Rebel to the Light
A Story of Rebellion, Liberty, and Freedom in an Upwards Battle.
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A day so gruesome, the numbers representing it are burned into my head. It was a normal day on the fields, the usual back-breaking job me and my mother had to do. Under the hot Carolina sun, we had to bend down for almost 16 hours a day. Planting or harvesting rice.
My mom, Nana Asma’u, was an African; she was kidnapped from her village in Liberia. She told me stories of her village. She was kidnapped at around my age while on a trip to the Limba tribe in Sierra Leone. She was a messenger for her tribe; she used to tell me stories of her trips around. But, today, I saw her drop dead; she was the only thing I had, and they took her away from me. I had dreaded the arrival of this day.
My mother was working in the field as usual when she saw Sir Thomas. My mom used to tell me he was our “driver”, she told me that she hated him. According to my mom, he was on the same ship as her. He had been loyal to the whites and became a “driver”. He gets better treatment; he is the one who beats us up. He beat me up every few weeks. I know that he is heartless, he is impossible to work with, he is one of them, even though he looks like us. He was the most hated one of them, he was a traitor.
That day my mom fell in the field, she had been ill for a few days. She ruined a patch of land. Once Sir Thomas came, I expected him to help my mother minimally as she was ill. Instead, he took out his whip, and he whipped her to death. I saw her, dreading, trying to breathe, covered in blood. She stopped trying to breathe and gave up on her life. She was pulseless, she was, dead. I felt terrified, I could not tell if it was anger or fear, but at that moment, I wanted to disappear, to die, or to escape.
This book was written from the point of view of a young enslaved African American named Amari who starts a revolution for a more just, equal system for herself and her people.
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Cast Under an Alien Sun
- Destiny's Crucible, Book 1
- By: Olan Thorensen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Joe Colsco boarded a flight from San Francisco to Chicago to attend a national chemistry meeting. He would never set foot on Earth again. On planet Anyar, Joe is found unconscious on a beach of a large island inhabited by humans where the level of technology is similar to Earth circa 1700. He awakes amid strangers speaking an unintelligible language and struggles to accept losing his previous life and finding a place in a society with different customs, needing a way to support himself and not knowing a single soul.
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Slowly we turn, step by step, inch by inch...
- By Ron on 09-18-17
By: Olan Thorensen
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The Bone and Sinew of the Land
- By: Anna-Lisa Cox
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Starting in our nation's earliest years, thousands of free African Americans were building hundreds of settlements in the Northwest Territory, a territory that banned slavery and gave equal voting rights to all men. This groundbreaking work of research reveals the lost history of the nation's first Great Migration. Though forgotten today, these pioneers were a matter of national importance at the time; their mere existence leading to fierce political movements and battles that tore families and communities apart long before the Civil War erupted.
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A must read for all!
- By Linda on 05-14-19
By: Anna-Lisa Cox
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Miracles and Massacres
- True and Untold Stories of the Making of America
- By: Glenn Beck
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty, Glenn Beck
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And, told in the right way, it is the greatest one ever written: Good and evil, triumph and tragedy, despicable acts of barbarism and courageous acts of heroism.The things you've never learned about our past will shock you. For example, the reason why gun control is so important to government elites can be found in a story about Athens. Not the city in ancient Greece, but the one in 1946 Tennessee.
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Makes History Very Interesting
- By Sher from Provo on 12-17-13
By: Glenn Beck
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Being George Washington
- By: Glenn Beck
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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If you think you know George Washington, think again. This is the amazing true story of a real-life superhero who wore no cape and possessed no special powers—yet changed the world forever. It's a story about a man whose life reads as if it were torn from the pages of an action novel: Bullet holes through his clothing. Horses shot out from under him. Unimaginable hardship. Disease. Heroism. Spies and double-agents. And, of course, the unmistakable hand of Divine Providence that guided it all.
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Awe Inspiring!!
- By Bryce on 12-14-11
By: Glenn Beck
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1901
- By: Robert Conroy
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The year is 1901. Germany's navy is the second largest in the world; their army, the most powerful. But with the exception of a small piece of Africa and a few minor islands in the Pacific, Germany is without an empire. Kaiser Wilhelm II demands that the United States surrender its newly acquired territories: Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines. President McKinley indignantly refuses, so with the honor and economic future of the Reich at stake, the Kaiser launches an invasion of the United States, striking first on Long Island.
