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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Leon F. Litwack
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Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (Freedom : a Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867)
ASIN: 0394743989
Release Date: 1980-08-12 |
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution."
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1. "The Faithful Slave"
2. Black Liberators
3. Kingdom Comin'
4. Slaves No More
5. How Free is Free?
6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About
7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions
8. Back to Work: The New Dependency
9. The Gospel and the Primer
10. Becoming a People
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Excellent Read.......2007-05-25
I was thoroughly educated. Though the author isn't an African American, unlike many non-black authors, I did not detect any bias or racism. He just presented truths. I higly recommend this book for those interested in African American history after the civil war.
A classic work.......2006-02-09
Anyone with a serious interest in the Civil War should read Been in the Storm So Long. Litwacks's work is more than just black history; it explores the principle cause and consequence of the war. Unlike many general histories that preceded it, "Been in the Storm" relies heavily on primary sources. War-era diaries and letters of whites, Union Army records, Freedman's bureau reports, and Depression-era interviews of former slaves and their children, provide most of the material. The outrage of southern whites who watched trusted slaves pick up and leave when freedom came, echoes throughout the book. So too does the uncertainty of the era. Some blacks may have dreamed big, but most just wanted freedom, security, and opportunity. Though some lasting gains were made, the struggle for full freedom would be much longer.
Certainly, "Been in the Storm" is the place to start for Emancipation reading. Though the coverage of early black politics was not as strong as in Eric Foner' Reconstruction, I know of no equal for the early social consequences of Emancipation.
Indispensable study of African Americans after emancipation.......2004-11-12
Few populations in history have gone through the dramatic changes that African Americans underwent at the end of the Civil War. People who had suffered slavery for generations suddenly found themselves free, a welcome yet uncertain status that required considerable exploration and adjustment. Leon Litwack's book examines this transition, concentrating on how freed African Americans perceived freedom and how they shaped the conditions of their freedom in the aftermath of the Civil War.
For many African Americans, change began with the Civil War. Slaves in areas occupied by Union soldiers would be liberated from bondage, while many African Americans took up arms as the war went on. The end of the war and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment meant freedom for African Americans, freedom to live their lives as they wanted. For most, the first step was finding their scattered families and coming to terms with their time as slaves. Freedom also meant discovering a new identity, especially with regards to their former masters, as African Americans now had to deal with whites in new ways both socially and in the workplace. Finally, African Americans faced the challenge of creating a new society free of the restrictions of slave life, which led to the establishment of modes of religion, politics, and the press to serve their particular interests.
Litwack's book is an indispensable study of African Americans in the aftermath of emancipation. Based on a wealth of primary sources (including the invaluable collection of oral interviews conducted by the Federal Writers' Project during the 1930s), he argues that no set experience defined how African Americans dealt with freedom. What emancipation demonstrated was the interdependence that existed between African Americans and whites, an interdependence that did not end with freedom but was shaped by attitudes and tensions that remained from the experience of slavery. The result is a book that is essential reading for any student of the era, as well as for those seeking insight into race relations in America today.
A wonderful book about slaves experiencing freedom.......2003-02-21
This book is gives an excellent synthesis as to how freedom was experienced in various regions of the South after 1863. One of the finest books within the historiography of American slavery and freedom. Litwack goes to great lengths explaining the freedom experience, the failures of the Freedmen's Bureau and the hesitations ex-slaves felt after 1863. A must read and must have for anyone interested in slavery, its aftermath and Reconstruction.
Beautifully Written with detailed descriptions of AfAm Strug.......1999-01-24
Professor Litwack is a superb writer/teacher in the field of the struggles of african americans. He fully understands and convincingly portrays the harsh realities of our shameful past in "Been in the Storm so Long".
