Epic Journeys of Freedom

Epic Journeys of Freedom
Author: Cassandra Pybus
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807055144


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"During the American Revolution, thousands of slaves fled their masters to find freedom with the British. Epic Journeys of Freedom is the story of these runaways and the lives they made on four continents. Having emancipated themselves, with the rhetoric about the inalienable rights of free men ringing in their ears, these men and women struggled tenaciously to make liberty a reality in their own lives."--BOOK JACKET.


Epic Journeys of Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Cassandra Pybus
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Beacon Press

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"During the American Revolution, thousands of slaves fled their masters to find freedom with the British. Epic Journeys of Freedom is the story of these runaway
Epic Journeys of Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Cassandra Pybus
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-01 - Publisher: Beacon Press

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Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of fli
The Ice Road
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Stefan Waydenfeld
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Aquila Polonica

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These grim words greeted 14-year-old Stefan Waydenfeld and his parents at the end of their forced journey by cattle car from their home in Poland to a Stalinist
Enterprising Women
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Kit Candlin
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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These recovered histories of entrepreneurial women of color from the colonial Caribbean illustrate an environment in which upward social mobility for freedpeopl
Freedom Train North
Language: en
Pages: 138
Authors: Julia Pferdehirt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09 - Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society

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People running from slavery made many hard journeys to find freedom—on steamboats and in carriages, across rivers and in hay-covered wagons. Some were shot at