Freedom The Untold Story Of Benkos Bioho And The Worlds First Maroons

Author : Kofi LeNiles
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546273921
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom! the Untold Story of Benkos Bioho and the World’s First Maroons written by Kofi LeNiles and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benkos Bioho was a real person who lived during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was born into a royal family. He was captured by slave traders and sold into slavery. He managed to escape along with other slaves and soon created the land Palenque in 1603.

Author : Alvin O. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight to Freedom written by Alvin O. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the struggles of enslaved Africans in the Americas who achieved freedom through flight and the establishment of Maroon communities in the face of overwhelming military odds on the part of the slaveholders.

Author : Lennox Honychurch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781496823748
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book IN THE FORESTS OF FREEDOM written by Lennox Honychurch and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this detailed, brilliantly researched book, historian Lennox Honychurch tells the enthralling and previously untold story of how the Maroons of Dominica challenged the colonial powers in a heroic struggle to create a free and self-sufficient society. The Maroons, runaways who escaped slavery, formed their own community on the Caribbean island. Much has been written about the Maroons of Jamaica, little about the Maroons of Dominica. This book redresses this gap. Honychurch takes the reader deep into the forested hinterland of Dominica to explore the political, social, and economic impact of the Maroons and details their struggles and victories."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Thomson Fontaine
Publisher : Bala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781737008101
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maroons of Dominica 1764 - 1818 written by Thomson Fontaine and published by Bala Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over fifty years the Maroons of Dominica resisted being enslaved, choosing instead to live free in the country's mountainous interior. They dared to challenge the very system of slavery and scores paid the ultimate price with their lives. Their sacrifice, however, was not in vain. So dramatic were their exploits, unparalleled bravery and sacrifice, that it stirred the consciences of the British public, including William Wilberforce and Granville Sharp, and helped focus attention on slave conditions in the West Indies. Ultimately, the mistreatment and suffering of the Maroons and those enslaved in Dominica, would ignite the debate in Great Britain and prove pivotal in putting an end to the slave trade and the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies. The book succeeds in painting a holistic struggle for freedom from slavery in Dominica, and its impact on the rest of the British West Indies. Carefully woven into the narrative is the influence of the French Revolution, free people of colour, and the fight for Independence in Haiti; on the ultimate success of the Maroon movement.

Author : Robert T. Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351584022
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Narratives of Black Educational Leaders written by Robert T. Palmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging misconceptions related to Black academic achievement, this volume provides original perspectives on the policies, initiatives, and factors that facilitate the success of students of color as they progress along the educational pipeline. Grounded in an anti-deficit framework, this book offers personal narratives of Black educational leaders and professionals who discuss aspects of their educational experiences and pathways to success. With takeaways for research and practice, the individual narratives that comprise this book add to the conversation and advance important lessons gained from personal stories about achieving success for Blacks and other minority students.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Festival of American Folklife written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Theodore W. Allen
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839763922
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of the White Race written by Theodore W. Allen and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, tour-de-force analysis of the birth of slavery, racism, and white supremacy in the American South—and how it shaped our modern world. “A must-read for all social justice activists, teachers, and scholars.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States Long heralded as a classic study of the origin of white privilege from the activist who first coined the term, Theodore W. Allen’s work remains an indispensable resource for making sense of our conflicted present, a reference point for everyone from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Nell Irvin Painter to Reni-Eddo Lodge and Aníbal Quijano. When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal work, available for the first time here in a single volume, Allen tells how America’s ruling classes created the category of the “white race” as a means of social control. Since that early invention, white privileges have enforced the myth of racial superiority, a fact central to maintaining rulingclass domination over ordinary working people of all colors throughout the history of the Atlantic world. Spanning centuries and nations, Allen’s analysis takes us from the plantations of Northern Ireland and the mines of Peru to the sugar fields of Brazil and colonies of Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. His account records lives of hardscrabble immigrant survival, Faustian bargains with white supremacy, the tragedy of human bondage, and the stubborn, unbreakable resistance to the global color line.

Author : Kathryn Joy McKnight
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603842942
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afro-Latino Voices written by Kathryn Joy McKnight and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark scholarly achievement . . . With judicious commentary by several of the leading experts in the field, this book dramatically expands the canon of texts used to study the black Atlantic and the African diaspora, and captures the tenor of the 'black voice' as it collectively engaged the power of colonial institutions. In no uncertain terms, Afro-Latino Voices will prove to be a remarkable pedagogical tool and an influential resource, inspiring deeper comparative work on the African diaspora. --Ben Vinson III, Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Author : Elisabeth Cunin
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781592219339
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America written by Elisabeth Cunin and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the ideal of a homogenised citizenship produced by the mixing of races - mestizaje - there are complex social dynamics based on difference and indifference, stigmatization and fascination, homogenization and othering. The contributors to this volume believe that mestizaje is more than a 'myth' and multiculturalism a 'challenge' to it. The essays in this book investigate the different processes of racialisation, ethnicisation and negotiation of the belongings that characterize mestizaje as multiculturalism.

Author : Manuel Zapata Olivella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780896726734
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changó, the Biggest Badass written by Manuel Zapata Olivella and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the African pantheon of the Orichas—deities and messengers often inscrutable to the Western mind—stands Changó, god of fire, war, and thunder. In Manuel Zapata Olivella’s four-hundred-year epic of the African American experience, first published in 1983 as Changó, el gran putas, Changó both curses the muntu—the people—for betraying their own kind and challenges them to liberate not only themselves but all of humanity. In luminous verse and prose, Zapata Olivella conveys the breadth of heroism, betrayal, and suffering common to the history of people of African descent in the Western hemisphere. Ranging from Brazil to New England but primarily turning his wrath on the Caribbean centers of the slave trade, Changó inhabits personas as diverse as Benkos Biojo, Henri Christophe, Simón Bolívar, José María Morelos, the Aleijadinho, Marcus Garvey, and Malcolm X. His message is one of vengeance, but also one of hope. Readers and critics will relish the opportunity to at last experience Zapata Olivella’s masterpiece in English and to appreciate this extraordinary tapestry, woven from equal strands of myth and history.