Tag: Slavery
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City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.) by Marcus P. Nevius
A well-researched look at Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. I am not sure that people really understand the different slave classes. This work gives us as much information as can be found about this city of refuge for runaway slaves. People today would call it living off the grid. HIding in a…
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The Undertaker’s Assistant by Amanda Skenandore
“The dead can’t hurt you. Only the living can.” Effie Jones, once a slave, escaped a place she can not even remember as a child. Found outside of a Union camp and taken in as a ward for an army surgeon. The Captain and his wife taught her to read and write, also how to…
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Chariot on the Mountain by Jack Ford
“Once old Mastuh be dead, you be workin’ in the fields just like the rest of ’em. That day comin’ soon.” Based on little-known true events and brought vividly to life by Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist Jack Ford, here is an astonishing account of a time when the traditions of the Old South still…
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Release Day for The Slave-Traders Letter Book! by Jim Jordan ( University of Georgia Press) Congratulations!
In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades…
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The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book by Jim Jordan ( University of Georgia Press)
n 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades…
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What’s up for today’s reading?
I am looking forward to reading this one! And so far it’s not disappointing me. What are you reading today? Miss Charli Ava is reading a book that she will be reviewing tomorrow, so there’s something to look forward to as she is about as unfiltered as a child could be. xx Patricia
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The Orphan Mother by Robert Hicks
Mr. Hicks has given us more of “The Widow of the South” with “The Orphan Mother”. The year is 1867. The war is over and the South is having to adjust, including Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock–the “Widow of the South”. Mariah is a free woman now. She is dependent on no one…
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