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  • Mary Edwards Bryan

    Her Early Life and Works

    by Canter Brown Jr., Larry Eugene Rivers ...
    The overlooked story of one of nineteenth-century America's popular writers of mass market fictionThe publication of Manch in 1880 marked the beginning of Mary Edwards Bryan's rise to prominence as one of nineteenth-century America's best-known writers of mass-market fiction. At a time when women were discouraged from having jobs of their own, she made a name for herself as a thoughtful—and well ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Florida's Peace River Frontier

    by Canter Brown ...
    The economic, social, political, and racial history of southwest Florida in the nineteenth centuryFor most of the nineteenth century, southwest Florida and the Peace River Valley remained a frontier as unknown to outsiders as the frontiers of the American West. In this book, Canter Brown, Jr. records the area’s economic, social, political, and racial history in an account of violence, passion, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • For a Great and Grand Purpose

    The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864-1905

    by Canter Brown Jr., Larry E. Rivers ...
    Series series The History of African American Religions
    The story of a church that became influential within the Black community in Florida after the Civil WarThis history of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church in Florida tells how dedicated members of one of the oldest and most prominent black religious institutions created a forceful presence within the African-American community—against innumerable odds and constant challenges.The ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • From Slavery to Community Builder

    The Story of Lawrence B. Brown

    by Charles B. Warren, Canter Brown ...
    What was different about Lawrence Brown, a highly successful business pioneer who lived with his wife and children in a small town in Central Florida? If you met him, your answer might be "Nothing"-until you discovered that Lawrence Brown was a former slave. At a time when Black men were discriminated against, held back, and regarded with fear and suspicion, Brown became a community leader whose ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives

    The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams

    Edited by James M. Denham, Edgar Canter Brown Jr. ...
    Wild and wooly recollections from the Florida frontierCracker Times and Pioneer Lives brings together the reminiscences of two pioneers who came of age in antebellum Florida's Columbia County and the nearby Suwannee River Valley. Though they held markedly different positions in society, they shared the adventure, thrill, hardship, and tragedy that characterized Florida's pioneer era. With ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Henry Bradley Plant

    Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and a New South

    by Canter Brown Jr. ...
    The first biography of Henry Bradley Plant, the entrepreneur and business magnate considered the father of modern FloridaIn this landmark biography, Canter Brown Jr. makes evident the extent of Henry Bradley Plant’s influences throughout North, Central, and South America as well as his role in the emergence of integrated transportation and a national tourism system. One of the preeminent ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Ossian Bingley Hart, Florida’s Loyalist Reconstruction Governor

    by Canter Brown Jr. ...
    Series series Southern Biography Series
    In this exceptional biography, Canter Brown, Jr., removes Ossian Bingley Hart (1821–1874)—a Unionist, the principal founder of the Republican Party in Florida, and a Reconstruction-era governor of the state—from the shadows of history. Through an examination of Hart’s life and career, Brown offers new insight into the political problems of the day—the role of Unionism in Deep South politics in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad

    by Betty DeRamus ...
    Following up Betty DeRamus’s Essence bestselling Forbidden Fruit, Freedom by Any Means follows the story of extraordinary acts of courage and love by Blacks in the American slave era with beautifully written and inspiring stories of how slaves used the law**—against all odds—**to gain freedom for themselv... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Forbidden Fruit

    Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

    by Betty DeRamus ...
    Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together**—**and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property.In the true love stories of Forbidden Fruit, you will meet sixteen couples who fought for love—love between slaves, between slaves and masters, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Allendale on the Savannah - Revisited

    by Jim Bryan ...
    Allendale on the Savannah - Revisited is based on an earlier work and is a historical account of the settlement and development of Allendale County, SC from the days of early Spanish explorers through 1970.It is based on the work of my Great Aunt, Alexania Easterling Lawton and Mrs. Minnie Reeves Wilson which was published in 1970. This work attempts to correct some of the mistakes in the original ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What So Proudly We Hailed

    Francis Scott Key, A Life

    by Marc Leepson ...
    "An interesting snapshot of one of the best-known—and least-known—figures in American history," the author of the U.S. national anthem ( Washington Post )."As Marc Leepson shows us, there is a lot to know about Francis Scott Key—much of it surprising, and all of it engrossing. A wonderful and long-overdue biography, and worth the wait." —Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times <strong... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots

    A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography

    by John Swanson Jacobs ...
    Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This comprehensive edition includes Jacobs's narrative in full alongside a full-length biography.For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost ... Read more

    $2.99 USD