Cry Freedom

Samuel Worth never meant to kill the man. But when the son of the plantation owner they worked for tried to attack Samuel’s daughter, he had to defend her. Now his whole family is on the run from a pack of slave hunters and their bloodhounds - straight into the deadly wilds of the Rocky Mountains. Nate King and his family value their freedoms. It is one of the reasons they chose to live so far from civilization. It’s also why Nate knows he and his wife, Winona, must use every trick at hand to help the Worth’s escape their captors - even if it costs them their own freedom.

Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the thousands of enslaved and free African Americans living in this country. But African Americans took up their own fight for freedom by joining the British and American armies; preaching, speaking out, and writing about the evils of slavery; and establishing settlements in Nova Scotia and Africa.

Tras tres siglos ininterrumpidos de dominio español, la América Latina anhelaba la independencia definitiva de sus pueblos. La Argentina, en ese entonces perteneciente al Virreinato de La Plata, hacia comienzos del siglo XIX clamaba por libertad. En la aventura del Libertador José de San Martín y los suyos, estaría el comienzo de la gesta de la emancipación argentina.

La gesta emancipadora de Simón Bolívar en Venezuela motivó la inmediata reacción de sus vecinos colombianos quienes buscaban hace mucho la libertad. Sin embargo, la recuperación del trono español por parte de Fernando VII en el año 1806 pondría a prueba las aspiraciones independentistas. Sólo la fe inquebrantable de los patriotas lograría cambiar el destino de las cosas.

As a leader in teaching, training, and transforming boys in Detroit, Jason Wilson shares his own story of discovering what it means to “be a man” in this life-changing memoir. His grandfather’s lynching in the deep South, the murders of his two older brothers, and his verbally harsh and...