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Author : Sara Nickles
Release : 2002-03
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 936/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Escape to Mexico by : Sara Nickles
Download or read book Escape to Mexico written by Sara Nickles. This book was released on 2002-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fiction set in Mexico, by non-Mexican writers.
Author : Alice L Baumgartner
Release : 2020-11-10
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 770/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis South to Freedom by : Alice L Baumgartner
Download or read book South to Freedom written by Alice L Baumgartner. This book was released on 2020-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.
Author : Lewis Horton
Release : 2001-09
Genre : Escapes
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 297/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Escape from Mexico by : Lewis Horton
Download or read book Escape from Mexico written by Lewis Horton. This book was released on 2001-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeanine Cummins
Release : 2022-02
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 781/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club) by : Jeanine Cummins
Download or read book American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club) written by Jeanine Cummins. This book was released on 2022-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy--two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia's husband's tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. Instantly transformed into migrants, Lydia and Luca ride la bestia--trains that make their way north toward the United States, which is the only place Javier's reach doesn't extend. As they join the countless people trying to reach el norte, Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to? American Dirt will leave readers utterly changed when they finish reading it. A page-turner filled with poignancy, drama, and humanity on every page, it is a literary achievement."--
Author : Dwight Worker
Release : 2012-04-25
Genre : Escapes
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 439/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Escape From Lecumberri by : Dwight Worker
Download or read book Escape From Lecumberri written by Dwight Worker. This book was released on 2012-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of Dwight Worker's brutal imprisonment in the 'inescapable' Lecumberri Prison in Mexico City. The only person ever to have escaped from the 'Black Palace' of Lecumberri was Pancho Villa, in 1912. In Mexico, Dwight Worker met Barbara Chilcoate, whom he fell in love with and married. Together they devised a bold escape plan. They knew the odds, for Mexico had 'la ley de fuga', the law of escape. It was not illegal to try to escape from prison, as long as the would-be escapee did no violence against people and destroyed no state property. But if they caught him, they killed him. So any would be escapee had one and only one chance. The choices were either freedom or death. Read about how Dwight Worker ran this gauntlet to join Pancho Villa and become only the second person to escape from Lecumberri.
