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Lose Your Mother
- A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
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Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the listener on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves.
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Sincerely grateful read
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By: Clint Smith
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Silver, Sword, and Stone
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- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
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1 out of 5 stars
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Marie Arana does not Understand Economics
- By Jose on 01-11-21
By: Marie Arana
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Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
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- By: Christina Thompson
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a beautiful story
- By Pumpkin99 on 12-24-22
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Master Slave Husband Wife
- An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
- By: Ilyon Woo
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North.
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Necessary story well told!
- By Marc W Rhoades on 01-19-23
By: Ilyon Woo
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- By: Frederick Douglass
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. He was called both "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia" and is one of the most prominent figures in African-American history and United States history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book!
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Wandering in Strange Lands
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- By: Morgan Jerkins
- Narrated by: Morgan Jerkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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From the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times best-selling author of This Will Be My Undoing - a writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed as “a force to be reckoned with” - comes this powerful story of her journey to understand her Northern and Southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America.
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Not Just Black History -- It's All Of Our History
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By: Morgan Jerkins
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The Empire of Necessity
- Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
- By: Greg Grandin
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren' t. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew, they were staging an elaborate ruse, acting as if they were humble servants. When Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized the deception, he responded with explosive violence. Drawing on research on four continents, The Empire of Necessity explores the multiple forces that culminated in this extraordinary event.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What is the "right thing to do"?
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By: Greg Grandin
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The Fire This Time
- A New Generation Speaks About Race
- By: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrated by: Cherise Boothe, Michael Early, Kevin R. Free, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 202
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping-off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delusion shattering
- By Matthew A. Burnett on 06-12-20
By: Jesmyn Ward
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Ines of My Soul
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende
- Narrated by: Isabel Allende, Alma Cuervo
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Though she was born into poverty, Inés Suárez, a seamstress in 16th-century Spain, embodies the same restless hope and opportunism that fuels her nation’s conquest of the Americas. Learning that her shiftless husband has vanished, Inés uses his disappearance to embark on her own adventure. It is a journey will lead her to Pedro de Valdivia - a conquistador who becomes the first royal governor of Chile - and to a love that not only changes her life but the course of history.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By Elva Pulido on 04-01-21
By: Isabel Allende
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The Other Madisons
- The Lost History of a President's Black Family
- By: Bettye Kearse
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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In The Other Madisons, Bettye Kearse - a descendant of a slave named Coreen and, according to oral tradition, President James Madison - finally shares her family story, exploring legacy, race, and the powerful consequences of telling the whole truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- By D C on 08-24-20
By: Bettye Kearse
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Marooned
- Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin
- By: Joseph Kelly
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
We all know the great American origin story: It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled "shining city on a hill". Legend goes that the colony in Jamestown was a false start, offering a cautionary tale of lazy louts who hunted gold till they starved and shiftless settlers who had to be rescued by English food and the hard discipline of martial law.
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4 out of 5 stars
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“Breath-y” narration bit great book
- By NBerg on 02-15-20
By: Joseph Kelly
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Island on Fire
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- By: Tom Zoellner
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
For five horrific weeks after Christmas in 1831, Jamaica was convulsed by an uprising of its enslaved people. What started as a peaceful labor strike quickly turned into a full-blown revolt, leaving hundreds of plantation houses in smoking ruins. By the time British troops had put down the rebels, more than a thousand Jamaicans lay dead from summary executions and extrajudicial murder. While the rebels lost their military gamble, their sacrifice accelerated the larger struggle for freedom in the British Atlantic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Learned a lot
- By Amazon Customer on 04-10-21
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On Juneteenth
- By: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
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Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A short but compelling combination of history and
- By BK on 05-18-21
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The Last Jews of Kerala
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- By: Edna Fernandes
- Narrated by: Leslie Bellair
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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When a people die out, can their story survive?Two thousand years ago, trade routes and the fall of Jerusalem took Jewish settlers seeking sanctuary across Europe and Asia. One little-known group settled in Kerala, in tropical southwestern India. Eventually numbering in the thousands, with eight synagogues, they prospered. Some came to possess vast estates and plantations, and many enjoyed economic privilege and political influence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting topic, unethical author, uninformed reader
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The Story We Carry in Our Bones
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- By: Juilene Osborne-McKnight
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More than 40 million people consider themselves Irish American, and yet most of them do not truly understand the rich cultural history of their ancestors. From prehistoric times to the emigration of the Irish to Amerikay, this broad, yet comprehensive, history gives a general overview of the deep history of Irish Americans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Blown away
- By Bob on 01-27-22
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- L.A.
- 01-25-22
A Generous Journey
Saidiya Hartman unravels complex histories, challenging memories, and desires for freedom, for another social order. Her account is relatable, onerous, vulnerable, and generous as it takes the reader to many places and time periods. Beautiful written, this amazing blend of poignant memoir and informative historical text is a must read/listen to for everyone, who studies slavery, racism, colonialism, and memory.
Regarding the performance- Great narrator as well. I especially appreciated the altered voices to designate speakers.
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- eric lewis
- 02-19-24
Outstanding!!
This book is everything! So powerfully relevant and meaningful. My wife and I hope to visit Ghana soon and this is the exact perspective I need to have. Every no and then you get this feeling, when reading, that you’re engaged with a very special work. It’s such an important work, that I’m going grab a physical copy and slowly work my way through it, again. And the narrator was perfect!
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- Zsudayka Terrell
- 12-13-23
Amazing way to take on a complicated subject
I super enjoyed how this book really dug into the history of slavery as it was a practice in Ghana. It really set some foundation to the experience that they are having versus the experience that we are having in America. Amazing summed up the sense of searching for something that possibly will never found. Inspired me to create really introspective artwork around similar themes.
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- Ohene
- 12-14-23
Beautiful story, with depth and meaning
This is a wonderful account of person, trying to find herself in the world. My only issue was with the narrators attempt at a Ghanaian accent lol im a Ghanaian man, and let me tell you that was not it. It was more akin to a weak Caribbean accent. Other than that the story was brilliant!
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- A. SAID
- 10-27-21
A great book.
The narrator is excellent except while reciting in the various accents she tried. This does not take away from this very important story/book.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Sasha
- 03-02-23
Great Discourse
Great mixture of ethnography and theory for Black Studies. Forces the reading to think if they should “lose their mother”. Also a fan of the reader!
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- M. Hurst
- 04-26-22
depressing and too wordy,
depressing and wordy, too picturesque for such good data. hard to listen to, despite great amount of data
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