Resultados para "FREEDOM" en Ficción biográfica

My Bondage and My Freedom is Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography, published 10 years after Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Written during his career as a newspaper editor and orator, the book placed Douglass in the international spotlight as a spokesman for American blacks. Examining the meaning of race, slavery and freedom, the book extends the story of his life by providing more detail on his childhood and including his experiences as a traveling lecturer in the United States and Europe.

Nel profondo racconto de 'Il Prezzo di una Libertà Amara', seguiamo la vita di un uomo straordinario che affronta coraggiosamente una moltitudine di sfide. Il suo viaggio inizia in una terra misteriosa plasmata da una storia tumultuosa. Dalla sua giovinezza all'età adulta, supera prove impressionanti e affronta senza paura gli ostacoli che gli si presentano.

Eine Beerdigung führt 2016 den Rostocker Kay und seine Clique aus Schulzeiten wieder zusammen. Erinnerungen werden wach: an die unbeschwerte Jugend Anfang der 80er Jahre, aber auch an geplatzte Träume und die Enge des DDR-Systems. Die acht Freunde galten als unzertrennlich, vertrauen einander zutiefst – bis der erste aus der Clique wegen versuchter Republikflucht verhaftet wird.

In the middle of the XVI century, when he abandoned his town, the Exiled knew that the only thing he could aspire to was survival. He would not begin at zero but under zero. He was going to a strange country, up north, in search of a place where thinking or feeling was not punishable by death. In this journey towards life and freedom, the Exiled has to distinguish between two paths: one that leads to survival and the one that leads to death. It’s a vital choice, the same one that individuals, cultures, and nations must also make if they wish to advance and not become extinct. 

In a high-energy, adventure-filled romp across four countries and two continents, Four Borders to Freedom follows the adventures of a teenage boy as he escapes the confining political and social system of Iran to freedom.

IN THE MYSTERIOUS CÉVENNES MOUNTAINS OF LANGUEDOC, FRANCE, 1695, Jehan BonDurant, a young nobleman forcibly held in a Dominican prieuré as a child, comes of age only to inherit a near-derelict estate and his Huguenot family’s dangerous legacy of secrets. While he cherishes his newfound freedom apprenticing as an apothecary, his outrage mounts over religious persecutions led by King Louis XIV’s Intendant Basville, who is sent to enforce the King’s will for “One King, One Law, One Faith”.

In May 1862, Robert Smalls, a slave and ship’s pilot in Charleston, South Carolina, crafts a daring plan to steal the steamship Planter and deliver it, along with, the crew and their families to the Union blockade. After risking his life to escape slavery, Robert faces an even more difficult challenge: convincing Abraham Lincoln to enlist black troops.

The Freedom to Prevail is a riveting story told about the pandemic, and its emotional and economical effects of the devastation. It is a must listen. Real live stories are told with vivid details of a visionary. The stories are encapsulated with visions, history, dreams and details of the human journey.

From bondage to breakthrough. McKenzie McAdoo spent 15 years in some of the world's toughest prisons. That kind of time changes a man.

This is the true story of my Great-Grandfather George Calloway, a slave in Cleveland, Tennessee, before and during the Civil War. It is written as historical fiction, based on George’s life, and stories I heard growing up. It is a tale of determination, perseverance, and achievement. George protected his family through war, famine, and plague; he risked his life repeatedly to protect his owner’s family, and thus his own wife and children. More fact than fiction, George’s story has also been my journey, grappling with the humiliation of slavery.

After two bestselling series examining the Civil War and WWII, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen have turned their sharp eye for detail on the Revolutionary War with To Try Men's Souls. The story follows three men with three very different roles to play in history: General George Washington, Thomas Paine, and Jonathan Van Dorn, a private in Washington's army.

Briarhill to Brooklyn is a work of creative nonfiction, in which I tell the story of my Irish family’s journey from County Galway on a coffin ship named Cushlamachree. Their destination was Brooklyn.