Middleton Place
Middleton Place, near Charleston, South Carolina, features the oldest landscape garden in North America. Begun in 1741, its construction took 100 slaves a decade to complete. The butterfly lakes are in the bottom right corner of the above ... [... more]
Suite101 |
God's Gift to Women
In a culture that exalts the caveman-like qualities of masculinity, most women have stopped expecting anything more. Young men are taught to view women as slaves to their self-centered desires. More than ever, men need to know that they can rise ... [... more]
Random House |
Hallacas (Venezuela)
The hallaca is the main Venezuelan Christmas dinner dish. It was created by the slaves during the colony times. They put the left-overs of their master's Christmas festivities in a bit of cornmeal dough, wrapped this with banana leaves and cooked ... [... more]
International Vegetarian Union |
Gregory A. Freeman
Gregory A. Freeman is the author of Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves. An award-winning journalist with twenty years' experience, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Stephen Wisdom
The gladiatorial games of the Roman world comprised battle for entertainment and slaughter for profit. Although notorious for the use of prisoners of war, conquered slaves and condemned criminals as dispensable 'extras', some did volunteer for ... [... more]
Random House |
David Blight
Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and ... [... more]
Random House |
Diane Dillon, Ph.D.
LEO AND DIANE DILLON'S award-winning picture book interpretation of Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton's beloved tale now includes an unforgettable word-for-word CD narration by James Earl Jones and Virginia Hamilton. This tale of slaves who ... [... more]
Random House |
Slaves of the Mastery
 solid sequel but not as imaginitive as the original: Slaves of the Mastery picks up several years after the events of the Windsinger (first book of the trilogy) and in plot and structure is similar to its predecessor, though not as original in thought or [... more]
CDN$12.49
Amazon CA |
Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations ...
A new look at the slave trade: Employing evidence from African oral traditions and European archival sources, this book looks at the slave trade in and from Africa in a new and unique way. Casting an eye toward the continent's decentralized societies, [... more]
CDN$29.12
Amazon CA |
Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican ...
slaves and missionaries by mary turner: dear sir/madam, please send me a 800words review of this book now. It is an emergency I need to know about this book and I from Jamaica. Author: M. Turner Author: Mary Turner Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal [... more]
CDN$26.05
Amazon CA |
Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making ...
great read: Ours is an age when we worry about consumer debt (and consumer confidence), terrorists, and an energy crisis. In other words, when we feel our society a little wobbly it is great to read Woody Holton's book and find similar concerns in pre- [... more]
CDN$27.50
Amazon CA |
Slaves of the Mastery
From Amazon.co.uk: Slaves of the Master is the fantastically vivid, breathtaking sequel to The Wind Singer by William Nicholson. Written with the same passion and cinematic scope as the first book in the series, Slaves of the Mastery picks up the story [... more]
CDN$27.50
Amazon CA |
