Be Free or Die
The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
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Facing death rather than enslavement - a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero.
It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a 23-year-old slave named Robert Smalls did the unthinkable and boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbor and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces.
To be unsuccessful was a death sentence for all. Smalls' courageous and ingenious act freed him and his family from slavery and immediately made him a Union hero while simultaneously challenging much of the country's view of what African-Americans were willing to do to gain their freedom.
After his escape, Smalls served in numerous naval campaigns off Charleston as a civilian boat pilot and eventually became the first Black captain of an Army ship. In a particularly poignant moment Smalls even bought the home that he and his mother had once served in as house slaves.
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A major new collection of modern commentary - from scholars, historians, and Civil War buffs - on the significant events of the Civil War, culled from The New York Times' popular Disunion online journal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent audiobook! Love this format!
- De BVerité en 03-17-15
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Harriet Tubman
- The Road to Freedom
- De: Catherine Clinton
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 569
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 489
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 487
Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of 19th-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Returning this book
- De KMS en 07-11-18
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
- De: Bill O'Reilly, David Fisher
- Narrado por: Holter Graham, Bill O'Reilly
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,716
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,386
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,379
The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leaders. The American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against each other as loyalists and colonial rebels faced off for their lives and futures. These were the times that tried men's souls: No one was on stable ground, and few could be trusted.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't stop listening!
- De Erin en 08-05-16
De: Bill O'Reilly, y otros
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Thunder at the Gates
- The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
- De: Douglas R. Egerton
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 13 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
In Thunder at the Gates, Douglas R. Egerton chronicles the formation and battlefield triumphs of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry - regiments led by whites, but composed of black men born free or into slavery. He argues that the most important battles of all were won on the field of public opinion, for in fighting with distinction, the regiments realized the long-derided idea of full and equal citizenship for blacks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Civil War Heroes
- De Jared Wilkinson en 03-10-23
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William Walker's Wars
- How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras
- De: Scott Martelle
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot - and illegal - forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and their goal was to seize territory to create new independent fiefdoms, which would ultimately be annexed by the still-growing United States. Most failed miserably. William Walker was the outlier. Soft-spoken with no military background, in 1856 he managed to install himself as president of Nicaragua.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting
- De Jean en 03-17-19
De: Scott Martelle
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Union 1812
- The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
- De: A. J. Langguth
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 159
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This dramatic account of the War of 1812 fills a surprising gap in the popular literature of the nation's formative years. It is this war, followed closely on the War of Independence, that established the young nation as a permanent power and proved its claim to Manifest Destiny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic narrative history
- De Tad en 03-22-12
De: A. J. Langguth
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Revolution Song
- A Story of American Freedom
- De: Russell Shorto
- Narrado por: Russell Shorto
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 175
From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today. With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. Drawing on new sources, he weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light on the range of experience in colonial America on the cusp of revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An inspiring book
- De Frank en 08-27-18
De: Russell Shorto
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The Internal Enemy
- Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 386
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This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Drawn from new sources, Alan Taylor's riveting narrative re-creates the events that inspired black Virginians, haunted slaveholders, and set the nation on a new and dangerous course.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the best audiobooks I've read recently
- De D. Littman en 03-02-14
De: Alan Taylor
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A World on Fire
- Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
- De: Amanda Foreman
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 32 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 136
Even before the first rumblings of secession shook the halls of Congress, British involvement in the coming schism was inevitable. Britain was dependent on the South for cotton, and in turn the Confederacy relied almost exclusively on Britain for guns, bullets, and ships. The Union sought to block any diplomacy between the two and consistently teetered on the brink of war with Britain. For four years the complex web of relationships between the countries led to defeats and victories both minute and history-making.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent narrative history
- De Daniel en 08-15-11
De: Amanda Foreman
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Our Man in Charleston
- Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South
- De: Christopher Dickey
- Narrado por: Antony Ferguson
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 166
