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"A psychic examination of slavery's haunting effects on the conscious of black men & women"--Cover.

The shocking, true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man, who lived with his wife and children in Saratoga, New York, in 1841. An accomplished violinist, he is lured into a touring job by two men but awakens to find himself chained to the floor after being drugged. He is transported to a cotton plantation in the American South, where he is eventually sold to abusive slave driver Edwin Epps. Northup spends twelve harrowing years as a slave before his release. His story, described by the Detroit Tribune as "the most remarkable book ever issued from the American press," is a testimony to the strength of one man's spirit and his remarkable will to survive. Now a major motion picture.

Here is the secretive back story of Watergate, involving mobsters, prostitutes and intelligence agencies.

More than twenty years after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family is reissued by FSG Classics, with a new preface by the author.The Ball family hails from South Carolina-Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them.In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, "a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word 'family.'"

The nonfiction The Truth About Sex Trafficking: A Survivor's Experience and What It Means for All of Us explains how traffickers in the United States easily manipulate kids and adults, why some victims are more vulnerable, why many victims protect their traffickers, how to recognize victims, and how survivors get out. Sex traffickers target men, women and children of every race, culture, geographic location and socioeconomic status. Children are most often sold by family members or people they trust. However, traffickers also reach thousands of kids and adults through smart phones and online video games. In The Truth About Sex Trafficking, read what anti-trafficking advocates, survivors, law enforcement, mental health professionals, attorneys, forensic interviewers and others have to say about: · The tactics of sex traffickers· Indicators of trafficking victims· How sexual predators use the Internet, smart phones and computers· The link between pornography and sex trafficking· The link between childhood sexual abuse and sex trafficking· The role of trauma before, during and after being trafficked· Trafficking laws in the United States· How victims and survivors get helpThis well-researched book is for young people and for adults who have kids, who know kids, or who care about kids and vulnerable adults.

Frederick Douglass's dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. His gripping narrative takes us into the fields, cabins, and manors of pre-Civil War plantations in the South and reveals the daily terrors he suffered. Written more than a century and a half ago by a Black man who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister to Haiti, and leader of his people, this timeless classic still speaks directly to our age. It is a record of savagery and inhumanity that goes far to explain why America still suffers from the great injustices of the past. With an Introduction by Peter J. Gomes and an Afterword by Gregory Stephens

Serien JEG OPLEVEDE fortæller om ægte historiske danske begivenheder i form af en fiktiv historie - som nærmer sig historier fra virkelighedens verden.Der findes rigtig mange portrætter fra 17. og 18. århundrede af fine folk med sorte tjenestefolk (som altså var slaver). Det var åbenbart sådan en must-have ting blandt de velhavende med en ibenholtssort page/kammerpige.Awa og hendes mor er slaver på en plantage, hvor Awa indsamler sukkerør. Plantageejeren får besøg af noget københavnsk familie, hvor datteren gerne vil have en sort kammerpige. Og pludselig befinder Awa sig langt fra sin mor og Sct. Thomas i København, hvor hun skal navigere i en dobbeltrolle som frøkenens fortrolige og tjenende kammerpige - og hvor hun nogle gange bliver anset som et trofæ og andre gange som et misfoster.Indeholder historiske fakta bagerst i bogen.I samme serie:Jeg oplevede: Den sorte død