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 | Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot Product# 458511011 Selling for $24.95 "Advance praise from Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO, NAACP 'Herein breathes the universal genius Benjamin Banneker ?Çö?Çö mathematician, astronomer, diarist, and sage. Biographer Charles Cerami mines the available data, eschews the apocryphal, and renders his subject human. Captured completely is the flowering genius of a largely home-schooled boy wonder, exhibiting mathematical wizardry while devouring the Bible, Plato, Epictetus, and virtually every other extant tome. The fabled memory that could have reproduced L?ÇÖEnfant?ÇÖs plan for the entire District of Columbia becomes palpable and real. We understand how the pragmatic farmer who was imbued with Quaker ideology endured decades of ignominious racism with overt equanimity while haunted by incessant night terrors. We comprehend the heroism of the man whose very existence refuted Thomas Jefferson?ÇÖs notorious public denial of black intellect in Notes on Virginia when, speaking truth to power, Banneker launched an anti-slavery epistle at the ambivalent and duplicitous Jefferson. We are enraged at the account of arsonists setting fire on the day of Banneker?ÇÖs funeral to the small, rustic log cabin where the genius had labored in solitude among his instruments, papers, and books. We are grateful to Charles Cerami, who has resurrected the spirit of a neglected giant and gifted us with a biography nearly two centuries overdue.' 'Like Benjamin Banneker, Charles Cerami presents the product of his research in a modest yet compelling manner. Cerami engagingly writes about both Banneker the genius and Banneker the man?Çôa thought-provoking read.' ?Çô Raymond G. Dobard, Ph.D., Professor of Art, Howard University, and coauthor of Hidden in Plain View: A Secret story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad" |
 | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Product# 460679833 Selling for $8.95 "Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking narrative takes the reader into the world of the South's antebellum plantations and reveals the daily terrors he suffered as a slave, shedding invaluable light on one of the most unjust periods in the history of America. Published for the first time as a Signet Classic." |
| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Product# 460686618 Selling for $8.95 "Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking narrative takes the reader into the world of the South's antebellum plantations and reveals the daily terrors he suffered as a slave, shedding invaluable light on one of the most unjust periods in the history of America. Published for the first time as a Signet Classic." |
 | Rosa Parks Product# 460765772 Selling for $13 "A portrait of the African-American woman who is immortalized for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger examines who Rosa Parks was before, during, and after her historic act and how her action contributed to the end of the Jim Crow laws and helped ignite the Civil Rights movement. Reprint." |
| Rosa Parks Product# 460767714 Selling for $13 "A portrait of the African-American woman who is immortalized for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger examines who Rosa Parks was before, during, and after her historic act and how her action contributed to the end of the Jim Crow laws and helped ignite the Civil Rights movement. Reprint." |
 | A New Science; The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology Product# 460768115 Selling for $128 "In this book, the author attempts to further the reader's understanding of the social sciences, in this case specifically sociology, and to do so by examining, historically, some aspects to its origins especially in relation to the humanities." |