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“david s cecelski”

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  • The Fire of Freedom

    Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War

    by David S. Cecelski ...
    Abraham H. Galloway (1837–1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the most significant and stirring black leaders in the South during the Civil War. Throughout his brief, mercurial life, Galloway fought against slavery and injustice. He risked his life behind enemy lines, recruited black soldiers for the North, and fought ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Waterman's Song

    Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina

    by David S. Cecelski ...
    The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman’s Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers. Demonstrating the vitality and significance of this ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Along Freedom Road

    Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South

    by David S. Cecelski ...
    David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement--the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county's black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required closing two historically black schools in their remote coastal community. Parents and students ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Democracy Betrayed

    The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy

    Edited by David S. Cecelski, Timothy B. Tyson ...
    At the close of the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party in North Carolina engineered a white supremacy revolution. Frustrated by decades of African American self-assertion and threatened by an interracial coalition advocating democratic reforms, white conservatives used violence, demagoguery, and fraud to seize political power and disenfranchise black citizens. The most notorious episode of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

    by Douglas R. Egerton ...
    A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and ... Read more

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  • The Rivers Ran Backward

    The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border

    by Christopher Phillips ...
    Most Americans imagine the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries of freedom and slavery: a straightforward division between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and the free states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas. However, residents of these western border states, Abraham Lincoln's home region, had far more ambiguous identities-and contested political loyalties-than we ... Read more

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  • First Fruits of Freedom

    The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900

    by Janette Thomas Greenwood ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    A moving narrative that offers a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, First Fruits of Freedom chronicles one of the first collective migrations of blacks from the South to the North during and after the Civil War.Janette Thomas Greenwood relates the history of a network forged between Worcester County, Massachusetts, and eastern North ... Read more

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  • The Fall of the House of Dixie

    The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

    by Bruce Levine ...
    In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it, The Fall of the House of Dixie illuminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quo ... Read more

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  • MLK: An American Legacy

    Bearing the Cross, Protest at Selma, and The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.

    by David J. Garrow ...
    **Three meticulously researched works—including Pulitzer Prize winner Bearing the Cross—spanning the life of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.This collection from professor and historian David J. Garrow provides a multidimensional and fascinating portrait of Martin Luther King Jr., and his mission to upend deeply entrenched prejudices in society, and enact legal change that would achieve ... Read more

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  • From Midnight to Dawn

    The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

    by Jacqueline L. Tobin ...
    From Midnight to Dawn presents compelling portraits of the men and women who established the Underground Railroad and traveled it to find new lives in Canada. Evoking the turmoil and controversies of the time, Tobin illuminates the historic events that forever connected American and Canadian history by giving us the true stories behind well-known figures such as Harriet Tubman and John Brown. She ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Give Us the Ballot

    The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

    by Ari Berman ...
    A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, NonfictionA New York Times Notable Book of 2015A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2015A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2015An NPR Best Book of 2015Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been pai... ... Read more

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  • Gateway to Freedom

    The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

    by Eric Foner ...
    The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A deeply entrenched ... Read more

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