To Free A Family

Author : Sydney Nathans
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674063295
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Free a Family written by Sydney Nathans and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price—remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family’s fate. This story is anchored in two extraordinary collections of letters and diaries, that of her former North Carolina slaveholders and that of the northern family—Susan and Peter Lesley—who protected and employed her. Sydney Nathans’s sensitive and penetrating narrative reveals Mary Walker’s remarkable persistence as well as the sustained collaboration of black and white abolitionists who assisted her. Mary Walker and the Lesleys ventured half a dozen attempts at liberation, from ransom to ruse to rescue, until the end of the Civil War reunited Mary Walker with her son and daughter. Unlike her more famous counterparts—Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs, and Sojourner Truth—who wrote their own narratives and whose public defiance made them heroines, Mary Walker’s efforts were protracted, wrenching, and private. Her odyssey was more representative of women refugees from bondage who labored secretly and behind the scenes to reclaim their families from the South. In recreating Mary Walker’s journey, To Free a Family gives voice to their hidden epic of emancipation and to an untold story of the Civil War era.

Author : Kailee Coleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578976969
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And That's Their Family written by Kailee Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cheryl Wills
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1935098403
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Die Free written by Cheryl Wills and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When award-winning television news anchor Cheryl Wills discovers that her great-great-great grandfather, Sandy Wills, was a runaway slave who joined the historic fight for freedom in the American Civil War, she embarks on a gut-wrenching search to learn more. Cheryl¿s journey leads her to a courageous ancestor who demonstrated the same courage that she knew in her beloved father, an intrepid New York City firefighter, who died when she was thirteen. Her father never knew his family¿s notable legacy. Told with deep love and brow-raising honesty, "Die Free" stretches from Haywood County, Tennessee, in the 1860s to New York City in the twentieth century. Cheryl shares the unvarnished truth about the Wills¿ family roots, ever entwined in passion, music, and faith. Cheryl also exhumes the spirit of her great-great- great grandmother Emma Wills, an illiterate lionhearted widow, who was discriminated against as she fought to obtain her husband¿s Civil War pension and unwittingly dictated her historic life, from slavery to freedom, in sworn depositions to a lawyer. The century-old pension papers become the Holy Grail for the newscaster who nails a scoop that has forever changed her life and that of future generations. A lesson in the pruning of one¿s imagination, "Die Free" takes readers on a haunting yet exhilarating ride through the side door of American history.

Author : Marlo Thomas
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553345599
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free to Be...a Family written by Marlo Thomas and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs and stories about different types of families and family relationships.

Author : Sydney Nathans
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067426620X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Free a Family written by Sydney Nathans and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price—remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family’s fate. This story is anchored in two extraordinary collections of letters and diaries, that of her former North Carolina slaveholders and that of the northern family—Susan and Peter Lesley—who protected and employed her. Sydney Nathans’s sensitive and penetrating narrative reveals Mary Walker’s remarkable persistence as well as the sustained collaboration of black and white abolitionists who assisted her. Mary Walker and the Lesleys ventured half a dozen attempts at liberation, from ransom to ruse to rescue, until the end of the Civil War reunited Mary Walker with her son and daughter. Unlike her more famous counterparts—Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs, and Sojourner Truth—who wrote their own narratives and whose public defiance made them heroines, Mary Walker’s efforts were protracted, wrenching, and private. Her odyssey was more representative of women refugees from bondage who labored secretly and behind the scenes to reclaim their families from the South. In recreating Mary Walker’s journey, To Free a Family gives voice to their hidden epic of emancipation and to an untold story of the Civil War era.

Author : Maxine Eichner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190055480
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Free-Market Family written by Maxine Eichner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US families have been pushed to the wall. At the bottom of the economic ladder, poor and working-class adults aren't forming stable relationships and can't give their kids the start they need because of low wages and uncertain job prospects. Toward the top, professional parents' lives have become a grinding slog of long hours of paid work. Meanwhile their kids are overstressed by pressure to succeed and get into good colleges. In this provocative book, Maxine Eichner argues that these very different struggles might seem unconnected, but they share the same root cause: the increasingly large toll that economic inequality and insecurity are taking on families. It's government rather than families that's to blame, Eichner persuasively contends. Since the 1970s, politicians have sold families out to the wrongheaded notion that the free market alone best supports them. In five decades of "free-market family policy," they've scrapped government programs and gutted market regulations that had helped families thrive. The consequence is the steady drumbeat of bad news we hear about our country today: the opioid epidemic, skyrocketing suicide and mental illness rates, "deaths of despair," and mediocre student achievement scores. Meanwhile, politicians just keep telling families to work a little harder. The Free-Market Family documents US families' impossible plight, showing how much worse they fare than families in other countries. It then demonstrates how politicians' free-market illusions steered our nation wildly off course. Finally, it shows how, using commonsense measures, we can restructure the economy to work for families, rather than the reverse. Doing so would invest in our children's futures, increase our wellbeing, reknit our social fabric, and allow our country to reclaim the American Dream.

