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Автор: Donald D.Naiser
Год: 2012
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 164
ISBN: 9781457514883
Free Again Many Eastern European families sought a new life of freedom in America during the mid nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were merely chattel to tyrannical kings and their crony landlords of the time. This oppressive form of government and the inspiration of their freedom fighting patron saint, St. John Nepomucene, drove one family to seek freedom in a faraway land known as Texas. Their quest for freedom and an innate appetite for adventure led to a strange but fortunate encounter with slavery and the slave trade in America, and on the African continent. Their ethereal encounter with one special slave blossomed into a beautiful story of collaboration for survival, success and liberation for themselves and thousands of other people. This book depicts the decisive reaction to the slow erosion of freedom that comes from an overbearing government. Increasing taxation, deprivation of rights, imposition of ideas and the dilution,...
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