Synopsis
Illus. in full color. Cassie, who flew above New York in Tar Beach, soars into the sky once more. This time, she and her brother Be Be meet a train full of people, and Be Be joins them. But the train departs before Cassie can climb aboard. With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the real Underground Railroad and is finally reunited with her brother at the story's end.
Review
"Cassie learns her people's history well; so will readers of this impressive picture book. Ringgold's dynamic paintings combine historical fact with strongly realized emotions."--(starred) Booklist. "Groundbreaking!"--(starred) School Library Journal.Faith Ringgold was born in Harlem, but now divides her time between New Jersey and La Jolla, California. She is a professor of fine art at the University of California at San Diego, where she teaches for half of the year.
An artist of international renown, Faith is best known for her story quilts -- works that combine painting, quilted fabric, and storytelling.
Faiths first book for children, Tar Beach, was a Caldecott Honor Book, a winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for illustration, a Reading Rainbow featured selection, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book, and the recipient of numerous other honors, including a Parents Choice Gold Award.
Faith is married to Burdette Ringgold and has two daughters, Michele and Barbara, and three granddaughters, Faith, Teddy and Martha.
Aunt Harriet's True Stories for Her Nieces and Nephews
1 TT 9 her to wait five minutes for it : “ Take it , aunt Harriet , ” she said ; “ you shall have it first . ” ; “ I thank you . You are kind and good - na- te I en tured now ” said aunt Harriet ; and she kissed it little Anna ."
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky
The main character of Coretta Scott King Award and Caldecott Honor winner Tar Beach takes flight once again, encountering Harriet Tubman and learning about the Underground Railroad. Cassie, who flew above New York in Tar Beach, soars into the sky once more. This time, she and her brother Be Be meet a train full of people, and Be Be joins them. But the train departs before Cassie can climb aboard. With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the real Underground Railroad and is finally reunited with her brother at the story's end.
But the train departs before Cassie can climb aboard. With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the real Underground Railroad and is finally reunited with her brother at the story's end."
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman’s name is known world-wide and her exploits as a self-liberated Underground Railroad heroine are celebrated in children’s literature, film, and history books, yet no major biography of Tubman has appeared since 1943. Jean M. Humez’s comprehensive Harriet Tubman is both an important biographical overview based on extensive new research and a complete collection of the stories Tubman told about her life—a virtual autobiography culled by Humez from rare early publications and manuscript sources. This book will become a landmark resource for scholars, historians, and general readers interested in slavery, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, and African American women. Born in slavery in Maryland in or around 1820, Tubman drew upon deep spiritual resources and covert antislavery networks when she escaped to the north in 1849. Vowing to liberate her entire family, she made repeated trips south during the 1850s and successfully guided dozens of fugitives to freedom. During the Civil War she was recruited to act as spy and scout with the Union Army. After the war she settled in Auburn, New York, where she worked to support an extended family and in her later years founded a home for the indigent aged. Celebrated by her primarily white antislavery associates in a variety of private and public documents from the 1850s through the 1870s, she was rediscovered as a race heroine by woman suffragists and the African American women’s club movement in the early twentieth century. Her story was used as a key symbolic resource in education, institutional fundraising, and debates about the meaning of "race" throughout the twentieth century. Humez includes an extended discussion of Tubman’s work as a public performer of her own life history during the nearly sixty years she lived in the north. Drawing upon historiographical and literary discussion of the complex hybrid authorship of slave narrative literature, Humez analyzes the interactive dynamic between Tubman and her interviewers. Humez illustrates how Tubman, though unable to write, made major unrecognized contributions to the shaping of her own heroic myth by early biographers like Sarah Bradford. Selections of key documents illustrate how Tubman appeared to her contemporaries, and a comprehensive list of primary sources represents an important resource for scholars.
still lived in St. Catherine came to live with Aunt Harriet in Auburn and died there. .. Now about the sisters, I am a little mixed on this point. I am trying to get at the real blood kin. My mother's mother was sold south."
