Black Livingstone

Black Livingstone
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Publisher : Santa Fe Writer's Project
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 9780988225244
ISBN-13 : 0988225247
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Black Livingstone by : Pagan Kennedy

Download or read book Black Livingstone written by Pagan Kennedy and published by Santa Fe Writer's Project. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A largely untold story of an extraordinary historical figure, this biography sheds light on the life of William Sheppard, a 19th-century African American who, for more than 20 years, defied segregation and operated a missionary run by black Americans in the Belgian Congo. This work shows how Sheppard returned to the United States periodically, and traveled the country telling tales of his adventures to packed auditoriums. An anthropologist, photographer, big-game hunter, and art collector, the man billed as the &“Black Livingstone&” helped expose the atrocities that occurred under the reign of King Leopold, and this stirring work tells how he eventually helped to break Belgium's hold on the Congo.

William Sheppard

William Sheppard
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Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0664502032
ISBN-13 : 9780664502034
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Book Synopsis William Sheppard by : William E. Phipps

Download or read book William Sheppard written by William E. Phipps and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive biography of William Sheppard, the first African American Presbyterian missionary, presents the remarkable story of how an African American born in the South during the era of slavery emerged as one of the most distinguished Presbyterian leaders in American history. The book chronicles Sheppard's journey to the Congo, details his efforts to challenge human rights violations, and describes his impact on the areas of religion, human rights, education, and art.

The Black Prince and the Capture of a King

The Black Prince and the Capture of a King
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Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9781612004525
ISBN-13 : 1612004520
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Black Prince and the Capture of a King by : Marilyn Livingstone

Download or read book The Black Prince and the Capture of a King written by Marilyn Livingstone and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “taut narrative” of the fourteenth-century conflict between England and France offers “a detailed, climactic account of a legendary battle” (Publishers Weekly). The epic fourteenth-century Battle of Poitiers marked a major turn in the Hundred Years’ War between England and France. Prince Edward, known to all as the Black Prince, not only won a surprising victory in his first campaign as commander, but managed the nearly impossible feat of taking the French monarch, King Jean II, prisoner. In the summer of 1356, Prince Edward drove toward the Loire Valley, deep in French territory. There, he met the full French army led by King Jean and a number of French nobles, including veterans of the defeat at Crécy ten years before. Outnumbered, the Prince fell back, but in September, he turned near the city of Poitiers to make a stand. Historians Witzel and Livingstone provide a day-by-day description of the campaign of July to September 1356, climaxing with a vivid description of the Battle of Poitiers itself. The detailed account and analysis of the battle and the campaigns that led up to it has a strong focus on the people involved in the campaign: ordinary men-at-arms and noncombatants, as well as princes and nobles.

Black Terror White Soldiers

Black Terror White Soldiers
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Publisher : David Livingstone
Total Pages : 714
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ISBN-10 : 9781481226509
ISBN-13 : 1481226509
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Black Terror White Soldiers by : David Livingstone

Download or read book Black Terror White Soldiers written by David Livingstone and published by David Livingstone. This book was released on 2013-06-16 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far too ignorant of the histories of the rest of the world, being aware of only the accomplishments of Greece, Rome and Europe, Westerners have been made to believe that their societies represent the most superior examples of civilization. However, the Western value system stems from a misconception that, as in nature, human society too is evolving. The idea derives from the hidden influence of secret societies, who followed the belief in spiritual evolution of the Kabbalah, which taught that history would attain its fulfillment when man would become God, and make his own laws. Therefore, the infamous Illuminati gave its name to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, which claimed that human progress must abandon "superstition," meaning Christianity, in favor of "reason." Thus the Illuminati succeeded in bringing about the French and American revolutions, which instituted the separation of Church and State, and from that point forward, the Western values of Humanism, seen to include secularism, human rights, democracy and capitalism, have been celebrated as the culmination of centuries of human intellectual evolution. This is the basis of the propaganda which has been used to foster a Clash of Civilizations, where the Islamic world is presented as stubbornly adhering to the anachronistic idea of "theocracy." Where once the spread of Christianity and civilizing the world were used as pretexts for colonization, today a new White Man's Burden makes use of human rights and democracy to justify imperial aggression. However, because, after centuries of decline, the Islamic world is incapable of mobilizing a defense, the Western powers, as part of their age-old strategy of Divide and Conquer, have fostered the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, to both serve as agent-provocateurs and to malign the image of Islam. These sects, known to scholars as Revivalists, opposed the traditions of classical Islamic scholarship in order to create the opportunity to rewrite the laws of the religion to better serve their sponsors. Thus were created the Wahhabi and Salafi sects of Islam, from which were derived the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been in the service of the West ever since. But, the story of the development of these Islamic sects involves the bizarre doctrines and hidden networks of occult secret societies, being based on a Rosicrucian myth of Egyptian Freemasonry, which see the Muslim radicals as inheritors of an ancient mystery tradition of the Middle East which was passed on to the Knights Templar during the Crusades, thus forming the foundation of the legends of the Holy Grail. These beliefs would not only form the cause for the association of Western intelligence agencies with Islamic fundamentalists, but would fundamentally shape much of twentieth century history.

Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?

Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 0674024877
ISBN-13 : 9780674024878
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? by : Clare Pettitt

Download or read book Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? written by Clare Pettitt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on films, children's books, games, songs, cartoons, and TV shows, this book reveals the many ways our culture has remembered Henry Morton Stanley's iconic phrase, while tracking the birth of an Anglo-American Christian imperialism that still sets the world agenda today.

Black Jamaica

Black Jamaica
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044011833928
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Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Black Jamaica by : William Pringle Livingstone

Download or read book Black Jamaica written by William Pringle Livingstone and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rebus tale relating the adventures of a pony and a bear who go in search of the apples stolen from an apple tree.

Light List

Light List
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Total Pages : 730
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015022630472
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

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Download or read book Light List written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: