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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 book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
The book argues that Jews were not a people apart but were
culturally integrated in Russian society. In their diasporic
cultural creations Russia's Jews employed the general themes of
artists under tsars and Soviets, but they modified these themes to
fit their own needs. The result was a hybrid, Russian-Jewish
culture, unique and dynamic. Few today consider that Jewish Eastern
Europe, the "old world", was in fact a power incubator of modern
Jewish consciousness. Brian Horowitz, a well-known scholar of
Russian Jewry, presents essays on Jewish education (the heder),
historiography, literature and Jewish philosophy that intersect
with contemporary interests on the big questions of Jewish life.
The book lets us grasp the meaning of secular Judaism and gives
models from the past in order to stimulate ideas for the present.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the photographer Sergey
Prokudin-Gorsky undertook a quest to document an empire that was
undergoing rapid change due to industrialization and the building
of railroads. Between 1903 and 1916 Prokudin-Gorsky, who developed
a pioneering method of capturing color images on glass plates,
scoured the Russian Empire with the patronage of Nicholas II.
Intrepidly carrying his cumbersome and awkward camera from the
western borderlands over the Volga River to Siberia and central
Asia, he created a singular record of Imperial Russia. In 1918
Prokudin-Gorsky escaped an increasingly chaotic, violent Russia and
regained nearly 2,000 of his bulky glass negatives. His subsequent
peripatetic existence before settling in Paris makes his
collection's survival all the more miraculous. The U.S. Library of
Congress acquired Prokudin-Gorsky's collection in 1948, and since
then it has become a touchstone for understanding pre-revolutionary
Russia. Now digitized and publicly available, his images are a
sensation in Russia, where people visit websites dedicated to them.
William Craft Brumfield-photographer, scholar, and the leading
authority on Russian architecture in the West-began working with
Prokudin-Gorsky's photographs in 1985. He curated the first public
exhibition of them in the United States and has annotated the
entire collection. In Journeys through the Russian Empire,
Brumfield-who has spent decades traversing Russia and photographing
buildings and landscapes in their various stages of disintegration
or restoration-juxtaposes Prokudin-Gorsky's images against those he
took of the same buildings and areas. In examining the
intersections between his own photography and that of
Prokudin-Gorsky, Brumfield assesses the state of preservation of
Russia's architectural heritage and calls into question the
nostalgic assumptions of those who see Prokudin-Gorsky's images as
the recovery of the lost past of an idyllic, pre-Soviet Russia.
This lavishly illustrated volume-which features some 400 stunning
full-color images of ancient churches and mosques, railways and
monasteries, towns and remote natural landscapes-is a testament to
two brilliant photographers whose work prompts and illuminates,
monument by monument, questions of conservation, restoration, and
cultural identity and memory.
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.
Title: Oration on the birth of Washington: delivered in St.
Philip's Church, Charleston, (S.C.) on the 22d of February,
1812.Author: William CraftsPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04350000CollectionID:
CTRG03-B401PublicationDate: 18120101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 23 p.; 22 cm
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
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.
Title: A selection, in prose and poetry, from the miscellaneous
writings of the late William Crafts: to which is prefixed a memoir
of his life.Author: William CraftsPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00034200CollectionID:
CTRG10140570-BPublicationDate: 18280101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Verse.Collation: 1, 384 p.; 23 cm
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
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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