Benjamin Lays remarkable life story can be a lesson in courage and hope for us all.Fearless Benjamin tells the story of a courageous little person, only four feet tall, who fought slavery at a time when almost everyone else accepted...Daugiau...
A definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroads long-overlooked maritime origins, from a pre-eminent scholar of Atlantic history and the award-winning author of The Slave Ship As many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from th...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-May-2025, Other book format, Leidėjas: TarcherPerigee, ISBN-13: 9780525558354)
A definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroads long-overlooked maritime origins, from a pre-eminent scholar of Atlantic history and the award-winning author of The Slave Ship As many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from th...Daugiau...
A must-have hardcover edition of the watershed book on 18th-century pirates and the amazingly democratic and egalitarian communities they createdPart of the Beacon Classics series Villains of All Nations explores the Go...Daugiau...
Based on the little known real life Slave Insurrection of 1741, this book imagines outlaw fugitive John Gwin and an eclectic crew of renegades as they attempt to disrupt and overthrow the colonial social orderRebel fugitive John Gwin...Daugiau...
In your hearts you know the truth: I was here among you three hundred years ago . . . Had you chosen differently then - before slavery and greed breathed their venom so deeply into our souls - we would be living in another world now. It is not too l...Daugiau...
Under the Banner of King Death explores the sub-culture and resistance of eighteenth-century pirates, telling the tales of John Gwin, an African American fugitive from bondage in South Carolina; Ruben Dekker, a common seaman from Amsterdam; and Mark...Daugiau...
Prophet against Slavery illustrates the life and times of an eighteenth-century dwarf abolitionist who performed guerrilla theater against slaveowners and became one of the first to demand immediate abolition-- Based on the award-winning bi...Daugiau...
Villains of All Nations explores the Golden Age of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuc...Daugiau...
Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, Matthias van Rossum
Serija: California World History Library
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jul-2019, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520304369)
During global capitalisms long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profoun...Daugiau...
Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, Matthias van Rossum
Serija: California World History Library
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jul-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520304352)
During global capitalisms long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profoun...Daugiau...
True tales of the pirates who ruled the seas during the eighteenth century Villains of All Nations explores the Golden Age of Atlantic piracy and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. The high...Daugiau...
True tales of the pirates who ruled the seas during the eighteenth century Villains of All Nations explores the Golden Age of Atlantic piracy and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. The high...Daugiau...
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeIn The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic l...Daugiau...
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeIn The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic...Daugiau...
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeIn The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic...Daugiau...
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life. The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man--a Quaker...Daugiau...
