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Don't hold me back : my life and art / by Rembert, Winfred.(CARDINAL)295293; Baker, Charles F.,III.(CARDINAL)377701; Baker, Rosalie F.(CARDINAL)377702;
Includes bibliographical references (page 40).Through words and paintings, an artist tells about growing up on a cotton plantation in Cuthbert, Georgia, serving time in prison for his actions during a civil rights demonstration, and finding a purpose and direction in life.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Rembert, Winfred; African American painters; African Americans; Artists; Outsider art;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Kin : rooted in hope / by Weatherford, Carole Boston,1956-author.(CARDINAL)208935; Weatherford, Jeffery Boston,illustrator.(CARDINAL)410567;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-202).Ages: 10-14.Grades: 5-9.A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.Accelerated Reader ARCoretta Scott King Author Honor, 2024
Subjects: Novels in verse.; Historical fiction.; Poetry.; African Americans; Generations; Families; Slavery;
Available copies: 29 / Total copies: 31
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Planters and pioneers; life in colonial Virginia; the story in pictures and text of the people who settled England's first successful colony from its planting in 1607 to the birth of the United States in 1789 / by Rouse, Parke,1915-1997.(CARDINAL)150279;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203) and index.Prologue -- The Search for Gold -- The Indians -- The First Families -- Sea Lanes to England -- Houses, Roads, Ferries, Inns -- The Western Frontier -- The Church and Dissenters -- The Plantations -- The Negroes -- Food, Drink, and Merriment -- The Quest for Knowledge -- Outdoor Life -- Arts and Entertainment -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; Plantation life;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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Fodor's in focus Charleston / by Evans, Anna(Travel writer)(CARDINAL)429550; Gidick, Kinsey,author.(CARDINAL)429551; Lawrence, Stratton,author.(CARDINAL)404519; Mahan, Sally,author.(CARDINAL)428586;
About This Guide -- 1 Experience Charleston -- 2 Exploring Charleston -- 3 Where To Eat In Charleston -- 4 Where To Stay In Charleston -- 5 Nightlife And Performing Arts -- 6 Sports And The Outdoors -- 7 Shopping -- 8 Hilton Head And The Lowcountry -- Travel Smart Charleston -- Index -- About Our Writers -- Maps."Fodor's correspondents highlight the best of Charleston, including historic downtown attractions, famed cuisine, lovely inns, and scenic nearby plantations. Our local experts vet every recommendation to ensure you make the most of your time, whether it's your first trip or your fifth,"--page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Guidebooks.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Slavery and the invention of Dutch art / by Fowler, Caroline O.,author.; Duke University Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)290492;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art, Caroline Fowler considers the archive of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, arguing that it lacks adequate visual history depicting the ways in which life transformed into commodity. To address this, Fowler turns to Dutch art of the seventeenth century, showing how the specter of the plantation economy in the Americas overflows into the visual sites of these works. For example, Fowler examines the paintings of Frans Post (1612-1680), analyzing Post's coastal studies of salt mining in the Cape Verde islands and his depiction of the Brazilian sugar plantations alongside the account books, inventories, and written materials that travelled beside his pictorial record"--
Subjects: Painting, Dutch; Art and society; Transatlantic slave trade; Art, Dutch; Slavery; Slavery in art.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Fodor's in focus Charleston : with Hilton Head & the lowcountry / by Lawrence, Stratton,author.(CARDINAL)404519; Mahan, Sally,author.(CARDINAL)428586;
About This Guide -- 1 Experience Charleston -- 2 Exploring Charleston -- 3 Where To Eat In Charleston -- 4 Where To Stay In Charleston -- 5 Nightlife And Performing Arts -- 6 Sports And The Outdoors -- 7 Shopping -- 8 Hilton Head And The Lowcountry -- Travel Smart -- Index -- About Our Writers -- Maps."Fodor's correspondents highlight the best of Charleston, including historic downtown attractions, famed cuisine, lovely inns, and scenic nearby plantations. Our local experts vet every recommendation to ensure you make the most of your time, whether it's your first trip or your fifth,"--page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Guidebooks.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Gone with the wind [DVD] / by Fleming, Victor,1889-1949,Director(DLC)n 85151819; Howard, Sidney Coe,1891-1939Screenwriter(DLC)n 85151869; Leigh, Vivien,1913-1967Actor(DLC)n 50048325; Gable, Clark,1901-1960Actor(DLC)n 50015429; Howard, Leslie,1893-1943,Actor(DLC)n 81095890; De Havilland, OliviaActor(DLC)n 82137019; McDaniel, Hattie,1895-1952,Actor(DLC)n 85151822; Mitchell, Margaret,1900-1949,author(DLC)no2010147125; Steiner, Max,1888-1971Musical director(DLC)n 84184888; Mitchell, Margaret,1900-1949.Gone with the wind.(DLC)no2010147125; Selznick International Pictures.(DLC)n 85151881 ; Warner Home Video (Firm),Distributor(DLC)no 95005960 ;
