Catalog > Geisteswissenschaft > Geschichte > William Craft & Ellen Craft: Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (ePUB)

William Craft & Ellen Craft
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom [EPUB ebook]

Support

Cover von William Craft & Ellen Craft: Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (ePUB)

Ellen Craft and William Craft were slaves from Macon, Georgia who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. She posed as a white male planter and he as her personal servant. Their daring escape was widely publicized, making them among the most famous of fugitive slaves.

€0.99

Dieses Ebook kaufen – und ein weitere GRATIS erhalten!

Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 62 ● ISBN 9781633841604 ● Dateigröße 0.1 MB ● Verlag Wilder Publications, Inc. ● Erscheinungsjahr 2014 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 3296028 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

erfordert DRM-fähige Lesetechnologie

Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber

William Craft Ellen Craft

232.313 Ebooks in dieser Kategorie

Cover von Gregorio Alonso & Diego (King's College London, University of London, UK) Muro: The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition

Gregorio Alonso & Diego (King’s College London, University of London, UK) Muro: The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition

Most accounts on the Spanish transition to democracy of the late 1970s are based on a false dilemma. Its simplest formulation could be: was it the pressure from below, i.e. the organized working clas …

Cover von Luke Middup: The Powell Doctrine and US Foreign Policy

Luke Middup: The Powell Doctrine and US Foreign Policy

The Vietnam War is one of the longest and most controversial in US history. This book seeks to explore what lessons the US military took from that conflict as to how and when it was appropriate for t …

Cover von Tim Koster & Karen Manners Smith: Time It Was

Tim Koster & Karen Manners Smith: Time It Was

What was it like to live through the Sixties? The writers of these 27 memoirs offer the essence of life and youth in the period. In first-person narratives that range from poignant reminiscences to d …

Cover von Augustine Casiday: Evagrius Ponticus

Augustine Casiday: Evagrius Ponticus

Presenting many texts available for the very first time, this new volume in the successful Early Church Fathers series showcases full translations of Evagrius“ letters, notes on various books of the …

Cover von Dominique Battles: The Medieval Tradition of Thebes

Dominique Battles: The Medieval Tradition of Thebes

As the story of the war between the sons of Oedipus and their cursed race, the Theban legend rivaled that of Troy in popularity and importance for medieval poets and audiences. Dominique Battles expl …

Cover von Ten-jen Cheng & Hung-Mao Tien: The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific

Ten-jen Cheng & Hung-Mao Tien: The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific

Multilateral security forums in the Asia Pacific region have evolved, but bilateral defence alliances continue to form the principle pillars of national security for most nations in the region. This …

Cover von M. Shane Bjornlie: The Life and Legacy of Constantine

M. Shane Bjornlie: The Life and Legacy of Constantine

The transformation from the classical period to the medieval has long been associated with the rise of Christianity. This association has deeply influenced the way that modern audiences imagine the s …

Cover von Kristin M. Heineman: The Decadence of Delphi

Kristin M. Heineman: The Decadence of Delphi

Examining the final years of Delphic consultation, this monograph argues that the sanctuary operated on two connected, yet distinct levels: the oracle, which was in decline, and the remaining religio …

Cover von Dee Andrews & Robert Herz: Human Factors Issues in Combat Identification

Dee Andrews & Robert Herz: Human Factors Issues in Combat Identification

This edited book presents an array of approaches on how human factors theory and research addresses the challenges associated with combat identification. Special emphasis is placed on reducing human …

Cover von Rachel Duffett: Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe

Rachel Duffett: Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe

Wars cannot be fought and sustained without food and this unique collection explores the impact of war on food production, allocation and consumption in Europe in the twentieth century. A comparative …

nächste Seite >>>