficiencies on the homefront were fundamental to the collapse of the Confederacy.
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Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Born in rural Virginia during Reconstruction, Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) was a central figure in black history and an important American scholar. This... Læs mere
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