LIBROS DEL AUTOR: raleigh sutton

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: raleigh sutton

  • Patent Medicines, Cures and Preventions
    Raleigh Sutton
    How I got started with this stuff was I found them while looking for other things. I went back through150 years worth of newspapers to select this bunch. Doing research on old diseases was educational to say the least! This took about 10 years of collecting.  ...
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    16,65 €

  • My Life With and About African-Americans 1944-2024
    Raleigh Sutton / South of Town 2024 Deer Meadow
    I was born in 1939 in Alton, Illinois. Alton was the home of Elijah Lovejoy, the famous abolitionist who was killed there by a proslavery mob while he was defending his printing press. It was his fourth press, the other three having been dumped into the Mississippi River to prevent him from publishing his antislavery newspaper, The Defender.After three days, my mother and I ret...
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    10,71 €

  • The Things I Never Told My Children
    Raleigh Sutton
    The reason for this messThere was a specific reason for writing all this.In 1979, I was in a horrible car accident resulting in a double concussion, permanent brain damage to my left frontal lobe, and the inability to walk well. Riding a bike and driving a car was far down the road. I lost a lot of language skills, including the loss of German and Puerto Rican--two languages I ...
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    18,91 €

  • Kane County, Illinois African American Civil War Vets
    Raleigh Sutton
    Prior to the Civil War, it was not allowed to have African Americans in the military, but some were accepted into the Navy. It was thought that they had neither the courage or the discipline to make good soldiers and follow orders. In the beginning the Union had man-power problems and with the draft riots and the initial victories of the Confederacy posed a huge problem.African...
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    11,40 €

  • From Africa to Illinois, The Search for Freedom and a Place to Call Home
    Raleigh L. Sutton / Raleigh LSutton
    Most of the material you will hear at this time is not and was not taught in school. Only in the last twenty years has much of this information has come to light by hard working researchers who, like myself, have spent thousands of hours digging out the facts from diverse sources. The usual class room teachings acknowledge slavery only in a general way moving on to the Civil Wa...
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    68,50 €

  • Slavery in Illinois
    Raleigh Sutton
    The book presents the African American experience in the state of Illinois regarding early black settlements, the Black Laws of the state, misc information on the situations African American faced in the state. ...
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    21,83 €