Laura & Aunt Harriet
Though happily married at forty-three, something’s missing in Laura’s life – the closeness, guidance and even discipline that she received from her mother while she was growing up. When she meets the older woman Harriet, the formidable woman sparks in Laura the kind of feeling she has been hungering for. While the two women are shopping at the local mall, Laura watches in awe as she witnesses Harriet intervene when a young female customer becomes disrespectful of the shop assistance. And when Harriet’s admonishment of the rude woman ends with a blistering. “If you were my daughter, when I got you home, I’d spank your bottom so hard that you wouldn’t be able to sit down tomorrow,” Laura finds herself so aroused by the encounter that she’s creaming her panties. Once confessing her secret desires to Harriet, Laura soon finds herself calling Harriet “Auntie”, and on a roller coaster ride of desire, uncertainty, self-discovery, kindness, and promise at the hands of this experienced teacher. Auntie even provides her with useful tips for Laura to bring to her marriage bed.
Though happily married at forty-three, something’s missing in Laura’s life – the closeness, guidance and even discipline that she received from her mother while she was growing up."
Beyond the Underground
Descendants of Harriet Tubman tell the story of the Moses of Her People within the context of their family lineage.
Descendants of Harriet Tubman tell the story of the Moses of Her People within the context of their family lineage."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject....But I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak." Thus did Harriet Beecher Stowe announce her decision to begin work on what would become one of the most influential novels ever written. The subject she had hesitated to "meddle with" was slavery, and the novel, of course, was Uncle Tom's Cabin. Still debated today for its portrayal of African Americans and its unresolved place in the literary canon, Stowe's best-known work was first published in weekly installments from June 5, 1851 to April 1, 1852. It caused such a stir in both the North and South, and even in Great Britain, that when Stowe met President Lincoln in 1862 he is said to have greeted her with the words, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that created this great war!" In this landmark book, the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years, Joan D. Hedrick tells the absorbing story of this gifted, complex, and contradictory woman. Hedrick takes readers into the multilayered world of nineteenth century morals and mores, exploring the influence of then-popular ideas of "true womanhood" on Stowe's upbringing as a member of the outspoken Beecher clan, and her eventful life as a writer and shaper of public opinion who was also a mother of seven. It offers a lively record of the flourishing parlor societies that launched and sustained Stowe throughout the 44 years of her career, and the harsh physical realities that governed so many women's lives. The epidemics, high infant mortality, and often disastrous medical practices of the day are portrayed in moving detail, against the backdrop of western expansion, and the great social upheaval accompanying the abolitionist movement and the entry of women into public life. Here are Stowe's public triumphs, both before and after the Civil War, and the private tragedies that included the death of her adored eighteen month old son, the drowning of another son, and the alcohol and morphine addictions of two of her other children. The daughter, sister, and wife of prominent ministers, Stowe channeled her anguish and her ambition into a socially acceptable anger on behalf of others, transforming her private experience into powerful narratives that moved a nation. Magisterial in its breadth and rich in detail, this definitive portrait explores the full measure of Harriet Beecher Stowe's life, and her contribution to American literature. Perceptive and engaging, it illuminates the career of a major writer during the transition of literature from an amateur pastime to a profession, and offers a fascinating look at the pains, pleasures, and accomplishments of women's lives in the last century.
Thus for the better part of 1814, when she was three years old, Harriet was under the care of Aunt Harriet at Nutplains; the following year Roxana was busy with her new baby, Charles, and Henry Ward, aged two; the year after that she ..."
