Bailey Books

African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame

There has long been silence on the issue of slavery and the Atlantic Slave trade: author Anne Bailey experienced this silence growing up in Jamaica, and as an adult became determined to break this silence, first researching the topic, than interviewing chiefs and elders in Ghana. African Voices Of The Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond The Silence And The Shame focuses on the Anlo Ewe community in Ghana to examine the impact of slavery and slave traders, showing how the trade became unpredictable and moved from the control of Africans to the control of outsiders. Oral narratives reveal why Africans began selling others into transatlantic slavery, providing a hard-hitting alternative history.

This book is quite enlightening in the history of the African slave trade. Contrary to what one might expect from the title and reviews, the author does not solely rely on oral stories from African elders. The stories that the author quotes, though, are always interesting. Especially, the Africans involvement with the slavery.

Of course, a story is just that, a story. As with many long told stories, there will be many aspects of truth and nontruth. That is not to say that any of the legends told were lies. They will contain versions of events as told by people who were not witness to the event. It is like the child's party game of "telephone." You start with a story at one end of the line and watch how it changes by the time it reaches the last person. Changes are inevitable, although, the basic premise may be intact.

Still, the author provides a useful addition to the literature. So often, the African slave trade discussion is limited to what occurred in America. This book provides stories and facts of the rudimentary aspects of the slave trade such as the problems with shippers obtaining insurance, and the changes in ships designs.

The book informed me on other aspects of the slave trade that I had not known. For example, the international outlawing of the slave transportation did not result in a lessening, but a sharp increase in Atlantic transportation of slaves. Also, the profits arising from slave trading after abolishing were far above what I would have expected. The author too was clearly stunned. That said, the major flaw in this book is that it is so dryly written. Her method of presenting the material is as if one were listening to a dictation. An odd presentation for such an emotional and significant topic.

Bailey and Kennedy's documents collection is now a standard in secondary schools and some colleges, and with good reason. The book is well-organized, contains excerpts short enough that students can read them as complements to a narrative text (or even in class), and the authors generally include multiple perspectives on controversial issues. The section on the Spanish/American/Cuban/Filipino war, for example, provides at least one document from each "side," making this a useful resource for those of us who teach.

Readers should beware, however, that subsequent revisions of the original edition have not kept pace with developments in historical inquiry. The book is very lean on social history, and there are almost no documents on cultural history. Furthermore, the collection is very idiosyncratic in its inclusion of African-Americans and women. For example, the text does not include an excerpt of the Brown v. Board decision of 1954 and omits any mention of second-wave feminism in its collection of documents on "the stormy sixties."

Perhaps the 10th edition will be more inclusive, but for now I'd suggest students -- and teachers -- of American history seeking for a supplementary documents collection keep looking.

As a secondary school social studies teacher I found this book very helpful. There are numerous sources, and each has an informative and interesting introduction. A broad range of sources include everyday people and politicians, cartoons, letters, and speeches. A must have for the social studies classroom!

I thought this was a wonderful collection of primary sources that really encouraged the further learning of History. Bailey does such a nice job with this book.

It was a pretty good book. the only thing i can find wrong with it is that since its kinda old, it only goes up to the middle of the 4th season, right when they find out charlie has cancer. It has a lot of stuff like what bailey is thinking that i wouldnt have never guessed from the show. I'm glad i got it. I wouldnt have know what they were talking about though if i hadnt seen the actual episodes that the stuff was taked from. overall, it was a good book. i read it in one night, i couldnt put it down. it has some nice pics in it too.

I have always loved Scott Wolf. He has been my favorite actor for 3 years. I guess you could kind of say that he is my inspiration. His acting gets me through a day. I love Scott Wolf.

It's a great book. Great detail about his feelings/emotions that you don't see Bailey express on the show about certain topics. (ex: intervention, Owen's birthday party, car crash) If you don't watch Party of Five, don't buy the book. You'll be lost from the very first page! It doesn't describe the relationship between characters at all! Oh well, great book otherwise!

The cast of characters at Camp Swampy are just as funny as ever. They have not lost their "core" characters that their creator, Mort Walker assigned to them. They remain true to their characters and remain funny to this day.

