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When it was first published fifteen years ago, this startling--and
bestselling--first-person history of slavery was heralded as
"powerful and intense" ("Atlanta Journal Constitution") and
"invaluable" ("Chicago Tribune"). Drawing from the thousands of
interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers
working with the Federal Writers' Project, this astonishing
collection makes available the only known recordings of people who
lived through the enormity of slavery. The groundbreaking
interviews with former slaves collected in the original
book-and-audio set of "Remembering Slavery" are now available for a
new generation of readers and listeners in both affordable
paperback and enhanced audio e-book.
Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery to free
labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War.
Letters and testimony by the participants-former slaves, former
slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others-reveal the
connection between developments in workplaces across the South and
an intensifying political contest over the meaning of freedom and
the terms of national reunification. Essays by the editors place
the documents in interpretive context and illuminate the major
themes. In the tense and often violent aftermath of emancipation,
former slaves seeking to ground their liberty in economic
independence came into conflict with former owners determined to
keep them dependent and subordinate. Overseeing that conflict were
northern officials with their own notions of freedom, labor, and
social order. This volume of Freedom depicts the dramatic events
that ensued-the eradication of bondage and the contest over
restoring land to ex-Confederates; the introduction of labor
contracts and the day-to-day struggles that engulfed the region's
plantations, farms, and other workplaces; the achievements of those
freedpeople who attained a measure of independence; and rumors of a
year-end insurrection in which ex-slaves would seize the land they
had been denied and exact revenge for past oppression.
Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War
forced federal officials to confront questions about the social
order that would replace slavery. This volume of Freedom, first
published in 1991, presents a documentary history of the emergence
of free-labor relations in the large plantation areas of the
Union-occupied Lower South. The documents illustrate the
experiences of former slaves as military laborers, as residents of
federally sponsored 'contraband camps', as wage laborers on
plantations and in towns, and, in some instances, as independent
farmers and self-employed workers. Together with the editors'
interpretative essays, these documents portray the different
understandings of freedom advanced by the many participants in the
wartime evolution of free labor - former slaves and free blacks;
former slaveholders; Union military officers and officials in
Washington; and Northern planters, ministers and teachers. The war
sealed the fate of slavery only to open a contest over the meaning
of freedom. This volume documents an important chapter of that
contest.
As slavery collapsed during the American Civil War, former slaves
struggled to secure their liberty, reconstitute their families, and
create the institutions befitting a free people. This volume of
Freedom, first published in 1993, presents a documentary history of
the emergence of free-labor relations in different settings in the
Upper South. At first, most federal officials hoped to mobilize
former slaves without either transforming the conflict into a war
of liberation or assuming responsibility for the young, the old, or
others not suitable for military employment. But as the Union army
came to depend upon black workers and as the number of destitute
freed people mounted, authorities at all levels grappled with
intertwined questions of freedom, labor and welfare. Meanwhile, the
former slaves pursued their own objectives, working within the
constraints imposed by the war and Union occupation to fashion new
lives as free people. The Civil War sealed the fate of slavery only
to open a contest over the meaning of freedom. This volume of
Freedom documents an important chapter in that contest.
The three essays in this volume present an introduction to history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War. The first essay traces the destruction of slavery by discussing the shift from a war for the Union to a war against slavery. The slaves are shown to have shaped the destiny of the nation through their determination to place their liberty on the wartime agenda. The second essay examines the evolution of freedom in occupied areas of the lower and upper South. The struggle of those freed to obtain economic independence in difficult wartime circumstances indicates conflicting conceptions of freedom among former slaves and slaveholders, Northern soldiers and civilians. The third essay demonstrates how the enlistment and military service of nearly 200,000 slaves hastened the transformation of the war into a struggle for universal liberty, and how this experience shaped the lives of former slaves long after the war had ended.
Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War
forced federal officials to confront questions about the social
order that would replace slavery. This volume of Freedom presents a
documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relations in the
large plantation areas of the Union-occupied Lower South. The
documents illustrate the experiences of former slaves as military
laborers, as residents of federally sponsored "contraband camps,"
as wage laborers on plantations and in towns, and in some
instances, as independent farmers and self-employed workers.
Together with the editors' interpretative essays, these documents
portray the different understandings of freedom advanced by the
many participants in the wartime evolution of free labor--former
slaves and free blacks; former slaveholders; Union military
officers and officials in Washington; and Northern planters,
ministers and teachers. The war sealed the fate of slavery only to
open a contest over the meaning of freedom. This volume documents
an important chapter of that contest. Ira Berlin is the Director of
the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, University of Maryland.
In October 2009, Cleveland Police arrived at the home of Anthony
Sowell, an ex-marine and registered sex offender, to arrest him on
rape charges. Although Sowell could not be found, the police
discovered the bodies of two women on the living room floor. A
further search of the house revealed a total of 11 bodies. Sowell
was apprehended and eventually sentenced to the death penalty. This
horrific tale of brutal murder and savagery shocked America and
drew the attention of the national media. Steve Miller interviewed
Sowell in prison, attempting to find the answers and motivations
behind the appalling crimes. Here Miller reveals the whole case in
shocking detail.
We've iintroduced you to our first book: Traffic Tickets. Don't Get
Mad. Get Them Dismissed. Traffic Ticket Tips, Must Knows, and Much
More. After this book was released we got to thinking about the
over 50,000 cases that we have worked on and thought; "wow, we've
heard some real stories and story tellers over the years." And then
the idea hit us, "let's share some of those stories." So we've put
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driver "Get Off"; well, okay at least get their traffic ticket
dismissed.
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After reading this book, you'll have the knowledge about what
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Dismissed. Stories From The Streets.
Review of the Traffic Ticket Fighting Process Traffic Ticket
Terminology We Got Them Off - Case Studies They Tried But Didn't
Get Off Traffic Ticket Deal or No Deal Traffic Ticket Myths - Truth
or Fiction Traffic Ticket Court Information A Few Last Words About
Court
This is a Must Have book for anyone who has a traffic ticket, has
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Tips for what to do if you get pulled over for a traffic violation,
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popular traffic violations. There are plenty of helpful links and
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What's inside - Traffic Ticket Tips, Must Know, and Much More
Traffic Ticket Statistics Traffic Tickets: How To Avoid Getting One
So You Got A Ticket, Now What? Options for Handling Traffic Tickets
Understanding the Trial by Written Declaration Understanding the
New Trial Process 50 Traffic Ticket Tips Traffic Ticket Talk Series
Ticketbust.com Blogs and Articles Definitions to Commonly Used
Traffic Ticket Terms
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