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- The life and times of Hannah Crafts : the true story of The Bondwoman's Narrative. by Hecimovich, Gregg A.;
"A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr. In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman’s Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the author’s identity remained unknown. Over a decade later, Professor Gregg Hecimovich unraveled the mystery of the author’s name and, in The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, he finally tells her story. In this remarkable biography, Hecimovich identifies the novelist as Hannah Bond “Crafts.” She was not only the first known Black woman to compose a novel but also an extraordinarily gifted artist who honed her literary skills in direct opposition to a system designed to deny her every measure of humanity. After escaping to New York, the author forged a new identity--as Hannah Crafts--to make sense of a life fractured by slavery. Hecimovich establishes the case for authorship of The Bondwoman’s Narrative by examining the lives of Hannah Crafts’s friends and contemporaries, including the five enslaved women whose experiences form part of her narrative. By drawing on the lives of those she knew in slavery, Crafts summoned into her fiction people otherwise stolen from history. At once a detective story, a literary chase, and a cultural history, The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts discovers a tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and violence set against the backdrop of America’s slide into Civil War."--Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery;
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- Hidden in plain view : the secret story of quilts and the underground railroad / by Tobin, Jacqueline,1950-; Dobard, Raymond G.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-208)- Subjects: Underground railroad; Fugitive slaves; Afro-American quilts; Ciphers;
- © c1999., Doubleday,
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- The shores of Tripoli / by Haley, James L.,author.;
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- Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; War fiction.; United States. Navy; Battleships; Sea stories;
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- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" / by Hurston, Zora Neale,author.; Plant, Deborah G.,1956-editor,writer of introduction.; Walker, Alice,1944-writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-171).- Subjects: Biographies.; Lewis, Cudjo.; Clotilda (Ship); Slaves; West Africans; Slavery; Slave trade; Slave trade;
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- All that is wicked : a gilded-age story of murder and the race to decode the criminal mind / by Dawson, Kate Winkler,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff-a serial murderer who was called "too intelligent to be killed"-and the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind"--- Subjects: Rulloff, Edward H. (Edward Howard), 1819-1871; Criminal psychology; Serial murderers;
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- A child's day / by Kalman, Bobbie.; Everts, Tammy,1970-;
The day-to-day life of children in nineteenth-century North American communities is explored through stories and activities.LSC- Subjects: Children; Children; Pioneer children; Pioneer children; Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier and pioneer life;
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- The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade / by Durkin, Hannah,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Clotilda (Ship); African Americans; Enslaved persons; Enslaved persons; Human trafficking; Slave trade; West Africans;
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- Mercy Street. [videorecording] / by Belcher, McKinley,III,actor.; Butz, Norbert Leo,actor.; Cole, Gary,1956-actor.; Cragg, Stephen,1950-television director.; Green, Walon,screenwriter.; Innes, Laura,1959-television director.; James, Hannah,actor.; Radnor, Josh,1974-actor.; Richman, Jason,screenwriter.; Rosemont, David A,television producer.; Winstead, Mary Elizabeth,actor.; Zabel, David,screenwriter.; Zakrzewski, Alex,television director.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
McKinley Belcher III, Josh Radnor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Gary Cole, Hannah James, Norbert Leo Butz.Season two picks up directly from the dramatic events and the end of the season one finale, continuing to explore the growing chaos within Alexandria, the complicated interpersonal dynamics of Dr. Foster, Nurse Mary and the Mansion House staff, the increasingly precarious position of the Green family and the changing predicament of the burgeoning black population.14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Historical television programs.; Medical television programs.; Television series.; War television programs.; Antislavery movements; Slavery; Man-woman relationships; Nurses;
- For private home use only.
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- Vanderbilt : the rise and fall of an American dynasty / by Cooper, Anderson,author.; Howe, Katherine,1977-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts. When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires-one in shipping and another in railroads-that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by "the Commodore," subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakers-the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius's grandson and namesake had built-the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all. Now, the Commodore's great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family's empire, basked in the Commodore's wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other. Written with a unique insider's viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.- Subjects: Biographies.; Vanderbilt family.; Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1794-1877.; Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1794-1877; Vanderbilt, Gloria, 1924-2019; Businessmen; Millionaires; Railroads; Rich people; Socialites; Steamboats; Upper class families; Upper class; Wealth;
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- Twelve years a slave : a true story of betrayal, kidnap and slavery / by Northup, Solomon,1808-1863?;
LSC- Subjects: Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?.; Slaves; Slaves' writings, American.; African Americans; Plantation life; Slavery;
- © 2013., Hesperus Press,
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