Kelly, Joseph
Summary: An account of the two hundred-year practice of slavery in Charleston examines its hotly contested debates and early slave rebellions through the Nullification crisis and the secession that sparked the Civil War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 KELSummary: The brutal roots of the American slave trade are exposed in this program, focusing on the years 1450-1750 when Native Americans first encountered Europeans and when their world was transformed - and largely destroyed - by white settlers. Not only did the settlers exploit the natural wealth of the Americas, they also traveled to Africa, where they began a transatlantic slave trade that would...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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Summary: "A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 FOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 FOUBoxer Rebellion
Contents: No harm -- Step out of the car -- Locked in the basement -- Cause for alarm -- Caught by the light -- Organ song -- Memo -- Both sides are even -- The runner -- Doubt
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Absentee Recordings 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BOXSummary: As time creeps by, the exercise of reward and punishment and the friction of social inequality within the microsociety of prison take their toll, fraying nerves among the prisoners and generating anxiety among the guards. In this episode, two inmates form an unlikely alliance-and the guards are taken by surprise when three prisoners launch a nighttime revolt. Contains harsh, inflammatory, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005