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Very Good Performance
- By Thomas Stephenson on 02-05-20
By: Robert Conroy
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War Letters
- Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
- By: Andrew Carroll
- Narrated by: Joan Allen, Tom Brokaw
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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War Letters presents historic, dramatic, personal accounts of both World Wars, the Civil War, Vietnam, Korea, the Cold War, Somalia and the Balkans, revealing in vivid detail what the servicemen and women of America have experienced and sacrificed on the front lines. Read by an all-star cast, including Joan Allen, Tom Brokaw, Rob Lowe, Noah Wyle, and more.
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One of the best...
- By Chris on 01-14-03
By: Andrew Carroll
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A Slave No More
- Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
- By: David W. Blight
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the 100 or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group.
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A Piece Of History
- By John on 07-10-09
By: David W. Blight
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Defiance
- The Bielski Partisans
- By: Nechama Tec
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims. But in fact, many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. This is the riveting history of one such group: a forest community numbering more than 1,200 that carried out the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II.
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Brillaint scholarship; hard read
- By Matthew on 11-24-08
By: Nechama Tec
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No More Lies
- By: Dick Gregory
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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In 1972, during the Black Power Movement, iconoclast Dick Gregory challenged one of the foundations of America itself - its history, which had been written almost exclusively from the white male perspective. In No More Lies, this true trailblazer gave voice to African Americans, speaking their truth about the past and race relations in the United States. No More Lies offers this incomparable satirist’s intellectual, conspiratorial, and humorous spin on the facts.
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My Hertiages
- By n/a on 11-25-22
By: Dick Gregory
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Abraham Lincoln
- A Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of Our Most Admired President
- By: Joe Wheeler
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Author Joe Wheeler brings to this insightful audiobook the knowledge gleaned from over 10 years of study and more than 60 books on the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. Skillfully weaving his own narrative with direct quotes from Abraham Lincoln and poignant excerpts from other Lincoln biographers, Joe Wheeler brings a refreshingly friendly rendition Lincoln's life, faith and courage.
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Retreads
- By J B Tipton on 04-22-09
By: Joe Wheeler
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The Bridge at Andau
- The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People
- By: James A. Michener
- Narrated by: Larry McKeever
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a different kind of future - until, at four o’clock in the morning on a Sunday in November, the citizens of Budapest awoke to the shattering sound of Russian tanks ravaging their streets. The revolution was over. But freedom beckoned in the form of a small footbridge at Andau, on the Austrian border. By an accident of history, it became, for a few harrowing weeks, one of the most important crossings in the world, as the soul of a nation fled across its unsteady planks.
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Every American should read this book.
- By Ivie D. on 07-26-20
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
- By: Eddie Jaku
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Eddie was beaten by SS thugs, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp with thousands of other Jews across Germany. Every day of the next seven years of his life, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors in Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and finally on a forced death march during the Third Reich’s final days.
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Everyone needs to listen to this amazing man
- By Christan Derryberry on 05-12-21
By: Eddie Jaku
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Freedom Road
- By: Howard Fast
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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It was everywhere. You couldn’t talk about the revolution without using the word freedom in the same breath. But Gideon Jackson knew that freedom meant something different if your skin was black. Fast’s fictional account of the post Civil War era takes us into the life of Gideon Jackson, a black man, newly freed, and determined to make a difference.
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Great Story, Decent Narrator
- By Keon Gardner on 12-04-17
By: Howard Fast
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- rania obaly
- 09-28-21
Interesting storyline
I lived in Sierra Leone for almost three years, from that point, I truly value the mix of historical and fictional stories in this book. The mentions of places I know made me nostalgic and gave the book more value to me.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-18-21
Interesting
I usually don't leave reviews on anything unless I hate it, the book is very interesting, as a conservative, I feel like it allowed me to emphasize with movements that I used to see as arbitrary and unlawful, I liked that in chapter 20 he related it to the current situation in the US, the narration was nice too, the accent was slightly heavy, but it sounded like a Carolinian accent to me.
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