A Dreadful Deceit - 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 A Dreadful Deceit write by Jacqueline Jones. This book was released on 2013-12-10. A Dreadful Deceit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color of their skin and the economic injustices they battled—yet the former is what defines them in America’s consciousness. In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of these two men and four other African Americans to reveal how the concept of race has obscured the factors that truly divide and unite us. Expansive, visionary, and provocative, A Dreadful Deceit explodes the pernicious fiction that has shaped American history.
American Work
American Work - 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 American Work write by Jacqueline Jones. This book was released on 1999. American Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "[Jones's] painstakingly researched volume is an invaluable antidote to those who argue that our shameful past has no relevance to our perplexing present." --David Kusnet, Baltimore Sun
Goddess of Anarchy
Goddess of Anarchy - 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 Goddess of Anarchy write by Jacqueline Jones. This book was released on 2017-12-05. Goddess of Anarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where she met her husband, the Haymarket "martyr" Albert Parsons-Lucy was a fearless advocate of First Amendment rights, a champion of the working classes, and one of the most prominent figures of African descent of her era. And yet, her life was riddled with contradictions-she advocated violence without apology, concocted a Hispanic-Indian identity for herself, and ignored the plight of African Americans. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, Jacqueline Jones presents not only the exceptional life of the famous American-born anarchist but also an authoritative account of her times-from slavery through the Great Depression.
Saving Savannah
Saving Savannah - 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 Saving Savannah write by Jacqueline Jones. This book was released on 2008-10-07. Saving Savannah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prize-winning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that fabled Southern port city. Here is a subtle and rich social history that weaves together stories of the everyday lives of blacks and whites, rich and poor, men and women from all walks of life confronting the transformations that would alter their city forever. Deeply researched and vividly written, Saving Savannah is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the Civil War years.
Ethnic America
Ethnic America - 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 Ethnic America write by Thomas Sowell. This book was released on 2008-08-01. Ethnic America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups -- the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.
