Bøger af Jerry Cunningham

This short story collection has 14 lovely, funny, readable short stories by Jerry Cunningham. A number of them were previously published in literary journals. ++++ The Girl Who Was Born From An Egg: Set in Oregon, why do those folks carry brooms near the sea? ++++ The Locksmith: A love story. ++++ How Jackson Became A Water Balloon Of Emotion: What happened when a animal liberation activist went to a palm reader? ++++ Patriot Act: A grim tale. ++++ The Corkscrew Finds Love InSoutheast Portland: Althea lives with her slacker-artist boyfriend and supports him for years. Bf decides to become a chocolatier. What happens when bf ships out of town to find just the right cocoa in the mountains of Peru? ++++ The Black Boy Who Reached For The Stars: A Harlem boy is told by his mother that there are billions of stars; he sneaks onto the subway, at night, to find out the truth. ++++ The Snow Queen: The Queen of Mean kidnaps two children; will they be o.k.? ++++ When The Boy Who Liked Falafels Met The Principal: All the teenage boy wanted in his high school was a can of soda, but he got much, much more. ++++ Why The Singing Chickens Never Saw New Orleans: The lives of three generations of men from New Orleans are described; the last of them, Skinny Pete, gets a saxophone in an odd way. ++++ The Armored Truck: Should broken hearts get their own security service? ++++ The Castle: Will the castle-owner deceive the three carpenters, or do they have a plan of their own? ++++ The Spotlight: What happens when an old lady shows up in the living room and won't leave? ++++ How Charlotte Became A Chihuahua: The tenants of an apartment complex have issues; poor Charlotte meets a witch. ++++ The Dancing Chameleon: Is it possible to set forth the history of modern American dance in a funny story? ++++

Could slavery get worse after centuries of it? It did in the slave South in the decades just before the Civil War. This book explores the expansion of slavery during the period, the growth of the mass-labor cotton and sugar plantations, the expulsion of the Native Americans, and the new types of repression. Those new types of repression included new laws that prohibited the teaching of a slave to read or write - prohibited literacy - under penalty of whippings or worse. Other new types of repression included laws against gatherings - aimed at religious gatherings. Laws requiring slaves to have a pass from the slaveowner or a white person were ancient; they were tightened under the new regime. The laws were enforced by the notorious patrols, made of poorer white men, whose service was always mandatory and often drunken. The book chronicles, often in the voices of the slaves themselves, both the repression against literacy and religion and their resistance to it.

Could slavery get worse after centuries of it? It did in the slave South in the decades just before the Civil War. This book explores the expansion of slavery during the period, the growth of the mass-labor cotton and sugar plantations, the expulsion of the Native Americans, and the new types of repression. Those new types of repression included new laws that prohibited the teaching of a slave to read or write - prohibited literacy - under penalty of whippings or worse. Other new types of repression included laws against gatherings - aimed at religious gatherings. Laws requiring slaves to have a pass from the slaveowner or a white person were ancient; they were tightened under the new regime. The laws were enforced by the notorious patrols, made of poorer white men, whose service was always mandatory and often drunken. The book chronicles, often in the voices of the slaves themselves, both the repression against literacy and religion and their resistance to it.