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From Slave Ship to Harvard:Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family
A true story of six generations of an African American family in Maryland. Based on paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records, legal documents, and oral histories, the book traces Yarrow Mamout and his in-laws, the Turners, from the colonial period through the Civil War to Harvard and finally the present day.
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Stolen : five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home
\"A ... true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South--and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a courageous and outspoken
nineteenth-century African American who used the press and public
speaking to fight slavery and oppression in the United States and
Canada. Part of the small free black elite who used their education
and limited freedoms to fight for the end of slavery and racial
oppression, Shadd Cary is best known as the first African American
woman to publish and edit a newspaper in North America. But her
importance does not stop there. She was an active participant in
many of the social and political movements that influenced
nineteenth century abolition, black emigration and nationalism,
women's rights, and temperance.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary : The Black Press and
Protest in the Nineteenth Century explores her remarkable life
and offers a window on the free black experience, emergent black
nationalisms, African American gender ideologies, and the formation
of a black public sphere. This new edition contains a new epilogue
and new photographs.
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Educated for freedom : the incredible story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation
\"Educated for Freedom\" explores the story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Gentleman of Color
In A Gentleman of Color, Julie Winch provides a vividly written, full-length biography of James Forten, one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America.Forten was born in 1766 into a free black family.As a teenager he served in the Revolution and was captured by the British.
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Tasting Freedom
Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia's best black baseball team, a teacher at the city's finest black school and an activist who fought in the state capital and on the streets for equal rights. With his racially-charged murder, the nation lost a civil rights pioneer—one who risked his life a century before Selma and Birmingham.
In Tasting Freedom Murray Dubin and Pulitzer Prize winner Dan Biddle painstakingly chronicle the life of this charismatic black leader—a \"free\" black whose freedom was in name only. Born in the American south, where slavery permeated everyday life, he moved north where he joined the fight to be truly free—free to vote, go to school, ride on streetcars, play baseball and even participate in July 4th celebrations.
Catto electrified a biracial audience in 1864 when he proclaimed, \"There must come a change,\" calling on free men and women to act and educate the newly freed slaves. With a group of other African Americans who called themselves a \"band of brothers,\" they challenged one injustice after another. Tasting Freedom presents the little-known stories of Catto and the men and women who struggled to change America.
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