Is He Mr. Right? by Mira 9irshenbaum

Is He Mr. Right? by Mira 9irshenbaum

Adds an important sharpness to a cloudily understood aspect of American history. Crawford helps bring Quaker history into the mainstream of a larger context, providing a compelling narrative of a region, a community, and a fascinating individual.--Emma J. Lapansky-Werner, Haverford College

A thorough and often extraordinarily eloquent collection of documents from the struggle over emancipation and African-American freedom in the age of revolution.--Jon F. Sensbach, author of Rebecca's Revival

Michael Crawford presents the compelling story of colonial manumission movements among North Carolina Quakers in this illuminating volume. Embedding complete primary documents within the context of his own interpretive analysis, Crawford effectively shows how the consequences of this group's antislavery activism radiated out from a few individuals to the region, the state, and, eventually, the nation.

Students and scholars will be able to draw their own insights from the important documents presented in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden, many of them obscure or recently discovered. Through diaries, petitions, legislative debates, and letters, well-known as well as unknown players in the struggle for manumission are allowed to tell their own stories in their own words. This approach has the effect of highlighting the personal motivation of figures both prominent and obscure in the movement.

Mira Kirshenbaum is the bestselling author of twelve books--including the influential Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay--which have been translated into more than twenty languages. A two-time finalist for the Books for a Better Life award, Mira is co-founder of The Chestnut Hill Institute, an internationally recognized center for research and psychotherapy for couples, families, and individuals. She has been a workshop leader and trainer for medical professionals at Harvard Medical School and other institutions. She has appeared on CNN, 20/20, Today, and CBS' Early Show, and has been featured as an expert in O magazine, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Glamour, and Good Housekeeping.

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ISBN 13	9780307336736
ISBN 10	0307336735
Title	Is He Mr. Right?
Author	Mira 9irshenbaum
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2006-05-23
Number of pages	253
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