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William and Ellen Craft were slaves from Macon who gained celebrity
after a daring public escape in December 1848. The light-skinned
Ellen Craft posed as a white woman traveling with her valet. The
bold ruse worked and the couple were able to elude slave hunters
and eventually cross the Mason-Dixon line. After many trials and
tribulations, including pretending to be a married interracial
couple, they eventually settled outside Savannah, Georgia where
they were able to purchase land. Running a Thousand Miles for
Freedom is a fast-paced, suspenseful account of their incredible
journey.
This volume investigates "alternative" spiritualities that
increasingly cater for the mainstream within the secularized
society of Norway, making Norwegian-based research available to
international scholarship. It looks at New Age both in a restricted
(sensu stricto) and a wide sense (sensu lato), focusing mainly on
the period from the mid-1990s and onwards, with a particular
emphasis on developments after the turn of the century. Few, if
any, of the ideas and practices discussed in this book are
homegrown or uniquely Norwegian, but local soil and climate still
matters, as habitats for particular growths and developments.
Globalizing currents are here shaped and molded by local religious
history and contemporary religio-political systems, along with
random incidences, such as the setting up of an angel-business by
the princess Martha Louise. The position of Lutheran Protestantism
as "national religion" particularly impacts on the development and
perception of religious competitors.
This unique volume uses research on specific indigenous traditions
from diverse regions around the world including India, Northern
Europe, North and Central America and West Africa. Bringing
together the experience of several key figures in the field this
volume will be a must-read for those researching or studying
indigenous religions. This book is the first to use collaborative
ethnographic method when exploring the subject area.
This unique volume uses research on specific indigenous traditions
from diverse regions around the world including India, Northern
Europe, North and Central America and West Africa. Bringing
together the experience of several key figures in the field this
volume will be a must-read for those researching or studying
indigenous religions. This book is the first to use collaborative
ethnographic method when exploring the subject area.
Three accounts of the lives of famous slaves
This unique Leonaur book brings together three remarkable accounts
of slavery and escapes to freedom by African women and men in the
United States and West Indies during the 19th century. The first
account, written by William and Ellen Craft, recounts the
incredible and epic escape by a husband and wife who, recognising
that Mrs. Craft was so pale skinned that she could pass for a
person of European origin, devised the innovative plan of posing as
a young male planter master and his slave. The second story, that
of Bermudan born Mary Prince, is notable because hers was the first
personal account written by a female negro slave ever to be
published in Britain. The third and final account by Solomon
Northup, has now become famous again because his experiences have
been turned into a highly regarded motion picture. Northup was born
a free man, happily married with children and working and owning
property in Saratoga Springs, New York. During a visit to
Washington he was drugged, kidnapped and sold into slavery on a
Southern plantation which he endured, despite repeated escape
attempts, for twelve years before regaining the liberty that had
been taken from him.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
This volume investigates "alternative" spiritualities that
increasingly cater for the mainstream within the secularized
society of Norway, making Norwegian-based research available to
international scholarship. It looks at New Age both in a restricted
(sensu stricto) and a wide sense (sensu lato), focusing mainly on
the period from the mid-1990s and onwards, with a particular
emphasis on developments after the turn of the century. Few, if
any, of the ideas and practices discussed in this book are
homegrown or uniquely Norwegian, but local soil and climate still
matters, as habitats for particular growths and developments.
Globalizing currents are here shaped and molded by local religious
history and contemporary religio-political systems, along with
random incidences, such as the setting up of an angel-business by
the princess Martha Louise. The position of Lutheran Protestantism
as "national religion" particularly impacts on the development and
perception of religious competitors.
William and Ellen Craft were slaves from Macon who gained celebrity
after a daring public escape in December 1848. The light-skinned
Ellen Craft posed as a white woman traveling with her valet. The
bold ruse worked and the couple were able to elude slave hunters
and eventually cross the Mason-Dixon line. After many trials and
tribulations, including pretending to be a married interracial
couple, they eventually settled outside Savannah, Georgia where
they were able to purchase land. Running a Thousand Miles for
Freedom is a fast-paced, suspenseful account of their incredible
journey.
Three accounts of the lives of famous slaves
This unique Leonaur book brings together three remarkable accounts
of slavery and escapes to freedom by African women and men in the
United States and West Indies during the 19th century. The first
account, written by William and Ellen Craft, recounts the
incredible and epic escape by a husband and wife who, recognising
that Mrs. Craft was so pale skinned that she could pass for a
person of European origin, devised the innovative plan of posing as
a young male planter master and his slave. The second story, that
of Bermudan born Mary Prince, is notable because hers was the first
personal account written by a female negro slave ever to be
published in Britain. The third and final account by Solomon
Northup, has now become famous again because his experiences have
been turned into a highly regarded motion picture. Northup was born
a free man, happily married with children and working and owning
property in Saratoga Springs, New York. During a visit to
Washington he was drugged, kidnapped and sold into slavery on a
Southern plantation which he endured, despite repeated escape
attempts, for twelve years before regaining the liberty that had
been taken from him.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Ellen Craft and William Craft were slaves from Macon, Georgia who
escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train
and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. She posed
as a white male planter and he as her personal servant. Their
daring escape was widely publicized, making them among the most
famous of fugitive slaves.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
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No words can describe the amazement of the courtiers when they
beheld this rude merchant withstand the encounter unshocked. They
all fell prostrate with their faces on the ground to avoid the risk
of their lives, and continued in the same abject posture till the
Caliph exclaimed in a furious tone, "Up, cowards! seize the
miscreant! see that he be committed to prison and guarded by the
best of my soldiers!
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