Broken Shackles
Title | Broken Shackles PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Meyler |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2007-01-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1459714873 |
In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen Sound, Ontario, an African American known as Old Man Henson, was one of the very few books that documented the journey to Canada from the perspective of a person of African descent. Now, over 112 years later, a new edition of Broken Shackles is available. Henson was a great storyteller and the spark of life shines through as he describes the horrors of slavery and his goal of escaping its tenacious hold. His times as a slave in Maryland, his refuge in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and his ultimate freedom in Canada are vividly depicted through his remembrances. The stories of Henson's family, friends and enemies will both amuse and shock the readers of Broken Shackles: Old Man Henson From Slavery to Freedom. It is interesting to discover that his observations of life's struggles and triumphs are as relevant today as they were in his time.
Broken Shackles
Title | Broken Shackles PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Meyler |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2007-01-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1554881102 |
In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen Sound, Ontario, an African American known as Old Man Henson, was one of the very few books that documented the journey to Canada from the perspective of a person of African descent. Now, over 112 years later, a new edition of Broken Shackles is available. Henson was a great storyteller, and the spark of life shines through as he describes the horrors of slavery and his goal of escaping its tenacious hold. His time as a slave in Maryland, his refuge in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and his ultimate freedom in Canada are vividly depicted through his remembrances. The stories of Henson’s family, friends, and enemies will both amuse and shock the readers of Broken Shackles: Old Man Henson — From Slavery to Freedom. It is interesting to discover that his observations of life’s struggles and triumphs are as relevant today as they were in his time.
Broken Shackles
Title | Broken Shackles PDF eBook |
Author | JRoberts |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 475 |
Release | 2021-01-27 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1796010561 |
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Broken Shackle
Title | Broken Shackle PDF eBook |
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Publisher | N. Gage Cadotte |
Pages | 146 |
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In the world of wonders exists a land known as Baruun... In the years following a calamity known by many names, the land of the felines known as Dásos, the realm of the Eternal Jungle, has become a target of the Prodavian Empire, who seek to use the land for their own purposes. Many have been taken into enslavement, working fields that now feed the ape-men of Prodavus, and ten years after the calamity they continue to toil for them. All but one defiant soul. A young panther woman will defy her oppressors, renew the spirits of her people and step forth into a world that is rapidly mutating beyond the recognition of its inhabitants. Rising from a simple huntress to a survivor of horrors that mold the future of the continent, the name of this brave youth will be burned into the minds of the Baruun people, as she forges her own path... This story contains a same sex relationship, anthropomorphic characters, and several dark tones and implications that may not be suitable for younger audiences. Follow the author on Twitter for further updates: https://twitter.com/volcmacaingeal
Poems from Guantanamo
Title | Poems from Guantanamo PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Falkoff |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 85 |
Release | 2007-08 |
Genre | Current Events |
ISBN | 1587297183 |
