Two Wings to Fly Away
Title | Two Wings to Fly Away PDF eBook |
Author | Penny Mickelbury |
Publisher | Bywater Books |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2019-05-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1612941508 |
In 1856 Philadelphia, runaway slave Genie Oliver uses her dress shop as a front for her work with the Underground Railroad; and reluctant heiress Abby Read runs a rooming house not just because she hates the life of the idle rich society woman, but because she has no intention of ever marrying a man. When the daughter of Abby's free black servant is grabbed by rogue slave catchers, an unlikely group of people come together, first out of necessity, and then, gradually, in friendship. And in the case of Abby and Genie, something much more.
Walls that Speak
Title | Walls that Speak PDF eBook |
Author | Ollie Jensen Theisen |
Publisher | University of North Texas Press |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1574412892 |
"A beautiful tribute to a man and his art"---Review of Texas Books --
True Interpretation of All the Chief Texts, and Mysterious Sayings and Visions Opened, of the Whole Book of the Revelation of St. John
Title | True Interpretation of All the Chief Texts, and Mysterious Sayings and Visions Opened, of the Whole Book of the Revelation of St. John PDF eBook |
Author | Lodowick Muggleton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1746 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN |
New Orleans City Guide
Title | New Orleans City Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Works Progress Administration |
Publisher | Garrett County Press |
Pages | 519 |
Release | 2011-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 189105340X |
In 1938, under the direction of novelist and historian Lyle Saxon, The Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration produced this delightfully detailed portrait of New Orleans. Containing recipes, photographs and folklore, it is consistently hailed as one of the best books produced about the city. Remarkably, many of the sites and attractions the WPA chronicled in 1938 are still around today.
The Works of J. Reeve and L. Muggleton, the Two Last Prophets of the Only True God, Our Lord Jesus Christ. [Edited by J. and I. Frost.]
Title | The Works of J. Reeve and L. Muggleton, the Two Last Prophets of the Only True God, Our Lord Jesus Christ. [Edited by J. and I. Frost.] PDF eBook |
Author | John REEVE (Muggletonian, and MUGGLETON (Lodowick)) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 874 |
Release | 1832 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
New Essays on Phillis Wheatley
Title | New Essays on Phillis Wheatley PDF eBook |
Author | John C. Shields |
Publisher | Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2011-05-30 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1572337265 |
The first African American to publish a book on any subject, poet Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) has long been denigrated by literary critics who refused to believe that a black woman could produce such dense, intellectual work. In recent decades, however, Wheatley's work has come under new scrutiny as the literature of the eighteenth century and the impact of African American literature have been reconceived. Fourteen prominent Wheatley scholars consider her work from a variety of angles, affirming her rise into the first rank of American writers. --from publisher description.
Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic
Title | Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Rice |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2003-04-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780826456076 |
*Broad-based survey of trans-Atlantic black culture*Newest book in the popular Black Atlantic seriesRadical Narratives of the Black Atlantic is a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary take on trans-Atlantic black culture. Alan Rice engages fully with Paul Gilroy's paradigm of the Black Atlantic through examination of a broad array of cultural genres including music, dance, folklore and oral literature, fine art, material culture, film and literature. The aspects of black culture under discussion range from black British gravesites to sea shanties, from the novels of Toni Morrison to the paintings of the Zanzibar born black British artist Lubaina Himid and from King Kong to the travels of Frederick Douglass and Paul Robeson. The book places such figures as the African American traveller and Barbary slave narrator Robert Adams and the West Indian slave narrator Mary Prince in a Black Atlantic context that explicates them fully. A chapter on the Titanic disaster shows how diasporan Africans composed oral poems about the disaster to criticise the discriminatory practices of its owners and racial imperialism. Overall, the book argues for the crucial importance of Black Atlantic cultures in the formation of our modern world. Moreover, it argues that looking at Black culture and history through a national lens is distorting and reductive.