Shadow of the Plantation
Title | Shadow of the Plantation PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Spurgeon Johnson |
Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781412834025 |
A survey of African-American life in the South after slavery was abolished, and before the civil rights movement
Shadow of the Plantation (Classic Reprint)
Title | Shadow of the Plantation (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | Charles S. Johnson |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2018-11-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781397192301 |
Excerpt from Shadow of the Plantation Ome time during the winter Of 1898 and the spring Of 1899 William James read to his students in philosophy a notable paper he had then just finished writing, to which he later gave the quaint and intriguing title, A Certain Blindness in Human Beings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
In the Shadow of the Plantation
Title | In the Shadow of the Plantation PDF eBook |
Author | Alvin O. Thompson |
Publisher | James Currey |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 2003-03 |
Genre | Caribbean Area |
ISBN | 9780852554920 |
In this text, aspects of the Caribbean experience are addressed, from slavery through to the post emancipation period. Fresh insights are offered into old themes, reflecting contemporary areas of research.
Shadow of the Plantation
Title | Shadow of the Plantation PDF eBook |
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Release | 2017 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9781351306607 |
"Shadow of the Plantation focuses on descendants of slaves in one rural Southern community in the early part of this century. In the process, Johnson reviews the troubled history of race relations in the United /States. When reread half a century after it was first written, Shadow of the Plantation is clearly revealed as a remarkably perceptive and fresh comment on race relations and the triumph of individuals over circumstances.Charles Johnson's book is significant for its use of multiple methodologies. The research took place in an ecological setting that was a dynamic element of the life of the community. The book is a multifaceted, interpretive survey of the 612 black families that composed the rural community of Macon County, Alabama, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Johnson describes and analyzes their families, economic situation, education, religious activities, recreational life, and health practices.Shadow of the Plantation manages to be both historically accurate and foresighted at the same time. It is as much a book about today as it is a discussion of yesterday. This volume is an important study that will be of value to sociologists, anthropologists, and black studies specialists."--Provided by publisher.
In the Shadow of Slavery
Title | In the Shadow of Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Carney |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2011-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520949536 |
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment. Many familiar foods—millet, sorghum, coffee, okra, watermelon, and the "Asian" long bean, for example—are native to Africa, while commercial products such as Coca Cola, Worcestershire Sauce, and Palmolive Soap rely on African plants that were brought to the Americas on slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage, and bedding. In this exciting, original, and groundbreaking book, Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff draw on archaeological records, oral histories, and the accounts of slave ship captains to show how slaves' food plots—"botanical gardens of the dispossessed"—became the incubators of African survival in the Americas and Africanized the foodways of plantation societies.
Shadows Over Sunnyside
Title | Shadows Over Sunnyside PDF eBook |
Author | Jeannie M. Whayne |
Publisher | University of Arkansas Press |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 1995-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1557284172 |
This remarkable collection of essays addresses social, historical, cultural, and labor issues as they affect a Southern plantation. The heart of the book is an examination of a "great experiment" to import Italian laborers to Sunnyside Plantation. From the crucible of tensions that this experiment produced, the reader obtains a concrete understanding of the implications of U.S. immigration policy, of changing labor relations following Reconstruction, and of a minority culture's introduction into the Delta.
In the Shadow of Liberty
Title | In the Shadow of Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth C. Davis |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2016-09-20 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1627793127 |
Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—were slave owners? Through the powerful stories of five enslaved people who were “owned” by four of our greatest presidents, this book helps set the record straight about the role slavery played in the founding of America. From Billy Lee, valet to George Washington, to Alfred Jackson, faithful servant of Andrew Jackson, these dramatic narratives explore our country’s great tragedy—that a nation “conceived in liberty” was also born in shackles. These stories help us know the real people who were essential to the birth of this nation but traditionally have been left out of the history books. Their stories are true—and they should be heard. This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum.