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Slaves in the Family (Ballantine Reader's Circle) 98 reviews
Edward Ball
Ballantine Books, 1998
man enough to do it
Some reviewers below complain that this book is tedious. Well, sure. I bet the US Constitution and the Bible are tedious to someone who has no clue about, or doesn't care about, their context. To anyone with some understanding of US history, the project of writing this book marks a step forward in race relations, however big or small that step may turn out to be. If you care even a little ...
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Bride Most Begrudging, A55 reviews
Deeanne Gist
Bethany House, 2005
It will touch your heart and you won't be able to put it down!!!!!!
A very engaging story . . . I was most surprised due to the fact that this was not my favorite type/catagory of book but I was not able to put it down. Gist is an outstanding author who has created a real page turner. She does not drag it out but tugs at your heart til you find your eyes flying over the pages to see what happens next! I absolutely loved the personalities and the way she leads ...
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All I Asking for Is My Body (Kolowalu Book)7 reviews
Milton Murayama
University of Hawaii Press, 1988
This is a wonderful book that speaks from the soul!
I especially recommend this book to those who have grown up in Hawaii. I was immediately struck by the powerful images captured by Murayama in "All I Asking For is My Body". The language and grammer are a perfect compliment to the depiction of the characters as well as the simple storyline. Murayama manages to pierce the soul of the reader, evoking emotions so powerful, one feels as if they ...
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Biography of a Runaway Slave6 reviews
Miguel Barnet
Curbstone Press, 1995
REVIEW QUOTES
"...a powerful account of a vanished world...invaluable." --Newsweek "An extraordinary record of a bygone era...Montejo reveals an appealing personality as he talks of women, religion, and politics. His descriptions of the activities and treatment of slaves on the Spanish plantations before and after abolition are fascinating. A rare record of history as it was lived..." --Library Journal "Its ...
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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South 7 reviews
John W. Blassingame
Oxford University Press, USA, 1979
Excellent for Leisure Reading and as a Reference Guide
I read this book for my history of American slavery class and I really enjoyed it. It is one of the books I did not sell back to the college when the semester ended. Blassingame focuses on the slave culture and uses such sources as folk songs, fugitive wanted posters, slave interviews and correspondence, diaries, and memoirs (from slaves and slave holders) to bring insight on life on the ...
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A Light to My Path (Refiner's Fire Series #3)14 reviews
Lynn Austin
Bethany House Publishers, 2004
Great read!!!
I am not an avid reader, but this book definitely kept my attention. This was a great book to hightlight slavery and the conditions that were present during this time. It also highlighted the amazing grace of God!!
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Gone With the Wind654 reviews
Margaret Mitchell
Scribner, 1936
Timeless!
This novel is, I'm certain you must know by now, a family saga covering the Civil War and Reconstruction in the South from the viewpoint of a wealthy Southern family who live on a plantation called 'Tara.'
Easy to read, 'Gone With the Wind' is not only a family saga, but a fascinating character study of people who did what they had to do in order to survive the devastating war years and the ...
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Absalom, Absalom!122 reviews
William Faulkner
Vintage, 1991
Absalom! Absalom!
I wrote a paper historical truth in Absalom! Absalom! in graduate school and decided to revisit the novel. The edition I purchased through Amazon is the one I used 35 years ago and consequently has some associations for me. I am pleased with the condition of my purchase. Thanks.Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
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Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South 10 reviews
Deborah Gray White
W. W. Norton & Company, 1999
Female Slaves
Deborah Gray White writes tellingly about the double evils faced by the Black woman of the old South: racism and sexism. Truly, they faced a lack of personhood at every turn.
The author weaves together quotes from enslaved Black women to tell her story. As other reviewers have noted, there does tend to be something of a feel of a feminist slant to the writing. I certainly would not argue ...
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Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (Published for the ... 3 reviews
Richard S. Dunn
The University of North Carolina Press, 2000
Thorough and Readable Study of Plantation Development
Richard S. Dunn examines the British colonialization of the West Indies. Dunn considers numerous colonies, but Barbados takes early preeminence. Dunn discusses the adventurers of the first twenty years, mostly small-scale farmers; the cavalier-planters of the 1640s and '50s, Royalist exiles who fled the English Civil War; and the slaves who became a majority of the population in the period ...
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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Gender and American ... 1 review
Stephanie M. H. Camp
The University of North Carolina Press, 2004
Not my first choice
While the book is interesting, it has some real editing problems with free standing quotes that leave the book as an exercise in patience. I don't disagree that the book does some great things in terms of how we understand space and geography in terms of slavery but my contention is that Camp utilizes rules for quotations that at best are terribly confusing. She also tends, at times, to ...
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Plantation (Lowcountry Tales)9 reviews
Dorothea Benton Frank
Berkley Trade, 2004
Plantation by Frank
I have now read all of Frank's books and I love them all. Her characters are so well described and the humidity makes you feel like you are on the beach with them. Her books are the kind to keep for re-reads.
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Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson30 reviews
Alan Pell Crawford
Random House, 2008
At Home with Thomas Jefferson
In Twilight at Monticello, I was looking for an accessible portrait of Thomas Jefferson the planter, neighbor, and family man. I got exactly that while simultaneously revisiting Jefferson the politician, history-maker, philosopher, and visionary. The great man was always there facing the mundane, the day-to-day difficulties of clashing personalities, mounting debt, and the inescapable effects ...
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Plymouth Plantation 1620 - 16477 reviews
William Bradford
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1981
Excellent Adventure Tale
I came across this book quite by accident and didn't think it would be much of a read. Generally speaking I don't read histories and one from the early 1600's was a pretty daunting task - or so I thought. In fact, it was a great tale of adventure and faith and an extremely insightful and thought provoking book about how this country was started and what it must have looked like to those who ...
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Miss Katie's Rosewood (Carolina Cousins #4)5 reviews
Michael Phillips
Bethany House Publishers, 2007
terrific Reconstruction Era Carolina Cousins thriller
Katie and Mayme leave their beloved Rosewood plantation in the Carolinas to travel by train to Philadelphia, but the latter is required to ride in the last car, the "Coloreds Only" coach. Upon reaching the city, a stunned Katie finds herself alone as the "Coloreds Only" car is missing. She fears her free friend may have been sold along with the other Negro passengers into slavery perhaps in the ...
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Together is All We Need (Shenandoah Sisters #4)8 reviews
Michael Phillips
Bethany House Publishers, 2004
Shenandoah Sisters Book 4
In the conclusion of this four book series, it looks like everything that Katie and Mayme have fought for is now going to be taken away from them.
Uncle Templeton, who revealed that he is father to Mayme, has been welcomed to stay at Rosewood Plantation with Katie and Mayme and learns the trade of planting, raising and picking cotton. But he has some unfinished business so must leave for a ...
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The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart (Shenandoah Sisters #3)6 reviews
Michael Phillips
Bethany House Publishers, 2004
Two orphans garner strength for some big surprises...
Katie and Mayme are still at the plantation with their three charges and are yet convincing most people they are not just kids running a big spread. However, a few townspeople are finding out and they have a huge surprise visitor with even bigger news. Just when it seems things cannot get any bleaker, the author throws the reader a whole other twist.
Mayme gets the biggest surprise of her 16 ...
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Of Plymouth Plantation (Dover Value Editions)5 reviews
William Bradford
Dover Publications, 2006
Excellent Read
This is an excellent book on early American history and the plight for religious freedom from England and other European countries. Just like William P. Grady's book 'What Hath God Wrought', this should be required reading of high schools and colleges.
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The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History (Studies in Comparative World History)4 reviews
Philip D. Curtin
Cambridge University Press, 1998
Illuminating dissection of the embryonic "global economy."
Despite being laced with annoying typos (this is from Cambridge Univ. Press?), I found the substance of the book to be most informative. The slave-labor sugar/cotton/tobacco plantation is a familar feature of early modern history, and is usually encountered in regional histories of, say, the Caribbean, or Brazil, or the United States. But this book traces the "plantation complex" from its ...
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Never Too Late (Carolina Cousins #3)4 reviews
Michael Phillips
Bethany House Publishers, 2007
inspiring Reconstruction Era thriller
Seffie was born a slave. At seven years old or about she is bought by Peter Mesiner as a companion to his sickly eight year old daughter Grace who suffers from the after effect of scarlet fever. Grace may now be blind and her heart very weak, but she loves to read so Peter buys Seffie and takes her to his Louisiana home. Life seems good to Seffie who learns to read and even to speak French, ...
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