The unlikely man at the roiling center of this intrigue was Robert Bunch, an American-born Englishman who had maneuvered his way to the position of British consul in Charleston, South Carolina, and grew to loathe slavery and the righteousness of its practitioners. Bunch used his unique perch and boundless ambition to become a key player, sending reams of dispatches to the home government and eventually becoming the Crown's best secret source on the Confederacy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not a spy novel
- De Michael Battle en 06-21-16
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why it Will Rise Again)
- De: Clint Johnson
- Narrado por: Dianna Dorman
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 202
With its emphasis on traditional values, family, faith, military service, good manners, small government, and independent-minded people, the South should certainly rise again. Far from being the backwater of prejudice and ignorance that the liberal media would have you believe, the South has always been the center of American culture.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tubby Bearded Guy reference earned an extra star
- De Ed en 09-30-17
De: Clint Johnson
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The Thin Light of Freedom
- The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
- De: Edward L. Ayers
- Narrado por: James Edward Thomas
- Duración: 18 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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At the crux of America's history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slavery in the modern world, followed by a political reconstruction in which new constitutions established the fundamental rights of citizens for formerly enslaved people. Few people living in 1860 would have dared imagine either event, and yet, in retrospect, both seem to have been inevitable. In a beautifully crafted narrative, Edward L. Ayers restores the drama of the unexpected to the history of the Civil War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great history
- De Linda Sisco en 11-30-17
De: Edward L. Ayers
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The Burning of the White House
- James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812
- De: Jane Hampton Cook
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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Told from multiple points of view - including those of James and Dolley Madison and a British admiral - this is the true story of the burning of the White House in 1814. It's unimaginable today, even for a generation that saw the Twin Towers fall and the Pentagon attacked. It's unimaginable because in 1814, enemies didn't fly overhead; they marched through the streets, and for 26 hours in August, the British enemy marched through Washington, DC, and set fire to government buildings, including the US Capitol and the White House.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Written Like a Children's Book. Boring.
- De Mike en 01-20-17
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Bound for Canaan
- The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
- De: Fergus Bordewich
- Narrado por: Peter J. Fernandez
- Duración: 19 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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The Civil War brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery's denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white, slave and free, who joined forces to create what would come to be known as the Underground Railroad, a movement that occupies as romantic a place in the nation's imagination as the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Heroic Missing Piece
- De Paul Frandano en 03-03-17
De: Fergus Bordewich
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The Man Who Saved the Union
- Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 27 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 500
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 436
Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands' sweeping, majestic full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Underrated hero
- De Tad Davis en 12-22-12
De: H. W. Brands
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366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency
- The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President
- De: Stephen Wynalda
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
For the first time ever, the intimate thoughts and political decisions of Abraham Lincoln’s entire presidency - day by day. In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s decisions in office - including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his 11-year-old son, Willie, died.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The format, details concise, good flow and the exploration of personalities,emotion with historical fact.
- De Anonymous User en 01-12-25
De: Stephen Wynalda
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William Tecumseh Sherman
- In the Service of My Country: A Life
- De: James Lee McDonough
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 28 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,497
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,331
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,323
General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented by the fear that history would pass him by, who was plagued by personal debts, and who lived much of his life separated from his family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Fair and Balanced View of Sherman
- De Nostromo en 12-02-16
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In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally. He narrates the education of Locke, including his becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar, earning a PhD in philosophy at Harvard University, and his long career as a professor at Howard University. And yet he became most closely associated with the flowering of Black culture in Jazz Age America.
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For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette", these rules governed nearly every aspect of life - and outlined draconian punishments for infractions. The purpose of Jim Crow was to keep African Americans subjugated at a level as close as possible to their former slave status. Jim Crow left scars on the American psyche that are still felt today.
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Red Summer
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After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War. Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti-black riots and lynchings swept the country. From April to November of 1919, the racial unrest rolled across the South into the North and the Midwest, even to the nation's capital. Red Summer is the first narrative history about this epic encounter.
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Wilmington's Lie
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By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included black aldermen, police officers, and magistrates. There were successful black-owned businesses and an African American newspaper, The Record. But across the state - and the South - white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny.