The Old Wives' Tale
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time '[Arnold Bennett's] superb Old Wives' Tale, wandering from person to person and from scene to scene, is by far the finest 'long novel' that has been written in English and in the English fashion, in this generation.' --H. G. Wells First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters--shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia--over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are reunited as old women. The setting moves from the Five Towns of Staffordshire to exotic and cosmopolitan Paris, while the action moves from the subdued domestic routine of the Baines household to the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. 'Like Wordsworth, [Arnold Bennett] has triumphed over the habitual; he has not let it disguise the particle of beauty from him.'--Rebecca West
He felt all the time that Aunt Harriet was adding him up, and reporting the result at frequent intervals to Mrs Baines in the bedroom. He felt that she knew everything about him—even to those tears which had been in his eyes."
The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean
When she joins Aunt Japonica and Aunt Thessalonika on a trip to America, nine-year-old Harriet meets yet another relative--Aunt Formica, a cowgirl who is having trouble with some clever and mysterious cattle rustlers.
When she joins Aunt Japonica and Aunt Thessalonika on a trip to America, nine-year-old Harriet meets yet another relative--Aunt Formica, a cowgirl who is having trouble with some clever and mysterious cattle rustlers."
The Autobiography of J.J. War
The Autobiography of J.J. War is about 9/11 in Osama bin Laden’s terms.
Aunt Laura greeted her with, “Oh, thank goodness you're here. Everything is wrong. The president's been shot. I have to get Junior over here home.” I couldn't wait for Aunt Harriet . I ran into her arms and said, “Mommy."
The Ghost from My Childhood
When Harriet Douglas visited her Uncle Sir William Douglas' residence, Gelston Castle, in Scotland as a young girl she vowed to one day build a replica of her own. As members of her family died, Harriett gained possession of the Henderson land in Jordanville N.Y. and resolved to make her lifelong dream a reality and had a stone mansion built next to her mother's cottage in 1833. To accomplish her unusual and unique design she insisted it be built with stone blocks to resemble the houses of Scotland, and had them carried all the way from Little Falls, “fourteen miles in the snow”. It was published that Gelston Castle contained over 20 rooms, including ten bedrooms and three sitting rooms. They used the large hall as a dining room and the basement had five rooms, a kitchen and sitting room. The castle was adorned with fireplaces throughout.At some point in time, an inspiration struck the grande dame: Her heart - and the rest of her too - could remain at the Henderson House forever. She ordered granite from Scotland for a grandiose sarcophagus. It was duly carved and installed in readiness for Harriet's demise and her instructions were spelled out in her will. It is thought that the "frustration of her spirit" may have been caused by the change in her plan for burial. Harriett was felled by her heirs. When the eighty-two-year old Douglas died in 1872, her family broke her will and gave her a thoroughly conventional burial at the family plot in a New York City churchyard. It was wondered what to do with the sarcophagus? Some practical soul had it hauled out of the cellar and installed outside, where it became a water trough for horses. Eventually the sarcophagus disintegrated. Some say years of freezing split the granite into pieces, while others report its destruction was due to a bolt of lightning. Harriett Douglas would have, no doubt, preferred the latter explanation. After her death, "Aunt Harriet" became a renowned poltergeist of the Mohawk Valley.Today the castle may not stand on its foundation any longer, but the ghost of Aunt Harriet still roams the grounds. And some believe she is accompanied by other spirits with a sinister plan.
When Harriet Douglas visited her Uncle Sir William Douglas' residence, Gelston Castle, in Scotland as a young girl she vowed to one day build a replica of her own."
Aunt Harriet's Night Out
Excerpt from Aunt Harriet's Night Out: A Comedy in One Act This light comedy has to do with the dilemma of a young playwright and his wife, who are preparing to go to the first night performance of the husband's first play. They are embarrassed by the arrival of Aunt Harriet, who controls the purse strings of their income, and who is sup posed to be antagonistic to everything theatrical. Needless to say there is a surprise ending. Aunt Harriet knows the truth and attends the performance with them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work."
The Secret History of Dreaming
The author of Conscious Dreaming and The Three "Only" Things poses arguments for understanding one's dreams in order to resolve past events and prepare for the future, explaining the practices of ancient dreaming cultures and the dream experiences of famous historical figures.
