African American Civil War

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    • By: Percival Everett
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson’s Island until he can formulate a plan.

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    • The Civil War in American Memory
    • By: David W. Blight
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-2019
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. David Blight's sweeping narrative of triumph and tragedy, romance and realism, is a compelling tale....

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    • Power and Politics in the Civil War South
    • By: Stephanie McCurry
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-2018
    • Language: English
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    • The story of the Confederate States of America has been told many times in heroic narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a different tale. Confederate Reckoning is the story of this political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-2008
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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....

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    • Mississippi's Longest Civil War
    • By: Victoria E. Bynum
    • Narrated by: Mahershala Ali
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Actor Mahershala Ali performs the gripping tale of an armed band of Confederate deserters and slaves living in a mixed-race community who rose up against the Confederate Cavalry in 1863....

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    • The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
    • By: Jacqueline Jones
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small—a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive.

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    • A Civil War Nurse
    • By: Pamela Dell
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 31 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Susie King Taylor, born a slave in 1848, would learn to read at secret schools and go on to teach countless others to read and write. Follow the course of the Civil War in her own words as she remembers her work as a nurse and teacher with an Army troop of African-American soldiers....

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    • By: Tracy K. Smith
    • Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-2018
    • Language: English
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    • In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting....

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    • 1861-1865: The USA at War with Itself
    • By: Robert Boscarato
    • Narrated by: Jae Huff
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-2016
    • Language: English
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    • It was a war that saw many firsts. The long list of Civil War firsts include America's first income tax, the first battle between ironclad ships, and more....

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    • By: John Hope Franklin
    • Narrated by: Lamont Mapp
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • First published in 1961, John Hope Franklin’s revelatory study of the Reconstruction Era is a landmark work of history, exploring the role of former slaves and dispelling longstanding popular myths about corruption and Radical rule....

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    • A Traveler’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 1853-1861
    • By: Frederick Law Olmsted
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 24 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-2019
    • Language: English
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    • In 1853, Frederick Law Olmsted was working for the New York Times when he journeyed to the southern slave states and wrote one of the most important pro-abolition discourses....

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    • Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
    • By: Edward E Baptist
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy....

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    • By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery....

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    • The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
    • By: Andrew Ward
    • Narrated by: Richard Allen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 22-07-2008
    • Language: English
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    • The Slaves' War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest conflict....

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    • By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
    • Narrated by: Quincy Tyler Bernstine
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In 1850s Ohio, a free territory before the Civil War, Tawawa House is an idyllic retreat for Southern white men who vacation there every summer with their enslaved black mistresses....

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    • Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality
    • By: Michael Burlingame
    • Narrated by: Tony Isabella
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • In a little-noted eulogy delivered after Lincoln's assassination, Frederick Douglass called the president "emphatically the black man's president," the "first to show any respect for their rights as men." ....

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    • The Story of the Last Slave
    • By: Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston
    • Narrated by: Deborah G. Plant, Robin Miles
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis, who was abducted from Africa on the last 'Black Cargo' ship to arrive in the United States....

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    • The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
    • By: Fatima Shaik
    • Narrated by: Fatima Shaik
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-2023
    • Language: English
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    • It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face of an oppressive white society, members of the Société d’Economie et d’Assistance Mutuelle built a community....

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    • Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments
    • By: Herbert C. Covey
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-2022
    • Language: English
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    • African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War....

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