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The Burning
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On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. The Burning will recreate the town of Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explore the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its black residents and neighboring Tulsa's white population, narrate events leading up to and including Greenwood's annihilation, and document the subsequent silence that surrounded the tragedy.
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In October 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry. His goal was to secure weapons and start a slave rebellion. The raid was a failure, but it galvanized the nation and sparked the Civil War. Still one of the most controversial figures in American history, John Brown's actions raise interesting questions about unsanctioned violence that can be justified for a greater good.
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In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally. He narrates the education of Locke, including his becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar, earning a PhD in philosophy at Harvard University, and his long career as a professor at Howard University. And yet he became most closely associated with the flowering of Black culture in Jazz Age America.
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For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette", these rules governed nearly every aspect of life - and outlined draconian punishments for infractions. The purpose of Jim Crow was to keep African Americans subjugated at a level as close as possible to their former slave status. Jim Crow left scars on the American psyche that are still felt today.
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After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War. Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti-black riots and lynchings swept the country. From April to November of 1919, the racial unrest rolled across the South into the North and the Midwest, even to the nation's capital. Red Summer is the first narrative history about this epic encounter.
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In October 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry. His goal was to secure weapons and start a slave rebellion. The raid was a failure, but it galvanized the nation and sparked the Civil War. Still one of the most controversial figures in American history, John Brown's actions raise interesting questions about unsanctioned violence that can be justified for a greater good.
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Invisible
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- De: Stephen L. Carter
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Stephen L. Carter delves into his past and retrieves the inspiring story of his grandmother’s life. She was Black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s - and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia boss in history, would never have been convicted. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected 20 lawyers to help him clean up the city’s underworld, she was the only member of his team who was not a white male.
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In the early 20th century, most African Americans still lived in the South, disenfranchised, impoverished, terrorized by white violence, and denied the basic rights of citizenship. As the Democrats swept into the White House on a wave of Black defectors from the Party of Lincoln, a group of African-American intellectuals - legal minds, social scientists, media folk - sought to get the community's needs on the table.
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Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe's yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies in the heart of West Africa.
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On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where he stood at Launch Control Center.
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- Duración: 5 h
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This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent '60s and early '70s displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain - the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his return to the American South to confront a violent America face-to-face.
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A strange and terrible vehicle
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-20
De: James Baldwin
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Notes on a Bright Continent
- De: Dipo Faloyin
- Narrado por: Dipo Faloyin
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa's rich diversity, communities, and histories. Starting with an immersive description of the lively and complex urban life of Lagos, Faloyin unearths surprising truths about many African countries' colonial heritage and tells the story of the continent's struggles with democracy through seven dictatorships.
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Brilliant!
- De Jane en 01-26-23
De: Dipo Faloyin
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Patriotic Treason
- John Brown and the Soul of America
- De: Evan Carton
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 15 h y 30 m
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John Brown is a lightning rod of history. Yet he is poorly understood and most commonly described in stereotypes, as a madman, martyr, or enigma. Not until Patriotic Treason has a biography or history brought him so fully to life, in scintillating prose and moving detail, making his life and legacy - and the staggering sacrifices he made for his ideals - fascinatingly relevant to today's issues of social justice and to defining the line between activism and terrorism.
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A Jarring Reminder of Antebellum America
- De Ronald A. Nelson en 12-22-06
De: Evan Carton
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The Dead Are Arising
- The Life of Malcolm X
- De: Les Payne, Tamara Payne
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative.
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Much more depth than the Haley book.
- De CapitalHeel en 11-03-20
De: Les Payne, y otros
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The Underground Railroad Records
- Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
- De: William Still, Ta-Nehisi Coates - introduction, Quincy T. Mills - editor
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free, JD Jackson, Sullivan Jones, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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As a conductor for the Underground Railroad - the covert resistance network created to aid and protect slaves seeking freedom - William Still helped as many as 800 people escape enslavement. He also meticulously collected the letters, biographical sketches, arrival memos, and ransom notes of the escapees. The Underground Railroad Records is an archive of primary documents that trace the narrative arc of the greatest, most successful campaign of civil disobedience in American history.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This Book is Abridged by Two Thirds!
