Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens, Enhanced Ebook - 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 Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens, Enhanced Ebook write by Rebecca Sharpless. This book was released on 2013-02-01. Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens, Enhanced Ebook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. In Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960, Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of discrimination, long workdays, and low wages, African American cooks worked to assert measures of control over their own lives. As employment opportunities expanded in the twentieth century, most African American women chose to leave cooking for more lucrative and less oppressive manufacturing, clerical, or professional positions. Through letters, autobiography, and oral history, Sharpless evokes African American women's voices from slavery to the open economy, examining their lives at work and at home. The enhanced electronic version of the book includes twenty letters, photographs, first-person narratives, and other documents, each embedded in the text where it will be most meaningful. Featuring nearly 100 pages of new material, the enhanced e-book offers readers an intimate view into the lives of domestic workers, while also illuminating the journey a historian takes in uncovering these stories.
An American Quilt
An American Quilt - 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 An American Quilt write by Rachel May. This book was released on 2018-05-01. An American Quilt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rachel May’s rich new book explores the far reach of slavery, from New England to the Caribbean, the role it played in the growth of mercantile America, and the bonds between the agrarian south and the industrial north in the antebellum era—all through the discovery of a remarkable quilt. While studying objects in a textile collection, May opened a veritable treasure-trove: a carefully folded, unfinished quilt made of 1830sera fabrics, its backing containing fragile, aged papers with the dates 1798, 1808, and 1813, the words “shuger,” “rum,” “casks,” and “West Indies,” repeated over and over, along with “friendship,” “kindness,” “government,” and “incident.” The quilt top sent her on a journey to piece together the story of Minerva, Eliza, Jane, and Juba—the enslaved women behind the quilt—and their owner, Susan Crouch. May brilliantly stitches together the often-silenced legacy of slavery by revealing the lives of these urban enslaved women and their world. Beautifully written and richly imagined, An American Quilt is a luminous historical examination and an appreciation of a craft that provides such a tactile connection to the past.
Meet the First Ladies (ENHANCED eBook)
Meet the First Ladies (ENHANCED eBook) - 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 Meet the First Ladies (ENHANCED eBook) write by Cindy Barden. This book was released on 1996-03-01. Meet the First Ladies (ENHANCED eBook) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Meet the First Ladies, your students will find a biographical sketch with detailed information, followed by questions for discussion and research. A page focusing on some aspect of life in the time is also included. Students will learn that not every First Lady was a wife (daughters and relatives also filled the role), how Martha Jefferson made soap, the identity of the first baby born in the White House, who rode down the White House stairs on a cookie sheet and much, much more!
Building Comprehension - Grade 7 (ENHANCED eBook)
Building Comprehension - Grade 7 (ENHANCED eBook) - 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 Building Comprehension - Grade 7 (ENHANCED eBook) write by Ellen M. Dolan. This book was released on 1999-09-01. Building Comprehension - Grade 7 (ENHANCED eBook) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Engaging stories covering current personalities, popular sports figures and events, mysteries, disasters, legends and mythology, and amazing facts in science and nature hold students’ interest and capture their imaginations. A controlled vocabulary averaging two readability levels below content ensures understanding and promotes confidence.
Our Global Village - Turkey (ENHANCED eBook)
Our Global Village - Turkey (ENHANCED eBook) - 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 Our Global Village - Turkey (ENHANCED eBook) write by Zafer Riza Onor. This book was released on 1995-09-01. Our Global Village - Turkey (ENHANCED eBook) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the history, language, holidays, festivals, customs, legends, foods, creative arts, lifestyles, and games of the title country. A creative alternative to student research reports and a time-saver for teachers since the activities and resource material are contained in one book.
