Author : Donald B. Lemke
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736849734
Recounts the story of Ellen and William Craft's daring escape in 1848 from slavery in Georgia to freedom in Pennsylvania.
Author : William Craft
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820340804
In 1848 William and Ellen Craft made one of the most daring and remarkable escapes in the history of slavery in America. With fair-skinned Ellen in the guise of a white male planter and William posing as her servant, the Crafts traveled by rail and ship--in plain sight and relative luxury--from bondage in Macon, Georgia, to freedom first in Philadelphia, then Boston, and ultimately England. This edition of their thrilling story is newly typeset from the original 1860 text. Eleven annotated supplementary readings, drawn from a variety of contemporary sources, help to place the Crafts’ story within the complex cultural currents of transatlantic abolitionism.
Author : Florence Bernstein Freedman
Publisher : Peter Bedrick Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 1989
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780872262218
Traces the search for freedom by a black man and wife who traveled to Boston and eventually to England after their escape from slavery in Georgia.
Author : Don Tate
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1561459356
From award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate comes a remarkable picture book biography of William Still, known as Father of the Underground Railroad. William Still's parents escaped slavery but had to leave two of their children behind, a tragedy that haunted the family. As a young man, William went to work for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, where he raised money, planned rescues, and helped freedom seekers who had traveled north. One day, a strangely familiar man came into William's office, searching for information about his long-lost family. Could it be? Motivated by his own family's experience, William Still began collecting the stories of thousands of other freedom seekers. As a result, he was able to reunite other families and build a remarkable source of information, including encounters with Harriet Tubman, Henry "Box" Brown, and William and Ellen Craft. Award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate brings to life the incredible, true story of William Still, a man who dedicated his life to recording the stories of enslaved people fleeing to freedom. Tate's powerful words and artwork are sure to inspire young readers in this first-ever picture book biography of the Father of the Underground Railroad.
Author : Joy Jordan-Lake
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 2017
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781477823668
2015: After the sudden death of her troubled mother, struggling Harvard grad student Kate Drayton walks out on her lecture-- and her entire New England life. She flees to Charleston, South Carolina, the place where her parents met, convinced it holds the key to understanding her fractured family and saving her career in academia. Her mother was researching a failed 1822 slave revolt-- and Kate will continue her work. 1822: Tom Russell, a gifted blacksmith and slave, grappled with a terrible choice: arm the uprising spearheaded by members of the fiercely independent African Methodist Episcopal Church or keep his own neck out of the noose and protect the woman he loves.
Author : John Brown
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
Author : Henry Box Brown
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 1851
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
The life of a slave in Virginia and his escape to Philadelphia.
Author : Doug Peterson
Publisher : Center Point
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628998283
"Based on the true story of Ellen Craft, a light-skinned slave who escaped from Georgia in 1848. By posing as an ailing white man while her husband pretended to be her slave, Ellen and William Craft traveled over one thousand to freedom"--
Author : Tanya Landman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1781129029
Treachery, adventure and dreams of freedom triumph in this stunningly evocative historical adventure, inspired by a stunning real-life story, and brought to a modern teen audience by a Carnegie Medal-winning author.
Author : William Esper
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 030727926X
William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner's legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor.Esper worked closely with Meisner for seventeen years and has spent decades developing his famous program for actor's training. The result is a rigorous system of exercises that builds a solid foundation of acting skills from the ground up, and that is flexible enough to be applied to any challenge an actor faces, from soap operas to Shakespeare. Co-writer Damon DiMarco, a former student of Esper's, spent over a year observing his mentor teaching first-year acting students. In this book he recreates that experience for us, allowing us to see how the progression of exercises works in practice. The Actor's Art and Craft vividly demonstrates that good training does not constrain actors' instincts—it frees them to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.
