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  • Ancient Wonders (Illustrated Edition)

    The Story of Ancient Greece & Ancient Rome - Children's Classics

    Illustrated by Walter Crane, W. Rainey, Dudley Heath ...
    e-artnow presents simple and easy-to-understand children's classics series. In this edition you will find: 'The Story of Greece' containing fascinating anecdotes from the Ancient Greek history and culture—beginning with the mythical and legendary stories of gods and heroes and ending with the conquests of Alexander the Great. 'The Story of Rome' covering the history of Rome, when Troy was ... Read more

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  • The Story of Rome (Illustrated Edition)

    From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus

    Illustrated by Paul Woodroffe, W. Rainey, Dudley Heath ...
    The book, 'The Story of Rome, From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus, Told to Boys and Girls' covers the history of Rome, when Troy was considered to be one of the great cities in Asia Minor and was taken by Greeks. The rise of Caesar till his death is vividly described in this book. It also describes the Roman history in a very simple language which is easier for anyone to understand. ... Read more

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  • The Black Baptist Experience in Canada

    Series Book 19 - McMaster General Studies Series
    This groundbreaking book is a history of the Black Baptist experience in Canada. It includes diverse and informative chapters on events, themes, and organizations such as the underground railway, gender, architecture, literature, civil rights, empire, and associations. It also focuses on several key early churches from the West Coast to the East Coast, along with important personages such as ... Read more

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    Four British Folkways in America

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  • The Underground Railroad

    Next Stop, Toronto!

    "The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! stands out as an engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s. Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper and Karolyn Smardz Frost offer many helpful points of entry for readers learning for the first time about Black history in Canada. They also give surprising and detailed information to enrich the understanding of ... Read more

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  • Emancipation Day

    Celebrating Freedom in Canada

    When the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Act, effective August 1, 1834, ushered in the end of slavery throughout the British Empire, people of the African descent celebrated their newfound freedom. Now African-American fugitive slaves, free black immigrants, and the few remaining enslaved Africans could live unfettered live in Canada -- a reality worthy of celebration.This new, well-researched ... Read more

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  • Ebony and Ivy

    Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

    A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian.A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was ... Read more

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  • Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage

    Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967

    Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage is composed of the collected works of Professor Fred Landon, who for more than 60 years wrote about African-Canadian history. The selected articles have, for the most part, never been surpassed by more recent research and offer a wealth of data on slavery, abolition, the Underground Railroad, and more, providing unique insights into the abundance of African ... Read more

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  • Rebels Rising : Cities and the American Revolution

    Cities and the American Revolution

    The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics debated the issues of the day in taverns and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work historian Benjamin L. Carp shows how these various urban meeting places provided the tinder and spark for the American ... Read more

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  • North to Bondage

    Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

    Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring black slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, Loyalist families brought slaves with them to settle in the Maritime colonies of British North America.The transition from slavery in the American colonies to slavery in the Maritimes required slaves to use their traditions of ... Read more

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  • The Reverend Jennie Johnson and African Canadian History, 1868-1967

    After her conversion at a Baptist revival at sixteen, Jennie Johnson followed the call to preach. Raised in an African Canadian abolitionist community in Ontario, she immigrated to the United States to attend the African Methodist Episcopal Seminary at Wilberforce University. On an October evening in 1909 she stood before a group of Free Will Baptist preachers in the small town of Goblesville, ... Read more

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  • The Weeping Time

    Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

    In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, ... Read more

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