The Captive S Quest For Freedom

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Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.

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Genre : History
Author : R. J. M. Blackett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2018-01-25
File : 531 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108418713


The Long Walk Back Home A Quest For Freedom

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Become involved in Hunter's westward quest for freedom during the Civil War, when the forced "Long Walk" and tragic enslavement threatened the destruction of his proud people. This Navajo youth displays three loves of homeland, culture and tribe while struggling with daily survival issues, dangerous wildlife, and the greed of soldiers determined to eliminate this cherished freedom. Religious enlightenment develops for Hunter while "walking in beauty" with nature, and contending with convoluted cross roads of truth and irony. Freedom has never been free!

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Douglas Davis
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Release : 2018-08-03
File : 656 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781641917063


Stolen Childhood

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"King provides a jarring snapshot of children living in bondage. This compellingly written work is a testament to the strength and resilience of the children and their parents".--"Booklist". "King's deeply researched, well-written, passionate study places children and young adults at center stage in the North American slave experience".--"Choice". 16 photos.

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Genre : History
Author : Wilma King
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release : 1997
File : 284 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0253211867


Setting All The Captives Free

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Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces. Most previous studies of captivity in early America are content to generalize from a small selection of sources, often centuries apart. In Setting All the Captives Free, Ian Steele presents, from a mountain of data, the differences rather than generalities as well as how these differences show the variety of circumstances that affected captives’ experiences. The product of a herculean effort to identify and analyze the captives taken on the Allegheny frontier during the era of the French and Indian War, Setting All the Captives Free is the most complete study of this topic. Steele explores genuine, doctored, and fictitious accounts in an innovative challenge to many prevailing assumptions and arguments, revealing that Indians demonstrated humanity and compassion by continuing to take numerous captives when their opponents took none, by adopting and converting captives into kin during the war, and by returning captives even though doing so was a humiliating act that betrayed their societies' values. A fascinating and comprehensive work by an acclaimed scholar, Setting All the Captives Free takes the study of the French and Indian War in America to an exciting new level.

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Genre : History
Author : Ian K. Steele
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release : 2013-11-01
File : 552 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780773589896


Religious Speech And The Quest For Freedoms In The Anglo American World

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In the secular, contemporary world, many people question the relevance of religion. Many also wonder whether religiously-informed speech and beliefs should be tolerated in the public square, and whether religions hinder freedom. In this volume, Wendell Bird reminds us that our basic freedoms are the important legacies of religious speech arising from the Judeo-Christian tradition. Bird demonstrates that religious speech, rather than secular or irreligious speech based on other belief systems, historically made the demands and justifications for at least six critical freedoms: speech and press, rights for the criminally accused, higher education, emancipation from slavery, and freedom from discrimination. Bringing an historically-informed approach to the development of some of the most important freedoms in the Anglo-American world, this volume provides a new framework for our understanding of the origins of crucial freedoms. It also serves as a powerful reminder of an aspect of history that is steadily being forgotten or overlooked-that many of our basic freedoms are the historical legacies of religious speech arising from Judeo-Christian faiths.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Wendell Bird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2023-03-31
File : 421 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781009092999


Freedom S Captives

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Freedom's Captives offers a compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific.

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Genre : History
Author : Yesenia Barragan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2021-07
File : 345 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108832328


Liberty S Captives

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An astonishing variety of captivity narratives emerged in the fifty years following the American Revolution; however, discussions about them have usually focused on accounts of Native American captivities. To most readers, then, captivity narratives are synonymous with "godless savages," the vast frontier, and the trials of kidnapped settlers. This anthology, the first to bring together various types of captivity narratives in a comparative way, broadens our view of the form as it shows how the captivity narrative, in the nation-building years from 1770 to 1820, helped to shape national debates about American liberty and self-determination. Included here are accounts by Indian captives, but also prisoners of war, slaves, victims of pirates and Barbary corsairs, impressed sailors, and shipwreck survivors. The volume's seventeen selections have been culled from hundreds of such texts, edited according to scholarly standards, and reproduced with the highest possible degree of fidelity to the originals. Some selections are fictional or borrow heavily from other, true narratives; all are sensational. Immensely popular with American readers, they were also a lucrative commodity that helped to catalyze the explosion of print culture in the early Republic. As Americans began to personalize the rhetoric of their recent revolution, captivity narratives textually enacted graphic scenes of defiance toward deprivation, confinement, and coercion. At a critical point in American history they helped make the ideals of nationhood real to common citizens.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Daniel E. Williams
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release : 2006
File : 336 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780820328003


Love Story

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Being a Christian does not mean never having to say you're sorry - that's ridiculous. In fact, we American Christians may have so much to apologize for before we can begin to mount an apologetic, we seem to have lost our voice with the lost and all credibility for the Gospel. In each our own individual act of idolatry, we have each chosen our own Jesus to match our beliefs, rather than choosing our beliefs to match Jesus. We have recreated God in our own image and we have lost our way. Love Story isolates on some large, vitally important ways that we have drifted from our faith, making it much more American than Godly - we have become idolators of individualism, freedom, democracy, capitalism and even idolators of America itself. We have little understanding of suffering, little to say about the meaning of life, and we've missed entirely the spectacular nature of the universe and life. We have much to unlearn before we can dare to speak of our faith.

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Genre : Religion
Author : D. A. Fletcher
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release : 2012-06-20
File : 248 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781312273566


Captive European Nations

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs
Publisher :
Release : 1962
File : 394 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105045300303


Captive European Nations

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Examines the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and evaluates the course of U.S. foreign policy.

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Genre : Communism
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe
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Release : 1962
File : 390 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951P007578784