From Bondage To Liberty

Author : Gregory Oliver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737623694
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking Free written by Gregory Oliver and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory sat in a small cell that he shared with another inmate and questioned, "why am I here?Lord? What did I do wrong to cost me the rest of my life in prison with a walking death sentence? Please let me know, I am man enough to handle it, but I need to know where I went wrong?" The answer came in three simple words, "It was rigged!" As soon as Gregory was arrested for a murder and assault that his mentally ill brother committed, he set out on a course to prove just how a judicial system that he believed in could be so corrupt that they would concoct a story that would send an innocent man away for the rest of his life. He could not fight it alone so from the time he was locked up in St. Louis City Jail he prayed that the Lord would send someone who would believe in his innocence to help him. Little did he know his help was going to come from one Michigan white woman who fought alongside him until the governor commuted his sentence. His fight did not end there because there was still the scar on his name, and he had to clear his name. He entered a fight that would take years to unravel the "Gordian Knot" of corruption and the legal lies that surrounded his name. He never wavered in his faith in the Lord's leading which caused him to be mocked and jeered at for over twenty years. He discovered that through all of this, the Lord moves in steps and stages, and in his heart he was able to be "Walking Free" in the Word of God.

Author : Anthony T. Selvaggio
Publisher : Gospel According to the Old Te
ISBN 13 : 9781596386402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Bondage to Liberty written by Anthony T. Selvaggio and published by Gospel According to the Old Te. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, Moses is not just Gods chosen leader of the Jews but also a precursor of the future Messiah, Jesus. Anthony Selvaggio focuses upon the redemptive-historical aspects of Moses life.

Author : Karen Cook Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108831540
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running from Bondage written by Karen Cook Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Bondage and My Freedom written by Frederick Douglass and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony T. Selvaggio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596386426
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Bondage to Liberty written by Anthony T. Selvaggio and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 076564147X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery and the Founders written by Paul Finkelman and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this classic work addresses how the first generation of leaders of the United States dealt with the profoundly important question of human bondage. This third edition incorporates a new chapter on the regulation of the African slave trade and the latest research on Thomas Jefferson.

Author : David N. Gellman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501715860
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty’s Chain written by David N. Gellman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. The Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family. John Jay, diplomat, Supreme Court justice, and coauthor of the Federalist Papers, and his children and grandchildren helped chart the course of the Early American Republic. Liberty's Chain forges a new path for thinking about slavery and the nation's founding. John Jay served as the inaugural president of a pioneering antislavery society. His descendants, especially his son William Jay and his grandson John Jay II, embraced radical abolitionism in the nineteenth century, the cause most likely to rend the nation. The scorn of their elite peers—and racist mobs—did not deter their commitment to end southern slavery and to combat northern injustice. John Jay's personal dealings with African Americans ranged from callousness to caring. Across the generations, even as prominent Jays decried human servitude, enslaved people and formerly enslaved people served in Jay households. Abbe, Clarinda, Caesar Valentine, Zilpah Montgomery, and others lived difficult, often isolated, lives that tested their courage and the Jay family's principles. The personal and the political intersect in this saga, as Gellman charts American values transmitted and transformed from the colonial and revolutionary eras to the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond. The Jays, as well as those who served them, demonstrated the elusiveness and the vitality of liberty's legacy. This remarkable family story forces us to grapple with what we mean by patriotism, conservatism, and radicalism. Their story speaks directly to our own divided times.

Author : Louis Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thirty Years a Slave written by Louis Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Hughes was born in Virginia (1832), but was sold (1844) in the Richmond slave market to a cotton planter and his wife who lived on the Mississippi River. Later, he traveled with them to their new home in Memphis, Tennessee, and spent time during the Civil War in Alabama. Hughes made five attempts to escape, alone and with his wife and friends, but he and his wife succeeded in finding freedom only after Emancipation. Eventually, after reuniting with several members of their family and seeking a livelihood in various Southern, Midwestern and Canadian cities (Memphis, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Windsor, Detroit, Chicago, and Cleveland), they settled in Milwaukee, where Hughes became a nurse, drawing on skills he had developed while treating the illnesses of his fellow slaves. Thirty Years a Slave provides a great deal of information about the complex relationships between slaves and masters, along with graphic accounts of the physical abuse slaves endured, and details about slave markets, slave religion, and the organization of plantation work. Hughes also remembers the desire for learning he felt when he was a slave and recalls the varied tasks he performed in his masters' households.

Author : Stephanie Li
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143842972X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something Akin to Freedom written by Stephanie Li and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Why would someone choose bondage over individual freedom? What type of freedom can be found in choosing conditions of enslavement? In Something Akin to Freedom, winner of the 2008 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies, Stephanie Li explores literary texts where African American women decide to remain in or enter into conditions of bondage, sacrificing individual autonomy to achieve other goals. In fresh readings of stories by Harriet Jacobs, Hannah Crafts, Gayl Jones, Louisa Picquet, and Toni Morrison, Li argues that amid shifting positions of power and through acts of creative agency, the women in these narratives make seemingly anti-intuitive choices that are simultaneously limiting and liberating. She explores how the appeal of the freedom of the North is constrained by the potential for isolation and destabilization for women rooted in strong social networks in the South. By introducing reproduction, mother-child relationships, and community into discourses concerning resistance, Li expands our understanding of individual liberation to include the courage to express personal desire and the freedom to love.

Author : Amy Dru Stanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521635264
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Bondage to Contract written by Amy Dru Stanley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. The antislavery claim was that the negation of chattel status lay in the contracts of wage labor and marriage. Signifying self-ownership, volition, and reciprocal exchange among formally equal individuals, contract became the dominant metaphor for social relations and the very symbol of freedom. This 1999 book explores how a generation of American thinkers and reformers - abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, labor advocates, jurists, moralists, and social scientists - drew on contract to condemn the evils of chattel slavery as well as to measure the virtues of free society. Their arguments over the meaning of slavery and freedom were grounded in changing circumstances of labor and home life on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. At the heart of these arguments lay the problem of defining which realms of self and social existence could be rendered market commodities and which could not.