55 Results for : tradesmen
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 429min
A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America. Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the 20th century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they'd founded the county's thriving black churches. But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white "night riders" launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. In the wake of the expulsions, whites harvested the crops and took over the livestock of their former neighbors and quietly laid claim to "abandoned" land. The charred ruins of homes and churches disappeared into the weeds, until the people and places of black Forsyth were forgotten. National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth's tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and '80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth "all white" well into the 1990s. Blood at the Root is a sweeping American tale that spans the Cherokee removals of the 1830s, the hope and promise of Reconstruction, and the crushing injustice of Forsyth's racial cleansing. With bold storytelling and lyrical prose, Phillips breaks a century-long silence and uncovers a history of racial terrorism that continues to shape America in the 21st century. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Phillips. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004744/bk_rand_004744_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Elements of Ruin: Hijinks Harem, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min, (USK 18)
Warning: This audiobook contains romance (and sex) between one woman and six men, and she doesn't have to choose just one. Also contains: raunchy humor, too many puns, group sex, a bit of M/M, and plenty of action, violence, and intrigue.Six hunky, supernatural tradesmen. One sarcastic, caffeine-addicted bride. A match made by fate...or karma?My name is Arizona Smoke, and I have six husbands. Yup. Count 'em - six. Four sexy plumbers, one electric electrician...and my last husband? Total prick. Our unconventional marriage is almost complete. All I need to do is reconcile with my first love and rescue a man I’ve never met. Easy, right?As if marrying a bunch of supernatural plumbers isn't hard enough, I also have to deal with the fact my biological father and his six wives (yeah, I have six moms, too) are still hunting us, stalking us through sex parties hosted by demons and setting traps for us in the middle of underground, supernatural raves. And you thought your family was dysfunctional!All I wanted was a moment to breathe, a chance to get to know my new husbands in a way that was more than sexual - although I'm not exactly complaining about our time in the bedroom. But between my maniacal mother-in-law, some kidnapped lady-elementals, and the rich asshole I'm supposed to welcome into my new harem...when's a girl got time for dates? Let alone planning a seven-way...wedding that is.I'm Ari Smoke, spirit elemental, supernatural badass, and hot-as-f--k dragon chick. Having six hot husbands is nice...but being hunted by evil sex demons, not so much.Elements of Ruin is a full-length comedic, paranormal reverse-harem romance. This means our leading lady has six male love interests and doesn't have to choose between them. This audiobook is full of steamy sex, ridiculous plumbing puns, and heaps of action, intrigue, and...well, more puns. This is audiobook two of three. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bridie Lawrence. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119982/bk_acx0_119982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Nickel Boys
Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Florida. Praise for Pulitzer Prize-winning The Underground Railroad: 'My book of the year by some distance . . . luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer 'An engrossing and harrowing novel' Sunday Times 'Tells one of the most compelling stories I have ever read' Guardian Whitehead is a superb storyteller . . . [he] brilliantly intertwines his allegory with history . . . writing at the peak of his game' Telegraph ________________________________________________________________________ Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clearsighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which claims to provide 'physical, intellectual and moral training' which will equip its inmates to become 'honorable and honest men'. In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical, emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists is likely to disappear 'out back'. Stunned to find himself in this vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King's ringing assertion, 'Throw us in jail, and we will still love you.' But Elwood's fellow inmate and new friend Turner thinks Elwood is naive and worse; the world is crooked, and the only way to survive is to emulate the cruelty and cynicism of their oppressors. The tension between Elwood's idealism and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision which will have decades-long repercussions. Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.- Shop: buecher
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General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen of the City of New York: A History
General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen of the City of New York: A History: ab 16.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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No Tradesmen and No Women
No Tradesmen and No Women - The Origins of the British Civil Service: ab 19.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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