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"From the establishment of Fort Victoria, BC's capital city has had a long history of prostitution. But little has been written on the lives of the women themselves--some of the most enterprising women in Victoria's past. Instead, these women's stories have been relegated to judgmental newspaper headlines. Now historian Linda J. Eversole takes a deeper look at their lives, from the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War and the Moral Reform movement. Story by story, from the fur trade, through confederation, waves of immigration, and attempts at reform and legislation, Eversole uncovers the histories of the women who made a living, and in some cases a fortune, from the world's oldest profession. With accompanying maps and historical photos, new research, and the support of the descendants of some of her subjects, Eversole presents a nuanced, human series of portraits that enhances our understanding of this important strand of the city's history."--
One past summer, the New York Times's burst open a long-overdue conversation about how stories of Black Americans history need to be told through the lens of Black Americans themselves. Does every book concerning the African-American during the American civil war be focused on cruelty and exploitation? This heartfelt story "Nellie the War Chick" will confirm your leadership role in your community, that YOU are the gateway librarian, book seller to true heartfelt whole family entertainment outlet about the southland of America prior to and during the Civil War. This is a true story about Robert E. Lee's pet chicken who "Sort a Life of Purpose". And the General's bodacious cook and body servant; William Mack Lee during our American Civil War. After the war William Mack Lee was a frequent guest on the Veterans reunion circuit telling of his adventures as General Lee's cook. Here's Williams "Mack" Lee's confession July 3, 1863: "The onliest time that Marse Robert ever scolded me," said William Mack Lee, "in de whole fo' years dat I followed him through the wah, was, down in de Wilderness--Seven Pines-- near Richmond. I remembah dat day jes lak it was yestiday. "Whilst we was in Petersburg, Marse Robert had done got him a little black hen from a man and we named the little black hen Nellie. She was a good hen, and laid mighty nar every day. We kep' her in de ambulants, whar she had her nest." William "Bill" Mack Lee. See free review flip book. https: //newsonpublishing.com/nellie-the-war-chick/
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome helps to lay the necessary foundation to ensure the well-being and sustained health of future generations and provides a rare glimpse into the evolution of society's beliefs, feelings, attitudes and behavior concerning race in America. Revised and Updated Edition.
LARGE PRINT EDITION In publishing this book, I hope to do good not only to my own race, but to all who may read it. I am not a bookmaker, and make no pretensions to literary attainments; and I have made no efforts to create for myself a place in the literary, book-making ranks. I claim for my book truthfulness and honesty of purpose, and upon that basis, it must succeed or fail. The Biography of a Slave is called for by a very large number of my immediate acquaintances, and, I am assured, will meet with such reception as to justify the expense I have incurred in having it printed and bound. To the members of the United Brethren Church, white as well as colored, I look for help in the sale and circulation of my work, yet I am satisfied I will receive commendable patronage from members of all Christian churches everywhere.
In this Second anniversary edition, Black Consciousness Author and thought leader, Vukulu Sizwe Maphindani reciprocates the developments surrounding the Black condition as already outlined on the first edition of the book. Having sparked a much needed conversation around the topic, where at times he was met with criticism and often not allowed to mention the title of his book on National radio, the updated content is as thought-provoking than never before. The book gives a 911 critical assessment and account of the Black condition from the author's experiences as the Blackman in South African society today. This is a letter disguised as a book. Besides being a letter, it is a memo to indoctrinated black masses whose fate is plagued in a era of psychological remote control and genocide (Economic genocide).
What happens when a high-end call girl visits a client? Enter the private world of Tina, an adventurous bikini model on her quest for quick cash as a high-end escort in Southern California. Walk with her as she takes her fateful first step into a hotel room as a call girl. Feel her fear of the inherent danger in her new line of work. Take a front row seat and view the action in this fascinating account of one escort-client relationship. The two narrators share their thoughts as they discover and act out unforeseen desires together. Their relationship develops into more than either of them expected. This detailed look into their secret world is filled with explicit sex and laugh-out-loud humor. This is the true story of one Southern California call girl and one long-term client. This story is told first-hand, uncensored, and unembellished. Yes, this is what really happened.
This book helps educate others about a pimp, familial, and gang trafficking. It is filled with survivor stories as well as my own story of trafficking. Each story has a purpose and that is to help others, especially trafficked girls, understand what happened to them when they were trafficked. This book will help break that trauma bond as well as facilitate the healing process. This book is for sex trafficking survivors, advocates, counselors, and anyone else who wants to learn more about trafficking and what the healing process looks like for complex trauma. I believe that if each girl understood how they were forced, coerced, or manipulated into trafficking that they could break the trauma bond that was formed with their trafficker and reduce the recidivism rate of being re-exploited.
Twelve Years a Slave (Originally published in 1853 with the sub-title: "Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana") is the written work of Solomon Northup; a man who was born free, but was bound into slavery later in life. Northup's account describes the daily life of slaves in Bayou Beof, their diet, the relationship between the master and slave, the means that slave catchers used to recapture them and the ugly realities that slaves suffered. Northup's slave narrative is comparable to that of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs or William Wells Brown, and there are many similarities. Scholars reference this work today; one example is Jesse Holland, who referred to him in an interview given on January 20, 2009 on Democracy.now. He did so because Northup's extremely detailed description of Washington in 1841 helps the neuromancers understand the location of some slave markets, and is an important part of understanding that African slaves built many of the monuments in Washington, including the Capitol and part of the original Executive Mansion. The book, which was originally published in 1853, tells the story of how two men approached him under the guise of circus promoters who were interested in his violin skills. They offered him a generous but fair amount of money to work for their circus, and then offered to put him up in a hotel in Washington D.C. Upon arriving there he was drugged, bound, and moved to a slave pen in the city owned by a man named James Burch, which was located in the Yellow House, which was one of several sites where African Americans were sold on the National Mall in DC. Another was Robey s Tavern; these slave markets were located between what are now the Department of Education and the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, within view of the Capitol, according to researcher Jesse Holland, and Northup's own account[1]. Burch would coerce Northup into making up a new past for himself, one in which he had been born as a slave in Georgia. Burch told Northup that if he were ever to reveal his true past to another person he would be killed. When Northup continually asserts that he is a freeman of New York, Burch violently whips him until the paddle breaks and Rathburn insists on Burch to stop. Northup mentions different kind of owners that Northup had throughout his 12 years as a slave in Louisiana, and how he suffered severely under them: being forced to eat the meager slave diet, live on the dirt floor of a slave cabin, endure numerous beatings, being attacked with an axe, whippings and unimaginable emotional pain from being in such a state. One temporary master he was leased to was named Tibbeats; the man tried to kill him with an axe, but Northup ended up whipping him instead. Finally the book discusses how Northup eventually ended up winning back his freedom. A white carpenter from Canada named Samuel Bass arrived to do some work for Northup s current owner, and after conversing with him, Northup realized that Bass was quite different from the other white men he had met in the south; he said he stood out because he was openly laughed at for opposing the sub-human arguments slavery was based on. It was to Bass that Northup finally confided his story, and ultimately Bass would deliver the letters back to Northup s wife that would start the legal process of earning him his freedom back. This was no small matter, for if they had been caught, it could easily have resulted in their death, as Northup says.
South Carolina Slave Narratives: Large Print
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