18 Results for : brownlehe
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The Awakening of the Negro , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 23min
Booker T. Washington's essay "The Awakening of the Negro" was published in the September 1896 issue of The Atlantic. It is a semi-autobiographical essay that sets forth Washington’s vision of uplifting his people. He relates how his work began at Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1881, in a small shanty and church without a dollar’s worth of property. The spirit of work and of industrial thrift, with aid from the state and generosity from the North, enabled them to develop an institution of 800 students from 19 states. The author saw the South as still undeveloped and encouraged Afro-Americans to take an industrial education as those skills were needed and would contribute to developing the South. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Duncan Brownlehe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/002017/bk_yurt_002017_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Billy Budd, Sailor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 198min
Billy Budd, Sailor is a novella by Herman Melville which was left unfinished at the time of his death in 1891. Ecstatically received by critics in 1924 when a hastily transcribed version was published, it soon became second in importance only to Moby Dick among the author’s works. Budd is a sailor who strikes and inadvertently kills John Claggart, the Master-at-arms. The ship's Captain, Edward Vere, is aware of Budd's lack of intent but the law of mutiny requires him to sentence Billy to be hanged. Billy Budd, Sailor is a short but arresting tale of good and evil and the sometimes exasperating injustice of circumstance. Billy Budd has been adapted into film, a stage play, and an opera. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Duncan Brownlehe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/002077/bk_yurt_002077_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Industrial Education for the Negro , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 21min
Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) became a leading African American intellectual of the 19th century, founding Tuskegee University in 1881 and the National Negro Business League two decades later. Washington advised Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. He defines the term "industrial education" as learning the necessities to become a valuable member of society and the ability to apply this knowledge to industrial business. Washington explains the emphasis he applies to industrial education by referring to the different educational dispensations in the northern and southern states. He considered it as a necessary means and a stepping stone to assist his people. Industrial education was providing the African Americans with the skills and knowledge Washington felt were needed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Duncan Brownlehe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/002015/bk_yurt_002015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 270min
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, a 1912 novel by James Weldon Johnson, is a fictional autobiography which was originally published anonymously. It chronicles the intricacies of racial identity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the life of its biracial narrator. The book portrays his journey through America's color lines, from his attendance of a black college in Florida to an elite New York nightclub, from the rural South to the suburbs of the Northeast, and a visit to Europe. Throughout the work, the author employs places, character, and incidents from his own life, making it a fine example of a "roman à clef." The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man inspired a generation of writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Duncan Brownlehe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/001397/bk_yurt_001397_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Benito Cereno , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 188min
Herman Melville wrote the 1855 novella Benito Cereno, a story about a revolt on a slaver ship, the San Dominick, off the coast of Chile in 1799. It is an adventure story which highlights the cruelty of slavery and the hopeless desperation that slaves experience. The tale begins when Captain Delano of the whaling ship Bachelor's Delight spots another ship approaching, floating listlessly with torn sails. Delano sends a boat to investigate, and a tale of horror unfolds about the mutiny on the San Dominick and the attempt of the mutineers to capture the Bachelor's Delight. An interesting feature of the novella is the way that Melville employs a third-person narrator to report Delano's opinions without any correction; on that account Benito Cereno has become a famous example of unreliable narration. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Duncan Brownlehe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/001239/bk_yurt_001239_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Atlanta Compromise , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 9min
The Atlanta Compromise is a historic statement on race relations articulated by Booker T. Washington, a leading black educator in the United States. On September 18, 1895, Washington gave a speech at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. The speech was the first given by an African-American to a racially-mixed audience in the South. Washington asserted that vocational education was more valuable to than social advantages, higher education, or political office. The author suggested that they should not aim for political and social equality, but should work hard, earn respect and acquire vocational training in order to participate in economic development. He believed that by doing so, eventually, African-Americans would gain respect and be granted the rights of full citizenship. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Duncan Brownlehe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/002013/bk_yurt_002013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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History of the Black Man: An Authentic Collection of Historical Information on the Early Civilization of the Descendents of Ham the Son of Noah , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 56min
The Reverend Joseph Julius Jackson was an African American preacher who published The History of the Black Man in 1921, a book which covers the history of the African people from Ethiopia and Egypt. Rev. Jackson believed that a lack of historical knowledge by the Afro American community about their past and origins has undermined their pride, and that a better knowledge of the contribution of the black man to civilization would ameliorate the situation. The work examines the early influence of African civilization upon the ancient history of the world, and looks at the black kingdoms of Sudan, Ghana, Melle, Songhay, and others. The Moorish dynasty of Spain is discussed, but the major part of the work is devoted to the history of the American negro from 1619 to the early part of the 20th century. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Duncan Brownlehe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/001243/bk_yurt_001243_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bartleby , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by Herman Melville, first serialized in a magazine in 1853, and reprinted with minor edits in The Piazza Tales in 1856. Set in the mid-19th century on Wall Street, the story tells of a lawyer who employs Bartleby, a new clerk, who, after an initial stint of hard work, refuses to perform any task required of him, with the words, "I would prefer not to." The narrator attempts to reason with Bartleby to no avail, and Bartleby starts living at the office. The lawyer does not have the heart to evict Bartleby, so he moves the company to new premises, and the new tenant at the building has Bartleby forcibly removed. Soon, tragedy ensues. One of this novella’s striking features is the light-hearted approach of the narrative towards a tragic outcome. Bartleby, the Scrivener is considered as an early example of modernism, and a masterpiece at that. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Duncan Brownlehe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/001238/bk_yurt_001238_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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