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- Disappointing series by otherwise wonderful author
- Praise for book 2
- Loved Loved Loved
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Southern Storm (Cape Refuge, No. 2)
Terri Blackstock
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Police Chief Cade disappears after hitting and killing a man with his car. Without a trace, without a note, without taking clothes or his car or money, he is gone. When a witness says she saw Cade getting into a blue Buick with a woman before his disappearance, the newspapers report that Cade left town to be with her. Blair knows it doesn’t make sense for Cade to leave without word for any reason. The dead man is identified, and it soon becomes clear that the woman Cade was seen with was the wife of the dead man. Newspapers begin to ask hard questions. Was the Cape Refuge Chief of Police having an affair with this woman? Did he deliberately kill her husband, then make it look like an accident? When the police department receives a handwritten note from Cade that he has run off to get married to a woman he’s kept secret, everyone breathes a sigh of relief. But Blair notices his unusual signature: Matt Cade. Cade never goes by his first name, and he especially never calls himself “Matt.” She thinks it’s a signal from him that the contents of the note are false. Meanwhile, around the south, there are news reports about babies being kidnapped from area hospitals. When a ransom call comes to Hanover House from the baby’s kidnapper, they are all shocked to see that the phone it is traced to is Cade’s cell phone. Is he involved in the babies’ disappearance? Is that why he’s disappeared?
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Disappointing series by otherwise wonderful author.......2006-04-03
Warning: if you are a Blackstock fan, please don't blast me for this review; I am too! But this book made me so frustrated I had to force myself to finish it. Blair has not become any more likeable since the first book, and that's a problem considering she's the main character. Truth be told: there are no likeable characters in this book. This book seems to be so plot driven that the characters are forced to commit every action whether it seems in their nature or not. I don't understand why the Owen sisters even live in Cape Refuge, everyone in town is mean and stuck-up. Every cop or agent in the book is an imbecile. Morgan is so passive she spends most of her time either oblivious to what's going on around her or sobbing. Blair is so aggressive, she truly is a woman only God could love (hey, I have days like that too, but Blair seems to be stuck in a rut). She runs roughshod over everyone and they give in to her, even when it doesn't make sense. I love the idea of Hanover House and Cape Refuge, but I won't be finishing this series. I can't. Too many implausibilities and the power of the message of Jesus was lost. That said, I loved Newpointe 911, Sun Coast Chronicles, and many other books by Blackstock, but this series just isn't worth your time.
Praise for book 2.......2006-02-20
I love books in series. Whenever I finish a book that I have enjoyed, I want more. I like the way that Blackstock introduces a few more characters in each book and gives you a chance to get to know them before the next book. Her characters are believable and I admire their "humanness" (if that's a word). She does a very good job of working the scripture theme into the books without jamming it down your throat. Her books give me a reason to pause and reflect. Good job, Terri! Book 2 is a hit with me.
Loved Loved Loved.......2005-10-30
I could not put this book down. I think I hold the record for reading through this novel so quickly. I love the series Mrs. Terri Blackstock has written.
Great, Awesome Book.......2005-10-26
This Book Southern Storm is the 2nd in the Cape Refuge series by Terri Blackstock. This is a great book, i had a hard time putting it down once i got into it. It all starts with Mathew Cade Cheif of Police driving his car to direct traffic because of a terrible storm on the island. When a man walks in the front and hits the man. Later finding out the man was shot earlier that day. Within 24 hours Mathew Cade disappears. Blair Owens one of Cade's good friends won't rest till he is safe and sound at his own house. She doesn't belive in God or the same faith as Cade. She is tihnking and feeling that she is the only one that cares about Cade and his disapperance. She take matters into her own hands. While Saide doesn't feel like she belongs in her school were people are unforgiving for her past. Then a guy comes along who makes her feel belonged Makes her feel good. But there are disturbing rummors about him helping with his father's business beating people up if they are late for their payments, could this be true, could her handsome, strong,and gentle guy do that? Karen a resident at Hanover House who has a beutiful baby, She thought that she could never feel so much love for another human being, then haveing it kidnapped by a nurse imposter. All this happing after a couple months after the death of Morgan and Blair's parents murder. Will Sadie fit into school? Are those rummors true? Will Karens Baby be found? Will Cade Be Found by Blairs will of not giving up? Will Blair belive in God ? FInd out by reading Southern Storm.
