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Books on: slaves personal account

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Many Thousand Gone: The Ex-Slaves' Account of Their Bondage and Freedom

Book by Charles H. Nichols; E. J. Brill, 1963

Subjects:

Slaves--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...however, thousands of slave biographies and autobiographies...and even fictionalized accounts are striking in their...truth. As the victims personal account of bondage, these autobiographies...include such fictitious accounts as Hildreth Archy Moore...Autobiography of a Female Slave , Mrs. Pierson Fugitive...
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Adventures of an African Slaver: Being a True Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory & Slaves on the Coast of Guinea

Book by Malcolm Cowley, Theodore Canot; Albert & Charles Boni, 1928

Subjects:

Slave Trade

Collections: History, Entire Library

...countryman and superior, Ali Ninpha. On all these articles the prisoner was found guilty; but, as there were neither slaves nor personal property by which he could be mulcted for his crimes, the tribunal adjudged him to be scourged with fifty lashes...
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The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps

Book by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain; University of Nebraska Press, 1998

Subjects:

Appomattox Campaign, 1865--Personal Narratives, Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence--1828-1914, United States--Army--Corps, 5th (1862-1865), United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal Narratives, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental Histories, Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal Narratives, Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental Histories

Collections: History, Entire Library

...corresponding elevation, whether allies or aliens. As a climax, with significance which one might ponder, whole families of freed slaves, as servants, trustfully leading their little ones, obedient to fate, silent, without sign of joy; more touching in some...
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Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia

Book by David Fitzpatrick; Cornell University Press, 1994

Subjects:

Australia--Emigration And Immigration--History, Immigrants--Australia--Biography, Ireland--Emigration And Immigration--History, Irish--Australia--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...relating his safe Arrival at one of the British Settlements in about 1840, having lamented the grievances of the poor wretched slaves, who groan in these islands under a cruel and heavy bondage, made his adieu with the assurance that under whatever sun I breathe...
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The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade

Book by Robert Harms; Basic Books, 2002

Subjects:

Slave Trade--Africa, West--History--18th Century, Slave Trade--France--History--18th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...even more of a disaster. Of the 295 slaves that they packed into the ship at Whydah...had made enough money from trading in slaves for his own personal account on that voyage thirty-five of the slaves on the Marie Heureuse belonged to the...

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Journal Articles on: slaves personal account

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WPA Sources for African-american Oral History in Arkansas: Ex-slave Narratives and Early Settlers' Personal Histories

Journal article by Andrea Cantrell; The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 63, 2004

Subjects:

African Americans, Arkansas, History, Narratives, Oral history, Slavery

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Arkansas: Ex-slave Narratives and Early Settlers Personal Histories by...first-hand accounts of their experiences.1 Literate slaves were few. For...slaves were the slave narratives popular...including a lengthy account of Confederate...source for ex-slave testimony from...interviews with former slaves are among the...Early Settlers Personal History questionnaires...
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'Yet Another End of Another Aboriginal Filmmaker's Journey': a Personal Account of Aborigninal Documentary Filmmaking in the ABC

Journal article by Frances Peters-Little; Hecate, Vol. 28, 2002

Subjects:

Australia, Documentary films, Indigenous people, Researchers

Collections: Entire Library

...would have to be a contemporary personal account of ones own experience...to us that we had many similar personal stories, whether it was from a...Almost everything, from the personal accounts down to the government legislation...
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Preserving Our Legacy for Future Generations of Educators: Personal Accounts, Photographs, and Recordings Enrich the History of Dance

Journal article by Colleen Porter Hearn, Kacy E. Crabtree; JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, Vol. 79, 2008

Subjects:

Dance--History, Dance--Study and teaching, Dancing--History, Dancing--Study and teaching, National Dance Association

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...Future Generations of Educators: Personal Accounts, Photographs, and Recordings...interviews and preserving materials with personal accounts, for making the past...and old on how best to preserve personal items. Network program specialist...
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Under the Flags of Freedom: Slave Soldiers and the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America

Journal article by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 95, 2010

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Under the Flags of Freedom: Slave Soldiers and the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...comparative work on slave soldiers during...states arming slaves or slaves arming...river of runaway slaves flowing through this account of the wars of...undermined the slave systems in the...similar to mass slave actions during...this sense, the personal war of slaves in Spanish colonial...
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Middle Passage in the Triangular Slave Trade: the West Indies

Journal article by Ruth Sawh, Alice M. Scales; Negro Educational Review, Vol. 57, 2006

Subjects:

Children & youth, Human trafficking, Mortality, Slave trade, Whites

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Schools for inlighting sic the Slave. That something the American...497). Accordingly, many other slaves disobeyed their masters and risked their personal safety for freedom. Many slaves challenged slave laws by bringing complaints against...

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Magazine Articles on: slaves personal account

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A World Enslaved: There Are Now More Slaves on the Planet Than at Any Time in Human History. True Abolition Will Elude Us until We Admit the Massive Scope of the Problem, Attack It in All Its Forms, and Empower Slaves to Help Free Themselves

Magazine article by E. Benjamin Skinner; Foreign Policy, March 2008

Subjects:

Human smuggling, Sex oriented businesses, Slave trade--Personal narratives, Slave trade--Prevention, United Nations--Powers and duties, Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act of 2000

Collections: History, Entire Library

...gained fame through dramatic slave rescues. Most learned that freeing slaves is impossible unless the slaves...encourage groups that empower slaves to free themselves, millions...provides a rare, firsthand account of the global slave trade and explores why efforts...the trade in modern-day slaves is Kevin Baless Disposable...
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Youth Individual Development Accounts: Retirement Planning Initiatives

