Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral: By an African American Slave Woman, Writing in the 18th Century (Hardcover), Wheatley Phillis
Автор: Abigail Wheatley Название: Look Inside the Stone Age ISBN: 1409599051 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409599050 Издательство: Usborne Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A lift-the-flap book packed with information about life from the Stone Age to the start of farming, early metal working and the Iron Age. Flaps to lift on every page reveal why prehistoric people made cave paintings, how they made their tools and where they lived. A fun and informative first look at a key UK curriculum topic.
The dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals of the American Revolution There is an uncomfortable paradox at the heart of the American Revolution: many of the men leading the war for independence were slave owners, contradicting the ideal of freedom that they claimed to represent. Meanwhile, abolitionist sentiments of the time contained contradictions as well. Abolitionists encouraged freed Christianized slaves to return to Africa. In this way, they hoped to send more missionaries to Africa in order to Christianize the continent and, at the same time, to send free blacks away from America. This tension is revealed through the dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, an African-American poet who refused to marry a man she had never met and return with him to Africa as a missionary. She was enslaved in Africa as a child and transported to Boston, where she was sold to an evangelical family. Agreeing to the proposed marriage – arranged by Congregationalist minister Samuel Hopkins – would have echoed the social mores of the time, particularly those for enslaved black women. However, due to her prodigious talents as a poet, Wheatley won her freedom a year prior to Hopkins’ arrangement, allowing her to take her future into her own hands. G.J. Barker-Benfield considers Wheatley’s story and Hopkins’s plan in the broader context of the American Revolution. The ideals of the revolution motivated Hopkins and some of his contemporaries to propose freeing African slaves and thus address the “monstrous inconsistency” fundamental to the white slave owners leading the revolution. In so doing, they presented themselves as freedom fighters who resisted the threat of slavery at the hands of British tyranny. Wheatley challenged this inconsistency and, taking the revolutionaries’ rhetoric seriously, called for liberty for all human hearts: women’s and men’s, blacks’ and whites’.
Автор: Wheatley Abigail Название: Look Inside Living Long Ago ISBN: 1409556778 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409556770 Издательство: Usborne Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This lift-the-flap history book for young children follows a modern town back in time to show how people lived during different historical eras. Children can lift the flaps to see the new inventions of the early twentieth century, look inside a factory 200 years ago and even explore an ancient Roman villa and a Bronze Age settlement. Ideal for children learning about British history, this book explores the Stone Age, Roman Britain, the Industrial Revolution and the ways our towns and cities have changed and grown over centuries.
Автор: Wheatley Abigail Название: Usborne Book of Growing Food ISBN: 1409598853 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409598855 Издательство: Usborne Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A simple step-by-step introduction to growing food in containers both inside and out. Projects include carrots from seeds, climbing cucumbers, edible flowers, popcorn, squash shaped like flying saucers and much more. Includes pages with essential planting techniques and tips on when to water, how to deal with pests and even make your own compost.
Автор: Wheatley Abigail Название: My Very First Castles Book ISBN: 1409599809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409599807 Издательство: Usborne Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This is non-fiction for very young children, who will find lots of things to look at and talk about in this highly visual book about what it was like to live in a castle. Little ones can find out about kings, queens, knights, banquests, jousting and lots more - whilst learning lots of interesting new words. This delightful book is full of scenes of medieval castle life, from delicious feasts to life under siege.
Each page covers a different element of castle life, from different rooms like the dungeon and the guard room to castle animals such as horses and falcons. Illustrations: Full colour throughout
Автор: Wheatley Ronald B. Название: The Trial of Phillis Wheatley ISBN: 0615645313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615645315 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
