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July 1854, Colleton District, South Carolina A half-dozen years before Abe Lincoln's inauguration, comes another collision between European immigrants and African abductees that does not end well. By 1854, the Tiffany family had enslaved over 300 Africans for more than a century on the 1, 100-acre slave labor camp that they called the Tiffany Plantation. The Tiffanys were the largest rice producer in South Carolina's Colleton District. While t...

July 1854, Colleton District, South Carolina A half-dozen years before Abe Lincoln's inauguration, comes another collision between European immigrants and African abductees that does not end well. By 1854, the Tiffany family had enslaved over 300 Africans for more than a century on the 1, 100-acre slave labor camp that they called the Tiffany Plantation. The Tiffanys were the largest rice producer in South Carolina's Colleton District. While t...

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New Orleans native Mademoiselle Francesca Dumas is a quadroon, a particular caste of African American women who are sought by wealthy white men. At age eighteen in the second year of the American Civil War, she is the concubine of New Orleans banker, Joachim Buisson, and leads a sheltered life of elegant gowns, lace, and lavish balls-until a bullet shatters her dream world.While awaiting the arrival of the Union Navy among a throng gathered at...

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Excerpt from Mars' Master: A Classical Exposition of Material Influences That Caused the European WarSpecifically, a noted educator identified with one of the great universities in Berlin, published it as his own belief that war is natural, therefore inevitable, and according to the law of change as it was explained by the late Charles Darwin. A professor of equal prominence in one of the great English colleges, denounced this statement in ter...

In business, if people merely like you, you're in trouble. They need to love you! Learn how building loyalty and modeling great customer service behavior to develop frontline teams is the key to building raving fans.

This book is set out in a logical and progressive style allowing students to access required chapters with ease. The test yourself questions allow for a number of different learning styles and will prove an invaluable aid for both learning and revision for paramedic students."Mark Millins, Senior Lecturer Paramedic Science, Teesside University, UK"I found this to be a highly beneficial and interesting resource to test my own knowledge of the b...

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New Orleans native Francesca Dumas is a quadroon courted by moneyed white men. She leads a sheltered life of elegant gowns and lavish balls until a bullet shatters her dream world. While awaiting arrival of the Union Navy atop a Mississippi River levee on April 25, 1862, Francesca's lover is shot dead. Rain soaked and blood-stained, Francesca vows revenge. Conundrums confront Francesca: solve her identity crisis, succeed as a spy, and find and...

First Dark is a coming-of-age story, an epic adventure, and a compelling examination of the primary feelings that drive human nature - hate, hope, desire, love, loss, grief, revenge, and forgiveness - as seen by Apache, black, Mexican, and white young adults during and shortly after America's Uncivil War. The San Francisco Review described Bob Rogers as a rising author who takes readers back to life and times in the early years of the Civil Wa...

First Dark is a coming-of-age story, an epic adventure, and a compelling examination of the primary feelings that drive human nature - hate, hope, desire, love, loss, grief, revenge, and forgiveness - as seen by Apache, black, Mexican, and white young adults during and shortly after America's Uncivil War. The San Francisco Review described Bob Rogers as a rising author who takes readers back to life and times in the early years of the Civil Wa...

Excerpt from Mars' Master: A Classical Exposition of Material Influences That Caused the European WarSpecifically, a noted educator identified with one of the great universities in Berlin, published it as his own belief that war is natural, therefore inevitable, and according to the law of change as it was explained by the late Charles Darwin. A professor of equal prominence in one of the great English colleges, denounced this statement in ter...