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Against the backdrop of bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent the Civil War trying to hold their families together. Whether enslaved or free, they strove not only to survive but also to cultivate bonds of family, friendship, and community. This moving book illuminates that struggle through the letters exchanged by African Americans before, during, and just after the war. Despite harsh laws against liter...

Against the backdrop of bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent the Civil War trying to hold their families together. Whether enslaved or free, they strove not only to survive but also to cultivate bonds of family, friendship, and community. This moving book illuminates that struggle through the letters exchanged by African Americans before, during, and just after the war. Despite harsh laws against liter...

Amidst bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent the Civil War trying to hold their families together. This moving book illuminates that struggle through the letters they exchanged. Despite harsh laws against literacy and brutal practices that broke apart black families, people found ways to write to each other against all odds. In these pages, readers will meet parents who are losing hope of ever seeing th...

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Cora had big dreams, the kind a girl like her from a place like Black Bottom, TN, shouldn't' have the audacity to dream. With the encouragement of a benefactor and the boldness of a young woman whose spirit is not yet broken by disappointment, Cora set out for a new life in a new place and found a world so much bigger than she ever imagined. The days seemed full of possibility and promise, but that was not to be her path. Soon she was called b...

If anyone had told Lena her dream of becoming a mega-church First Lady would destroy everything she held dear, she would not have believed them. Had anyone told Aliyah that finally having the baby she longed for wouldn't bring her all the joy she imagined, she would have said they were wrong. Connie's carefully constructed facade of perfection around her life was all she had, and it would befoolish to suggest she might be the one to tear it al...

Sometimes it seems like God is in hiding-that the miracles we read about in the Bible are a distant memory. But that is not the case! Whether it is in an ordinary circumstance or an extraordinary one, God is there. The author, Rita Roberts, has experienced both the ordinary and the extraordinary, and wants you to know that even in the simplest of situations, you are not alone. Her experiences around the globe have taught her to look for God in...

What It Means to Serve is a channeled text for coaches, healers, and all who aspire to work with others in the helping professions. The book challenges the reader (and the author) to feel through their feelings, understand their secrets, and dismantle their sometimes hidden yet accepted tactics of predation, or "feeding" off of others. Through an exploration of "The Unconscious Underbelly" and the "Black Hole of Consumerism" in the world, the ...

God is AWESOME, and He does amazing things for each one of us, even when we don't realize it! Sometimes, by sharing OUR experiences of God in our lives with others, we encourage them to take a closer look and identify the hand of God in their own lives. Our amazing God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and He will never leave us nor forsake us.In this book, Rita Roberts shares her many encounters with a God who loves and protects her...

Rita Roberts is a retired archaeologist. She was born in Birmingham and educated in state schools, leaving secondary education at the age of fifteen. During World War Two she was evacuated from St Thomas School to the country where she was cared for by a local family. She married in 1953 the year of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation. Rita has two sons and two granddaughters and now lives in Crete. In her biography Rita covers many interesting subje...

During the revolutionary age and in the early republic, when racial ideologies were evolving and slavery expanding, some northern blacks surprisingly came to identify very strongly with the American cause and to take pride in calling themselves American. In this intriguing study, Rita Roberts explores this phenomenon and offers an in-depth examination of the intellectual underpinnings of antebellum black activists.