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On the night of November 7,1841, the Creole was transporting slaves
from Richmond, Virginia, to the auction block at New Orleans. A
band of slaves led by Marion Washington seized the crew and its
captain. Over the next several days they forced the Creole to sail
into Nassua harbor, where the British authorities offered freedom
to the slaves aboard, touching off a diplomatic squabble and
continuing legal ramifications.
Thousands of black people sought refuge in Canada before the U.S.
Civil War. While most refugees encountered at least some racism
among Canadian citizens, many of those same refugees also thrived
under the auspices of the Canadian government, which worked to
protect blacks from the U.S. slaveowners who sought to re-enslave
them. This work brings to light the life stories of several
nineteenth-century black refugees who managed to survive in their
new country by gaining work as barbers, postal carriers,
washerwomen, waiters, cab owners, ministers, newspaper editors, and
physicians. The book begins with a short historical account of
blacks in Canada from 1629 until the early 1800s, when the first
groups of escaped slaves began to enter the country.
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Poems for the People (Paperback)
Carl Sandburg; Edited by George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick; Introduction by George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick
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R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
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In the winter of 1914, Carl Sandburg, then a reporter at The Day
Book in Chicago, submitted several of his poems to Harriet Monroe's
Poetry magazine. The title poem began: "Hog Butcher for the World,
/ Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat..." Monroe at first hesitated to
accept the poems because of "their unorthodox form and their range
from brutality to misty lyricism." But she took a deep breath and
printed them. In the decade that followed, Sandburg came quickly to
national prominence. In Poems for the People, George and Wilene
Hendrick, Sandburg's most accomplished interpreters, have selected
seventy-three poems from his early years in Chicago, almost all of
them never before in print. Included are poems of social protest,
gentle ruminations, and poems about teeming Chicago life. Sandburg
may have regarded them as too radical for the time; others may have
been set aside and never retrieved. This unearthed treasure,
together with the Hendrick's biographical introduction and
commentary on the poems, mark Poems for the People as a major
publishing event.
Published to coincide with Black History Month and the opening of
the new Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati, Fleeing for
Freedom includes selected narratives from the two most important
contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin
and William Still. Here are firsthand descriptions of the
experiences of escaped slaves making their way to freedom in the
North and in Canada in the years before the Civil War. George and
Willene Hendrick have chosen a broad range of stories to reflect
the strategies, tactics, heartbreak, and dangers for both the
slaves and the "conductors" of the secret network. In their
Introduction, they provide basic information about the scope and
workings of the Underground Railroad and its impact on slaves,
slaveholders, and the Northern abolitionist societies that were so
heavily involved. Fleeing for Freedom offers gripping personal
accounts of one of the great collaborations between whites and
blacks in American history. With 15 black-and-white engravings and
line drawings."
Henry Salt abandoned his mastership at Eton in the 1880s to devote
himself to causes including vegetarianism, socialism, animals'
rights, conservation and prison reform. In 1890 he published the
initial version of Thoreau's "Life". With the help of American
friends, he revised the book and published it anew in 1896. This
third version is Salt's final reading of Thoreau based on works
published up to 1908, including Thoreau's complete "Journal".
Combining a narrative of Thoreau's life with a treatment of his
ideas and writings, it is a penetrating study of Thoreau, which
stresses his distinctive individuality. Through analysis of the
text and a concise biography, the editors illustrate Salt's growth
as a scholar and his changing views on Thoreau and Thoreau's
philosophy. The introduction details Salt's stylistic improvements
to the 1908 edition as well as the inclusion of anecdotes and facts
gathered from Samuel Arthur Jones, F.B. Sanborn, Ernest W. Vickers,
Raymond Adams, Fred Hosmer and Gandhi. This book is suitable for
scholars of Thoreau and readers interested in Thoreau, American
Transcendentalism or American literature.
M. K. Gandhi came to fame in the twentieth century for his
nonviolent efforts to free India from British rule. Gandhi, though,
perfected his civil disobedience method during his two decades
(1893-1914) in South Africa. M. K. Gandhi's First Nonviolent
Campaign: A Study of Racism in South Africa and the United States
shows Gandhi, son of a prime minister of two princely estates in
India, a graduate in law from the Inner Temple in London, facing
racism in South Africa. He was called a coolie, denied first class
railroad accommodations, physically attacked, and subjected to an
attempted lynching. The racism he faced was similar to the racism
in the United States at the same time. Gandhi's development as a
leader against racism in South Africa was a slow process, and his
devotion to the cause created stress in his marriage and in his
family life. Gandhi's years in South Africa are still too little
understood. George and Willene Hendrick use the vast published
resources of Gandhi scholarship and the equally large accounts of
racism in the lives of Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., and many others, opening up new ways to interpret
Gandhi. They discuss Gandhi's successes and failures, his foibles,
and his engaging human qualities. His developing belief in
religious toleration is a recurring theme in this study. George and
Willene Hendrick in this critical study explore major influences on
Gandhi's nonviolent method and his major contribution to Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. They emphasize Gandhi's opposition to racism and
show parallels to racism in the United States. M. K. Gandhi's First
Nonviolent Campaign will appeal to those who wish to read about
Gandhi's life, to students of racism in South Africa and the
American South, and to readers studying African-American literature
and culture.
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