wyszukanych pozycji: 9
The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical
ISBN: 9780393310153 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Born into a Georgia sharecropper family in 1898, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to work in the steel mills in the turbulent 1930s and 1940s and became a member of the Communist Party as well as president of a CIO union local. It was a hard, dangerous life, to be black and communist and pro-union, and Hudson talked about that life to Nell painter, who brilliantly recreates it in this collaborative oral autobiography.
Born into a Georgia sharecropper family in 1898, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to work in the steel mills in the turbulent 1930s and 1940...
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121,20 zł |
Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
ISBN: 9780393317084 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight-talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong black women--indeed, for all strong women. Like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, she is regarded as a radical of immense and enduring influence; yet, unlike them, what is remembered of her consists more of myth than of personality Now, in a masterful blend of scholarship and sympathetic understanding, eminent black historian Nell Irvin...
Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with he...
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82,35 zł |
I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
ISBN: 9780385548908 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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151,78 zł |
Southern History Across the Color Line, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781469663753 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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583,05 zł |
Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
ISBN: 9780195137569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African American artists, works which add a new depth to our understanding of black history. Painter offers a history written for a new generation of African Americans, stretching from life in Africa before slavery to today's hip-hop culture. The book describes the staggering number of Africans--over ten million--forcibly transported to the New World, most...
Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a v...
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631,56 zł |
Southern History Across the Color Line, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781469663760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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163,64 zł |
Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780393009514 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.
The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.
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103,86 zł |
Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era
ISBN: 9781324050605 / Miękka / 2024 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,69 zł |
We Were Always Free: The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia: A 200-Year Family History
ISBN: 9780393350128 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In August of 1758, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, a poor Irish immigrant named Mary Madden bore a child, Sarah Madden, whose father was said to be a slave and the property of Colonel James Madison, father of the future president of the United States. This daughter, though born a free mulatto, became indentured to the Madisons. There she worked as a seamstress to pay off the fine of her birth until she was 31 years old.
Sarah Madden bore ten children and when the term of her indenture was over, she and her youngest son, Willis, struck out for themselves--Sarah as a seamstress, laundress,... In August of 1758, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, a poor Irish immigrant named Mary Madden bore a child, Sarah Madden, whose father was said to be ...
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95,18 zł |