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David Barclay of Youngsbury (1729–1809), also known as David Barclay of Walthamstow or David Barclay of Walthamstow and Youngsbury, [1] was an English Quaker merchant, banker, and philanthropist. He is notable for an experiment in "gratuitous manumission ", in which he freed the slaves on his Jamaican plantation and arranged for better ...
The novel was the No.1 bestselling novel of 1910 in the United States. [3] The enduring popularity of the book was such that more than twenty-five years later, Sunday Circle magazine serialized the story and in 1926 the prominent French playwright Alexandre Bisson adapted the book as a three-act play for the Parisian stage.
Alexander Barclay (c. 1784 – 30 October 1864) was a Scottish politician, planter, slave trader and author who served as a member of the House of Assembly of Jamaica. Born in Aberdeen , he immigrated to the British colony of Jamaica , where he became a member of the planter class .
No Time for Goodbye is a thriller novel written by the Canadian author Linwood Barclay.The book was featured on the Richard & Judy summer reading list in 2008 [1] and The Sunday Times reported in its 2008 year-end bestseller list that the novel led the paperback and hardcover fiction list with sales of 636,105 copies.
The Rosary is a novel by Florence L. Barclay. [1] It was first published in 1909 by G.P. Putnam's Sons and was a bestselling novel for many years running, reaching the number one spot in 1910. It was adapted into five films.
A slave who is regularly raped by slave owner John Dutton, she dies in the novel's opening chapter at the age of 29, when Vyry is a very small child; she has 15 children. Caline, May Liza, and Lucy—servants in the big house who work with Aunt Sally and Vyry. Lucy is Vyry's older half sister, by Hetta's slave husband.
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In contrast to Washington's Up From Slavery, a blend of slave narrative and autobiography, Dusk of Dawn traces the genealogy of the race concept as it affected Du Bois's life. Du Bois elucidates his theoretical writing with personal experiences, and connects those experiences to the larger historical and social phenomena he identifies as ...