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Dawn of Detroit
- A Chronicle of Bondage and Freedom in the City of the Straits
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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A book that opens the door on a completely hidden past, The Dawn of Detroit is a powerful and elegantly written history, one that completely changes our understanding of slavery's American legacy.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Maya Jasanoff won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her groundbreaking work Liberty's Exiles. After the American Revolution, 60,000 British loyalists fled the U.S. for Canada, the Caribbean, India, and other points abroad. Jasanoff traces their harrowing journeys across the globe, shedding light on their ambitions, the post-revolutionary world they encountered, and their legacies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Staggering in its Breadth
- De Anders P Morley en 02-21-21
De: Maya Jasanoff
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Toussaint Louverture
- A Revolutionary Life
- De: Philippe Girard
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Philippe Girard shows how Toussaint Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791. By 1801, Louverture was governor of the colony where he had once been a slave. But his lifelong quest to be accepted as a member of the colonial elite ended in despair: he spent the last year of his life in a French prison cell. His example nevertheless inspired anticolonial and Black nationalist movements well into the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very powerful story
- De jim en 01-06-17
De: Philippe Girard
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The American Slave Coast
- A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
- De: Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette
- Narrado por: Robin Eller
- Duración: 30 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could be decommissioned only by emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in the history of the United States.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Get "The Half Has Never Been Told" instead!
- De Ary Shalizi en 11-28-16
De: Ned Sublette, y otros
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The Scratch of a Pen
- 1763 and the Transformation of North America
- De: Colin G. Calloway
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
In February, 1763, Britain, Spain, and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War. In this one document, more American territory changed hands than in any treaty before or since. As the great historian Francis Parkman wrote, "half a continent...changed hands at the scratch of a pen."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor account - there are better
- De Brian en 07-18-06
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The Barbarous Years
- The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
- De: Bernard Bailyn
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 26 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 101
Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A feast for genealogy/history buffs
- De judithh en 07-21-16
De: Bernard Bailyn
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Harriet Tubman
- The Road to Freedom
- De: Catherine Clinton
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 560
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 481
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 479
Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of 19th-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Returning this book
- De KMS en 07-11-18
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African Founders
- How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
- De: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrado por: Lamarr Gulley
- Duración: 35 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal husbandry and farming, and generations-old ethical principles, among other attributes. This startling history reveals how much our country was shaped by these African influences in its early years, producing a new distinctly American culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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faux vocalizations
- De Porter en 08-19-22
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Jacksonland
- President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
- De: Steve Inskeep
- Narrado por: Steve Inskeep
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 304
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 260
Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men - President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross - who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. Jacksonland is their story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic and Thoughtful
- De Elizabeth Westbrook en 05-05-16
De: Steve Inskeep
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American Slavery, American Freedom
- De: Edmund S. Morgan
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 130
"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Explaining the great American contradiction
- De Roger en 09-16-14
De: Edmund S. Morgan
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An Imperfect God
- George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
- De: Henry Wiencek
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Washington was born and raised among Blacks and mixed-race people; he and his wife had blood ties to the slave community. Yet as a young man he bought and sold slaves without scruple, even raffled off children to collect debts (an incident ignored by earlier biographers). Then, on the Revolutionary battlefields where he commanded both Black and White troops, Washington's attitudes began to change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent handling of one part of Wahington's life
- De buffaloboy en 05-20-04
De: Henry Wiencek
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The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
- De: Theda Perdue, Michael Green
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 5 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Acclaimed historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a moving portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears. Despite protests from statesmen like Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, a dubious 1838 treaty drove 17,000 mostly Christian Cherokee from their lush Appalachian homeland to barren plains beyond the Mississippi. For 4,000, this brutal forced march lead only to their deaths.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great audio book
- De Steve en 03-23-08
De: Theda Perdue, y otros
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The Internal Enemy
- Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 384
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 346
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 343
This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Drawn from new sources, Alan Taylor's riveting narrative re-creates the events that inspired black Virginians, haunted slaveholders, and set the nation on a new and dangerous course.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the best audiobooks I've read recently
- De D. Littman en 03-02-14
De: Alan Taylor
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Revolutionary Mothers
- Women in the Struggle for America's Independence
- De: Carol Berkin
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American, and Carol Berkin shows us that women played a vital role throughout the struggle. Berkin takes us into the ordinary moments of extraordinary lives. We see women boycotting British goods in the years before independence, writing propaganda that radicalized their neighbors, raising funds for the army, and helping finance the fledgling government. We see how they managed farms, plantations, and businesses while their men went into battle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required reading for American patriots.
