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As Britain’s dominant port for the slave trade in the eighteenth century, Liverpool is crucial to the study of slavery. And as the engine behind Liverpool’s rapid growth and prosperity, slavery left an indelible mark on the history of the city. This collection of essays, boasting an international roster of leading scholars in the field, sets Liverpool in the wider context of transatlantic slavery. The contributors tackle a range of issues, including African agency, slave merchants and their society, and the abolitionist movement, always with an emphasis on the human impact of slavery.
Going Through It Began with Jerome By: Faye Thompson Going Through: It Began with Jerome is the story of author Faye Thompson. Her son, Jerome, was born on November 29th, 1972 in Dallas, Texas. They moved to Los Angeles when he was 3 ½ months old. At the time, Faye was very hurt. Jerome’s father did not want to marry her. He was already married. When Faye moved to California, she made a new life for herself and her son. He grew up in California and they had a nice life. Faye married John Thompson when Jerome was 4 years old. Jerome’s biological father passed away when he was 13. This book will help mothers who have lost their love ones, especially to gun violence. Jerome was shot 8 times in August 1994. He was 21 years old. Gun violence is still in existence today.
Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize Longlisted for the Cundill Prize “Vincent Brown makes the dead talk. With his deep learning and powerful historical imagination, he calls upon the departed to explain the living. The Reaper’s Garden stretches the historical canvas and forces readers to think afresh. It is a major contribution to the history of Atlantic slavery.”—Ira Berlin From the author of Tacky’s Revolt, a landmark study of life and death in colonial Jamaica at the zenith of the British slave empire. What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? In The Reaper’s Garden, Vincent Brown asks t...
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Relationships are a wonderful, mysterious, often elusive, sometimes painful part of the human experience. The most intimate of all human relationships, according to the Bible, is that between a husband and a wife. It is no surprise, therefore, that there is a book of the Bible, the Song of Songs, that focuses on this relationship. What is surprising is how little attention is given to the Song of Songs by scholars, by the church, and by readers of the Bible. With this volume Tremper Longman III unpacks for modern people what this ancient love poem says about the male-female relationship -- and, by analogy, about God's love for his people. Longman's superb study begins with a thorough introdu...
When Joey joins the school soccer team, he finally begins to feel like a normal kid, especially since he doesn't need to use his food-fueled superpowers to score goals. All that changes with the star players of a rival team – two terrible twins who excel at cheating! If Joey used his superpowers, he could teach the twins a lesson. But that would be cheating... wouldn't it?
Collected Works Vol. 1: The Two-Fold Knowledge: Readings on the Knowledge of Self and the Knowledge of God Vol. 2: Pater Bernhardus: Martin Luther and Bernard of Clairvaux Vol. 3: Luther’s Catholic Christology According to His Johannine Lectures of 1527