À la fin du 18e siècle, en Virginie, un terrible secret plane sur une plantation de tabac. Ayant perdu ses parents irlandais lors de sa traversée de l’Atlantique, la petite Lavinia, âgée de sept ans, se retrouve domestique au domaine du...
Slaves
- Auteur:Grissom, KathleenSommaire:
- Juneteenth : The history and legacy of the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the southAuteur:Editors, Charles RiverSommaire:
Inevitably, for many across the South, the news of the Emancipation Proclamation arrived slowly, and in other locales, the new was withheld entirely, sometimes by years. Slaveowners were not simply going to give up slaves, and in the...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Out of the hundreds of published slave narratives, only a handful exist specific to South Carolina, and most of these are not readily available to modern readers. Edited by Susanna Ashton, this collection restores to print seven slave...
- Auteur:Meriwether, LouiseSommaire:
Fragments of the Ark follows the exploits of runaway slave Peter Mango, his family, and a band of fellow escaped slaves as they commandeer a Confederate gunboat out of Charleston harbor and deliver it to the Union navy. Mango is made...
- Auteur:Sicard, Louis-PierSommaire:
Un mois s’est écoulé depuis la disparition de quelques apprentis du royaume, qui ont été vendus comme esclaves et gladiateurs à la Forteresse rouge. On raconte de cet endroit maudit qu’il se situe en plein coeur de l’océan des Pirates,...
- Auteur:Beckert, SvenSommaire:
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
- Auteur:Duncan, Grace R.Sommaire:
Spin-off of Choices Cyrus and Nadir first met as hungry orphans on Behekam’s streets at twelve years old. They became friends, then partners in the thievery that enabled them to survive, and as they passed their days together, they fell...
- Auteur:Bunting, Annie, Quirk, JoelSommaire:
Contemporary slavery has emerged as a source of fascination and a spur to political mobilization. This volume brings together experts to carefully explore how the language of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government...
- Auteur:Heinlein, Robert A.Sommaire:
As he stands on the auction block, the ragged, starving boy, Thorby, is purchased by the crippled beggar Baslim, who leads him into adventures on the starship Sisu.
- Auteur:Evaristo, BernardineSommaire:
- Auteur:Bowman, PatrickSommaire:
Arrow through the Axes concludes the “Odyssey of a Slave” trilogy that began with the Red Maple–nominated Torn from Troy, retelling Homer’s Odyssey. The slave Alexi, now free of his Greek captors, infiltrates the Greek strongholds of...
- Auteur:Hill, LawrenceSommaire:
Lawrence Hill a transformé une page négligée de l’histoire en un roman brillant et attachant, qui transporte le lecteur d’un village africain à une plantation du sud des États-Unis, d’un refuge sordide en Nouvelle-Écosse à la côte de la...
- Auteur:Pringle, Laurence P.Sommaire:
A biography of William Clark's personal slave, who provided invaluable assistance to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- Auteur:Colvin, JeffreySommaire:
A ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry, set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, that depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood,...
- Auteur:Tahir, SabaaSommaire:
The highly anticipated third book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir's EMBER QUARTET. Beyond the Martial Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger. Helene Aquilla, the Blood Shrike, is desperate to...
- Auteur:Northup ,SolomonSommaire:
12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth,...