Описание: In 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already a celebrated lecturer across the northern United States. The recent publication of his groundbreaking Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave had incited threats to his life, however, and to place himself out of harm's way he embarked on a lecture tour of the British Isles, a journey that would span seventeen months and change him as a man and a leader in the struggle for equality.In the first major narrative account of a transformational episode in the life of this extraordinary American, Tom Chaffin chronicles Douglass’s 1845-47 lecture tour of Ireland, Scotland, and England. It was, however, the Emerald Isle, above all, that affected Douglass – from its wild landscape (""I have travelled almost from the hill of ‘Howth’ to the Giant’s Causeway"") to the plight of its people, with which he found parallels to that of African Americans. Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, critic David Kipen has called Chaffin a ""thorough and uncommonly graceful historian."" Possessed of an epic, transatlantic scope, Chaffin’s new book makes Douglass’s historic journey vivid for the modern reader and reveals how the former slave’s growing awareness of intersections between Irish, American, and African history shaped the rest of his life.The experience accelerated Douglass's transformation from a teller of his own life story into a commentator on contemporary issues – a transition discouraged during his early lecturing days by white colleagues at the American Anti-Slavery Society. (""Give us the facts,"" he had been instructed, ""we will take care of the philosophy."") As the tour progressed, newspaper coverage of his passage through Ireland and Great Britain enhanced his stature dramatically. When he finally returned to America he had the platform of an international celebrity.Drawn from hundreds of letters, diaries, and other primary-source documents – many heretofore unpublished – this far-reaching tale includes vivid portraits of personages who shaped Douglass and his world, including the Irish nationalists Daniel O'Connell and John Mitchel, British prime minister Robert Peel, abolitionist John Brown, and Abraham Lincoln.Giant’s Causeway – which includes an account of Douglass's final, bittersweet, visit to Ireland in 1887 – shows how experiences under foreign skies helped him hone habits of independence, discretion, compromise, self-reliance, and political dexterity. Along the way, it chronicles Douglass’s transformation from activist foot soldier to moral visionary.
Автор: Chaffin Cheryl Название: After Poland: A Memoir Because of Primo Levi ISBN: 186335008X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781863350082 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 6897.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Scholar, writer, and poet Cheryl Chaffin travels to Poland to contemplate the ethical implications of Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi`s deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, and to reflect on the meaning of human experience in the twenty-first century.
Автор: Chaffin Maureen Название: Joseph: Prophecy Fulfilled ISBN: 1478784725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478784722 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 10290.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Foretold since the time of Enoch is a prophet of the last days named Joseph, who would restore prophecy, priesthood, temples; and bring forth a New Torah - the Stick of Joseph. This is the incredible true story of that Joseph, born in 1805, who grew to manhood in the untamed wilderness of the American frontier. At the age of 14 his life was indelibly altered when he received a vision; wherein the Lord called Joseph to do a marvelous work and a wonder, re-establish the Kingdom of God, and prepare the way for the Coming of the Messiah. The Adversary, enraged at this threat to his reign and realm, rose up in his wrath and viciously sought to destroy Joseph. Thus, began Joseph's extraordinary efforts to accomplish the Lord's commands, while desperately struggling to elude the murderous hands of his nefarious foes. And in so doing, Joseph unknowingly fulfilled ancient Hebrew prophecy.
Автор: Foster Pamela Chaffin Название: Mills Mill Pals ISBN: 1465395709 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781465395702 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 7240.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: -The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Fremont that has appeared to date---Howard R. Lamar, Yale University The career of John Charles Fremont (1813-90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin's biography demonstrates Fremont's vital importance to the history of American empire, and illuminates his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West. As the most celebrated American explorer and mapper of his time, Fremont stood at the center of the vast federal project of western exploration and conquest. His expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the public's imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nation's destiny as a vast continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, the Pathfinder. But Fremont was more than an explorer. Chaffin's dramatic narrative includes Fremont's varied experiences as an entrepreneur, abolitionist, Civil War general, husband to the remarkable Jessie Benton Fremont, two-time Republican presidential candidate, and Gilded Age aristocrat. This new paperback edition of Pathfinder features a new, additional, updated introduction by the author.
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