Magazine article by Marcia A. Shobe, Stephanie L. Sturm; Children & Schools, Vol. 29, July 2007

Subjects:

African Americans, Education, Federal funding, Home ownership, Investment plans, Payday loans, Personal finance, Portfolio management, Retirement planning, Savings accounts, School systems, Security programs, Social security, Tax incentives, Taxation

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...youths, the America Saving for Personal Investment, Retirement...essential. Implementation The accounts can be housed at community...matching funds in a separate account. The accounts could be transferred from...case management services when personal, social, and economic barriers...
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The Black Slaves Who Became Slavers Themselves

Magazine article by Gaia Goffe; New African, July 2010

Subjects:

Clemetson, Robert--Family, Clemetson, Robert--History, Family history, Slaves--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...1817, Nancy and other slave owners were required...register and make a full account of the slaves they possessed. After...of all and every slave and slaves proper by me as owner...Nancy, slavery was not personal. It was just business...
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How George Washington Treated His Slaves

Magazine article by Regina Jere-Malanda; New African, May 2001

Subjects:

African diaspora--History, Mount Vernon, Virginia--History, Presidents (Government)--Behavior, Presidents--Behavior, Slaveholders--Behavior, Slavery--United States, Slaves--Care and treatment, United States history, 1783-1789 (Confederation), United States history, 1789-1817 (Early republic), United States history--1783-1815, United States--History, Washington, George--Behavior

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Poor creatures His slave inventories, which...indicate the number of slaves employed at Mount...situation. Slaves were personal property and by...Will regarding his slaves "Item: To my dearly...estate, real and personal, for the term of...desire that all the slaves which I hold in...difficulties on account of their intermixture...
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British MPs in Their Own Words ... 'Different Acts of Parliament Have Encouraged the African Slave Trade!'

Magazine article by Osei Boateng; New African, October 2011

Subjects:

Abolition of slavery--Political aspects, Slave trade--Political aspects, Slavery--Emancipation, Slavery--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...might ultimately place the slaves generally on a footing of...considering the African Slave Trade to be contrary to the...gradually extinguished the Slave Trade, and even slavery...this subject, the price of slaves has increased mo per cent...that where there is no personal interest, the zeal of mankind...British goods to Africa to buy slaves, transports the staves to the West Indies, and brings slave-grown products such as...

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Newspaper Articles on: slaves personal account

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THE UNTOUCHABLES; Violence and Drugs Go Unpunished. Discipline Is a Dirty Word. and All That Matters Are the Rights of the Children, Who Treat Staff like Slaves. One Youth Worker's Devastating Account of Life in Britain's Care Homes

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 23, 2011

Subjects:

Nursing homes, Violence

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Children, Who Treat Staff like Slaves. One Youth Workers Devastating Account of Life in Britains Care Homes...cook, butler, driver and slave. The children are fully aware...On top of that, Id had personal problems during my own youth...unwilling to instil in them any personal discipline or self-control...
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Rebellion Is for Slaves: If You're against This Tax, Use Democracy!

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 18, 2011

Subjects:

Democracy, Slavery, Slaves--Taxation

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Rebellion Is for Slaves: If Youre against This...the pockets of its own personal friends in the manner...that we were effectively slaves in our own land. We...that holds government to account on this issue. Write...acting as if we were slaves in this country. We...
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Row over Plaque to Slave Trader Who Changed Tack; HONOURING CAPTAIN FOR HIS LIBERAL VIEWS 'GOES TOO FAR'

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 9, 2010

Subjects:

Abolition of slavery, Slavery, Slavery--Emancipation

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...sentences in his lengthy account is disproportionate...elsewhere he refers to slaves in hostile and derogatory...I am descended from slaves, possibly Captain Phillips...In many ways the personal journey of Captain Thomas Phillips, from slave trader to a man who...of Africans to become slaves, many of whom did not...
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Trading in Human Misery; Liverpool Was Late into the Slave Trade, but Soon Made Up for Lost Time. Peter Elson Reports on the Reprinting of Classic Work about the Business That Made the Seaport Rich

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 9, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...before the late 18th century, slave trading was seen as indistinguishable...Gomer Williamss book is an account of its time says Dr Arline...Theres memoirs by Hugh Crow, a slave captain, who wrote about the slave trade at the time and described his journeys. He claimed the slaves on the plantations have a better...
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The Slave Girl Who Stole a President's Heart; Taboo: Sarah Played by Thandie Newton in the Film Jefferson in Paris. Inset: Thomas Jefferson

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 8, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...race and, by all accounts, she was very beautiful...A contemporary account described her as...from the southern, slave-owning state of...was one of his slaves. Such relationships...many of whom had slave mistresses alongside...death, her fathers slaves including the Hemings...even suggested the slave girl was simply...Sarah became his personal chambermaid. Slave...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: slaves personal account

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Underground Railroad

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...somewhat glorified, personal reminiscences written...prodigious feats in stealing slaves away from the South...help given to fugitive slaves on their varied routes...plight of the runaway slave before his eyes. The...North and South, and by slaves on plantations along...in nearly all early accounts of the railroad. Moreover...extensively revised account, see Larry Gara, The...
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Fourteenth Amendment

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...economic legislation, their power to limit personal liberties was brought under greater restraint...state to abridge the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition...to the Confederacy or from the loss of slaves. By Section 5, Congress is empowered...
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Ramses

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Ramses but the first, are often, on that account, called Ramessides or Ramessids. Ramses...handed, had vast texts written about his personal valor. War continued with the Hittites...territory in this region. The accumulation of slaves and riches in the temples and the tremendous...

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