Rebels And Runaways

Author : Grace McGinty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648833468
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebels and Runaways written by Grace McGinty and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Eden Academy. Safe haven. Melting pot of preternatural beings from shifters to extraordinary humans. Carmen had been attending Eden Prep since before she knew her multiplication tables, and she was ready to graduate, do her time at the Academy and then get the hell out of dodge. She was sick of having a best friend who still saw her as a little kid despite the fact she was seventeen. She was sick of her Alpha older brother telling her what to do. She was sick of always being compared to Enit, her omega and incomparable littermate. The only place she felt free was fighting, and if her parents knew that? They'd kick her ass and keep her locked up in the tiny town of Dark River forever. Well, except her dad X. Carmen was pretty sure he was proud that she could kick ass. Carmen needed to get out into the world and live life on her own terms. But her first semester at the Academy brings more surprises than she expected. A fiery runaway with a quick smile and even quicker hands. Not to mention the arrival of a boy, no a man, with dark eyes and an even darker past. Hell, maybe Eden was living up to its name after all. This story is an Academy, reverse harem romance.

Author : Larry Eugene Rivers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094034
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebels and Runaways written by Larry Eugene Rivers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variety of sources such as slaveholders' wills and probate records, ledgers, account books, court records, oral histories, and numerous newspaper accounts, Larry Eugene Rivers discusses the historical significance of Florida as a runaway slave haven dating back to the seventeenth century and explains Florida's unique history of slave resistance and protest. In moving detail, Rivers illustrates what life was like for enslaved blacks whose families were pulled asunder as they relocated from the Upper South to the Lower South to an untamed place such as Florida, and how they fought back any way they could to control small parts of their own lives. Against a smoldering backdrop of violence, this study analyzes the various degrees of slave resistance--from the perspectives of both slave and master--and how they differed in various regions of antebellum Florida. In particular, Rivers demonstrates how the Atlantic world view of some enslaved blacks successfully aided their escape to freedom, a path that did not always lead North but sometimes farther South to the Bahama Islands and Caribbean. Identifying more commonly known slave rebellions such as the Stono, Louisiana, Denmark (Telemaque) Vesey, Gabriel, and the Nat Turner insurrections, Rivers argues persuasively that the size, scope, and intensity of black resistance in the Second Seminole War makes it the largest sustained slave insurrection ever to occur in American history. Meticulously researched, Rebels and Runaways offers a detailed account of resistance, protest, and violence as enslaved blacks fought for freedom.

Author : Larry E. Rivers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252036913
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebels and Runaways written by Larry E. Rivers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variety of sources, Larry Eugene Rivers discusses Florida's unique historical significance as a runaway slave haven dating back to the seventeenth century. In moving detail, Rivers illustrates what life was like for enslaved blacks whose families were pulled asunder as they relocated and how they fought back any way they could to control small parts of their own lives. Identifying slave rebellions such as the Stono, Louisiana, Denmark (Telemaque) Vesey, Gabriel, and the Nat Turner insurrections, Rivers argues persuasively that the size, scope, and intensity of black resistance in the Second Seminole War makes it the largest sustained slave insurrection in American history.

Author : John Hope Franklin
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195084511
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Runaway Slaves written by John Hope Franklin and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bold and precedent-setting study details numerous slave rebellions against white masters, drawn from planters' records, government petitions, newspapers, and other documents. The reactions of white slave owners are also documented. 15 halftones.

Author : John Kelly Thornton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521627245
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 written by John Kelly Thornton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition contains a new chapter extending the story into the eighteenth century.

Author : Nigel Penn
Publisher : D. Philip
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rogues, Rebels, and Runaways written by Nigel Penn and published by D. Philip. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The dissolute Cape Town beer brewer, Willem Menssink, whose fatal passion for a young slave woman brought about his downfall; Carel Buijtendag, the beast of the Bokkeveld; and Estienne Barbier, the quixotic champion of the oppressed and leader of a rebellion against the VOC government: these, as well as an assortment of runaway slaves and Company deserters, are some of the lesser-known characters from the eighteenth-century Dutch Cape whom the historian Nigel Penn has brought to life in a series of hugely enjoyable and historically revealing stories."--Cover, p. [4].

Author : John Hope Franklin
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195084519
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Runaway Slaves written by John Hope Franklin and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bold and precedent-setting study details numerous slave rebellions against white masters, drawn from planters' records, government petitions, newspapers, and other documents. The reactions of white slave owners are also documented. 15 halftones.

Author : Max Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648176763
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rogues, Rebels and Runaways written by Max Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen M. McKee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429656238
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Freedom in the Circum-Caribbean written by Helen M. McKee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together Jamaican Maroons and indigenous communities into one framework – for the first time – McKee compares and contrasts how these non-white, semi-autonomous communities were ultimately reduced by Anglophone colonists. In particular, questions are asked about Maroon and Creek interaction with Anglophone communities, slave-catching, slave ownership, land conflict and dispute resolution to conclude that, while important divergences occurred, commonalities can be drawn between Maroon history and Native American history and that, therefore, we should do more to draw Maroon communities into debates of indigenous issues.

Author : Ulla Dentlinger
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN 13 : 3905758792
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where are you from? written by Ulla Dentlinger and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print | eBook Language: English 150 pages Illustrations, map Vol. 12 , 2016 ISSN: 1660-9638 ISBN: Print: 978-3-905758-79-5 Ulla Dentlinger Where are you from? 'Playing White' under Apartheid “My family did the unthinkable: after getting away with ‘playing white’ for some years, we went one step further and ‘jumped the colour line’. By various obscure and not well-documented processes, we changed our ‘racial classification’ from ‘coloured’ – as defined by the apartheid policy of the day – to that of ‘white’ … The price we paid was anguish, constant fear of detection and a sacrifice of family connectedness. The decades-long process of becoming completely comfortable with my ultimate identity was psychologically so unnerving that I have only recently felt free to talk about it. This is certainly the first time I have ever written about it.” With these words the fascinating story of Ulla Dentlinger’s life history begins. Growing up in poor, rural Apartheid-Namibia in the early 1950s, Ulla Dentlinger soon learns that her parents are not prone to reminisce about their family’s past. The most mundane information about their background is guarded much like a state secret. As a child, she begins to panic at being asked the question so normal to others: Where are you from? Only in later years it dawns on her that she had to be a ‘Coloured’. The sense of conflict increases incrementally. Nonetheless, after living in Namibia for the first six years of her life, she grows up in a white area in Cape Town, goes to a white school and bears herself in a German fashion. She has, in fact, jumped the colour line. Returning to southern Africa in the 1990s, she now openly pursues investigations into her family background. Ulla Dentlinger portrays some of her relatives and their intimate, painful or straightforward stories as well as her own emotional realisation about her enriching heritage.