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The Heart & Soul of a Black Man

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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 565min

A breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons’ revolt that almost changed the face of the AmericasOn Sunday, February 27, 1763, thousands of slaves in the Dutch colony of Berbice - in present-day Guyana - launched a massive rebellion that came amazingly close to succeeding. Surrounded by jungle and savannah, the revolutionaries (many of them African-born) and Europeans struck and parried for an entire year. In the end, the Dutch prevailed because of one unique advantage - their ability to get soldiers and supplies from neighboring colonies and from Europe. Blood on the River is the explosive story of this little-known revolution, one that almost changed the face of the Americas.Drawing on 900 interrogation transcripts collected by the Dutch when the Berbice rebellion finally collapsed, and which were subsequently buried in Dutch archives, historian Marjoleine Kars reconstructs an extraordinarily rich day-by-day account of this pivotal event. Blood on the River provides a rare in-depth look at the political vision of enslaved people at the dawn of the Age of Revolution and introduces us to a set of real characters, vividly drawn against the exotic tableau of a riverine world of plantations, rain forest, and Carib allies who controlled a vast South American hinterland.An astonishing original work of history, Blood on the River will change our understanding of revolutions, slavery, and the story of freedom in the New World. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shayna Small. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/056793/bk_adbl_056793_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Autobiography of My Mother , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 385min

From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal comes an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming of age. Powerful, disturbing, and stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. Jamaica Kincaid takes us from Xuela's childhood in a home where she can hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack La Batte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but she eventually marries an English doctor, Philip Bailey. Xuela's intensely physical world is redolent of overripe fruit, gentian violet, sulfur, and rain on the road. It seethes with her sorrow, her deep sympathy for those who share her history, her fear of her father, and her desperate loneliness. But underlying all is "the black room of the world" that is Xuela's barrenness and life without a mother. The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution, evoked in startling and magical poetry. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Miles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009497/bk_blak_009497_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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