Revolutionary Poet: A Story about Phillis Wheatley by Maryann N. Weidt

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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/850763 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/850763] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolutionary Poet: A Story about Phillis Wheatley Series: Part of Creative Minds Biographies Author: Maryann N. Weidt Narrator: Debi Tinsley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1 minute Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: Taken from her family in Africa at the age of seven, Phillis Wheatley arrived in Boston as a slave in 1761. After she was purchased by the Wheatley family, Phillis quickly learned to speak and read English. The bright young girl soon began writing poetry. By 1771, her poems had been published in newspapers all over the colonies, and critics were praising the "extraordinary negro poetess." In this engaging biography, author Maryann Weidt tells the story of how a young slave girl in revolutionary Boston became an internationally famous poet and the first black American to publish a book.

The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War by Jeff Forret

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/814621 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/814621] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War Author: Jeff Forret Narrator: TBD Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A prizewinning historian uncovers the first instances of reparations in America—ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves. “A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations.” —Robert Elder‚ author of Calhoun: American Heretic In 1831, the American ship Comet, carrying 165 enslaved men, women, and children, crashed onto a coral reef near the shore of the Bahamas, then part of the British Empire. Shortly afterward, the Vice Admiralty Court in Nassau, over the outraged objections of the ship’s owners, set the rescued captives free. American slave owners and the companies who insured the liberated human cargo would spend years lobbying for reparations from Great Britain, not for the emancipated slaves, of course, but for the masters deprived of their human property. In a work of profoundly relevant research and storytelling, historian and Frederick Douglass Prize–winner Jeff Forret uncovers how the Comet incident—as well as similar episodes that unfolded over the next decade—resulted in the British Crown making reparations payments to a U.S. government that strenuously represented slaveholder interests. Through a story that has never been fully explored, The Price They Paid shows how, unlike their former owners and insurers, neither the survivors of the Comet and other vessels, nor their descendants, have ever received reparations for the price they paid in their lives, labor, and suffering during slavery. Any accounting of reparations today requires a fuller understanding of how the debts of slavery have been paid, and to whom. The Price They Paid represents a major step forward in that effort.

26 nov 202412 h 8 min

Revolutionary Poet: A Story about Phillis Wheatley by Maryann N. Weidt

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