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  • Crips and Bloods

    A Guide to an American Subculture

    by Herbert C. Covey ...
    Series series Guides to Subcultures and Countercultures
    This book provides a concise and engaging examination of the subculture of the Crips and Bloods—the notorious street gangs that started in Los Angeles, but have now spread throughout the United States.Despite the dangers and harsh realities intrinsic to street life and criminal activity, the no-holds-barred lifestyle of gangs continues to interest mainstream America. This provocative book provides ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

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    African American Slave Medicine

    Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments

    by Herbert C. Covey ...
    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Drawing upon ex-slave interviews conducted during the 1930s and 1940s by the Works Project Administration (WPA), Dr. Herbert C. Covey inventories many of the herbal, plant, and non-plant remedies used by African American ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How the Slaves Saw the Civil War

    Recollections of the War through the WPA Slave Narratives

    by Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach ...
    Drawing from narratives of former slaves to provide accurate and poignant insights, this book presents descriptions in the former slaves' own words about their lives before, during, and following the Civil War.Examining narratives allows us to better understand what life was truly like for slaves: "hearing" history in their own words brings the human aspects of slavery and their interpersonal ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Understanding American COVID-19 Pandemic Beliefs, Behaviors, Politics, and Society

    by Herbert C. Covey ...
    In Understanding American COVID-19 Pandemic Beliefs, Behaviors, Politics, and Society, Herbert C. Covey presents an overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted American society. He proposes that the social and political contexts leading up to and during the pandemic fueled differing and sometimes opposing attitudes and behaviors. Some Americans saw COVID-19 as a dangerous threat while ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • What the Slaves Ate

    Recollections of African American Foods and Foodways from the Slave Narratives

    by Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach ...
    Carefully documenting African American slave foods, this book reveals that slaves actively developed their own foodways-their customs involving family and food. The authors connect African foods and food preparation to the development during slavery of Southern cuisines having African influences, including Cajun, Creole, and what later became known as soul food, drawing on the recollections of ex ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • The Smallest Victims

    A History of Child Maltreatment and Child Protection in America

    by Herbert C. Covey ...
    This book provides a review of how child maltreatment has been socially constructed, ignored, and formally responded to as it tells the story of how America's system of child protection has evolved. Additionally, it identifies key questions and related issues.When child maltreatment occurs, it strikes chords in our hearts because we sense the terrible injustice inherent in the matter: children are ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents

    [2 volumes]

    Edited by Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach ...
    Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents takes readers on an insightful journey through the life experiences of African Americans over the centuries, capturing African American experiences, challenges, accomplishments, and daily lives, often in their own words.This two-volume set provides readers with a balanced collection of materials that captures the wide-ranging experiences of ... Read more

    $211.99 CAD

  • Adolescent Exposure to Violence and Adult Outcomes

    Results from the National Youth Survey Family Study

    by Scott Menard, Herbert C. Covey ...
    This book uses life-course longitudinal data collected from a national probability sample of respondents over a span of nearly three decades to examine the impact of multiple forms of exposure to violence in adolescence on a broad range of outcomes in adulthood. The forms of adolescent exposure to violence include general violence victimization, parental physical abuse, witnessing parental ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • Remembering Slavery

    African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

    Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, Steven F. Miller ...
    "A Best Book of the Year" —Library Journal and BooklistUsing excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writer's Project, this astonishing collection makes available in print the only known recordings of people who actually experienced slavery--recordings that had gathered dust in the Library of Congress until they were ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Folks Don't Want Me To Talk About Slavery

    Personal Accounts of Slavery in North Carolina

    Edited by Belinda Hurmence ...
    Former slaves themselves—an important but long-neglected source of information about the institution of slavery in the United States. Who could better describe what slavery was like than the people who experienced it? And describe it they did, in thousands of remarkable interviews sponsored by the Federal Writers’ Project during the 1930s. More than 170 interviews were conducted in North Carolina. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard

    Personal Accounts of Slavery in Virginia

    by Belinda Hurmence ...
    In the 1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project undertook a massive effort at gathering the oral testimony of former slaves. Those ex-slaves were in their declining years by the time of the Great Depression, but Elizabeth Sparks, Elige Davison, and others like them nonetheless provided a priceless record of life under the yoke: where slaves lived, how they were treated, what they ate, how they worked, ... Read more

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  • Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves Volume III Florida Narratives

    by United States. Work Projects Administration ...
    Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida Narratives is a significant compilation of firsthand accounts from former enslaved individuals in Florida, recorded by the WPA’s Federal Writers' Project. This volume presents a rich array of personal stories that illuminate the complex realities of slavery in the state, ... Read more

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