Compelling and enlightening, this collection of primary source documents allows twenty-first century students to 'direct dial' key figures in African-American history. It includes concise and perceptive commentary along with engaging suggestions for discussion and project work.- Examines key themes from multiple perspectives- Features a diverse range of voices that cut across class and political affiliations as well as across regions and generations- Chronological and thematic coverage from emancipation to the current day- Primary source documents include everything from letters and speeches to photographs, rap lyrics and newspaper reports- Incorporates recent as well as traditional historical interpretations- Classroom-ready text which includes keynotes on documents, differentiated material and engaging discussion questions

In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed ""Sisterhood is powerful"", and women's historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach - acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally powerful - women's historians have begun to offer more varied and nuanced narratives. The ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current research in the field. Including work from both emerging and established scholars, this collection employs innovative approaches to study both the causes that have united American women and the conflicts that have divided them. Some essays uncover little-known aspects of women's history, while others offer a fresh take on familiar events and figures, from Rosa Parks to Take Back the Night marches. Spanning the antebellum era to the present day, these essays vividly convey the long histories and ongoing relevance of topics ranging from women's immigration to incarceration, from acts of cross-dressing to the activism of feminist mothers. This volume thus not only untangles the threads of the sisterhood mythos, it weaves them into a multi-textured and multi-hued tapestry that reflects the breadth and diversity of U.S. women's history.

Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain at the time, particularly the anxieties and dislocations spurred by the American Revolution.

The debate over the political rights of the North American colonies pushed slavery to the fore, Brown argues, giving antislavery organizing the moral legitimacy in Britain it had never had before. The first emancipation schemes were dependent on efforts to strengthen the role of the imperial state in an era of weakening overseas authority. By looking at the initial public contest over slavery, Brown connects disparate strands of the British Atlantic world and brings into focus shifting developments in British identity, attitudes toward Africa, definitions of imperial mission, the rise of Anglican evangelicalism, and Quaker activism.

Demonstrating how challenges to the slave system could serve as a mark of virtue rather than evidence of eccentricity, Brown shows that the abolitionist movement derived its power from a profound yearning for moral worth in the aftermath of defeat and American independence. Thus abolitionism proved to be a cause for the abolitionists themselves as much as for enslaved Africans.

Kat Devereaux is cursed, not just in a manner of speaking. This is a real Voodoo curse placed on her family over 100 years before she was born. That's what happens when you mess with a Voodoo Queen. Kat and her twin sister are destined to repeat history following the many women of their family who died under that evil death curse. Follow Kat to New Orleans where she searches for answers that just might lie in the arms of a vampire. The only problem, or actually one of many problems.... he has been locked in a coffin as long as her family has been cursed. When Kat manages to free him she hopes that he can turn her into a vampire making her immortal and thereby rendering the curse null and void. Instead she managed to find the only vampire with scruples and he refuses to turn her. Desperate she turns to Tarik's brother adding fire to their family feud. He is the one that locked Tarik in the coffin to start with. The clock starts ticking when Kat's sister becomes pregnant. The Voodoo curse calls for the women to get pregnant the instant they loose their virginity and die while giving birth to a female child. They are doomed to only know love briefly and die helpless perpetuating the curse . If Kat cannot end the curse soon her sister will die and eventually so will she if she doesn't keep her vampire at bay. To add fuel to the fire Tarik is more than willing to share her bed just not a coffin. His nightly visits to torment her dreams give her a taste of what she is missing. How can she convince him without accelerating the curse by divulging it's secret? Join this exciting cast of characters as they romp through the Big Easy from the cemeteries to the masquerade balls. Ride along the parade routes at Mardi Gras and feel like you are deep within the intrigue unveiled. You will be tangled within the story as Kat transforms from a girl on a mission to a woman destined to protect mankind. Look for the sequel soon... Bad Moon Rising also by Leslie Brown

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This book describes how diversity and dissent strengthened the black community.In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post - Civil War liberation community into the ""capital of the black middle class."" African Americans owned and operated mills, factories, churches, schools, and an array of retail services, shops, community organizations, and race institutions. Using interviews, narratives, and family stories, Leslie Brown animates the history of this remarkable city from emancipation to the civil rights era, as freed people and their descendants struggled among themselves and with whites to give meaning to black freedom.Brown paints Durham in the Jim Crow era as a place of dynamic change where despite common aspirations, gender and class conflicts emerged. Placing African American women at the center of the story, Brown describes how black Durham's multiple constituencies experienced a range of social conditions. Shifting the historical perspective away from seeing solidarity as essential to effective struggle or viewing dissent as a measure of weakness, Brown demonstrates that friction among African Americans generated rather than depleted energy, sparking many activist initiatives on behalf of the black community.

Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America.To facilitate cross-cultural comparisons, each chapter addresses four crucial issues: the social and cultural facts regarding the arming of slaves, the experience of slave soldiers, the ideological origins and consequences of equipping enslaved peoples for battle, and the impact of the practice on the status of slaves and slavery itself. What emerges from the book is a new historical understanding: the arming of slaves is neither uncommon nor paradoxical but is instead both predictable and explicable.