In these eight fables and allegorical tales, the author writes of the events of this world as influenced by spiritual or strongly cultural forces

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Contemporary American Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

JOHNSON, Charles

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin??Books

The companion volume to the public television series. This extraordinary examination of slavery in americanca features a four-part history by poet and performance artist Patricia Smith and a dozen fictional narratives by National Book Award-winning novelist Charles Johnson. Two-color with black-and-white illustrations throughout.

Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery

History

SMITH, Patricia

WGBH Series Research Team

Americas

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

A riveting narrative history of America, from the 1607 landing in Jamestown to the brink of the Civil War, Africans in America tells the shared history of Africans and Europeans as seen through the lens of slavery. It is told from the point of view of the Africans who arrived in shackles and endured the terrible dichotomy of this new land founded on the ideal of liberty but dedicated to the perpetuation of slavery. Meticulously researched, this book weaves together the experiences of the colonists, slaves, free and fugitive blacks, and abolitionists to present an utterly original document, a startling and moving drama of the effects of slavery and racism on our conflicted national identity. The result transcends history as we were taught it and transforms the way we see our past.

Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery

Amistad

Twelve stories about the African experience of slavery in America, by the National Book Award-winning novelist. Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history. Now, famed novelist Charles Johnson, whose Middle Passage won the National Book Award, presents a dozen tales of the effects and experience of slavery, each based on historical fact, and each about those Africans who arrived on our shores in shackles. From Martha Washington's management of her slaves, bequeathed to her at the death of the first president, to a boy chained in the bowels of a ship plying the infamous passage from Africa to the South laden with human cargo, from a lynching in Indiana to a hunter of escaped slaves searching the Boston market for his quarry, from an early Quaker meeting exploring resettlement in Africa to the day after Emancipation-the voices, terrors, and savagery of slavery come vividly and unforgettably to life. These stories, told by a master storyteller, transcend history even as they present it, and retell the mythic proportions of a historical period with astounding realism and beauty, power, and emotion.

Soulcatcher: And other stories

United States

Macroeconomics Study Guide

Education & Teaching

Studying & Workbooks

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

The author discusses how he became a successful writer and analyzes contemporary black writers, including Ishmael Reed, Ernest Gaines, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison

Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970

History & Criticism

Indiana University Press

Short Prayers for School Assemblies

Continuum International Publishing

Little is known about the many achievements of African American guardsmen in U.S. history from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. This detailed account thus fills an important gap in our knowledge about the establishment of African American militias in 1877 and their service in wartime and peacetime until the integration of the National Guard in 1950. This careful study of extensive primary and secondary sources is intended for military historians and for all who want to know more about African American contributions to the defense of our nation.Following a short introduction providing some historical background, the study launches into a description of the establishment of African American militia organizations in and about 1877 and their involvement in the Spanish American War and in quelling civil disturbances and disasters up to 1914. The history deals next with the service of African American guardsmen units in World War I, their work in the years between the wars, and their involvement in World War II. The story ends with a description of the initial reorganization of these units and their integration into the National Guard in 1949 and 1950. A lengthy bibliography of primary and secondary sources is useful as well in pointing to the role of African American militias and guardsmen in the history of this important period.

African American Soldiers in the National Guard: Recruitment and Deployment During Peacetime and War (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets)

Praeger

Names for Boys and Girls: The Harrap Book of Boys' Names. The Book of Girls' Names

Reference

Sleigh, Linwood

Genealogy

Pan/Macmillan

The care of documents and management of archives

The Care of Documents and Management of Archives

Franklin Classics

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