Aunt Harriet's laughter has turned to coughing, and her knees buckle when she tries to stand up straight. A nurse comes to help. Together, they half-carry Aunt Harriet back to her wheelchair on the porch.2 Alice is brimming with ..."
Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
The reminiscences of a young girl growing up in early nineteenth-century England.
said Aunt Harriet . " I was speechless . " What have you been doing ? ' " I couldn't speak ; but accumulating misfortune was gradually overpowering me , and I began to cry . " Get into bed , ' said Aunt Harriet ."
The Greatest Works of Arnold Bennett
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Arnold Bennett collection. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Novels: A Man from the North The Grand Babylon Hotel Anna of the Five Towns Leonora A Great Man Teresa of Watling Street Sacred and Profane Love Hugo The Ghost- A Modern Fantasy The City of Pleasure: A Fantasia on Modern Themes Buried Alive The Old Wives' Tale Clayhanger Denry the Audacious Helen with the High Hand The Card Hilda Lessways The Plain Man and His Wife The Regent: A Five Towns Story of Adventure in London The Price of Love From the log of the Velsa These Twain The Pretty Lady The Roll-Call The Lion's Share Mr.Prohack Lilian Riceyman Steps Short Stories Collections: Tales of the Five Towns The Grim Smile of the Five Towns The Matador of the Five Towns The Loot of Cities Mr. Penfound's Two Burglars Midnight at the Grand Babylon The Police Station The Adventure of the Prima Donna The Episode in Room 222 Saturday to Monday A Dinner at the Louvre Plays: What the Public Wants The Honeymoon The Great Adventure The Title Judith Non-Fiction: Journalism For Women The Truth about an Author How to Become an Author The Reasonable Life Literary Taste: How to Form It How to Live on 24 Hours a Day The Feast of St. Friend: A Christmas Book Mental Efficiency Those United States Friendship and Happiness Paris Nights and Other Impressions of Places and People The Author's Craft Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front Books and Persons: Selections from The New Age 1908-1911 Self and Self-Management Things That Have Interested Me The Human Machine
Table of Contents I It was during the month of June that Aunt Harriet came over from Axe to spend a few days with her little sister, Mrs. Baines. The railway between Axe and the Five Towns had not yet been opened; but even if it had ..."
Love Always
A compelling and heartrending tale of lost love, family secrets, and those little moments that can change your life forever . . . When Natasha Kapoor returns to her grandparents’ idyllic coastal home for her beloved grandmother’s funeral, her life is at a turning point. She thought by now she’d be a successful jewelry designer in London with a perfect marriage. Instead, she’s got mounting bills and a soon-to-be ex. After the funeral, Natasha’s grandfather gives her the long-lost diary of her aunt Cecily. No one in her large and complicated family has ever discussed the tragic accident that took Cecily’s life as a teenager, and within the diary’s pages, Natasha finds a gripping and shocking tale of forbidden love, rivalry, and heartbreak. Nearly fifty years later, will Cecily’s diary finally explain her family’s dark past and the terrible secret her aunt left behind? Is it possible it’s just the inspiration Natasha needs to take a fresh look at her future, and maybe even give love a second chance? Fans of Jennifer Weiner and Emily Giffin will get hooked on internationally bestselling author Harriet Evans’s warm, witty, and absorbing novel filled with original, rootworthy characters and complex family issues.
Fans of Jennifer Weiner and Emily Giffin will get hooked on internationally bestselling author Harriet Evans’s warm, witty, and absorbing novel filled with original, rootworthy characters and complex family issues."
The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean
When her absent-minded inventor father suddenly remembers that he has five sisters, nine-year-old Harriet Bean, who has never heard of them before, determines to find her unknown aunts so that the unfinished family portrait can be completed. Reprint.
