Este sitio utiliza cookies para ofrecer nuestros servicios, mejorar el rendimiento, análisis y (si no estás registrado) publicidad. Al usar LibraryThing reconoces que has leído y comprendido nuestros términos de servicio y política de privacidad. El uso del sitio y de los servicios está sujeto a estas políticas y términos.
The Invisibles chronicles the African American presence inside the White House from its beginnings in 1782 until 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that granted slaves their freedom. During these years, slaves were the only African Americans to whom the most powerful men in the United States were exposed on a daily, and familiar, basis. By reading about these often-intimate relationships, readers will better understand some of the views that various presidents held about class and race in American society, and how these slaves contributed not only to the life and comforts of the presidents they served, but to America as a whole.… (más)
Holland has written a well researched and interesting book about slavery and the presidency. As a reader of history I knew a bit about this subject beforehand from Presidential biographies and first hand accounts from freed slaves, but to have it all in one book is a wonderful way to have this information in one place. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For Carol, Rita, and Jamie, who make it all worth it to me.
This five-year project is lovingly dedicated to my wife and children, who had to put up with me skipping bicycle rides, story times, violin practice, date night, and other assorted activities so I could huddle downstairs in the basement office with my computer and music composing these words. Without Carol June, Rita Elaine, and Jesse James III, none of this would have been worth doing. You three are why I do what I do, and I hope you know how much I love you. (Acknowledgments)
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I decided I would write a second book in 2008 while riding on then-Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign bus as he made a weekend stopover at his home in Chicago, Illinois. (Foreword)
A slave from Virginia escaped his bondage, and crossed over the Potomac to Washington, DC, hoping to find a friendly soul who would help him in his bid for freedom from bondage.
Citas
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The Invisibles chronicles the African American presence inside the White House from its beginnings in 1782 until 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that granted slaves their freedom. During these years, slaves were the only African Americans to whom the most powerful men in the United States were exposed on a daily, and familiar, basis. By reading about these often-intimate relationships, readers will better understand some of the views that various presidents held about class and race in American society, and how these slaves contributed not only to the life and comforts of the presidents they served, but to America as a whole.
)
Google Books — Cargando...
(3.38)
1