Director of photography, Ernest Haller, Ray Rennahan ; production design, William Cameron Menzies ; art director, Lyle Wheeler ; editors, Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom ; music, Max Steiner.Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel.A love story set in the deep South during the Civil War. Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler try to reshape their lives in the aftermath of battle.MPAA rating: G.DVD, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English and French), Dolby Digital mono (English and Spanish).DVD.Academy Awards, USA, 1939: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Vivien Leigh); Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Hattie McDaniel); Best Art Direction (Lyle R. Wheeler); Best Cinematography, Color (Ernest Haller, Ray Rennahan); Best Director (Victor Fleming); Best Film Editing (Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom); Best Picture (David O. Selznick); Best Writing, Screenplay (Sidney Howard); Technical Achievement Award (Don Musgrave - For pioneering in the use of coordinated equipment in the production Gone with the Wind)
Subjects: French language materials; Spanish language materials; Entertainment DVD.; Materiales en español; Drama.; History.; Historical films.; Feature films.; Films for the hearing impaired.; Adaptations cinématographiques.; Films pour personnes handicapées auditives.; Based on the book.; Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949; Butler, Rhett (Fictitious character); Women; Plantation life; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); O'Hara, Scarlett (Fictitious character); Plantation life in literature; Triangles (Interpersonal relationships); Women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world / by Lugo-Ortiz, Agnes I.,editor,writer of introduction,contributor.(CARDINAL)856130; Bindman, David,1940-contributor.(CARDINAL)281097; Brienen, Rebecca Parker,contributor.(CARDINAL)856128; Chieffo-Reidway, Toby,contributor.; Cummins, Tom,1949-contributor.(CARDINAL)855808; Fracchia, Carmen,contributor.(CARDINAL)354415; Parrish, Susan Scott,contributor.(CARDINAL)280855; Pointon, Marcia R.,contributor.(CARDINAL)157061; Quilley, Geoff,contributor.(CARDINAL)855767; Rosenthal, Angela,editor,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)284242; Schmidt-Linsenhoff, Viktoria,contributor.(CARDINAL)856127; Slauter, Eric Thomas,contributor.(CARDINAL)856129; Smalls, James,1958-contributor.(CARDINAL)824340; Weston, Helen,contributor.(CARDINAL)856126; Williams, Daryle,1967-contributor.(CARDINAL)856125; Ashford Colour Press Ltd,printer.; Cambridge University Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)133285;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888"--
Subjects: Portraits.; Black people in art.; Slavery in art.; Slavery;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Same kind of different as me [sound recording] / by Hall, Ron,1945-(CARDINAL)479682; Butler, Dan.; Moore, Denver.(CARDINAL)479683; Scott, Barry.; Vincent, Lynn.(CARDINAL)355426; Thomas Nelson Publishers.(CARDINAL)152644;
Read by Dan Butler as Ron Hall and Barry Scott as Denver Moore."A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream. A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it. It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana . . . and an East Texas honky-tonk . . . and, without a doubt, in the heart of God. It unfolds in a Hollywood hacienda . . . an upscale New York gallery . . . a downtown dumpster . . . a Texas ranch. Gritty with pain and betrayal and brutality, this true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love."--Container.
Subjects: Hall, Deborah, d. 2000.; Hall, Ron, 1945-; Moore, Denver.; African Americans; Art dealers; Audiobooks.; Friendship; Homeless men; Indentured servants; White people;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Pawleys Island [sound recording] : a Lowcountry tale / by Frank, Dorothea Benton.(CARDINAL)353828;
Read by the author.Hoping to sell some of her watercolors, Becca Sims wanders into the seaside Gallery Valentine, never expecting that her life will be transformed by the gallery owner and his best friend, in a novel set in small-town South Carolina.
Subjects: Art dealers; Audiobooks.; Friendship; Plantation life; Seaside resorts; Secrecy; Women artists; Women lawyers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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