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“My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest dealing with my fellow man.” –Callie House (1899)

In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Dr. Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House (1861-1928) who, seventy years before the civil-rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations.

A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House went on to fight for African American pensions based on those offered to Union soldiers, brilliantly targeting $68 million in taxes on seized rebel cotton and demanding it as repayment for centuries of unpaid labor. Here is the fascinating story of a forgotten civil rights crusader: a woman who emerges as a courageous pioneering activist, a forerunner of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr..
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Emancipation and the citizenship that followed conferred upon former slaves the right to create family relationships that were sanctioned, recognized, and regulated by the laws that governed the families of all American citizens. Elizabeth Regosin explores what the acquisition of this legal familial status meant to former slaves, personally, socially, and politically.

The Civil War pension system offers a fascinating source of documentation for this study of ex-slave families in transition from slavery to freedom. Because the provisions made to compensate eligible Union veterans and surviving family members created a vast bureaucracy—pension officials required and verified extensive proof of qualification—former slaves were obliged to reproduce and represent the inner workings of their familial relationships.

Regosin reveals through both their personal histories and pension narratives how former slaves constructed identities as individuals and as family members while they negotiated the boundaries of “family” as defined by the pension system. The stories told by ex-slaves, their witnesses, and the government officials who played a role in the pension process all serve to provide us with a richer understanding of life for newly emancipated African Americans..
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An invaluable collection of vivid conversion narratives and autobiographies by illiterate but powerfully articulate ex-slaves GOD STRUCK ME DEAD is a window into the soul of America and its religious history. The narratives were gathered from the Fisk Social Science Institute's massive 1930s study on race relations..
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"This long overdue story of great courage and great suffering rewarded with great injustice should be required reading for every member of Congress It is a tale to make you at once proud and angry." -- Tom Brokaw

"The Battling Bastards of Bataan, and all others who paid a dear price for freedom as Pacific Theater prisoners-of-war, deserve - and need - to be remembered. Not just for them, but for us." - From the foreword by Senators Orrin Hatch and Joseph Biden

Decades-old war abuses are given up-to-the-minute relevance in this book about World War II American soldiers seeking restitution from Japanese companies that used them as slave laborers during the war. Their tale is told by the lawyer representing them, James Parkinson. With the help of a well-known journalist, Parkinson ties the present to the past by interspersing horrific war narrative with modern-day dramas played out in courtrooms and congressional hearing rooms as lawyers, judges, senators, and congressmen debate the merits of a case now known as the JPOW case. In the process, wartime brutality confronts peacetime prosperity, and economics, not military might, determines the outcome.

Using the personal history of one of the veterans he represents--a munitions mechanic from the Army Air Corps named Harold Poole—to illustrate what happened, Parkinson traces a path that began with the infamous Bataan Death March of April 1942 and three and a half years of forced labor, followed by years of silence forced on the veterans by their own government and lingering medical and emotional problems. Readers will be drawn into the case as the extent of the abuse meted out by the Japanese is revealed and the POWs' effort to be compensated unfolds. While Parkinson agrees that there might be legitimate debate over whether the soldiers are entitled to back wages from the Japanese corporations who benefited from their labor, he is adamant that their story be more widely known. With the support of influential senators like Orrin Hatch and Joseph Biden and the publication of this book, he is reaching thousands of Americans..
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This book is the story of Clara Brown, an ex-slave in gold rush Colorado The book was published in 2003 and is the exciting, true story of the woman who became one of Colorado's best known figures, honored after her death with a stained glass window in Colorado's capitol, a new work premiering in 2003 at the world famous Central City Opera House..
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Two young ladies, Jena and Trudy, are sent to Mistress Kim at the request of their ex-boyfriends. The girls want a second chance from their boyfirends. First they have to prove they have changed their ways. The girls agree to do whatever it takes to please their boyfriends. They are in for more then they bargined for. The girls are abducted and soon find themselves helpless and alone in a world they never knew existed. They must now learn to please and serve their ex-boyfriends if they wish to regain their trust. Jena's love for black cock has pushed her ex to his breaking point. While Trudy's messy and bratty ways must change. Her ex demands total obediance. Each girl endures the punishment and torture that only Mistress Kim can dish out. The girls are humiliated, bound, gagged, spanked, whipped, raped and abused..
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