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One of America’s most famous anti-slavery advocates, Frederick Douglass is a man who has left a lasting and profound impact on both America, and the world.
Now, inside this biography, you’ll learn about Douglass’ incredible life. From his time as a slave in Maryland to his journey to becoming one of America’s most influential and famous anti-slavery voices, you’ll discover how he taught himself to read, then went on to become a powerful speaker and oralist, and how he worked with the Underground Railroad to free slaves across the country.
Including his early years, his travels across the United Kingdom and Ireland, and the speeches which changed the world, this biography is a powerful reminder of America’s history, and the people who dedicated their lives to fighting for freedom.
Listen now to discover Frederick Douglass’ lifelong struggle against oppression and slavery, and the impact that lasts long after his passing.
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An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights that will be of interest to a wide range of listeners - including those in government, business, education, and the arts - Forged in Crisis, by celebrated Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn, spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, President Abraham Lincoln, legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and environmental crusader Rachel Carson.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Authors are not always the best narrators
- De experimenting en 12-14-17
De: Nancy Koehn
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The Bone and Sinew of the Land
- De: Anna-Lisa Cox
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Starting in our nation's earliest years, thousands of free African Americans were building hundreds of settlements in the Northwest Territory, a territory that banned slavery and gave equal voting rights to all men. This groundbreaking work of research reveals the lost history of the nation's first Great Migration. Though forgotten today, these pioneers were a matter of national importance at the time; their mere existence leading to fierce political movements and battles that tore families and communities apart long before the Civil War erupted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for all!
- De Linda en 05-14-19
De: Anna-Lisa Cox
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Never Caught
- De: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 994
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 874
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 875
When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation's capital. In setting up his household, he took Tobias Lear, his celebrated secretary, and eight slaves, including Ona Judge, about which little has been written. As he grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn't get his arms around: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. Washington decided to circumvent the law.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful audiobook
- De Brad Turner en 03-07-17
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She Came to Slay
- The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
- De: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- Narrado por: Robin Miles, with Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- Duración: 3 h y 53 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 134
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 134
Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad. As a leading abolitionist, her bravery and selflessness has inspired generations in the continuing struggle for civil rights. Now, National Book Award nominee Erica Armstrong Dunbar presents a fresh take on this American icon blending traditional biography and engaging sidebars that illuminate the life of Tubman as never before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent!
- De Maurice Wilson en 01-25-20
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The Invisibles
- The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House
- De: Jesse Holland
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
Jesse J. Holland's The Invisibles is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents: the African American slaves who lived with the US presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White House are at an all-time high due to the historic presidency of Barack Obama and the soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American Culture and History.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting Book
- De Jean en 02-13-16
De: Jesse Holland
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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 Hemingses of Monticello
- An American Family
- De: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 30 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 825
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 612
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 607
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings's siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worried at first
- De Phillip Goodson en 12-13-08
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Bound for Canaan
- The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
- De: Fergus Bordewich
- Narrado por: Peter J. Fernandez
- Duración: 19 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
The Civil War brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery's denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white, slave and free, who joined forces to create what would come to be known as the Underground Railroad, a movement that occupies as romantic a place in the nation's imagination as the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Heroic Missing Piece
- De Paul Frandano en 03-03-17
De: Fergus Bordewich
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The Devil's Half Acre
- The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
- De: Kristen Green
- Narrado por: Deanna Anthony
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 101
New York Times best-selling author Kristen Green draws on years of research to tell the extraordinary and little-known story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who blazed a path of liberation for thousands. She was forced to have the children of a brutal slave trader and live on the premises of his slave jail, known as the “Devil’s Half Acre”. When she inherited the jail after the death of her slaveholder, she transformed it into “God’s Half Acre”, a school where Black men could fulfill their dreams.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Preachy
- De Elizabeth Combs en 09-13-22
De: Kristen Green
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Frederick Douglass
- Prophet of Freedom
- De: David W. Blight
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 36 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,486
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,220
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,207
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence, he bore witness to the brutality of slavery.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The sound of rollerskating in sand
- De Rico X Ludovici en 02-06-19
De: David W. Blight
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Frontier Grit
- The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
- De: Marianne Monson
- Narrado por: Caroline Shaffer
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 600
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 549
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 545
Discover the stories of 12 women who heard the call to settle the West and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journeys. As a slave Clara watched helplessly as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter as a free woman six decades later. As a young girl, Charlotte hid her gender to escape a life of poverty and became the greatest stagecoach driver who ever lived. As a Native American, Gertrude fought to give her people a voice and to educate leaders about the ways and importance of America's native people.
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2 out of 5 stars
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only ok
- De Jane Orr en 06-14-21
De: Marianne Monson
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
- Written by Himself
- De: Frederick Douglass
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 21 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 574
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 505
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 498
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the reception of his work. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent in so many ways...
- De Your Old Pal Sisco en 06-24-14
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No More Lies
- De: Dick Gregory
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 47
In 1972, during the Black Power Movement, iconoclast Dick Gregory challenged one of the foundations of America itself - its history, which had been written almost exclusively from the white male perspective. In No More Lies, this true trailblazer gave voice to African Americans, speaking their truth about the past and race relations in the United States. No More Lies offers this incomparable satirist’s intellectual, conspiratorial, and humorous spin on the facts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Hertiages
- De n/a en 11-25-22
De: Dick Gregory
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Patriotic Treason
- John Brown and the Soul of America
- De: Evan Carton
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 15 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
John Brown is a lightning rod of history. Yet he is poorly understood and most commonly described in stereotypes, as a madman, martyr, or enigma. Not until Patriotic Treason has a biography or history brought him so fully to life, in scintillating prose and moving detail, making his life and legacy - and the staggering sacrifices he made for his ideals - fascinatingly relevant to today's issues of social justice and to defining the line between activism and terrorism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Jarring Reminder of Antebellum America
- De Ronald A. Nelson en 12-22-06
De: Evan Carton
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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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A Slave No More
- Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
- De: David W. Blight
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey, Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the 100 or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Piece Of History
- De John en 07-10-09
De: David W. Blight
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Women of the Blue & Gray
- De: Marianne Monson
- Narrado por: Caroline Shaffer
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
Hidden among the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes: women. This audiobook brings to light the incredible stories of women from the Civil War that remain relevant to our nation today. Each woman's experience helps us see a truer, fuller, richer version of what really happened in this country during this time period.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Style kills the stories
- De KHdeB en 01-12-21
De: Marianne Monson