LIBROS DEL AUTOR: daniel b thorp

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  • In the True Blue’s Wake
    Daniel B Thorp
    In 1759, William Preston purchased sixteen enslaved Africans brought to America aboard the True Blue, an English slave ship. Over the next century, the Preston family enslaved more than two hundred individuals and used their labor to establish and operate Smithfield Plantation in Blacksburg, Virginia. Daniel Thorp uncovers the stories of the men and women who were enslaved at S...
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  • Seeking Justice
    Daniel B Thorp
    The amazing story of one illegally enslaved Virginia family’s dauntless legal appeal for freedom. Before the Civil War brought emancipation to the South, some enslaved people managed to use the legal system--the same one that had concocted and long perpetuated their bondage--to sue for their freedom from owners who unlawfully held them in slavery. In Seeking Justice, Daniel Tho...
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  • Facing Freedom
    Daniel B Thorp
    The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region. In Facing Freedom, Daniel Thorp relates the complex experience of an African American community in southern Appalachia as it negotiated a radically new world in the four decades following the Civil War. Drawing on ex...
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