On Our Own Ground - 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 On Our Own Ground write by William Apess. This book was released on 1992. On Our Own Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together all of the known writings of William Apess, a Native American of mixed Pequot and white parentage who fought for the United States in the War of 1812, became a Methodist minister in 1829, and championed the rights of the Mashpee tribe on Cape Cod in the 1830s. Apess's A Son of the Forest, originally published in 1829, was the first extended autobiography by an American Indian. Readable and engaging, it is not only a rare statement by a Native American, but also an unusually full document in the history of New England native peoples. Another piece in the collection, The Experiences of Five Christian Indians of the Pequo(d) Tribe (1833), concludes with an eloquent and unprecedented attack on Euro-American racism entitled "An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man". Also included are Apess's account of the "Mashpee Revolt" of 1833-34, when the Native Americans of Mashpee petitioned the government of Massachusetts for the right to elect their own representatives, and his Eulogy on King Philip, an address delivered in Boston in 1836 to mark the 160th anniversary of King Philip's War. In his extensive introduction to the volume, Barry O'Connell reconstructs the story of Apess's life, situates him in the context of early nineteenth-century Pequot society, and interprets his writings both as a literary act and as an expression of emerging Native American politics.
Upon Our Own Ground: 1956 to 1964
Upon Our Own Ground: 1956 to 1964 - 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 Upon Our Own Ground: 1956 to 1964 write by Gémino H. Abad. This book was released on 2008. Upon Our Own Ground: 1956 to 1964 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
On Her Own Ground
On Her Own Ground - 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 On Her Own Ground write by A'Lelia Bundles. This book was released on 2002-01-01. On Her Own Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Soon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C.J. Walker—the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist—by her great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Sarah Breedlove—who would become known as Madam C. J. Walker—was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then—with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women—everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women, and devoting her life to philanthropy and social activism. Along the way, she formed friendships with great early-twentieth-century political figures such as Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington.
Upon Our Own Ground: 1965 to 1972
Upon Our Own Ground: 1965 to 1972 - 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 Upon Our Own Ground: 1965 to 1972 write by Gémino H. Abad. This book was released on 2008. Upon Our Own Ground: 1965 to 1972 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Divided Ground
The Divided Ground - 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 The Divided Ground write by Alan Taylor. This book was released on 2007-12-18. The Divided Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution. The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman, whose relationship helped redefine North America. As one served American expansion by promoting Indian dispossession and religious conversion, and the other struggled to defend and strengthen Indian territories, the two friends became bitter enemies. Their battle over control of the Indian borderland, that divided ground between the British Empire and the nascent United States, would come to define nationhood in North America. Taylor tells a fascinating story of the far-reaching effects of the American Revolution and the struggle of American Indians to preserve a land of their own.