Can you ask for more?.......2005-09-06
TERRI BLACKSTOCK creates the atmosphere for a fabulous second book by the last chapter of Cape Refuge. On impulse, I couldn't wait to go to the library and check out the second. Blaire and Cade are back with a romance slowly starting to unfold. But, one problem, Blaire's not a Christian.
The story begins with Cade running over a pedestrian that decides he needs to just hop in the road. But, the secret of this pedestrian will take Blaire and Cade on a scary journey. Cade disappears, and when a letter comes back saying Cade is married and is happy, Blaire can't believe it. This is the basis of the fact of a real relationship unfolding. SO, she sets out to find him, and its her courage that saves his life.
But, an ending that will leave you smiling, is the icing of the cake that Blackstock presents.
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Cape Refuge / Southern Storm / River's Edge / Breaker's Reef (Cape Refuge Series, Books 1-4)
Terri Blackstock
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- A Shelter in the Storm
- Get ALL of the Seven Sisters Books!
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A Shelter in the Storm (Seven Sisters)
Debra White Smith
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A Shelter in the Storm.......2002-04-12
I love Debra White Smith's "Seven Sisters" series. This book has a good mix of romance and suspense. The story of Sonsee & Taylor was compelling and kept my interest all the way through. The killer was not easily identified, it was a surprise to me.
I enthusiastically recommend this whole series. You won't be disappointed.
Get ALL of the Seven Sisters Books!.......2002-04-02
I read Shelter in the Storm, not knowing it was one of a series, but enjoyed it immensely. Unlike some other series books by other authors, Ms. Smith has made this story stand alone. We meet the other people in the series, whom I am sure have their own books, but this story is totally about Sonsee and Taylor. I loved the suspense, the mystery, and the romance woven into the mix. Ms. Smith juggles all these parts with skill and an entertaining manner. You'll keep turning pages to find out how it all ends. Warning though, if you read this one, you'll want to read ALL the others! Thanks you, Ms. Smith, for an entertaining (but sleepless night as I had to find out the ending) book.
A Shelter in the Storm - A Must Read.......2002-03-30
Having already read books 1 and 2 of Debra White Smith's Seven Sister series and loved them, I came to A Shelter in the Storm with high expectations and wasn't disappointed. As she has done with the first two books of the series, Debra has shown how imperfect Christians deal with the uncertainties of life and how their faith helps them to become overcomers. Sonsee struggles with her growing feelings of love for her life-long friend, Taylor, because he cannot allow himself to love her. The story is not only a romance, but also a tale of suspense that leaves the reader hanging on every word, not knowing who done it until the very end. God's redeeming love is shown as both Sonsee and Taylor comes to terms with their faith and the misconceptions about it that threaten to keep them apart.
The Seven Sisters series is wonderful...each a unique story unto itself. I find myself wishing it were more than seven sisters. There are only two left :-).
Not her best.......2002-03-04
I did not like this book as much as I did the first in the series for a couple of different reasons. The author repeatedly used a style of dramatic writing that subsequently became distracting. For example: "[she felt]...agony. Agony and anxiety. Anxiety and accusation. Accusation and acrimony." In addition, the inner spiritual conflicts the main characters experienced I found hard to understand. Even though the main plot was good, with a romance intertwined with a 'whodunnit', I struggled to finish this book.
A Shelter in the Storm.......2001-04-13
I found the first book in this series by accident. I love how Debra White Smith has taken seven unlikely women and intertwined there lives together. They are always there for each no matter what happens. I have enjoyed this series so much that I check weekly to see when the next one will be coming. Keep up the good writing.
