Books with title The Roman Record

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”In the book The Red Record, Ida documents the alarmingly high rates of lynching in the United States (which was at a peak from 1880 to 1930). She argued that during Reconstruction, most Americans outside the South did not realize the growing rate of violence against black people in the South. Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was a prominent American educator, journalist and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and dedicated most of her life to combating violence and prejudice.

The student of American sociology will find the year 1894 marked by a pronounced awakening of the public conscience to a system of anarchy and outlawry which had grown during a series of ten years to be so common, that scenes of unusual brutality failed to have any visible effect upon the humane sentiments of the people of our land. Beginning with the emancipation of the Negro, the inevitable result of unbribled power exercised for two and a half centuries, by the white man over the Negro, began to show itself in acts of conscienceless outlawry. During the slave regime, the Southern white man owned the Negro body and soul. It was to his interest to dwarf the soul and preserve the body. Vested with unlimited power over his slave, to subject him to any and all kinds of physical punishment, the white man was still restrained from such punishment as tended to injure the slave by abating his physical powers and thereby reducing his financial worth. While slaves were scourged mercilessly, and in countless cases inhumanly treated in other respects, still the white owner rarely permitted his anger to go so far as to take a life, which would entail upon him a loss of several hundred dollars. The slave was rarely killed, he was too valuable; it was easier and quite as effective, for discipline or revenge, to sell him "Down South."

Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States. Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an early figure in the civil rights movement. She was born into slavery, and gained her freedom when the Emancipation Proclamation was declared. She suffered through various hardships, and became a journalist investigating the horrors of lynching, proving that it wasn't a tool of justice, but a tool of terror and oppression.

A girl’s brothers have gone missing, a King has cursed his sons, and the nursery nurse has said way too much already. It will take the love of a princess and two time travelling strangers to save the seven ravens in the castle. If they survive the challenges they face on their way that is. Book 8 in the Bertram Bile time travel adventure series, set along the River Thames. #BertramBile