When her absent-minded inventor father suddenly remembers that he has five sisters, nine-year-old Harriet Bean, who has never heard of them before, determines to find her unknown aunts so that the unfinished family portrait can be completed ..."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science
But we have left Mrs. Thorne seated on the sofa by Aunt Harriet . " You don't mind my calling you Aunt Harriet , do you ? " she says sweetly . " Perhaps I ought to say Mrs. Middleton , but didn't my poor dear James always call you Aunt ..."
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
Aunt Harriet sighs ostentatiously , and we go into the store together . I say " together " advisedly , for so close do I keep to her that several times I tread on her heels . In her companionship I feel I am safe , she is so eminently ..."
For Percival
But we have left Mrs. Thorne seated on the sofa by Aunt Harriet . " You don't mind my calling you Aunt Harriet , do you ? " she says sweetly . " Perhaps I ought to say Mrs. Middleton , but didn't my poor dear James always call you Aunt ..."
The Cornhill Magazine
Again Aunt Harriet saw the first grey gleam of dawn . Slowly it stole in , widening and increasing , till the candle - flame , which had been like a golden star , shining out into the June night , was but a smoky yellow smear on the ..."
The House of Fulfilment
Harriet Blair was seventeen when she went with her father and mother and her brother Austen to New Orleans, to the marriage of an older brother, Alexander, the father's business representative at that place. It was characteristic of the Blairs that they declined the hospitality of the bride's family, and from the hotel attended, punctiliously and formally, the occasions for which they had come. It takes ease to accept hospitality. Alexander Blair, the father, banker and capitalist, of Vermont stock, now the richest man in Louisville, was of a stern ruggedness unsoftened by a long and successful career in the South, while his wife, the daughter of a Scotch schoolmaster settled in Pennsylvania, was the possessor of a thrifty closeness and strong, practical sense. Alexander, their oldest son, a man of thirty, to whose wedding they had come, was what was natural to expect, a literal, shrewd man, with a strong sense of duty as he saw it. His long, clean-shaven upper lip, above a beard, looked slightly grim, and his straight-gazing, blue-gray eyes were stern. The second son, Austen, was clean-featured, handsome and blond, but he was also, by report, the shrewd and promising son of his father, even as his brother was reported before him. Harriet, the daughter, was a silent, cold-looking girl, who wrapped herself in reserve as a cover for self-consciousness but, observing closely, thought to her own conclusions. She had a disillusioning way of bearing facts in these communings, which showed life to her very honestly but without romance or glamor.
But now Aunt Harriet forgot and neglected and grew cross like any one, and the sententious utterances of Uncle Austen irritated her. Alexina, going into her room one day, found her with her head bowed on the desk. Was she crying?"
The Century
Aunt Harriet smiled reproachfully at her mother - wit which are generally admitted to be niece , and pulled her ear gently . a part of the equipment of the typical American woman . If she was not the ideal young woman , at least she ..."
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine ...
Aunt Harriet smiled reproachfully at her mother - wit which are generally admitted to be niece , and pulled her ear gently . a part of the equipment of the typical AmeriIf she was not the ideal young woman , at least she possessed some ..."
The Taste of Apple Seeds
Shimmering with the incandescence and irresistible magic of the novels of Alice Hoffman, Joanne Harris, and Aimee Bender, Katharina Hagena's smash international bestseller, The Taste of Apple Seeds, is a story of love and loss that will captivate your heart. When Iris unexpectedly inherits her grandmother's house in the country, she also inherits the painful memories that linger there. Should she keep it or sell it? The choice is not easy, for the cottage is a place of enchantment and sensual mystery where currant jam tastes of tears, blue sparks crackle at the touch of fingertips, love makes apple trees bloom—and dark secrets pulsate in the house's nooks and shadows. . . .
she asked Aunt Harriet once. “And why can't I?” Aunt Harriet had looked atherand said that it was theonly way Ingacould releaseher tension, and thatRosmarie was so energetic that she would neverbecapable of such discharges; ..."
