45 Results for : mulatto
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Those Extraordinary Twins
ABOUT THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINSFeaturing the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master's baby, and the clever Pudd'nhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town lawyer, Twain's darkly comic masterpiece is a provocative exploration of slavery and miscegenation. Leslie A. Fiedler described the novel as "half melodramatic detective story, half bleak tragedy," noting that "morally, it is one of the most honest books in our literature." Those Extraordinary Twins, the slapstick story that evolved into Pudd'nhead Wilson, provides a fascinating view of the author's process.The text for this paperback Classic was set from the 1894 first American edition.- Shop: buecher
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Julien Fédon
Julien Fédon ab 35.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Revolutionary Patriot and Insurrectionist - The Untold Story of a Mulatto Leader. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,- Shop: hugendubel
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Blood Is Thicker Than Color , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 264min
A historical fiction based in the 1920s. The protagonist, named Eugene "Jack" Brewer, is a mulatto man who had an unfortunate mishap with a white sheriff, during which a woman was killed in the crossfire. Jack fled north to Chicago and was labeled a fugitive in Mississippi. Once in Chicago he was able to pass himself off as white, but he always had the fear of being caught. Jack was also related to the ex-governor of Mississippi, Earl Leroy Brewer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin O'Brien. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/064816/bk_acx0_064816_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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White Doves at Morning , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 676min
Set mainly in Louisiana during the years 1861-1868, this passionate novel of me, woman and war tells the story of the author's ancestor's, Confederate soldier Willie Burke, during the American Civil War. A classic Burke hero, Willie is soon in conflict with his superiors. The characters who people these pages, many of them based on real historical figures, are as memorable as any Burke has created. Mulatto, Flower Jamison, victim of terrible abuse who is determined to better herself; Abigail Dowling, whose Unionist sympathies put her in constant danger and Colonel Ira Jamison, rotten to his core yet who would rise from a cesspit smelling of roses. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ed Sala. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/001381/bk_howe_001381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Julien Fédon
Julien Fédon ab 31.99 € als Taschenbuch: Revolutionary Patriot and Insurrectionist - The Untold Story of a Mulatto Leader. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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Jacob's Ladder, Hörbuch, Digital, 384min
With the vivid canvas of the Civil War as a backdrop, Donald McCaig conjures a passionate and richly textured story set in the heart of America's greatest and most devastating time. On Gatewood Plantation, both blacks and whites fulfill their unforgettable destinies. Duncan Gatewood, falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who gives birth to their son, Jacob. Duncan's irate father sells Maggie and Jacob and sends Duncan to the Virginia Military Institute. From the interlocked lives of masters and slaves, and a wealth of historical detail, Jacob's Ladder examines the loves, letters, and struggles of the characters, and leads to the nightmare of the lurid anguish of the battlefields. Language: English. Narrator: Ira Claffey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/000172/bk_aren_000172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black in a Two-Story White House , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 178min
This is the autobiographical novel by Harriet Wilson, the first African-American to publish a novel in North America. Originally published in 1859, it was rediscovered in 1982. The novel begins as Frado, a six-year-old mulatto, is abandoned by her white mother. While serving the Bellmont family as an indentured servant, she is treated cruelly. Frado earns her freedom at the age of 18 but has many difficulties earning a living on her own. She marries Tom, a fugitive slave and a lecturer for the Abolitionist Movement. Frado has a baby, but is again abandoned and must find a way to support herself. At the end of the novel, the author appeals in her own voice for sales of her book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Miles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001940/bk_adbl_001940_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fresh Air, Alice Randall and Julien Temple, Hörbuch, Digital, 46min
Writer Alice Randall and film director Julien Temple on this edition of Fresh Air. Randall is the author of the controversial new parody of Gone with the Wind. Her book The Wind Done Gone retells the story of the ante-bellum South from the viewpoint of Cinnamon, a beautiful illegitimate mulatto woman, the daughter of a plantation-owning father, and a slave mother. And Temple's new film Pandaemonium is set in the 1880s and is about the relationship between two poets: William Woodsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Temple is one of the early pioneers of music videos, directing the Kinks, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and Janet Jackson. He's also directed documentaries. His other films include the 1995 Bullet and the 1999 Vigo. (Broadcast Date: July 3, 2001) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/010703/rt_whyy_010703_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Moon over Blazing Star Field: Winds of Freedom, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 622min
Pregnant and alone, Eliza must chance all to fight for her child's life and the cause she so strongly believes in. With her husband on the run and enemies vowing to reveal her secret, Eliza Drake faces a daunting task alone. How can she bring a mulatto baby into her prejudiced community without endangering everyone she holds dear? Between her childhood friend's wicked schemes, a mysterious widow with eyes for her father, a marshal out for blood, and a shocking murder, it quickly becomes apparent that no one is safe. Her increasing abolitionist ventures only drag her deeper into the fray. And when the last man she expects rides back into town, Eliza must make an impossible choice - a secure future for her child or a past she so desperately wants to cling to. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lynne Parrish. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/058293/bk_acx0_058293_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Race: The Colour of Shame , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 878min
Race: The Colour of Shame is a complex supernatural thriller describing the devastating effect that a Negro wayward gene has on the Hoxworths, a rich and powerful southern Caucasian American family. A mulatto boy, the offspring of a Hoxworth male and a young female slave whom he raped, is born two centuries prior and is the last surviving male heir. The prologue takes us back 60 years to the magnificent Hoxworth Castle near the city of New Orleans to witness the birth of a baby girl in the family's palatial birthing room. As the baby's skin rapidly begins to darken, the Hoxworths must once again deny their mixed ancestry. And as so many times before, they must have their trusted family doctor, on the order of the family matriarch, suffocate the child to keep their dark secret. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dave Fennoy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cher/000161/bk_cher_000161_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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