Firesong
Author | : William Nicholson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780007508730 |
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The final part of the Wind on Fire trilogy, read by the author.
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Author | : William Nicholson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780007508730 |
The final part of the Wind on Fire trilogy, read by the author.
Author | : William Nicholson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
ISBN | : 9781864719406 |
Five years have passed. The city of Aramanth has become kinder but with that, weaker. When the ruthless soldiers of the Mastery strike, the city is burned, and the Manth people are taken into slavery. Kestrel Hath is left behind, separated from her beloved brother Bowman, and vowing revenge. Now Kestrel must find Bowman again, and Bowman must learn the secrets of the Singer people. Only then will they break the power of the Mastery.
Author | : Trevor Burnard |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2009-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807898740 |
Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar production, Thistlewood maintained detailed records of a sexual life that fully expressed the society's rampant sexual exploitation of slaves. In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system.
Author | : Jonathan D. Martin |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674040708 |
Divided Mastery explores a curiously neglected aspect of the history of American slavery: the rental of slaves. Though few slaves escaped being rented out at some point in their lives, this is the first book to describe the practice, and its effects on both slaves and the peculiar institution. Martin reveals how the unique triangularity of slave hiring created slaves with two masters, thus transforming the customary polarity of master-slave relationships. Drawing upon slaveholders' letters, slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, legislative petitions, and court records, Divided Mastery ultimately reveals that slave hiring's significance was paradoxical. The practice bolstered the system of slavery by facilitating its spread into the western territories, by democratizing access to slave labor, and by promoting both production and speculation with slave capital. But at the same time, slaves used hiring to their advantage, finding in it crucial opportunities to shape their work and family lives, to bring owners and hirers into conflict with each other, and to destabilize the system of bondage. Martin illuminates the importance of the capitalist market as a tool for analyzing slavery and its extended relationships. Through its fresh and complex perspective, Divided Mastery demonstrates that slave hiring is critical to understanding the fundamental nature of American slavery, and its social, political, and economic place in the Old South.
Author | : William Nicholson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-04-06 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9781405285315 |
The first book in William Nicholson's award-winning fantasy adventure series, perfect for fans of Philip Pullman, Mortal Engines and Star Wars.In the walled city state of Aramanth, rules are everything. When Kestrel Hath dares to rebel, the Chief Examiner humiliates her father and sentences the whole family to the harshest punishment. Desperate to save them, Kestrel learns the secret of the wind singer, and she and her twin brother, Bowman, set out on a terrifying journey to the true source of evil that grips Aramanth...
Author | : William Nicholson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780007508723 |
Sequel to the Smarties Award-winning title, The Wind Singer, read by the author.
Author | : Calvin Schermerhorn |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2011-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421400367 |
Traces the story of how slaves seized opportunities that emerged from North Carolina's pre-Civil War modernization and economic diversification to protect their families from being sold, revealing the integral role played by empowered African-American families in regional antebellum economics and politics. Simultaneous.
Author | : Ariela J. Gross |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082032860X |
This groundbreaking study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil disputes over property. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally defective; owners sued supervisors who whipped or neglected slaves under their care. How, asks Ariela J. Gross, did communities reconcile the dilemmas such trials raised concerning the character of slaves and masters? Although slaves could not testify in court, their character was unavoidably at issue--and so their moral agency intruded into the courtroom. In addition, says Gross, "wherever the argument that black character depended on management by a white man appeared, that white man's good character depended on the demonstration that bad black character had other sources." This led, for example, to physicians testifying that pathologies, not any shortcomings of their master, drove slaves to became runaways. Gross teases out other threads of complexity woven into these trials: the ways that legal disputes were also affairs of honor between white men; how witnesses and litigants based their views of slaves' character on narratives available in the culture at large; and how law reflected and shaped racial ideology. Combining methods of cultural anthropology, quantitative social history, and critical race theory, Double Character brings to life the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives, and advances critical historical debates about law, honor, and commerce in the American South.
Author | : William Nicholson |
Publisher | : Hyperion Books for Children |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2004-06-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780786814183 |
The people of Aramanth are finally free of the Morah, the evil power that controlled them for generations. But a ruthless attack by soldiers from a distant land destroys the city, and its people are driven off as slaves. During the invasion, Kestrel and Bowman are separated for the first time in their lives. Bowman becomes a slave of the Mastery. Kestrel escapes, then sets off to avenge the enslavement of her family. As the twins embark on their parallel adventures, their mother's prophetic dreams reveal their true identity and their dangerous fate. Bowman's mind power and Kestrel's fierce spirit are soon joined once again to fight for the freedom of their people.
Author | : Nicholson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2001-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780749747503 |
The people of Aramanth have been enslaved by the army of the Mastery. If they disobey their masters, a member of their community is burned in an iron cage before their eyes.