wyszukanych pozycji: 13
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
ISBN: 9780520285637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master and slave and also as lifelong partners who, with their children and grandchildren, experienced key events in American history--including slavery, the Creek War, the founding of the Cherokee Nation and subsequent removal of Native Americans along the Trail of Tears, and the Civil War....
This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots...
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117,72 zł |
Wszystkie rzeczy na drogę
ISBN: 9788366778481 / Polski / broszurowa / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Worek jest pojemny: pomieścił znoszoną sukienkę, trzy garście orzechów pekan oraz warkocz Rose. Dzięki tym przedmiotom dziewięcioletnia Ashley wiedziała, że chociaż sprzedali ją handlarze niewolników, nigdy nie zostanie sama, bo matka sercem będzie przy niej.Służył kolejnym pokoleniom kobiet: najpierw zniewolonej Rose, potem jej zniewolonej córce Ashley, aż w końcu prawnuczce Ruth. Ta ostatnia wyszyła na worku jego historię, kończąc ją słowami swojej prababci: Moja Miłość jest w nim na zawsze.Płócienny worek świadek historii czarnych kobiet jest jednak dowodem...
Worek jest pojemny: pomieścił znoszoną sukienkę, trzy garście orzechów pekan oraz warkocz Rose. Dzięki tym przedmiotom dziewięcioletnia Ashley...
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53,58 zł |
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
ISBN: 9781984854995 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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122,30 zł |
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
ISBN: 9781984855015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,10 zł |
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
ISBN: 9780822338659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary collection combines historical studies of the complex relations between blacks and Indians in Native communities with considerations and examples of various forms of cultural expression that have emerged from their intertwined histories. The contributors include scholars of African American and Native American studies, English, history, anthropology, law, and performance studies, as well as fiction writers, poets, and a visual...
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary...
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140,81 zł |
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
ISBN: 9781324020875 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Harriet Tubman, forced to labour outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women’s basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white teams of the 1904 World’s Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls also brings new context to misunderstood icons like Sakakawea and Pocahontas, and to under-appreciated figures like Gertrude Bonin, Dolores Huerta and Grace Lee Boggs. ...
Harriet Tubman, forced to labour outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expecta...
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92,87 zł |
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
ISBN: 9781800818200 / Twarda / 2023 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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129,06 zł |
The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
ISBN: 9780807872673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hill's founding, its flourishing, its takeover by white land-lottery winners on the eve of the Cherokee Removal, its decay, and ultimately its renovation in the 1950s.
This moving multiracial history sheds light on the various cultural communities that interacted within the plantation... At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation ...
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206,39 zł |
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
ISBN: 9781800818217 / Miękka / 2024 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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67,06 zł |
Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
ISBN: 9781469636146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist...
In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban mano...
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137,32 zł |
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
ISBN: 9780593491164 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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131,04 zł |
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
ISBN: 9781324076155 / Miękka / 2024 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,58 zł |
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
ISBN: 9780822338123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary collection combines historical studies of the complex relations between blacks and Indians in Native communities with considerations and examples of various forms of cultural expression that have emerged from their intertwined histories. The contributors include scholars of African American and Native American studies, English, history, anthropology, law, and performance studies, as well as fiction writers, poets, and a visual...
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary...
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495,61 zł |