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Tag: Slavery
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James Donaldson’s Book Review – Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War: 1831 – 1861: The Drama of American History by Christopher Collier
In this short read of a book, “Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War”, […]
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James Donaldson’s Book Review – The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave by Willie Lynch
This was an excellent read into the inside in goings-on of the slave trade, not […]
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James Donaldson’s Book Review – A Young People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
There were about 14 million immigrants who came to America in the 1920s. In 1924, […]
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James Donaldson’s Book Review – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
This was an in-depth and insightful portrayal of the life of Frederick Douglass. A man […]
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James Donaldson’s Book Review – Say It Plain: A Century of Great African-American Speeches by American RadioWorks
Dick Gregory Fannie Lou Hanmer Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey Mary MacLeod Bathone Stokely […]
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James Donaldson’s Book Review – Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James Loewen
“Sundown towns” refer to cities and towns throughout America’s 20th century (to current) where racial […]
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James Donaldson’s Book Review – The Slaves’ War: The Civil War As Told In The Words of Former Slaves by Andrew Ward
http://www.audible.com/pd/History/The-Slaves-War-Audiobook/B002V01ED4 This is a collection of circa 1920’s interviews that were conducted with actual slaves […]
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James Donaldson’s Book Review – Where Do We Go From Here: From A Call To A Conscience by Martin Luther King Jr.
http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/Where-Do-We-Go-From-Here-Audiobook/B002VAEVBG Sen. Edward Kennedy makes a wonderful introduction with “Where Do We Go from Here”, […]