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Southern Storm (Cape Pefuge Series, Book 2)
Manufacturer: Zondervan
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Southern Storm/Cape Refuge 2 in 1 (Cape Refuge Series 1-2)
Terri Blackstock
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ASIN: 0310605350 |
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Set in the South, volumes one and two from the Cape Refuge suspense series by Terri Blackstock come together under one cover. A unique island setting, close-knit relationships, fast-paced action, and underlying themes of faith combine to make for reading you can’t put down at a value you can’t turn down.
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- Cooking the old fashioned, southern way
- Boring, Boring, and Boring
- The most endearing cookbook you'll ever have
- WONDERFUL! Warmly written, great recipes, FANTASTIC!
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Cookin' Up A Storm 2nd ED: The Life and Recipes of Annie Johnson
Jane Lee Rankin
Manufacturer: Grace Publishers
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A truly American original, Cookin' Up A Storm is a unique cookbook with quotable comments about life and food. Author Jane Lee Rankin pays a loving tribute to her friend, Annie Johnson, the African American woman who helped raise her. Through this touching story we witness a special relationship that brings new life to timeless, Southern recipes.
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Cooking the old fashioned, southern way.......2004-12-01
What a wonderful example of a good, old-fashioned southern country cookbook. You won't find recipes here that start with a cake mix or a loaf of frozen bread dough. Everything is made from scratch the old-fashioned way. The book starts with an introduction to the life of Annie Johnson, the southern black woman to whom this book is dedicated. Throughout the book are scattered various comments from her that help the reader to feel they know her as a cook and a person. If you want to know how to cook traditional southern fare from scratch the way grandma used to make, this is the book to have. No fancy recipe names, no quiche or anything like that, just buttermilk biscuits, yellow cornbread, fried apples, grits, navy beans, black-eyed peas, fried green tomatoes, sweet potato casserole, potato salad, barbecue ribs, chicken and dumplin's, fried catfish, stuffed green peppers, gingerbread, banana pudding, apple pie and many other traditional recipes. Cookin' Up a Storm, 2nd Edition is a very highly recommended cookbook.
Boring, Boring, and Boring.......2004-08-31
These recipes are very basic. I do not recommend this book to anyone who knows how to boil water. For example, the recipe for Barbecue Pork is as follows... 3 pounds boneless pork shoulder, 1 cup plus 2 cups barbecue sauce (recipe for sauce on page 99).I think we all will agree that you don't have to purchase this book to be able to create this dish. The Blackberry Jam Cake is the only original or interesting recipe in the entire book. If your serious about cooking, let me suggest, "The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook", which can be purchased on this site, and "Big Mama's Back In The Kitchen" by Charlene Johnson (not available on amazon.com). These books have some DELICIOUS and unusal recipes. I'll give a few of my favorites from each book. The following are from "The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook"... Honey-Banana Dressing, Pork Roast Guadeloupe & Rice, Tangy Black Beans & Rice, Liberian Collard Greens, and Banana Oatmeal Cookies. Here a some recipes from "Big Mama's Back In The Kitchen"....Me-OH-MY-OH Crawfish Pie, Southern Jalapeno Hushpuppies, Saucy Pork and Beans, Cream Cheese Pancakes, and the Oven Fried Chicken sounds tame but is wild with flavor.
The most endearing cookbook you'll ever have.......2002-05-17
I have a very extensive collection of cookbooks, they are a passion for me...But I must say that this cookbook impelled me to write a review, this cookbook stole my heart, it has the most endearing story behind it which I feel touches the very heart and soul of why and how this cookbook even came into existence in the first place. It is very warmly written, and has lots of fabulous recipes to be treasured for years to come...such as yellow cornbread, spoonbread, buttermilk pancakes, and biscuits, and corncakes, coffee cake, apple cake, chocolate pound cake, pineapple upsidedown cake, pie crust, apple pie, coconut cream pie, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, potato salad, barbeque pork, barbeque ribs, fried green tomatoes, coleslaw, split pea soup, stuffed green peppers, chili, meatloaf, baked beans, chicken and dumplin's, fried chicken and gravy, grits, oooh, to name just a few of the wonderful recipes in this book. It makes a perfect gift and truly a book to be treasured in your own collection. I highly recommend this cookbook to everyone!!!
