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Reviews 42% Audience Score 50+ Ratings In this fact-based film, Solomon Northup (Avery Brooks) is a free black man living and working in Maryland during the 1840s. Unexpectedly, a visiting...
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- Gordon Parks
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Mar 1, 1992 · Kirkus Reviews'. Best Books Of 2017. New York Times Bestseller. IndieBound Bestseller. National Book Award Finalist. Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma. During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world.
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Jan 1, 2001 · 335 ratings32 reviews. Revised Edition. With a New Preface and Afterword. In a revised edition, brought completely up to date with a new preface and afterword and an expanded bibliography, Bruce Levine's succinct and persuasive treatment of the basic issues that precipitated the Civil War is as compelling as ever.
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Mar 1, 1992 · READ REVIEW. HALF SLAVE AND HALF FREE: The Roots of the Civil War. by Bruce Levine ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1992. A concise and clear treatment of the diverse issues and social changes that precipitated the Civil War. Working largely with the results of recent scholarship on the antebellum period, Levine (American History/Univ. of Cincinnati; ed.,
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"HALF SLAVE, HALF FREE: SOLOMON NORTHUP'S ODYSSEY" (1984) Review. Years ago, I had come across a television movie, at my local video store, about a 19th African-American who found himself kidnapped into slavery. Being a history nut about 19th century America, I decided to check it out.
May 11, 2005 · Editorial Reviews In this vigorously argued narrative tracking the causes of the Civil War, Levine tries to explain what drove so many working people to commit themselves to the cause of freedom--Southern slaves by their efforts to resist bondage and Northern farmers, mechanics, and factory laborers by their support for free soil and free labor ...
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