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“timothy james lockley”

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  • Maroon Communities in South Carolina

    A Documentary Record

    Edited by Timothy James Lockley ...
    A detailed history of communities of escaped slaves who survived in South Carolina swampsMaroon communities were small, secret encampments formed by runaway slaves, typically in isolated and defensible sections of wilderness. The phenomenon began as runaway slaves, unable to escape to safe havens in sympathetic colonies, opted instead to band together for survival near the sites of their former ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

    by Leslie M. Harris, Daina Ramey Berry, Jonathan M. Bryant, Bobby J. Donaldson, Jacqueline Jones, Timothy James Lockley, Susan Eva O'Donovan, Janice Sumler-Edmond, Jeffrey Young0, James A. McMillin1 ...
    Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city’s founding to the early twentieth century. Written by leading historians ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

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    "A fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war ... Brands does his readers a service by reminding them that division, as much as unity, is central to the founding of our nation."—The Washington PostFrom best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, ... Read more

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  • The First American Revolution

    Before Lexington and Concord

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  • King Philip's War

    The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict

    by Eric B. Schultz, Michael J. Tougias ...
    The harrowing story of one of America's first and costliest wars—featuring a new foreword by bestselling author Nathaniel PhilbrickAt once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip's War expands our understanding of American history and provides insight into the nature of colonial and ethnic wars in ... Read more

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  • American Tempest

    How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution

    by Harlow Giles Unger ...
    On Thursday, December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men, many dressed as Indians, dumped roughly £10,000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. Whatever their motives at the time, they unleashed a social, political, and economic firestorm that would culminate in the Declaration of Independence two-and-a-half years later.The Boston Tea Party provoked a reign of terror in Boston and other American ... Read more

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  • God, War, and Providence

    The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England

    by James A. Warren ...
    The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: “a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses frustrated in their own time” (Booklist, starred review) as determined Narragansett Indians refused to back down and accept English authority.A devout Puritan minister in seventeenth-century New ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Slavery's Exiles

    The Story of the American Maroons

    by Sylviane A Diouf ...
    Sylviane A. Diouf's Slavery's Exiles reveals the forgotten stories of America maroons―wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery.Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of the United States

    by John Bach McMaster ...
    Feeling in Spain.—America, at this time, was to the Spaniard a land of vague, but magnificent promise, where the simple natives wore unconsciously the costliest gems, and the sands of the rivers sparkled with gold. Every returning ship brought fresh news to quicken the pulse of Spanish enthusiasm. Now, Cortez had taken Mexico, and reveled in the wealth of the Montezumas; now, Pizarro had conquered ... Read more

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  • The Story of the Negro

    by Booker T. Washington ...
    The Story of the Negro is a history of Americans of African descent before and after slavery. Originally produced in two volumes, and published here for the first time in one paperback volume, the first part covers Africa and the history of slavery in the United States while the second part carries the history from the Civil War to the first part of the twentieth century. Booker T. Washington was ... Read more

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  • Black Rebellion

    Eyewitness Accounts of Major Slave Revolts

    by Dr. Sujan Dass ...
    A collection of historical literature documenting major slave revolts and uprisings throughout the Americas.Who will tell the stories of those who refused to be slaves? The Atlantic slave trade transported millions of humans from the coasts of West Africa into the New World, stripping them of their dignity, freedom, language and culture. The accepted notion is that these Blacks willingly submitted ... Read more

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  • Thirteen Clocks

    How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence

    by Robert G. Parkinson ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time. So how did these American colonies overcome long odds to create a durable union capable of declaring independence from Britain? In this powerful new history of the fifteen tense months that culminated in the Declaration of Independence, ... Read more

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