African Americans American Revolution

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 853 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • The Revolution
    • By: Willie Gross Jr., Wahida Clark
    • Narrated by: William Sutton
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Raised on the deadly streets of New Orleans, James Johnson is displeased and disheartened by the drug game and the sickness it's inflicting on his race. Unexpectedly, James has befriended America's most wanted and deadliest fugitive, Osama Bin Laden....

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    • An American Controversy
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings intensified this debate by identifying glaring inconsistencies....

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    • From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution
    • By: Geoffrey Plank
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution....

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    • Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
    • By: Gerald Horne
    • Narrated by: Larry Herron
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 279 ratings
    • Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders....

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    • Revolutionary
    • By: Willie Gross Jr., Wahida Clark
    • Narrated by: William Sutton
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 08-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Thanks to James Johnson's ground-breaking technology, the drug game and oil exports are now on life support. His prophecy has been fulfilled. However, the Saudi Arabian Oil King, Shalik Khalid, has unleashed a vicious death squad on American soil....

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    • Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
    • By: Karen Cook Bell
    • Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War....

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    • A History of Abolition
    • By: Manisha Sinha
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 30 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image....

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    • Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
    • By: Jessica Marie Johnson
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by Black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world....

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    • By: William Cooper Nell
    • Narrated by: Melissa Summers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Published in 1855, this history book by William Cooper Nell has an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It focuses on African American soldiers during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. It is considered by some to be the first history book by and about African Americans....

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    • A Revolutionary Life
    • By: Philippe Girard
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Philippe Girard shows how Toussaint Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791....

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    • The Lost Story of Enslaved Africans, their Arabic Letters, and an American President
    • By: Jeffrey Einboden
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the president. By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries....

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    • The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution
    • By: David Peisner
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Few television shows revolutionized comedy as profoundly or have had such an enormous impact as In Living Color. Now, Homey Don't Play That! reveals the complete, captivating story of how In Living Color overcame enormous odds to become a major, zeitgeist-seizing hit....

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    • Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
    • By: Diane McWhorter
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 28 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era's climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation....

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    • The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
    • By: Daphne A. Brooks
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a new perspective on acclaimed figures such as Aretha Franklin and Beyonce, who exist simultaneously at the center and on the fringe of the culture industry—a perspective informed by the overlooked contributions of other Black women....

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