Lippincott's Magazine
Aunt Harriet sighs ostentatiously , and we go into the store together . I say " together " advisedly , for so close do I keep to her that several times I tread on her heels . In her companionship I feel I am safe , she is so eminently ..."
Otherwise Engaged
At one and twenty, Lady Angelica Fitzhugh, the youngest sibling of the Earl of Hillcrest, has been rusticating in rural Hampshire for two years. After her first Season, her betrothed managed only second place in a duel to the death just two days before their wedding.Out of the blue, her papa has informed her that to save the Hillcrest dynasty, in five days she is to wed the rather ancient Earl of Scarborough, become the step-mama to his twin daughters, and sail to Australia on her husband’s swansong voyage as an admiral in Her Majesty’s Navy.After two engagements and one wedding, the new Countess of Scarborough finds herself in a quandary. For it appears that her elderly husband much prefers the cabin boy’s bed to hers.Angelica finds herself caught up in a series of thrilling, chilling and romantic adventures after her arrival at her new home in Australia. Otherwise Engaged is a purely delicious Victorian romance just waiting for the sparks to fly.
“Why have we stopped, Aunt Harriet ? Is there something wrong with the curricle?” Angelica inquired of her aunt with a quizzical frown. “Not exactly, my dear,” Aunt Harriet replied with an extremely guilty grin all over her face."
The Epworth Herald
Aunt dow , and the sound of the gentle lapping of the lake “ write up ” her penance , the table proving a con- Harriet's face often wore a smile that was provoking soothing her aching head , Polly fell asleep to Cream venient desk for ..."
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Aunt Harriet smiled reproachfully at her mother - wit which are generally admitted to be niece , and pulled her ear gently . a part of the equipment of the typical Ameri- can woman . If she was not the ideal young woman , at least she ..."
Duelling Fire
She couldn't bear the unexpected truth Sara gladly accepted the offer of acting as companion to her youthful Aunt Harriet. Her father had recently died, and she welcomed the solace the English countryside offered. But life in Harriet's household proved far from peaceful. Most disturbing to Sara was Jude, a blunt and darkly seductive man. Why had Harriet hired him? And what did he do? Then understanding dawned on her: Jude was her aunt's lover. Yet she couldn't deny the deep attraction she herself felt for him—an attraction he seemed to reciprocate!
dreamt Harriet was affluent enough to employ anyone, much less a chauffeur. And yet what else could he be? ... If he had been working for Aunt Harriet for ten years, then he probably knew she had only seen her aunt once in that time."
The Little Corporal
I went into the just as easy . kitchen and p'tended to get a drink of water ; Aunt Harriet and Grandma Tabby didn't but , oh ! I was so dreadful mad that I wanted let me hold her long , though ; they were too to kill Grandma Tabby and ..."
Christa: There's Always a Tomorrow
The first story about the life of Christa followed her from when she was eight years old in Berlin in 1943 through to 1955 in Devon, Pennsylvania. Now her story continues from 1963 through 1968. As she returns to the city of her birth some of the mysteries of her past are solved.
Then Christa and Aunt Harriet went up to the third floor. Aunt Harriet pulled on a cord to lower a ladder leading to the attic. Tons of discarded items were up there, but Aunt Harriet remembered exactly where those boxes were."
Aunt Harriet's Legacy
Sarah Lydgate tells the story of her turbulent life and remarkable family in colonial Sydney (1850-1880) and uncovers mysteries in her Aunt Harriet' past. The intergenerational family saga spans three continents - Australia, Britain and Africa. Several themes are explored: the effects of colonialism and missionary activity; the position of women in Victorian society; deceit and self-deceit; and appearance and reality.
Sarah Lydgate tells the story of her turbulent life and remarkable family in colonial Sydney (1850-1880) and uncovers mysteries in her Aunt Harriet' past."
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