Author : Michael P. Johnson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245489
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South written by Michael P. Johnson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1986-04-17 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. In a day when most Americans, black and white, worked the soil, barely scraping together a living, Ellison was a cotton-gin maker—a master craftsman. When nearly all free blacks were destitute, Ellison was wealthy and well-established. He owned a large plantation and more slaves than all but the richest white planters. While Ellison was exceptional in many respects, the story of his life sheds light on the collective experience of African Americans in the antebellum South to whom he remained bound by race. His family history emphasizes the fine line separating freedom from slavery.

Author : Bob Larson
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0768412250
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Set Your Family Free written by Bob Larson and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern family is under spiritual attack! In an increasingly hostile culture, traditional family life is mocked and marginalized. Children are bombarded with evil, dysfunction, and death. Too many homes have become a spiritual battleground where the sins of the parents morally pollute the next generation. As a parent, the well-being of your child is a sacred responsibility. Maintaining the emotional health and stability of your marriage is a necessity. Bob and Laura Larson have decades of experience in spiritual warfare, including exorcism and deliverance. They have ministered to tens of thousands worldwide while preserving a spiritually safe environment at home for their marriage and children. In Set Your Family Free, you will learn spiritual warfare strategies to raise children who are equipped to be victorious over the devils attacks. Youll also discover how to recognize a marriage in crisis and the steps to restore healthy, relational bonds. Other helpful tips include: How to heal a home in crisis and give your children a spiritually clean slate. Ways to speak blessings over your family with words that encourage and inspire. Ten unique prayers that break curses and free your family from generational evil. A frank discussion of intimacy and sexuality that couples must confront. Learn the skills of intentional parenting to prepare your children for spiritual battle. YOUR FAMILY CAN BE VICTORIOUS OVER THE POWERS OF DARKNESS!

Author : Joyce Simmons
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796098736
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BRINGING DOWN STRONGHOLDS IN YOUR FAMILY AND SETTING THE CAPTIVES FREE! written by Joyce Simmons and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in a house where alcohol, fighting, and adultery by a parent, was not a recipe for success, but God! Being a runner from the age of 5 years old, from fear, self-hatred, hatred of your parent(s) and hatred of life led me to drop out of high school to have a child. I wanted someone to love and someone to love me back! Moving on to drugs, alcohol, living on park benches in New York for over a year and one relationship after another led to a life of pure hell! Here you will learn: • How fear manifested in me for over 50 years. • How my ancestor’s and my trials were passed on generationally. • How God showed up and saved my life. • How my children, my grandchildren, family are overcoming. • How my family went from curses to blessings! If God showed up for me, He will show up for you! Test Him, read on.

Author : Leah Webb
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603587608
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grain-Free, Sugar-Free, Dairy-Free Family Cookbook written by Leah Webb and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes one month of deeply nutritious, kid-friendly, whole foods recipes, meal plans, and detailed shopping lists to make life easier! "Informative and user-friendly. . . . the dishes are beautifully and simply photographed, and recipes are uncomplicated and attainable . . . . As a mother with a passion for delicious and healthy food I found this book inspiring."—Natural Medicine Journal "This is a must-read for anyone involved in the health and well-being of children! It’s valuable information we all need to hear."—Hilary Boynton, author of The Heal Your Gut Cookbook The Grain-Free, Sugar-Free, Dairy-Free Family Cookbook offers a new system to preparing food and approaching the kitchen that gets kids involved in cooking, encouraging excitement around food (a major challenge with restrictive diets). The recipes are rich in healthy fats, nutrient-dense vegetables, ferments, and grass-fed meats, and include snacks, school lunches, and delicious sweet treats that rival the flavors of sugar-dense desserts. By following Leah’s meal plans, parents will be sure to please everyone in the family and make cooking on a restrictive diet enjoyable and doable over a long period of time. Families that know they would like to rid themselves of grain, sugar, and dairy, but are intimidated by starting, will find Webb’s advice and troubleshooting invaluable. Recipes include: Breakfasts and “breads” Main courses Vegetable sides and salads Soups and stews Snacks Sauces, dips, and dressings Smoothies and other drinks Ferments Sweet Treats The cookbook outlines family-tested methods that make for effective and efficient preparation, including everyday basic recipes that will become part of a cook’s intuitive process over time. The best part is that although Leah prepares nearly every single one of her family’s breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks using whole food ingredients, she only spends four to six hours on food preparation per week! Through stocking her freezer, prepping the kitchen, shopping and cooking in bulk, and consistently planning meals, this diet plan is not only possible; it is manageable and fulfilling. Prepare for this cookbook to radically change your life!