Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule write by Harriette Gillem Robinet. This book was released on 2011-02-22. Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.
40 Acres and No Mule
40 Acres and No Mule - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 40 Acres and No Mule write by Janice Holt Giles. This book was released on 1992-09-01. 40 Acres and No Mule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late 1940s, Janice and Henry Giles moved from Louisville, Kentucky, back to the Appalachian hill country where Henry had grown up and where his family had lived since the time of the Revolution. With their savings, the couple bought a ramshackle house and forty acres of land on a ridge top and set out to be farmers like Henry's forebears. To this personal account of the trials of a city woman trying to learn the ways of the country and of her neighbors, Janice Holt Giles brings the same warmth, humor, and powers of observation that characterize her novels. Enlightening and evocative, personal and universally pertinent, this description of a year of "backaches, fun, low ebbs, and high tides, and above all a year of eminent satisfaction" will be welcomed by Janice Holt Giles's many readers, old and new. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.
40 Acres and a Mule
40 Acres and a Mule - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 40 Acres and a Mule write by Kevin Riles. This book was released on 2008-01-18. 40 Acres and a Mule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If you are Black and live in America, this book is going to change your life In 40 Acres &a Mule, Kevin motivates you to start the process of wealth accumulations by follwing some very simple steps. He delves into how to set up your "real estate team." He also takes the covers off of the mortgage process. Kevin goes in to detail on how your credit scores are calculated adn how to "repair" your credit. Speaker, Motivator, Teacher, Entrepreneur have all been used to describe Kevin Riles. So READ, LEARN, ACT
Forty Acres and a Mule
Forty Acres and a Mule - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forty Acres and a Mule write by Claude F. Oubre. This book was released on 1978. Forty Acres and a Mule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1978, Claude F. Oubre's Forty Acres and a Mule has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconstruction. Drawing on a vast collection of government records and newspapers, Oubre examines what he sees as the crucial question of Reconstruction: Why were the far majority of freed slaves denied the opportunity to own land during the Reconstruction era, leaving them vulnerable to a persecution that strongly resembled slavery? Oubre recounts the struggle of black families to acquire land and how the U.S. government agency Freedmen's Bureau both served and obstructed them. This groundbreaking book offers an indispensable resource for anyone eager to understand the evolution of slavery studies.
Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule
Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule write by Debra Ann Reid. This book was released on 2012. Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This ground-breaking collection proves that there is still a great deal to learn about the lives of black southerners. The essays offer a counterpoint to the standard story that all African Americans in the rural South found themselves mired in poverty and dependency."--Melissa Walker, author of Southern Farmers and Their Stories "A remarkable achievement. The authors in this collection have retrieved African American farm owners from the margins of history, making clear that life on the land for African Americans not only transcended sharecropping but also shaped the contours of the struggle for freedom and justice."--Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author of Bloody Lowndes This collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essay provides a case study of people in one place at a particular time and the factors that affected their ability to acquire, secure, and protect their land. ?The contributors walk readers through a century and a half of African American agricultural history, from the strivings of black farm owners in the immediate post-emancipation period to the efforts of contemporary black farm owners to receive justice through the courts for decades of discrimination by the U.S Department of Agriculture. They reveal that despite enormous obstacles, by 1920 a quarter of African American farm families owned their land, and demonstrate that farm ownership was not simply a departure point for black migrants seeking a better life but a core component of the African American experience. Debra A. Reid, professor of history at Eastern Illinois University, is author of Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas. Evan P. Bennett is assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic University.
