Sojourner Truth, born into slavery in the late 1790s as Isabella Baumfree, was the first African-American woman to win a court case when she reclaimed her son from the man who sold him back into slavery after his emancipation. After changing her name, Truth travelled as a Methodist preacher and spoke out regularly on behalf of the abolitionist cause. In 1851, at the Ohio’s Women Rights Convention, Truth delivered her most well-known speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” During her lifetime, Truth spoke out about many causes, including women’s suffrage, prison reform, property rights for former slaves, and she encouraged African-Americans to enlist in the Union Army. Her activism led her to make connections with many of her contemporary abolitionists such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frances Gage. In 1850, Truth’s dictated her memoir, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, to her friend Olive Gilbert and the title was soon met with acclaim by abolitionist readers and supporters. Truth died in 1883 and was buried alongside her family in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Born in Nigeria in 1745, Olaudah Equiano was a well-known African abolitionist. Equiano was shipped to the West Indies as a child-slave, and then to England where he was purchased by Lieutenant Michael Pascal and trained as a seaman before serving in The Seven Years’ War. At the conclusion of hostilities, Pascal did not free Equiano as promised, but instead sold him to Captain James Doran who then sold Equiano to James King, a merchant from Philadelphia. In 1765, King let Equiano purchase his freedom for forty pounds, and helped him earn money in his stead as a merchant. Now a free man, Equiano returned to London where he made significant contributions to the abolitionist movement, and published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, which influenced the Slave Trade Act of 1807. Equiano is believed to have died in 1797 at the age of 52.
John Brown is Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, his working home of twenty-six years. Prior to that time he observed the academic world from the other side of the podium as a student at the University of Saskatchewan, University of Washington and Cornell University. He has also enjoyed international work opportunities in Nairobi, Paris, London, Edinburgh and China that have stretched his world view beyond North America. His background has resulted in a consistent thread of including the world of academe in his writing. Phoenix is his sixth book since leaving the world of higher education. He has now found a writing home in Vancouver.
I'm a fan of the noir novels of writers such as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, in which self-destructive protagonists swim in a sea of corruption towards lose-lose situations on a distant dark shore. However, I'm far more optimistic than that: I add humour and the hope of love to my thrillers. Don't expect pat endings—I've noticed that life doesn't serve them up very often.
Influenced by the Philip Kerr's hard Berlin detective, Bernie Gunther, Robert Wilson's fixer and debt collector, Bruce Medway, and Len Deighton's insubordinate spy, Harry Palmer, I paint morally pragmatic protagonists, such as the witty Milo Marchetti, into fast-paced thrillers with memorable characters, including disturbing women for love interest.
I grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and after obtaining a PhD in neurophysiology at the University of Sheffield worked in research at the University of California. I became a professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, before settling into teaching for thirty years at a college in British Columbia. Retired, I reside with Janet on Vancouver Island.
Well-travelled, I love the thrill of visiting foreign countries (about fifty so far) to experience their geography and cultures and write them into his stories. Blood Rain in Trieste (2015) was written after an exciting trip through Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Bosnia and Serbia. Recycled Love (2017) is based upon a trip across the fabulous mayhem of India to the calm of the sherpas in Nepal, including a trek up to Everest Base Camp.
I began serious writing in 2010 after visiting Trieste in Italy. I knew little about the craft but I believe in learning by doing. Blood Rain in Trieste is really a project that evolved over five years into the story of an anti-hero in a doomed romance. I wanted to write something entertaining along the noir lines of Chandler and Hammett but in the more modern style of Philip Kerr—with more romance. After visiting India and Nepal, Recycled Love was a detour into a story less noir with more romance and a spiritual twist. Currently, I'm finishing a sequel (Trieste Series #2) to Blood Rain in Trieste which attempts to not only entertain but educate in the Philip Kerr style of his Bernie Gunther novels. Trieste Series #3 is planned for 2024 and a new thriller set in Vancouver and the West Indies for 2026.
Título : Born a Slave: Anthology
EAN : 4066339505766
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