Books written by Jennifer Fleischner
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Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
... Elegant Extracts, or Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations. He memorized William Cullen Bryant's poem “Thanatopsis," about accepting death amid life, and turned down the page for William 161.
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Through Women's Eyes 3e, Combined Volume + Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Through Women's Eyes 3e, Combined Volume + Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Through Women's Eyes, 3rd Ed + the American Women's Movement + Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Through Women's Eyes, 3rd Ed + the American Women's Movement + Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Through Women's Eyes 2nd Ed Vol 1 + the Triangle Fire + Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,...
Through Women's Eyes 2nd Ed Vol 1 + the Triangle Fire + Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,...
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America: A Concise History Vol 1 + Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself + An...
The authors' own abridgement preserves the hallmark explanatory power of the parent text, helping students to understand not only what happened but why -- so they're never left wondering what's important.
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Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives
In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one ...
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Through Women's Eyes, 2nd Ed
Through Women's Eyes, 2nd Ed
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The Inuits: People of the Arctic
Igluviaks were built from the ground up out of “ bricks ” of tightly packed tundra snow , which provided insulation against the cold . The whole family would help in the construction . After the men sketched a circle into the snow as a ...
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Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave Jennifer Fleischner ... He memorized William Cullen Bryant's poem “ Thanatopsis , " about accepting death amid life , and turned down the page for 161.
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Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
A historical portrait set against the backdrop of the antebellum South and the Civil War explores the remarkable friendship between First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker and confidante, Elizabeth Keckly, a former slave.
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Nobody's Boy
George's mother had often told him the story of when she was a little girl in Virginia and watched the local slave dealer put a little boy, one of her playmates, whose mother was the Burwell family cook, on a hanging scale to weigh him ...
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Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives
When she was around fourteen, Keckley's master, Colonel Burwell, sent her as a slave to his eldest son, thereby separating her from her mother. Not long afterwards, she was forced into a sexual relationship with an unnamed white man and ...
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The Dred Scott Case: Testing the Right to Live Free
Describes the events and people involved in the Dred Scott case and the effect on the nation Dred Scott was a slave who sued his owner saying that he and his family must be set free because the owner had taken them to live for a period in a ...
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A History of Adelphi University
A History of Adelphi University
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The Apaches: People of the Southwest
A historical portrait of the Apache tribes of the plains describes their life and culture prior to the arrival of the Europeans and recounts the violent disruptions that occurred when colonization attempts took their lands away.
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Doris Lessing Readers Guide
Doris Lessing Readers Guide
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American Promise + Reading the American Past 5e V1 + Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl + Narrative...
American Promise + Reading the American Past 5e V1 + Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl + Narrative...
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A Reader's Guide to the Fiction of Barbara Kingsolver
A Reader's Guide to the Fiction of Barbara Kingsolver
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Feminist Nightmares: Women At Odds: Feminism and the Problems of Sisterhood
Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood.The intention of this book is presenting a wide variety of essays to explore and complicate the connections, acknowledged or unacknowledged, between the represented and the actual, as well as the ways ...
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I was Born a Slave: The Story of Harriet Jacobs
Traces the life of a slave who suffered mistreatment from her master, spent years as a fugitive from slavery in North Carolina, and was eventually released to freedom with her...