This year 2,300 teenagers (young people aged from 13-19 ) from all over the world will spend about ten months in U.S. homes. They will attend U.S. schools, meet U.S. teenagers, and form impressions (印象) of the real American teenagers. American teenagers will go to other countries...
Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and was later freed. She became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs wrote an autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, first serialized in a newspaper and pub...
Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United Stales. He became a41voce in the yean before the Civil War. A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) _42_Douglass's birth and Black History Month with the reopening of his home at...
Vice President who succeeded President Taylor after his death in 1850; President from 1850-1853; gave his full support to the Compromise of 1850 Winfield Scott Whig candidate in the Presidential election of 1852 Jack Brown deranged Free-Soiler who attacked the ...
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Included in multiple listings of the best books of 2023, this is the brilliantly told and meticulously researched story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery in 1848. It is a page turner, an adventure, a profound love story, an American story of racism, slavery, courage and freedo...
Republished for its fortieth anniversary, this powerful story by renowned Acoma Pueblo poet and storyteller Simon J. Ortiz traces the history of Native / Indigenous people of North America from the time of creation to the present.
Charles Johnson"s Middle Passage approaches slavery from a different, yet no less violent,vantage point. His main character, Rutherfprd Calhoun, is a ne"er-do-well free black American who stows away on a slave ship bound for Africa to collect its "cargo". Put to work after he is discov...
Under this act, slaves who served in the Confederate army were to be set free upon capture by Union forces. In June 1862, Lincoln signed a bill passed by Congress that abolished slavery in all territories owned by the federal government. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...
He was captured (抓捕)and sold into slavery(卖为奴隶) in Ireland when he was only 16.He eventually escaped slavery and turned to a life of religious devotion. He trained to become a minister(牧师) and set out to spread Christianity throughout Ireland. After 30 years as a religious leader...