This is a story that tells the struggles and obstacles of a migrant black family during a time when our history and heritage and legacy were in question. It talks about my travels up and down the road, living on old farm plantations and deserted slave camps while performing the same jobs our forefathers were enslaved to perform. I felt that we were like free slaves moving from one farm to another, working jobs for little pay from farmers who needed help gathering their crops and taking them to the market. As we moved from the south to the north as the seasons changed, many true stories unfolded that are told in this book.
Author Claudette Williams has faced many heartbreaking trials from a young age. However, she has always been able to turn her trials into triumphs. Today she walks boldly in her truth and has a powerful story to share about rejection, shame, faith, forgiveness, vulnerability, and the peaceful life she now enjoys after shedding the shackles of shame. This book is a must read for anyone trying to navigate their way out of the maze of shame and doubt. Claudette's story will inspire you and give you hope that there is indeed light at the end of whatever tunnel or challenge you are currently facing." --Rosita Hall, professional speaker, trainer, coach, Canadian best-selling author Claudette is an award-winning hairstylist, entrepreneur, and former model. She is a proud wife and mother of four beautiful children. She is currently working on her second book and has an undying passion for supporting mothers who have children experiencing mental health issues. Her vision and purpose is to inspire, motivate, and move others to accept and embrace their true, authentic self. She has a big heart and big faith.
This journal will allow you to keep track of messages you hear in order to reflect and study for your continued Spiritual growth. Keep all of your notes in this single journal and be a doer versus a hearer.
A journal of prayers" This journal will allow you to keep track of your prayers for your needs. Sometimes we pray for things and forget down the road after they have been answered. This journal will allow you to be thankful for all of those answered prayers while patiently waiting for other prayer request. You can share what God has done for you with your friends, children, and other family members. Establish family prayer requests with your husband and children. Seek God as a family regarding your requests. Grow together in God's blessings. Be patient and remember; God's time is not our time.
This book offers positive life thoughts for everyone. It is an inspiring collection of thoughts and quotes that will remind you to be the best you can be despite life events. You will relate, share and be filled with these enlightening heart expressions.
A wonderfully bright and positive book about flowers your child will love to read! This book will guide your child through an experience that explores and teaches about a flower's likeness of everyday things and activities. In addition, this book spells out the word flower throughout pages of the book. Your child will love to recognize the word and may even begin to spell the word flower after reading through this book a few times. This book is the first in a series of related books.
This is a book about breathing new life into texts from the past. It demonstrates that meaning in the universe of art is not fixed but volatile, contradictory, unsettled (and sometimes unsettling). As an excellent example of a critical practice which is enabling rather than disabling. The Devil in the Details engages respectfully with previous interpretations of nineteenth-century Cuban antislavery narratives, and suggests other ways of thinking about and understanding them in the light of contemporary ideas. Studied almost to exhaustion by many non-Cuban scholars since the 1970s, these narratives have been either the cause of Afrocentric disgruntlement or the subject of non-critical readings. Williams's intervention in the debate has broken out of this polarizing bind, casting the literary expression of antislavery ideology as a spectrum rather than a monolith. With her anti-fundamentalist analysis, the author provides the reader with a balanced understanding of the significance of these narratives. The alternative readings rest on careful attention to important details of these texts some of which have been overlooked or given inadequate attention by commentators. Little-known or -studied compositions are also brought out of the shadows and into the critical spotlight, while a new gloss is given to the iconic novels. Of particular value in Williams's account is the attention to the complexity of the enslaved-enslaver relationship as represented by the writers, as well as the frequently unnoticed subtlety of the strategies they use to subvert the ideology on which slavery was built. Coming on the heels of the 2007 bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade and the renewed discussions about slavery that it generated, this book is a timely invitation to revisit the literary contribution to the antislavery cause in one colonial Caribbean society. Book jacket.
[Adds] an important voice to the national conversation on race. A 'must read' for scholars and enthusiasts of Caribbean literature."--Janet J. Hampton, George Washington University Charcoal and Cinnamon explores the continuing redefinition of women of African descent in the Caribbean, focusing on the manner in which literature has influenced their treatment and contributed to the formation of their shifting identities. While various studies have explored this subject, much of the existing research harbors a blindness to the literature of the non-English-speaking territories. Claudette Williams bases her analyses on poetry and prose from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic and enhances it by comparing these writings with the literatures of the English- and French-speaking Caribbean territories. Williams also questions the tendency of some of the established schools of feminism to de-emphasize the factor of race in their gender analyses. A novel aspect of this work, indicated by the allusion to "charcoal" and "cinnamon" in its title, is its focus on the ways in which many writers use language to point to subtle distinctions between black and brown (mulatto) women. The originality of Williams's approach is also evident in her emphasis on the writer's attitudes toward race rather than on the writer's race itself. She brings to the emotionally charged subject of the politics of color the keen analysis and sustained research of a scholar, as well as the perceptive personal insights of an African-ancestored Caribbean woman. Though the main focus is on literary works, the book will also be a valuable reference for courses on Caribbean history, sociology, and psychology. Claudette M. Williams is the author of several articles on the images of women in Caribbean literature and is currently senior lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
A titled lord masquerades as a mere sir in order to escape his mother's scheme to marry him off. But what starts as a lark quickly turns into a scandal, when he loses his heart to a hot-tempered miss. Regency Romance.
When the arrogant Sir Edward Danton encounters the headstrong, high-spirited Star Berkley, he finds himself caught up in a web of blackmail, scandal, and love
Though the main focus is on literary works, the book will also be a reference for courses on Caribbean history, sociology, and psychology."--BOOK JACKET.
A reckless scheme for revenge leads to a second chance at love. Spurned by the love of her life, vivacious Lillian travels to London with her matchmaking aunt and meets the Earl of Raeburn, who convinces her that her first love need not be her last. Regency Romance.
Arabella Cullingham's brother sends her to London in order to help her recover from an unhappy love affair, but there she falls in love with the Earl of Magdalen, a playboy and confirmed bachelor
Glen Ashton, the new Duke of Somerset, reluctantly accepts his duties as guardian of Miss Felicia Easton, who had tricked the former Duke into believing that she was chaperoned
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