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Wilberforce
Details: Unabridged
ISBN: 0786110325
Category: Bios, Memoirs, Political Figures, History, Extraordinary Lives
Keywords: slave trade, Britain, England, British, reformer, abolition, abolitionist, politics, French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, Act, emancipation, territories, Wilberforce
Author: John Pollock
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Length: 15 hours and 22 min.

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William Wilberforce is chiefly remembered as the reformer who campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade in England. He was at the heart of British politics for over 40 years during the inflammatory times of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. He lived just long enough to see the passage of the Act to emancipate all slaves in British territories. Drawing on a vast array of previously unpublished manuscripts, John Pollock presents a full picture of the man, who was "exciting, lovable, delightful, with faults which must have maddened his friends."…

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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
Details: Unabridged
ISBN: 1400152836
Category: History, American, Political
Keywords: slavery, slaves, freedmen, reconstruction, emancipation, voting rights, constitution, 14th amendment, 15th amendment, president, Ulysses S. Grant, terrorism, whites, blacks, militi
Author: Nicholas Lemann
Publisher: Tantor Media
Length: 8 hours and 56 min.

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A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them a…



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War, Terrible War: A History of US, Book 6
Details: Unabridged
ISBN: 140252417X
Category: Education, Parents, Students, Higher Education Faculty, Faculty, History, American, K-12 Educators, Grade 3-5, Grade 6-8, Grade 9-12, Kids, Ages 8-12, Nonfiction, Family, College S
Keywords: A History of US, United States, America, slavery, abolitionist, abolition, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Jefferson Davis,
Author: Joy Hakim
Publisher: Recorded Books
Length: 4 hours and 30 min.

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Riveting, moving, and impossible to put down, War, Terrible War takes us into the heart of the Civil War, from the battle of Manassas to the battle of Gettysburg and on to the South's surrender at Appomattox Court House. Follow the common soldiers in blue and gray as they endure long marches, freezing winter camps, and the bloodiest battles ever fought on American soil. Off the war fields, War, Terrible War captures the passion and commitment of abolitionists and slave owners alike in their fiery debates throughout the land. With profiles of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Jefferson Davis, soldiers on both sides, slave owners, abolitionists, average citizens, and others, War, Terrible War is the compelling story of a people affected by the horrors of war during this tragic and dramatic period in A History of US .


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Reconstructing America: A History of US, Book 7
Details: Unabridged
ISBN: 1402530447
Category: Education, Parents, Students, Higher Education Faculty, Faculty, History, American, K-12 Educators, Grade 3-5, Grade 6-8, Grade 9-12, Kids, Ages 8-12, Nonfiction, Family, College S
Keywords: A History of US, United States, America, slavery, emancipation, reconstruction and reform, railroad, thomas edison, Carry Nation, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Reconstructin
Author: Joy Hakim
Publisher: Recorded Books
Length: 5 hours and 51 min.

Description
Covering a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstructing America is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re-United States. Railroad tycoons were roaring across the country. New cities sprang up across the plains, and…

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The Souls of Black Folk
Details: Unabridged
Category: History, American, Nonfiction, Social Sciences
Keywords: negro, Black, African American, emancipation, slavery, Souls, Folk
Author: W.E.B. Dubois
Publisher: Jimcin Recordings
Length: 7 hours and 49 min.

Description
W.E.B. Du Bois said, on the launch of his groundbreaking 1903 treatise, The Souls of Black Folk, "for the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line", a prescient statement. Setting out to show to the reader "the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the twentieth century, " Du Bois explains the meaning of the emancipation, and its effect, and his views on the roles of the leaders of his race.



 

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