- De Eric en 08-09-18
De: Carol Berkin
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The Trail of Tears
- The Forced Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Dave Wright
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
The "Five Civilized Tribes" are among the best known Native American groups in American history, and they were even celebrated by contemporary Americans for their abilities to adapt to white culture. But tragically, they are also well known tribes due to the trials and tribulations they suffered by being forcibly moved west along the "Trail of Tears".
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not complete
- De Melissa en 06-14-15
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The Strange Career of William Ellis
- The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
- De: Karl Jacoby
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a busy Wall Street office, and scores of mines and haciendas in Mexico. But for all his obvious riches and his elegant appearance, Eliseo was also the possessor of a devastating secret: He was not, in fact, from Mexico at all. Rather, he had begun life as a slave named William Ellis, born on a cotton plantation in Texas during the waning years of King Cotton.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Tale of Racial Passing
- De Steven Schuster en 06-10-16
De: Karl Jacoby
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The Indian World of George Washington
- The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
- De: Colin G. Calloway
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 23 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Colin Calloway uses the prism of George Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware; in the process, he returns them to their rightful place in the story of America's founding. The Indian World of George Washington spans decades of Native American leaders' interactions with Washington, from his early days as surveyor of Indian lands to his military career against both the French and the British to his presidency.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Washington hate book
- De EJ morris en 02-08-19
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Ethan Allen
- His Life and Times
- De: Willard Sterne Randall
- Narrado por: Mark Whitten
- Duración: 18 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation, from Paine to Madison. On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boatloads of his scraggly band of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the rest of his Green Mountain boys to arrive....
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4 out of 5 stars
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There were parts that were really good.
- De Michael en 11-11-13
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All That She Carried
- The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
- De: Tiya Miles
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 320
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 275
In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of slavery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Astonishing Feat of Scholarship, Imagination and Empathy
- De Cin en 06-30-21
De: Tiya Miles
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Slavery's Capitalism
- A New History of American Economic Development
- De: Sven Beckert - editor, Seth Rockman - editor
- Narrado por: William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 424
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 363
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 363
During the 19th century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The volume is so low I can't hear it.
- De Anonymous User en 01-30-18
De: Sven Beckert - editor, y otros
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Once in a Great City
- A Detroit Story
- De: David Maraniss
- Narrado por: David Maraniss
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
It's 1963, and Detroit is on top of the world. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America. It was the American auto makers' best year; the revolution in music and politics was underway. Walter Reuther's UAW had helped lift the middle class. Once in a Great City shows that the shadows of collapse were evident even then. Yet so much of what Detroit gave America lasts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Jordanel en 01-02-16
De: David Maraniss
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Capitalism and Slavery
- Third Edition
- De: Eric Williams
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Historical Reading for the Caribbean
- De Trinirastawoman en 06-01-22
De: Eric Williams
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New England Bound
- Slavery and Colonization in Early America
- De: Wendy Warren
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
In a work that fundamentally recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of New England. While most histories of slavery in early America confine themselves to the Southern colonies and the Caribbean, New England Bound forcefully widens the historical aperture to include the entirety of English North America.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't waste your time or money
- De Dis Carded en 09-03-17
De: Wendy Warren
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The World That Made New Orleans
- From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
- De: Ned Sublette
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 203
Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation. Focused on New Orleans' first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural, and musical development of Louisiana's early years is presented.
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2 out of 5 stars
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great book; terrible "performance"
- De WGNYC en 11-28-17
De: Ned Sublette
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All That She Carried
- The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
- De: Tiya Miles
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 320
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 275
In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of slavery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Astonishing Feat of Scholarship, Imagination and Empathy
- De Cin en 06-30-21
De: Tiya Miles
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Slavery's Capitalism
- A New History of American Economic Development
- De: Sven Beckert - editor, Seth Rockman - editor
- Narrado por: William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 424
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 363
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 363
During the 19th century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The volume is so low I can't hear it.