Since 2002, at least 775 men have been held in the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to Department of Defense data, fewer than half of them are accused of committing any hostile act against the United States or its allies. In hundreds of cases, even the circumstances of their initial detainment are questionable. This collection gives voice to the men held at Guantánamo. Available only because of the tireless efforts of pro bono attorneys who submitted each line to Pentagon scrutiny, Poems from Guantánamo brings together twenty-two poems by seventeen detainees, most still at Guantánamo, in legal limbo. If, in the words of Audre Lorde, poetry “forms the quality of light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change,” these verses—some originally written in toothpaste, others scratched onto foam drinking cups with pebbles and furtively handed to attorneys—are the most basic form of the art. Death Poem by Jumah al Dossari Take my blood. Take my death shroud and The remnants of my body. Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely. Send them to the world, To the judges and To the people of conscience, Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded. And let them bear the guilty burden before the world, Of this innocent soul. Let them bear the burden before their children and before history, Of this wasted, sinless soul, Of this soul which has suffered at the hands of the "protectors or peace." Jumah al Dossari is a thirty-three-year old Bahraini who has been held at Guantanamo Bay for more than five years. He has been in solitary confinement since the end of 2003 and, according to the U.S. military, has tried to kill himself twelve times while in custody.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Title | The Emancipation Proclamation PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Holzer |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2006-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 080713144X |
The Emancipation Proclamation is the most important document of arguably the greatest president in U.S. history. Now, Edna Greene Medford, Frank J. Williams, and Harold Holzer -- eminent experts in their fields -- remember, analyze, and interpret the Emancipation Proclamation in three distinct respects: the influence of and impact upon African Americans; the legal, political, and military exigencies; and the role pictorial images played in establishing the document in public memory. The result is a carefully balanced yet provocative study that views the proclamation and its author from the perspective of fellow Republicans, antiwar Democrats, the press, the military, the enslaved, free blacks, and the antislavery white establishment, as well as the artists, publishers, sculptors, and their patrons who sought to enshrine Abraham Lincoln and his decree of freedom in iconography.Medford places African Americans, the people most affected by Lincoln's edict, at the center of the drama rather than at the periphery, as previous studies have done. She argues that blacks interpreted the proclamation much more broadly than Lincoln intended it, and during the postwar years and into the twentieth century they became disillusioned by the broken promise of equality and the realities of discrimination, violence, and economic dependence. Williams points out the obstacles Lincoln overcame in finding a way to confiscate property -- enslaved humans -- without violating the Constitution. He suggests that the president solidified his reputation as a legal and political genius by issuing the proclamation as Commander-in-Chief, thus taking the property under the pretext of military necessity. Holzer explores how it was only after Lincoln's assassination that the Emancipation Proclamation became an acceptable subject for pictorial celebration. Even then, it was the image of the martyr-president as the great emancipator that resonated in public memory, while any reference to those African Americans most affected by the proclamation was stripped away.This multilayered treatment reveals that the proclamation remains a singularly brave and bold act -- brilliantly calculated to maintain the viability of the Union during wartime, deeply dependent on the enlightened voices of Lincoln's contemporaries, and owing a major debt in history to the image-makers who quickly and indelibly preserved it.
Manuals Combined: U.S. Army CUCV M1008 M1009 M1010 Truck - 27 Operator, Maintenance And Parts Manuals
Title | Manuals Combined: U.S. Army CUCV M1008 M1009 M1010 Truck - 27 Operator, Maintenance And Parts Manuals PDF eBook |
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Publisher | Jeffrey Frank Jones |
Pages | 7213 |
