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| This rare Civil War drawing is edited to show the enslaved workers at Antietam Ironworks in Washington County, Maryland. Previous to his ministry, Rev. Thomas W. Henry was an enslaved blacksmith. His autobiography, transcribed and documented, is the only primary source of these workers from an African American source (1872). edited by Jean Libby, first published in 1994 -- reprint with enhanced photos, 2005. Indexed. ISBN-0-9773638-0-5 $18 |
| Lori Deal donated her letter from John to Mary Brown to the Bancroft Library, University of California, to be shared with students, researchers, and teachers of American history and intercultural relations. Did you see her on History Detectives? |
| The artwork that is the signature image of MEAN TO BE FREE: JOHN BROWN'S BLACK NATION CAMPAIGN is by students of Malaquias Montoya at the California College of Art & Craft in Oakland. Mural no longer extant. ISBN 978-0-9773638-3-4 $34.95 |
Life, Poetry, and Prison--Cuoc Song, Thi Van, va Tu Day Nguyen Chi Thien's poetry translated by Nguyen Thi My body disintegrated, decayed or turned into black mud But verses written in the vile, dark nights Together with bedbugs and mosquitoes, if they were lost I would cry somberly, cry somberly in the earth. Nguyen Chi Thien spent 27 years in Communist prisons in North Vietnam in the years 1961 and 1991. He won the International Poetry prize in 1985, while still in prison at the "Hanoi Hilton." He was kept in solitary confinement and it was not known if he was alive or dead. Today he is a U.S. citizen. slavery appears in many forms throughout human history ISBN 978-0-9773638-4-1 Allies for Freedom publishers, March 2007 $12 |
Mean To Be Free is a
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published academic thesis at
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