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2 documents for cotton gin

- Compelling Work Chronicles Fight to Free Slave Family
In his compelling work of popular history, Ontarian Bryan Prince chronicles the struggle begun by John Weems to free his wife and children, an effort that took seven years and was supported through the money, commitment and courage of abolitionists in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Jamaica. John Weems had purchased his own freedom before marrying Arabella, a slave, in 1829. According to law, their children were slaves, and John paid their owner an annual fee to keep them together. Slave traders and slave hunters made their livings ripping children from their mothers, humiliating adult men and savagely punishing those who tried to escape. Quotations from letters and documents, newspaper ads for slave sales and runaways as well as other documents reinforce Prince's narrative, which imagine...

... Southern states, where the exploitation on cotton plantations was most brutal. John and the moral an...
- Winnipeg Free Press
- September 02, 2009
- Are We There Yet?
... Ethiopian basketwork, elegant traditional cotton dresses, and posters of surreal historical sites. ...
- Winnipeg Free Press
- August 12, 2010