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  • The Hangings of Wolfe County, Kentucky

    by Kenneth Bush ...
    For each time and place exists a history that lies on the darker side of the hill, and the history of Wolfe County, Kentucky is no exception. In this vein, there are recollections of Civil War atrocities, cold-bloodied murders and other crimes. Two dates stand out in the shaded annals of the county - 4 September 1885 and 1 June 1888. On these days, two young men were hung at Campton, the county ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Chiral Analysis

    Edited by Kenneth W. Busch, Marianna A. Busch ...
    Chiral Analysis covers an important area of analytical chemistry of relevance to a wide variety of scientific professionals. The target audience is scientific professionals with an undergraduate background in chemistry or a related discipline, specifically organic chemists, researchers in drug discovery, pharmaceutical researchers involved with process analysis or combinatorial libraries, and ... Read more

    $346.49 USD

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  • Stolen Childhood

    Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Wilma King ...
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    An updated edition of the classic study that took "an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery" ( The Washington Post Book World).One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship ... Read more

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  • Mightier than the Sword

    Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America

    by David S. Reynolds ...
    “Fascinating . . . a lively and perceptive cultural history.” —Annette Gordon-Reed, The New YorkerIn this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Uncle Tom’s Cabin the most influential novel ever written by an American. Upon its 1852 publication, the novel’s vivid depiction of slavery polarized its American readership, ultimately widening the rift ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Ida B. Wells (Illustrated)

    by Ida B. Wells, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 10 - Delphi Series Fifteen
    A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and civil rights campaigner, Ida B. Wells led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. She dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, advocating for African-American equality, especially for women. She was a diligent and resourceful researcher, whose important work exposed the true horrors and injustices ... Read more

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  • Rose, a Woman of Colour

    A Slave's Struggle for Freedom in the Courts of Kentucky

    by Arnold Taylor ...
    This book is the true story of Rose Gatliff, a slave who used the courts of Kentucky to wrest freedom from those who held her family in bondage. Despite being held in a slave State and despite her rights being judged by white, slaveholding men, she prevailed. Her persistence, determination and intelligence made her, as one witness phrased it, "the best lawyer" her family had.This is also the story ... Read more

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  • Help Me to Find My People

    The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

    by Heather Andrea Williams ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Women Who Kill

    by Ann Jones ...
    This landmark study offers a rogues' gallery of women—from the Colonial Era to the 20th century—who answered abuse and oppression with murder: "A classic" ( Gloria Steinem).Women rarely resort to murder. But when they do, they are likely to kill their intimates: husbands, lovers, or children. In Women Who Kill, journalist Ann Jones explores these homicidal patters and what they reflect about women ... Read more

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  • The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition

    Mississippi's Longest Civil War

    by Victoria E. Bynum ...
    Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where they declared their loyalty to the U.S. government.The story of the Jones County rebellion is well known ... Read more

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  • Family Secrets

    Crossing the Colour Line

    by Catherine Slaney ...
    Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life. Her great-grandfather was Dr. Anderson Abbott, the first Canadian-born Black to graduate from medical school in Toronto in 1861. In Family Secrets Catherine Slaney narrates her journey along the trail of her family tree, back through the era of slavery and the plight of ... Read more

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  • The Lost Rocks: The Dare Stones and the Unsolved Mystery of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony

    by David La Vere ...
    What if the 1587 Lost Colony of Roanoke was not lost? What if the survivors left Roanoke Island North Carolina and found their way to Georgia? That is the scenario scholars contemplated when a series of engraved stones were found in the 1930's. The first found near the Chowan River in North Carolina claimed that Eleanor Dare and a few other settlers had made their way inland after an Indian attack ... Read more

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  • The Untold Story of Frankie Silver

    Was She Unjustly Hanged?

    by Perry Deane Young ...
    Three days before Christmas in 1831, Frankie Silver killed her husband, Charles Silver, with an axe and burned his body in the fireplace. Author Perry Deane Young, whose ancestors were involved in the case, began collecting material about it as a teenager. As a college student, he was astounded to learn that most of what he had been told was actually false. Abused by her husband, Frankie killed in ... Read more

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