"To Strike a Blow for Freedom"
Author | : Cheryl Leanne Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Cheryl Leanne Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James M. Paradis |
Publisher | : White Mane Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
During the Civil War, many African Americans were eager to strike a blow for freedom long before American public opinion was ready to support the fighting efforts of the Sable Arm. The 6th Regiment of United States Colored Infantry fought a war against prejudice as well as the Confederacy. At first, their mission brought them little recognition and glory as they struggled through rain and mud in a series of grueling marches and faced the arduous task of digging the infamous Dutch Gap Canal, moving tons of earth by hand as Confederate shells fell among the workers. At last, the regiment became involved in the crucial campaigns against Petersburg and Richmond, and took part in the assault against the Confederate Goliath, Fort Fisher, North Carolina. The African Americans' greatest ordeal and demonstration of courage came during the battle of New Market Heights, where their charge through withering opposing fire resulted in frightful casualties and the winning of the Congressional Medal of Honor by three soldiers.
Author | : G. A. Henty |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2012-05-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486115844 |
At the end of the 13th century, oppressed Scots rebelled against England with leaders William Wallace and Robert Bruce. This tale takes readers into heroic company with the fictional Archie Forbes, who fights alongside the legends.
Author | : G. A. Henty |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
In Freedom's Cause follows the exploits of Archibald "Archie" Forbes who lives in Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence. As a young man, Archie joins William Wallace and his campaign, taking part in numerous battles and adventures, being captured several times and many times in danger of losing head. After Wallace's capture, Archie joins Robert Bruce continuing his chivalrous fight in order to free Scotland
Author | : G. A. Henty |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2023-01-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368335898 |
Reproduction of the original.
Author | : George Alfred Henty |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465557784 |
At the turn of the fourteenth century in Scotland, young Archie Forbes becomes involved with both William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in the struggle for Scottish independence from English rule.
Author | : Tracy Grant |
Publisher | : NYLA |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2020-11-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1641972084 |
June 1820. Britain’s former prince regent, now George IV, is determined to divorce his estranged wife, Queen Caroline, and the coming trial is the talk of London, from Mayfair to Westminster to Seven Dials, dredging up scandalous details and pitting Whigs against Tories in a battle for power. When former spies Malcolm and Mélanie Rannoch learn their enemies in the mysterious Elsinore League are trying to sell letters that could prove key at the trial, the Rannochs are determined to intercept these vital papers before they can be used against Queen Caroline. The exchange is to take place in the candlelit splendor of Carfax House, at the first ball Malcolm and Mélanie’s friends Julien and Kitty are giving in their new roles as Lord and Lady Carfax. But Malcolm and Mélanie aren’t the only ones determined to intercept the letters. Amidst a night of champagne and waltzing, Mélanie and Malcolm find themselves entrapped in an intrigue that may be as deadly as any they faced in the Napoleonic Wars...
Author | : Harold Holzer |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2006-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807155489 |
The Emancipation Proclamation is the most important document of arguably the greatest president in U.S. history. Now, Edna Greene Medford, Frank J. Williams, and Harold Holzer -- eminent experts in their fields -- remember, analyze, and interpret the Emancipation Proclamation in three distinct respects: the influence of and impact upon African Americans; the legal, political, and military exigencies; and the role pictorial images played in establishing the document in public memory. The result is a carefully balanced yet provocative study that views the proclamation and its author from the perspective of fellow Republicans, antiwar Democrats, the press, the military, the enslaved, free blacks, and the antislavery white establishment, as well as the artists, publishers, sculptors, and their patrons who sought to enshrine Abraham Lincoln and his decree of freedom in iconography. Medford places African Americans, the people most affected by Lincoln's edict, at the center of the drama rather than at the periphery, as previous studies have done. She argues that blacks interpreted the proclamation much more broadly than Lincoln intended it, and during the postwar years and into the twentieth century they became disillusioned by the broken promise of equality and the realities of discrimination, violence, and economic dependence. Williams points out the obstacles Lincoln overcame in finding a way to confiscate property -- enslaved humans -- without violating the Constitution. He suggests that the president solidified his reputation as a legal and political genius by issuing the proclamation as Commander-in-Chief, thus taking the property under the pretext of military necessity. Holzer explores how it was only after Lincoln's assassination that the Emancipation Proclamation became an acceptable subject for pictorial celebration. Even then, it was the image of the martyr-president as the great emancipator that resonated in public memory, while any reference to those African Americans most affected by the proclamation was stripped away. This multilayered treatment reveals that the proclamation remains a singularly brave and bold act -- brilliantly calculated to maintain the viability of the Union during wartime, deeply dependent on the enlightened voices of Lincoln's contemporaries, and owing a major debt in history to the image-makers who quickly and indelibly preserved it.
Author | : Marcus Garvey |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520342232 |
This second volume of Robert A. Hill's monumental ten-volume survey of Marcus Mosiah Garvey's extraordinary mass movement of black social protest covers a period of rapid growth. The Universal Negro Improvement Association, with its "Africa for the Africans" program of racial nationalism, rapidly gained in strength in the aftermath of Garvey's successful meeting in Carnegie Hall in August 1919, and culminated in its spectacular First International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in 1920. Hill has compiled a wealth of archival documents and original manuscripts, with descriptive source notes and explanatory footnotes. He provides a fascinating account of the spread of Garvey's movement, which was seen-and feared-by officials in America, Europe, and colonial governments in Africa and the Caribbean as the major ideological force promoting radical consciousness among blacks. Hill continues the comprehensive outline begun in Volume I of Garvey's Black Star Line, the all-black merchant marine, and documents the beginnings of Garvey's proposals for massive loans to the Liberian government. These controversial financial schemes led to Garvey's reputation as a swindler, and Volume II details the first charges of fraud. The federal investigation of Garvey broadened and deepened during 1919--1920, with J. Edgar Hoover--then an assistant to the attorney general--continuing to search tor grounds to deport Garvey. Included here are numerous repons from government agents and informers, which provide a valuable ponrait of day-to-day UNIA operations. Volume II ends with the UNIA's 1920 convention, presented by Garvey as a turning point in the history of black-white relations. The legislation and the elective offices produced by that convention were intended to form a virtual government in exile for Africa, fulfilling Garvey's ambition to practice statecraft and create the symbols of black nationhood and sovereignty. This volume is the second of six that focus on America; the seventh and eighth focus on Africa, and the last two on the Caribbean. Hill has brought together far more than a portrait of a single intriguing historical figure. Garvey's movement was a mass social phenomenon, an Afro-American protest movement with strong links to African and Caribbean nationalism in the first decades of the twentieth century.
Author | : Boston (Mass.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1368 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |