Book Description
This book describes the ordeal of Jonathan Walker, a ship captain who in 1844 attempted to help four slaves escape from Florida to the Bahamas.
Author : Jonathan Walker
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 1969
Category : History
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This book describes the ordeal of Jonathan Walker, a ship captain who in 1844 attempted to help four slaves escape from Florida to the Bahamas.
Author : Frances Harriet Green
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
Prospectus and excerpt of the book of the same name.
Author : Frank Edward Kittredge
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Abolitionists
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Author : Billy L. Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Abolitionists
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN :
Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0525563458
From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery. Brown’s violence pointed ambitious Illinois lawyer and former officeholder Abraham Lincoln toward a different solution to slavery: politics. Lincoln spoke cautiously and dreamed big, plotting his path back to Washington and perhaps to the White House. Yet his caution could not protect him from the vortex of violence Brown had set in motion. After Brown’s arrest, his righteous dignity on the way to the gallows led many in the North to see him as a martyr to liberty. Southerners responded with anger and horror to a terrorist being made into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle between the opposing voices of the fractured nation and won election as president. But the time for moderation had passed, and Lincoln’s fervent belief that democracy could resolve its moral crises peacefully faced its ultimate test. The Zealot and the Emancipator is the thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
Author : John Greenleaf Whittier
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : Alvin F. Oickle
Publisher : Westholme Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781594161360
Profiles the life of the abolitionist Jonathan Walker.
Author : John Ernest
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807888850
It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, a twenty-seven-hour journey to freedom. In Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself, Brown not only tells the story of his famed escape, but also recounts his later life as a black man making his way through white American and British culture. Most important, he paints a revealing portrait of the reality of slavery, of the wife and children sold away from him, the home to which he could not return, and his rejection of the slaveholders' religion--painful episodes that fueled his desire for freedom. This edition comprises the most complete and faithful representation of Brown's life, fully annotated for the first time. John Ernest also provides an insightful introduction that places Brown's life in its historical setting and illuminates the challenges Brown faced in an often threatening world, both before and after his legendary escape.
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Page : 9 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 19??
Category : Slavery
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