WONDERFUL! Warmly written, great recipes, FANTASTIC!.......2001-11-01
I love this book. It is very warmly and lovingly written about an extraordinary southern black cook/nanny who changed the lives of the family she served. I wanted to cry when I read of Annie's impoverished childhood, having to work instead of going to school (even as a little girl), getting up at 4 AM from the time she was 10 years old in order to fix breakfast so everyone could get to the fields, etc. But she retained a positive attitude and deep faith (which is very humbling). Although I have not yet had a chance to try the recipes, they look wonderful, and many are prefaced by descriptions of why they are so special / taste so good ... down home southern cooking at its very finest. However, IMHO, the book would have been priceless if only for the warm, glowing descriptions of Annie, and recollections in her own words.
In Search of the Lost Domestic.......2000-07-16
Women like Annie have been largely forgotten in our culture now. For most, if their work in life was to have any dignity, they had to provide it as a living example. I also grew up with one of these women. It was a symbiotic relationship between them and our families. The authors have done a great job documenting this work; I enjoyed Annie's parts and wished she had said more! Of course, the traditional recipes of our South are always a pleasure to read, and to cook. A beautiful book, beautifully bound, perfect for a gift.
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- This woman!, I've named my daughter after her: DORIS
- So few reviews for such a great book
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A Ripple From the Storm (The Children of Violence, Book 3)
Doris Lessing
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Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a Ripple from the Storm, Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa.
A Ripple from the Storm is the third novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.
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This woman!, I've named my daughter after her: DORIS.......2004-07-13
This woman!, I've named my daughter after her: DORIS
So few reviews for such a great book.......2003-12-09
Trying to understand the mid-20th century? Race relations, facism, colonials, communism, sexual politics? Take a ride with Doris Lessing through her strange and fictional small town in southern Africa. This was probably my favorite book of the Children of Violence series, perhaps because in it, Martha actually takes some action. Admittedly, she and her friends are running around like rabbits and will never accomplish anything substantial in the field of race relations, but they're trying, desperately, as they marry the latest currents in European liberal thinking to the absurdities of colonial life.
Steal this book!
the story of a ripple.......2000-09-19
Lessing presents us here to a third (or forth) phase in the life of Martha Quest, a white woman in "Zambezia", a colonialist state in Africa. "children of violence" which consists the present book is a highly recommended series as a whole, but the whole is to be differentiated as the fifth book belongs to a different genre if to any existing one. the former books, this one included, on the other hand, make an important contribution to female bildungsroman, as Lessing tells us with what i heard to be a tone of apology, in the end of the fifth book. "a ripple in the storm", specifically, suggest some more categories. it faces us with a small comunist group in "Zambezia" through world war 2 which implies all the domain of questions from justice to power in its external and internal spheres, to the state of an individual inside a storm. the story is rich, clever, subtle. it leads us to the continuance of changing and growing of Martha (the author seems to hold a certain popular enough judgement of comunism as something to grow of personally and historically, though not without retaining something of it). it leads us there as if by ourselves. it's not that you want to be or feel yourself to be Martha, actually Martha is half hidden - to herself too - in the turbulence of activity, this is part of the story. it is that you can imagine your shade appearing there in the little rooms. another point,one gets a sad description of the status of women in an example of an ideologically egalitarian organization. this fact is made clear thoroghly by description. one might believe the author doesn't even know this fact (but of course, one shouldn't).
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From the author of the best-selling Carolina, come four more distinct novels set in the low country and beaches of South Carolina. Titles include Southern Gentleman, After the Storm, Somewhere a Rainbow, and Catch of a Lifetime.
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Voices in the Storm: Confederate Rhetoric, 1861-1865 (War and the Southwest Series, No 8)
Karen E. Fritz
Manufacturer: University of North Texas Press
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