- De Chris en 06-24-20
De: William Still, y otros
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Bound for the Promised Land
- Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
- De: Kate Clifford Larson
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history - a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the century since her death, next to nothing has been written about this extraordinary woman aside from juvenile biographies. The truth about Harriet Tubman has become lost inside a legend woven of racial and gender stereotypes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration is problematic
- De Amazon Customer en 08-15-18
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The Essential Kerner Commission Report
- The Landmark Study on Race, Inequality, and Police Violence
- De: Jelani Cobb - editor introduction, Matthew Guariglia
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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Recognizing that a historic study of American racism and police violence should become part of today's canon, Jelani Cobb contextualizes it for a new generation.
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Capitalism color line
- De Sylvia R. en 12-07-24
De: Jelani Cobb - editor introduction, y otros
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The Upper Room
- De: Mary Monroe
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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Nationally best-selling author Mary Monroe createsan unforgettable cast of characters in The Upper Room. Mama Ruby stole her best friend's baby girl, ran off to Florida, and raised her as her own. Maureen is the center of Mama Ruby's world, and she will do anything to protect her and their life together. Now Maureen wants to know what the rest of the world is like. She is determined to find out, but escaping Mama Ruby won't be easy.
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Good story, but..................
- De Ebony en 09-26-16
De: Mary Monroe
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Be Free or Die
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- B. Hannon
- 02-28-20
Extremely well done!
This book not only does an excellent job of recounting Robert Smalls extraordinary life, pursuit of freedom and contributions to this country, it also gives the reader a feel for the complex climate of the times by examining the political policies and players involved that lead to and followed the failed rebellious coup of the Confederacy.
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- Rj
- 11-03-22
Thank you for this history!
In telling Smalls' story, Cate Lineberry has dignified African-Americans with their God-given right to life, liberty and property!
I have come to know a compassionate and kind people, the Gullah and their culture. As an avid reader of history, I have thoroughly enjoyed the historical role of South Carolina's Charleston, Beaufort & the Sea Isalnds. What a treassure trove of historical gems!
But a pity, the whites could not rise to the gracious perspective, generous spirit and neighborly love exemplified by Robert Smalls with what the Scriptures taught.
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- VALARIE
- 10-29-24
The courage of Smalls and others at such a volatile.
We should know this name, Robert Smalls.The courage of Smalls and others at such a volatile.
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- Bill Riley
- 09-01-21
An Incredible story
Rich with detail and historic context context this excellent biography is not to be missed.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-08-24
Nicely written
There aren’t many black heros written about. Thank you for sharing this information about Robert Smalls!
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- Zach Casper
- 09-02-24
unsung American hero
This was a great story about a great man. I hope he some day gets the recognition he most decidedly deserves.
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- Julian Haro
- 01-25-25
Remarkable person
Read like a novel. Well written, informative, easy read. Recommend highly. Important time in American history.
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- Vince
- 02-26-19
very good book
outstanding take on history about a person who lived the true meaning of free man and dedication to service of his country
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- jdb1971
- 05-11-21
A Story That Needs To Be Heard...
I searched this out after hearing a podcast that summed up Smalls' life in 20 minutes (and wanting more). This is genuinely an American Story that deserves to be heard, and needs to be told...
While listening, I was at first put off a bit by the narrators' "imitations" of historic characters' quotations - I felt it was distracting and a bit hokey at first... the more I listened, the more I realized that the way this is executed is actually the best possible way to handle the numerous quotes.
This mans' story should absolutely be conveyed in the medium of film. What an epic life Smalls led, and what an impact he had.
I genuinely enjoyed learning about this inspiring man and the lives that intertwined with him. An awesome book, and well read. So grateful to Cate Lineberry for telling this tale, and illuminating me.
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- Damon
- 06-20-22
history
powerful mostly unheard of history. narrator made it easy listen as well thank you
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