Book Description
From leading the Underground Railroad to heading the Confederate Army, readers will learn about the courageous women and men who shaped the Civil War and helped America define the meaning of freedom.
Author : Liz Sonneborn
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736832908
From leading the Underground Railroad to heading the Confederate Army, readers will learn about the courageous women and men who shaped the Civil War and helped America define the meaning of freedom.
Author : Liz Sonneborn
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 2002-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780736812146
Discusses the life and people of Pocahontas, her involvement with the Jamestown settlers, her trip to England, and her death. Includes activities, sidebars, a map, and a chronology.
Author :
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555918670
The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people.
Author : John Smith
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Bermuda Islands
ISBN : 9780598359865
Author : Frances Mossiker
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 1996-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306806995
The amazing story and alluring personality of Pocahontas (1595–1617) have endured the enlargement of legend and the distortions of time, as if waiting for Mossiker's skill, scholarship, and sensitivity to reveal Pocahontas as she was. This biography illuminates the dual world within which she struggled to identify herself, and her enormous impact on its leading figures: the first encounters and skirmishes between Indians and Englishmen in 1607; Pocahontas's dramatic rescue of Captain John Smith and her later abduction; her marriage to the Father of Tobacco, John Rolfe; the fateful voyage to England and her early death. The book also examines the myths and commercialization that have entombed Pocahontas through the centuries. In absorbing detail this vivid biography resurrects the real Pocahontas and unveils the uses—noble and ignoble—America has made of her.
Author : E. Smith
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2015-06-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781514325612
Pocahontas (Matoaka, and later known as Rebecca Rolfe, c. 1595-1617) was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tidewater region of Virginia. In a well-known historical anecdote, she is said to have saved the life of an Indian captive, Englishman John Smith, in 1607 by placing her head upon his own when her father raised his war club to execute him. The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, first published in 1906. Elmer Boyd Smith (1860-1943) was an American author. He was born in St. John, New Brunswick, raised in Boston and educated in France. He worked for the Riverside Press in Boston then he travelled to Paris where he studied drawings and paintings. In 1896 he wrote and illustrated his first work entitled My Village. In 1898 he returned to Boston where he illustrated books for Houghton Mifflin.
Author : Frances Mossiker
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Stuart Ellett Brown
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0806352426
A list of the descendants of Pocahontas compiled by The Pocahontas Foundation.
Author : Camilla Townsend
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 2005-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429930772
Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves. Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name. Townsend's Pocahontas emerges--as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London--for the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.
Author : Robert S. Tilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 1994-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521469593
Centering around her legendary rescue of Smith from the brink of execution and her subsequent marriage to a white Jamestown colonist, the Pocahontas convention developed into a source of national debate over such broad issues as miscegenation, racial conflict, and colonial expansion.