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Unlock the Power of Your Voice and Conquer the Stage!
Do you feel your heart pounding and your hands shaking every time you're asked to speak in public? Have you ever dreamed of captivating an audience with your ideas and stories, but the fear of public speaking holds you back? It's time to break those chains and unleash your true potential!
Speak Out Loud: Mastering the Art of Public Speaking is more than just a guide; it's your personal mentor...
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We're all familiar with the Underground Railroad and the Emancipation Proclamation, but the fight against slavery was not some sudden movement that sprang up in the middle of the 19th century. Resistance from the enslaved started on the western coast of Africa in the 15th century and continued as the institution of slavery was codified in America, culminating with the War between the States.
This 300-year struggle has too often been glossed over...
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Unlock the Power of Your Voice and Conquer the Stage!
Do you feel your heart pounding and your hands shaking every time you're asked to speak in public? Have you ever dreamed of captivating an audience with your ideas and stories, but the fear of public speaking holds you back? It's time to break those chains and unleash your true potential!
Speak Out Loud: Mastering the Art of Public Speaking is more than just a guide; it's your personal mentor...
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Where were the moral voices among white Europeans speaking out against the heinous system of slavery? The American Quaker community had a long history of antislavery activism, from legal pamphlets to spiritual protests. Learn more about the Quaker community, its views on slavery, and its limitations in the early American economy.
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Ordinary Americans in the Revolution volume 8
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Take account of the competing interest groups within the anti-crown protesters in the pre-revolution period. Consider how the tactics used in political actions differed between the lower rungs of society, the artisan class, and the elites. Note how artisans and skilled craftsmen became a distinct, organized political force, often at odds with the merchant and wealthy class.
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Ordinary Americans in the Revolution volume 10
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Punitive measures by the British following the Boston Tea Party led to the creation of the Continental Congress, an association of insurgents from across the colonies. Observe how the Congress used media coverage, local committees, and a new currency to build a sense of common cause among colonists, transforming a Massachusetts insurgency into an American revolution.
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America's Long Struggle Against Slavery volume 30
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The history of the early 21st-century may show racism is alive and well, but so, too, is slavery. Around the world, 20 to 40 million people are enslaved. To conclude this series, survey several case studies of slaves around the world and in the United States. What lessons can we draw from history?
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America's Long Struggle Against Slavery volume 16
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There is more to fighting slavery than achieving legal liberty, a simple truth that this country's first generation of free black leaders discovered in post-Revolutionary War northern cities. See how the expanding free black population in Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere looked for ways to help themselves.
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America's Long Struggle Against Slavery volume 10
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Runaway slaves in Virginia and the Carolinas had limited options. They could head for the coast or down to Spanish-controlled Florida, but some runaway slaves simply disappeared into the backcountry. Find out where these "maroons" went, how they lived, and what dangers they faced if discovered.
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Ordinary Americans in the Revolution volume 24
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During the revolution, American women became political actors through petitions, protests, and myriad activities during the war. In the decades that followed, observe how they retained and expanded this role, up to the point of a dramatic backlash. See how women's political actions and awareness in this era led to movements for women's rights.
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Ordinary Americans in the Revolution volume 28
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Conclude with ruminations on the legacy of the American Revolution. Note how elite factions in the new republic worked against radical social revolution, leaving many classes of people to struggle on for political and social freedoms. Take stock, nevertheless, of how the Declaration of Independence, framed by white men of privilege, has ultimately become a secular creed for everyone else.
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America's Long Struggle Against Slavery volume 15
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Between 1791 and 1804, the Haitian Revolution tore apart a French Caribbean colony. As you'll learn, not only was it the single largest slave revolt in the history of the world, it was the only one that had succeeded so far. Delve into this radical and violent revolution to meet the players and uncover what happened in these 13 astonishing years.
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One hallmark of the plantation economy in Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina is that black slaves outnumbered their white masters by a wide margin. As such, see how whites used dehumanizing tactics to control the slave population. Then review Tacky's Revolt, one of the largest slave rebellions in the British Atlantic world during the 18th century.
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America's Long Struggle Against Slavery volume 20
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David Walker's words and Nat Turner's actions had a galvanizing effect upon white abolitionists, most notably William Lloyd Garrison. See how Garrison and others shifted from an attitude of slow, gradual change to a stance of immediacy. Survey an unprecedented campaign to challenge slaveholders' moral authority in the 1830s.
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Ordinary Americans in the Revolution volume 21
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Harry Washington, born in West Africa, became a slave of George Washington and, eventually, a loyalist. Uncover his life under enslavement and how he came to serve in Black British regiments during the war. Relive the events that took him to Sierra Leone, a destination for loyalist fugitives from slavery, and how he became involved there in rebellion against British oppression.
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Ordinary Americans in the Revolution volume 2
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Assess the reality of urban poverty among American colonists in the 1760s. Learn about the economic depression that followed the Seven Years' War, which was exacerbated by incoming waves of poor immigrants. Note how high costs of living, lack of job security, and a stark gulf between rich and poor left many at the bottom rungs of society in extreme hardship, which fueled resentment.
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America's Long Struggle Against Slavery volume 17
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At the turn of the 19th century, social and economic conditions were shifting inside the United States, and President Jefferson signed into law an act prohibiting the importation of slaves. Learn about the mass migration of slaves from Virginia into the Deep South of Louisiana that resulted, and how this migration transformed the country.
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