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Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men is an exciting narrative history offering fresh insights into many aspects of the Civil War.

"This is a lucid, edifying account of the Civil War era. Mr. Hummel has an impressive command of the relevant contemporary literature. His interpretations are thoughtful, often provocative, always well worth considering, Civil War buffs will want this book on their shelves". -- Kenneth M. Stampp University of California, Berkeley

"Hummel presents some uncomfortable truths for both sides of the Civil War. For the South, Hummel builds a case that the war was indeed about slavery. For the North, he shows that a war to preserve the union was morally bankrupt and that freeing the slaves was the only justifiable reason for fighting. Yet Hummel demonstrates that even a war for such a noble cause was probably unnecessary, since slavery was politically doomed in an independent South. Hummel also illustrates some of the cost of the war, such as Lincoln g suppression of political opposition, the closing of dissenting newspapers, and the creation of big government under Republicans Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant". -- Library Journal

"In this insightful treatment of the Civil War (addressing the causes, the war itself and Reconstruction), Hummel's text argues against the thesis that armed confrontation was inevitable. With its insight)d analysis (not to mention the extensive bibliographical essays that elaborate each chapter), Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men will supply both the academic and Civil War buff with an added perspective on the causes and consequences of the Civil War". -- Publishers Weekly.
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This unique collection of twelve essays by internationally known scholars deals with the important but unexplored topic of the transatlantic linkages between western Africa and Brazil during the era of the slave trade. Brazil received more enslaved Africans (approximately 4.5 million) than any other part of the Americas--ten times as many as North America, and more than all of the Caribbean and North America combined. The forced shipment of millions of Africans to the Americas, where their enslavement became the basis of intense exploitation, profoundly influenced the development of the American societies that used slaves, the African societies from which the victims originated, and the Europpean nations centrally involved in colonizing the Americas. Transatlantic slavery and the forces that produced its formal abolition in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were clearly vital in helping to define the identities of both Black and White poeple, and in shaping European colonialism and imperialism. These factors have left legacies of racism and division with important social consequences.

Divided into three major parts, ENSLAVING CONNECTIONS focuses first on the Portuguese-Brazilian slave trade. The second section examines the impact of western Africans on the making of colonial and postindependence Brazil. The final section explores the effects of Brazil and Afro-Brazilians on western Africa.

This important volume of cutting-edge research and analysis is a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of slavery in the Americas..
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FROM BEST SELLING BONDAGE AUTHOR REESE GABRIEL Erica is a beautiful freshman willing to do anything to be popular at Compton College. Triple Omega sorority promises her all she can handle. But for a price! As part of the new pledge class, the sexy eighteen year old learns she must serve and obey, offering up her perfect young body for abuse, discipline and humiliation at the hands of the senior Omega girls, as well as the lustful, sadistic boys of their brother fraternity, Triple Alpha. Treated little better than animals, Erica and her roommate Cassie must wrestle with their own inner desires to submit. And fight they must! They soon discover that Triple Omega is more than a social organization. It is a recruiting arm of a notorious white slaving ring specializing in training pretty American girls to grovel at the feet of foreign criminals and terrorists. When the girls disappear from school, it-s up to Erica-s mother, the lovely and submissive divorcee Deborah, as well as Cassie-s father Robert, a retired mercenary, to find the girls. Even as the two close in on the missing girls, Robert must deal with his own desire to conquer the more than willing Deborah. The clock is ticking as the unlucky captives are on a crash course with their destiny. Will they escape to freedom or are they destined for a life of brutal slavery? S&M sexuality. .
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This digital document is a journal article from Cognitive Brain Research, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether characteristics of finger interaction seen in voluntary finger force production tasks could also be observed during motor imagery. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was applied over the contralateral M1 hand area. Three conditions were tested in eight young healthy volunteers: At rest, during motor imagery of maximal force production by the index finger (ImIn), and during motor imagery of maximal force production by all four fingers simultaneously (ImAll). We obtained measures of motor threshold (MT), motor-evoked potentials (MEP) from the contralateral flexor digitorium superficialis, and TMS-induced forces from individual fingers. Increased MEP and decreased MT during motor imagery tasks suggested enhanced excitability of structures involved in the generation of TMS-induced responses. TMS-induced forces were larger during motor imagery tasks than at rest. This effect was present, albeit significantly smaller, in the middle, ring, and little fingers during ImIn as compared to ImAll. This finding has been interpreted as a correlate of the phenomenon of unintended finger force production (enslaving). The motor imagery effect on finger forces evoked by TMS was significantly larger during ImIn (4% MVC) than during ImAll (2.8% MVC) tasks, corresponding to the phenomenon of force deficit. These results provide direct evidence of the neural origin of the main phenomena of finger interaction. Furthermore, the similarities between characteristics of finger interaction during motor imagery and during voluntary movement suggest the involvement of similar neural structures (including M1). .
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This digital document is an article from Presbyterian Record, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 814 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fire and ice: there is nothing that is difficult or enslaving that Jesus can't handle.(for the journey)
Author: David Webber
Publication:Presbyterian Record (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 130 Issue: 11 Page: 38(2)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Men die eight years sooner than women. Why? Because they embrace traditional concepts of masculinity

So says a male, heterosexual, ex-jock who wasted much of his life trying to act "masculine." He came to recognize the agony and frustration men experience pursuing "masculinity, " and the resulting torment inflicted upon women and children.

This meticulously researched book dissects all aspects of gender controversy. It takes issue with modern psychology, the Men's Movement, feminism, and other ideologies for facilitating destructive gender division. The powerful, sometimes controversial, narrative demonstrates that successful living requires human beings to identify first and foreremost with the species, leaving gender a minor distinction.

This revolutionary view reaches out to both genders, pointing the way to healing, compatibility and longer, more harmonious lives..
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