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
(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 09773638-3-X
$29.00
mail order only
Life, Poetry, and Prison--Cuoc Song, Thi      
 Van, va Tu Day    

Nguyen Chi Thien's poetry translated by     
Nguyen Thi

new March 2007

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        $15
published academic thesis at
the University of California,
Berkeley
Vietnamese freedom activist and
dissident poet Nguyen Chi Thien in
         San Jose, April 21 2007/
Allies for Freedom

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