- De Anonymous User en 01-30-18
De: Sven Beckert - editor, y otros
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Once in a Great City
- A Detroit Story
- De: David Maraniss
- Narrado por: David Maraniss
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
It's 1963, and Detroit is on top of the world. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America. It was the American auto makers' best year; the revolution in music and politics was underway. Walter Reuther's UAW had helped lift the middle class. Once in a Great City shows that the shadows of collapse were evident even then. Yet so much of what Detroit gave America lasts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Jordanel en 01-02-16
De: David Maraniss
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Capitalism and Slavery
- Third Edition
- De: Eric Williams
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Historical Reading for the Caribbean
- De Trinirastawoman en 06-01-22
De: Eric Williams
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New England Bound
- Slavery and Colonization in Early America
- De: Wendy Warren
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
In a work that fundamentally recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of New England. While most histories of slavery in early America confine themselves to the Southern colonies and the Caribbean, New England Bound forcefully widens the historical aperture to include the entirety of English North America.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't waste your time or money
- De Dis Carded en 09-03-17
De: Wendy Warren
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The World That Made New Orleans
- From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
- De: Ned Sublette
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 203
Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation. Focused on New Orleans' first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural, and musical development of Louisiana's early years is presented.
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2 out of 5 stars
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great book; terrible "performance"
- De WGNYC en 11-28-17
De: Ned Sublette
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Detroit
- A Biography
- De: Scott Martelle
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 143
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 121
When we think of Detroit, we think first of the auto industry and its slow, painful decline, then maybe the sounds of Motown, or the long line of professional sports successes. But economies are made up of people, and the effect of the economic downfall of Detroit is one of the most compelling stories in America. Detroit: A Biography by journalist and author Scott Martelle is about a city that rose because of the most American of traits - innovation, entrepreneurship, and an inspiring perseverance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Native Detroiter
- De Teresa en 07-10-12
De: Scott Martelle
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American Slavery, American Freedom
- De: Edmund S. Morgan
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 130
"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Explaining the great American contradiction
- De Roger en 09-16-14
De: Edmund S. Morgan
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Gateway to Freedom
- The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
- De: Eric Foner
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. They are little known to history: Sydney Howard Gay, an abolitionist newspaper editor; Louis Napoleon, a furniture polisher; Charles B. Ray, a black minister. At great risk they operated the Underground Railroad in New York, a city whose businesses, banks, and politics were deeply enmeshed in the slave economy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hard to stay awake....
- De Chrissie en 02-18-15
De: Eric Foner
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African Founders
- How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
- De: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrado por: Lamarr Gulley
- Duración: 35 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal husbandry and farming, and generations-old ethical principles, among other attributes. This startling history reveals how much our country was shaped by these African influences in its early years, producing a new distinctly American culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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faux vocalizations
- De Porter en 08-19-22
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The Cherokee Rose
- A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts
- De: Tiya Miles
- Narrado por: Shayna Small, Tiya Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
Conducting research for her weekly history column, Jinx, a free-spirited Muscogee (Creek) historian, travels to Hold House, a Georgia plantation originally owned by Cherokee chief James Hold, to uncover the mystery of what happened to a tribal member who stayed behind after Indian removal, when Native Americans were forcibly displaced from their ancestral homelands in the nineteenth century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful writing and Interesting History
- De Amazon Customer en 08-03-23
De: Tiya Miles
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Toussaint Louverture
- A Revolutionary Life
- De: Philippe Girard
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Philippe Girard shows how Toussaint Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791. By 1801, Louverture was governor of the colony where he had once been a slave. But his lifelong quest to be accepted as a member of the colonial elite ended in despair: he spent the last year of his life in a French prison cell. His example nevertheless inspired anticolonial and Black nationalist movements well into the 20th century.
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very powerful story
- De jim en 01-06-17
De: Philippe Girard
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Dawn of Detroit
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- DragonsWynd
- 10-11-20
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I am so glad that I learned so much more about Detroit. when I was there in the last two years I enjoyed this city so much. I am now more aware of the history of the midwest. Thank you for teaching me.
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- Preston Moore
- 09-07-19
seminar reading
book was easy to follow at increased speed. very informative, new information, good textbook reading
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- Melissa Eisner
- 05-30-18
Great!
Loved this! The reader is incredible, the accents she employs makes the historical quotes so much more understandable. And the text was great, I especially enjoyed the final section of conclusions. She really succeeds in her goal to upturn certain narratives.
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