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Over 7,200 total pages ... Just a SAMPLE of the CONTENTS: OPERATOR’S, UNIT, DIRECT SUPPORT, AND GENERAL SUPPORT MAINTENANCE MANUAL (INCLUDING REPAIR PARTS AND SPECIAL TOOLS LIST) FOR TRAILER, CARGO, 3/4-TON, 2-WHEEL M101 A2 (2330-01-102-4697) M101 OlA3 (2330-01-372-5641) TRAILER, CHASSIS, 3/4-TON, 2-WHEEL M116A2 (2330-01-101-8434) M116A2E1 (2330-01-333-9773) TRAILER, CHASSIS, 1-TON, 2-WHEEL M116A3 (2330-01-359-0080), May 1999, 338 pages UNIT MAINTENANCE MANUAL for TRUCK, CARGO, TACTICAL, 1-1/4 TON, 4x4, M1008 (2320-01-1 23-6827) - TRUCK, CARGO, TACTICAL, 1-1/4 TON, 4x4, M1008A1 (2320-01-123-2671 ) - TRUCK, UTILITY, TACTICAL, 3/4 TON, 4x4, M1009 (2320-01-1 23-2665) - TRUCK, AMBULANCE, TACTICAL, 1-1 /4 TON, 4x4, M1010 (2310-01-1 23-2666) - TRUCK, SHELTER CARRIER, TACTICAL, 1-1/4 TON, 4x4, M1028 (2320-01-1 27-5077) - TRUCK, SHELTER CARRIER W/PTO, TACTICAL, 1-1/4 TON, 4x4, Ml 028A1 (2320-01-158-0820) - TRUCK, CHASSIS, TACTICAL, 1-1/4 TON, 4x4, M1031 (2320-01-1 33-5368) ; 1 November 1995, 940 pages. INTERMEDIATE DIRECT SUPPORT/GENERAL SUPPORT MAINTENANCE MANUAL for the same trucks listed above; 1 May 1992, 1,024 pages. UNIT MAINTENANCE REPAIR PARTS AND SPECIAL TOOLS LISTS (INCLUDING DEPOT MAINTENANCE REPAIR PARTS AND SPECIAL TOOLS LISTS) for the same trucks listed above; 1 May 1992, 724 pages. DIRECT SUPPORT AND GENERAL SUPPORT MAINTENANCE REPAIR PARTS AND SPECIAL TOOLS LISTS (INCLUDING DEPOT MAINTENANCE REPAIR PARTS AND SPECIAL TOOLS LISTS) for the same trucks listed above; 1 May 1992, 724 pages, 984 pages. LUBRICATION ORDER for the same trucks listed above; 1 May 1992, 12 pages. WARRANTY PROGRAM for the same trucks listed above; 6 September 1985, 23 pages. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSTALLATION KIT, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, MK-2314/VRC (NSN 5895-01-216-9748) (EIC: N/A) TO PERMIT INSTALLATION OF RADIO SET AN/VRC-89/91/92 SERIES IN A TRUCK, CARGO, TACTICAL, 1 1/4 TON, 4x4, M1008A1, 1 August 1999, 40 pages. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSTALLATION KIT, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, MK-2313/VRC (NSN 5895-01-216-9743) (EIC: N/A) TO PERMIT INSTALLATION OF RADIO SET AN/VRC-87/88/90 SERIES IN A TRUCK, CARGO, TACTICAL, 1 1/4 TON, 4x4, M1008A1, 1 August 1999, 28 pages. DIRECT SUPPORT AND GENERAL SUPPORT MAINTENANCE REPAIR PARTS AND SPECIAL TOOLS LIST FOR TRUCK, UTILITY: 1/4-TON, 4X4, M151 (2320-00-542-4783) M151A1 (2320-00-763-1092), M151A2 (2320-00-177-9258) M151A2 W/ROPS (2320-01-264-4819) TRUCK, UTILITY: 1/4-TON, 4X4, M151A1C (2320-00-763-1091), M825 (2320-00-177-9257), 106MM RECOILLESS RIFLE TRUCK, AMBULANCE, FRONTLINE: 1/4-TON, 4X4, M718 (2310-00-782-6056), M718A1 (2310-00-177-9256), November 1998, 616 pages DIRECT AND GENERAL SUPPORT MAINTENANCE MANUAL TRUCK, CARGO; 1-1/4 TON, 4X4 M880 (2320-00-579-8942) M881 (2320-00-579-8943) M882 (2320-00-579-8957) M883 (2320-00-579-8959) M884 (2320-00-579-8985) M885 (2320-00-579-8989) TRUCK, CARGO; 1-1/4 TON, 4X2 M890 (2320-00-579-8991) M891 (2320-00-579-9046) M892 (2320-00-579-9052) TRUCK, AMBULANCE; 1-1/4 TON, 4X4 M886 (2310-00-579-9078) TRUCK, AMBULANCE; 1-1/4 TON, 4X2 M893 (2310-00-125-5679) TRUCK, TELEPHONE MAINTENANCE; 1¼-TON, 4X4 M888 (NSN 2320-01-044-0333), April 1986, 291 pages TECHNICAL BULLETIN COLOR, MARKING AND CAMOUFLAGE PATTERNS USED ON MILITARY EQUIPMENT, June 1980, 163 pages INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSTALLATION KIT, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, MK-2493/VRC (NSN 5895-01-216-9745) (EIC: N/A) TO PERMIT INSTALLATION OF RADIO SET AN/VRC-87/88/89/90/91&92 SERIES INTO TRUCK, UTILITY, TACTICAL, 3/4 TON, 4X4, M1009, September 1993, 50 pages INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSTALLATION KIT, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, MK-2311/VRC (NSN 5895-01-216-9744) (EIC: N/A) TO PERMIT INSTALLATION OF RADIO SET AN/VRC-89/91/92 SERIES INTO TRUCK, UTILITY, TACTICAL, 3/4 TON, 4x4, M1009, September 1993, 42 pages INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSTALLATION KIT, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, MK-2313/VRC (NSN 5895-01-216-9743) (EIC: N/A) TO PERMIT INSTALLATION OF RADIO SET AN/VRC-87/88/90 SERIES IN A TRUCK, CARGO, TACTICAL, 1 1/4 TON, 4x4, M1008A1, August 1999, 28 pages INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSTALLATION KIT, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, MK-2314/VRC (NSN 5895-01-216-9748) (EIC: N/A) TO PERMIT INSTALLATION OF RADIO SET AN/VRC-89/91/92 SERIES IN A TRUCK, CARGO, TACTICAL, 1 1/4 TON, 4x4, M1008A1, August 1999, 40 pages