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  The 1811 German Coast Uprising: The History and Legacy of America’s Largest Slave Revolt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 84min

  As the issue of slavery roiled the country, few people became as controversial or consequential as Nat Turner, who was one of millions of slaves in the South before the Civil War but ultimately led the nation’s most notorious slave uprising. In August 1831, Turner led a rebellion that terrorized Virginia for several days, killing dozens of Whites and freeing slaves as his band moved from plantation to plantation. The Richmond Enquirer reported, “A fanatic preacher by the name of Nat Turner (Gen. Nat Turner) who had been taught to read and write, and permitted to go about preaching in the country, was at the bottom of this infernal brigandage. He was artful, impudent, and vindicative, without any cause or provocation, that could be assigned.” Even after the uprising was put down, Turner evaded capture for a few months, and after he was captured, his “confessions” were taken down and published before he was executed. Virginia would put a total of 56 slaves to death for the uprising. While Turner’s rebellion remains famous today, a far larger uprising took place a generation earlier. In January 1811, hundreds of slaves in Louisiana attempted to make a new beginning for themselves or die trying. Armed with muskets, cane knives, and axes, and wearing stolen United States militia uniforms, they set out to conquer the city of New Orleans. The goal was to establish a free republic where slavery was outlawed and Blacks had control over their own lives. Understandably discontented with their status and no longer willing to accept it, they were ready to engage in extreme violence to win their freedom, fully aware that death would be the only alternative. Between the arrival of the first slave ship in Virginia in 1619 and the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, there were more than 250 incidents of rebellions by 10 or more slaves on present-day United States territory, dating as far back as the 1739 Stono rebellion in South Carolina. But the German Coast ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Houle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228787/bk_acx0_228787_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Un impudent gentleman

  Un impudent gentleman: ab 7.49 €

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  The Impudent Ones

  The Impudent Ones - A Novel: ab 25.99 €

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  When the Saints Sleep

  Johnny Miles is a songwriter & performer based out of Philadelphia whose 3rd full-length record "When The Saints Sleep" is slated for release this fall on independent label TREE records... "Musically," quips Johnny, "I guess it's sort of a 'contemporary-re-interpretation-of-a-stones-y-kinda- high-energy-rock-and-roll-sound' cake with a bit of a 'ghostly-reverb-slight-desperation-delay' icing, stuffed with some intense emotional imagery, laced with razor-sharp execution, and topped with a big ol' bucket of brass (which is to say impudent-brazen-chutzpah-balls, not instruments)." How's that for an elevator-pitch? Lyrically there's a rhythmic prose-like quality, depicting, as the subtitle suggests, "the dream of a time yet to be in the ghost of a town that never was and the emotional toll exacted on it's casualties." Songs like the title track "When the Saints Sleep" & "Sweet Sigh Of Relief" offer a bit of a third-person-omniscient narration, establishing a setting and setting a tone. Songs such as "Hangin On To The Hoping", "Down On The Ground", "Who Could Believe", "Already Gone Away" and "At Least I Can Dream" introduce character outlines of complex people doing the best with what they've got, trying to make it work in the face of what would seem to be insurmountable odds. While songs like "The Story Of My Love" & "Slow Like My Memories" offer a bit of a fractured-glass abstraction and still others such as "In Rise And Fall" and "Born To These Bones" are sweeping summations shot through with wisdom and morality. As a whole and taken as a group "When The Saints Sleep" is a striking collection of struggle and strength, conjuring up a world which is equal parts joy, suffering and salvation... Hitting the greater Philadelphia area hard in preparation for the album's release, Johnny and his band 'the Waywards' made stops at The Kimmel Center, The Bethlehem Musikfest, & The Philadelphia Folk Festival to name a few, where the electric 5-piece caused quite a stir with their blazingly raucous rock-and-roll sets. Early converts to the group include WXPN's Helen Leicht, who started working the new album's title track into the on-air rotation and the Philadelphia Songwriters Project, who named Miles one of their 2010 international songwriting contest winners. Though still managing all the band's and the label's affairs by himself, Miles remains optimistic: "It can be difficult going up against the enormous power of the majors with their seven-figure-promotional-budgets, particularly in an age when most people don't even buy physical copies of a record anymore, but I think there's a burgeoning suspicion that Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry aren't really where it's at, that 25 years from now no one is going to be listening to this stuff, that you're losing something with an mp3, and if town by town, audience by audience, we can manage to carve out a little niche for ourselves, contribute a little square to the quilt, at the end of the day that's what it's all about..." hammering his point home, he continues, "If we can play some small role in a grassroots return to art and authenticity, then it's all worthwhile... I don't make music for Billboard, I make it for my grand-kids." One can't help but think of Miles' admittedly major influences: Dylan, Young, Springsteen, & Tom Waits, who once said, "I've always believed the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them there are." With the release of "When The Saint Sleep" one thing is certain: Miles' audience stands poised to be both affected and expanding...

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