The Untold Story of Shields Green
The Life and Death of a Harper's Ferry Raider
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Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the Black men who followed John Brown to Harper's Ferry in 1859.
When John Brown decided to raid the federal armory in Harper's Ferry as the starting point of his intended liberation effort in the South, some closest to him thought it was unnecessary and dangerous. Frederick Douglass, a pioneering abolitionist, refused Brown's invitation to join him in Virginia, believing that the raid on the armory was a suicide mission. Yet in front of Douglass, "Emperor" Shields Green, a fugitive from South Carolina, accepted John Brown's invitation. When the raid failed, Emperor was captured with the rest of Brown's surviving men and hanged on December 16, 1859.
"Emperor" Shields Green was a critical member of John Brown's Harper's Ferry raiders but has long been overlooked. Louis DeCaro, Jr., a veteran scholar of John Brown, presents the first effort to tell Emperor's story based upon extensive research, restoring him to his rightful place in this fateful raid at the origin of the American Civil War. Starting from his birth in Charleston, South Carolina, Green's life as an abolitionist freedom-fighter, whose passion for the liberation of his people outweighed self-preservation, is extensively detailed in this compact history.
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In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution, but anger won the day. Forced to either lead his warriors in a war he knew they could not win or leave them to their fates, he declared, "[Little Crow] is not a coward: he will die with you."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful condemnation of Manifest Destiny
- De Buretto en 09-26-19
De: Scott W. Berg
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Jesse James
- Last Rebel of the Civil War
- De: T. J. Stiles
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 18 h y 35 m
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In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Borderline woke retelling of the era JJ live in
- De Rodney en 08-24-22
De: T. J. Stiles
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Sweet Taste of Liberty
- A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
- De: W. Caleb McDaniel
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: In 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500.
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5 out of 5 stars
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insightful and educational
- De Mark W. en 06-29-20
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Island on Fire
- The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
- De: Tom Zoellner
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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For five horrific weeks after Christmas in 1831, Jamaica was convulsed by an uprising of its enslaved people. What started as a peaceful labor strike quickly turned into a full-blown revolt, leaving hundreds of plantation houses in smoking ruins. By the time British troops had put down the rebels, more than a thousand Jamaicans lay dead from summary executions and extrajudicial murder. While the rebels lost their military gamble, their sacrifice accelerated the larger struggle for freedom in the British Atlantic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Learned a lot
- De Amazon Customer en 04-10-21
De: Tom Zoellner
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The Zealot and the Emancipator
- John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 16 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Master storyteller and best-selling historian H. W. Brands narrates 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. The Zealot and the Emancipator is acclaimed historian H. W. Brands' thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Never Knew That!
- De William G. Stuart en 10-19-20
De: H. W. Brands
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Tulsa 1921
- Reporting a Massacre
- De: Randy Krehbiel
- Narrado por: Kevin Meyer
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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In 1921, Tulsa’s Greenwood District - known then as the nation’s “Black Wall Street” - was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob, inflamed by rumors that a young black man had attempted to rape a white teenage girl, invaded Greenwood. By the end of the following day, thousands of homes and businesses lay in ashes, and perhaps, as many as 300 people were dead.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional and
- De Heath en 03-07-20
De: Randy Krehbiel
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Midnight Rising
- John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
- De: Tony Horwitz
- Narrado por: Dan Oreskes
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 365
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Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Up from Obscurity
- De Lynn en 06-18-12
De: Tony Horwitz
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The War Before the War
- Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
- De: Andrew Delbanco
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 181
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For decades after its founding, America was really two nations—one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that enslaved black people repeatedly risked their lives to flee their masters in the South in search of freedom in the North proved that the "united" states was actually a lie. Fugitive slaves exposed the contradiction between the myth that slavery was a benign institution and the reality that a nation based on the principle of human equality was in fact a prison-house in which millions of Americans had no rights.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great promise greater disappointment
- De Amazon Customer en 12-09-18
De: Andrew Delbanco
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Three Roads to the Alamo
- The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
- De: William C. Davis
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 27 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive work about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis - the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history - and about what really happened in that battle.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Grandfather Dr. Death eats Applesauce on Christmas
- De McKinley L. Donnor en 07-15-20
De: William C. Davis
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Redemption
- The Last Battle of the Civil War
- De: Nicholas Lemann
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good accouting of the post Civil War suffering
- De KMB Consumer en 08-10-07
De: Nicholas Lemann
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The President and the Freedom Fighter
- Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
- De: Brian Kilmeade
- Narrado por: Brian Kilmeade
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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The New York Times best-selling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In The President and the Freedom Fighter, Brian Kilmeade tells the little-known story of how two American heroes moved from strong disagreement to friendship, and in the process changed the entire course of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story and Research
- De Marla O'Halloran en 11-06-21
De: Brian Kilmeade
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Stolen
- The Astonishing Odyssey of Five Boys Along the Reverse Underground Railroad
- De: Richard Bell
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Philadelphia, 1825: Five young, free Black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the US. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should have been a fact based novel
- De Cate F. en 01-11-21
De: Richard Bell
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Southern Horrors & The Red Record (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Narrado por: Kristyl Dawn Tift
- Duración: 4 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 28
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In the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century, crusading African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett bravely reported on the scourge of white supremacist violence that had personally impacted her own life and work. Her reporting exposed and riled the South, enlightened uninformed Northerners, and captured international attention. Southern Horrors and The Red Record offer extensive accounts of the lynching, cruelty, and hate that African Americans faced in the early years of the Jim Crow South.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Courageous
- De eric lewis en 09-29-23
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The Injustice Never Leaves You
- Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
- De: Monica Muñoz Martinez
- Narrado por: Kyla García
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Between 1910 and 1920, vigilantes and law enforcement-including the renowned Texas Rangers - killed Mexican residents with impunity. The full extent of the violence was known only to the relatives of the victims. The Injustice Never Leaves You offers an invaluable account of why these incidents happened, what they meant at the time, and how a determined community ensured that the victims were not forgotten.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth the read ! Lots of facts
- De LIZETTE LERMA,LIZETTE LERMA en 10-31-20
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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Murder at the Mission
- A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
- De: Blaine Harden
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert members of the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribes. Both would fail spectacularly as missionaries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good history; wanted more indigenous perspective.
- De Anonymous User en 07-06-21
De: Blaine Harden
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Covered with Night
- A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
- De: Nicole Eustace
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two White fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. This act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the definition of justice in early America. Leading historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the crime and its aftermath, bringing us into the overlapping worlds of white colonists and Indigenous peoples in this formative period.
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2 out of 5 stars
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YES! I GET IT! I've read history before - JUST STOP!!!!! British settlers were arrogant jerks!! Aaaaaaaargh
- De Anonymous From MA en 06-02-22
De: Nicole Eustace