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 857 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 17 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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    • 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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    • 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 281 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,034 ratings
    • A startling and eye-opening look into America's first family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave....

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    • From Trauma to Liberation--How to Heal from Racial, Generational, and Systemic Trauma Through Reclaiming Black Psychedelic Culture
    • By: Nicholas Powers, Monica Williams PhD - foreword
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Powers
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • How psychedelics can heal historical, intergenerational, and racialized trauma—an Afrofuturistic take on Black psychedelia toward joy and liberation.

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    • Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
    • By: Alan Taylor
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 389 ratings
    • This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war....

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    • A Captivating Guide to African American History and the Haitian Revolution
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Duke Holm
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Two manuscripts in one book: African American History: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events That Shaped the History of the United States; and Haitian Revolution....

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    • Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
    • By: Andrew Delbanco
    • Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War....

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