Beetle Bailey has certainly raised the bar in comic excellence; nobody could EVER forget that lazy, lovable and TOTALLY funny work dodging private! I think Beetle Bailey should be promoted to Private First Class and Sarge to Sgt. Major. Poor Sarge has had all he could do trying to rein in his wayward men. This is truly an excellent collection.

Beetle Bailey as a strip has shown a hardening of the arteries over the years, as evidenced by this selection of strips from the 1980s. It is not nearly as consistently funny as classic Beetle fron the 60s and 70s, which were the strip's best decades. Still, there are sill enough good strips to make it worth owning for the ardent fan.

Hey yeah, secret beatnik Beetle Bailey, we got real reason ta celebrate him! That man worm his way into da heart o' darkness army and show them da ways o' true anarchist work ethic! From da deep gritty inside to da sheer gritty outside, da Beetle Dude weave his magic subverso laziness and take down da military industrial complex slow but sure. When it all come to a grindin' halt, we have da Beetle Dude ta thank. Sarges everywhere are shakin' in der boots. Rock on and Hail Bailey! 5 badass black stars!

I found this book to be extremely informative and useful in my design business. Color is so important and more technical than most people think.
I would recommend this book to students, designers, painters,architects,and anyone interested in color theory.

Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson "Back to Literature" columnist for MyShelf

One of the most stylish publishers that exhibits at Book Expo America each year is Ryland Peters and Small of London and New York. The Color Design Source Book by Caroline Clifton-Mogg is one of their smartest presentations.

Much more than a how-to book, this is very nearly a piece for the coffee table. The size is impressive, the colors more than catching, the paper quality so luxurious a browser notices the "click, snap" sound of the pages as they turn. Mostly, though, it is the content that keeps a reader between the covers. Clifton-Mogg covers color, pure and simply. She explains what it is, gives something of its history and is off and running with the different color group, nicely arranged so that a researcher can find what she wants and a browser just can't wait to go from one luscious assembly of colors to another.

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Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel THIS IS THE PLACE has won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction, HARKENING: A COLLECTION OF STORIES REMEMBERED, has won three. Her newest effort, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER: HOW TO DO WHAT YOUR PUBLISHER WON'T is released in September.

The designs of many of the rooms have a modern British feel, and I'm not in love with them (they remind me of the Terrance Conran books). BUT...the prose in this book is outstanding, and the author has a grasp of the use of cool and warm colors, and what colors tend to look best with others. This is probably the most "entertaining" read you are going to find out of a color design book (most color books are pretty bad). You'll refer to this often.

CORPUS OF JOE BAILEY has been called many things--The Great San Diego Novel--The Great California Novel--then there are those of us who believe it is a very strong candidate for The Great American Novel. Anybody who has ever felt insecure (e.g., everybody) can relate to its hero, Joe Bailey. I'm not going to give a plot synopsis--go to a second-hand bookstore and READ it. Nobody's ever been able to put it down once they begin with book one chapter one page one: "JOE".

Joe's struggles with his insecurities are played out against the background of the booming twenties, the depression, the war, postwar America--it's a huge chunk of life. I am honored to own a 1955 paperback of this novel. I had the privilege, in the fall of 1998, at a PEN banquette in Los Angeles, of having that copy signed by the author, Oakley Hall, just before he was given a lifetime achievement award. Then Oakley was gracious enough to give me a blurb for my own first novel, just published, ONE OF THE GUYS.

But my book cannot hope to compare to the panoramic CORPUS. Why isn't this novel being taught in the schools? There's an effort underway to get U. of Cal. Press to reprint it. And then there is the constant gossip and speculation: Who WAS Con Robinson? Did she really die in an auto accident? Did her sister really kill herself on the train from Los Angeles? What was it about these women that drove men of Oakley Hall's generation out of their minds with passion?

The diehard fans continue to tour San Diego in their Joe Bailey van, drinking champagne as they go from site to site of the famous novel. I myself had the privilege, circa 1985, of looking up from my barstool in the Lamplighter on University in San Diego--one of the bars in the book--and recognizing a jukebox which Oakley had described in JB. It was one of the most glorious moments of my six-year drinking career.

Will future generations be denied experiences like these as city planners haphazardly tear down Joe Bailey landmarks, and as publishers refuse to reprint the novel? No, not as long as we true believers carry this great novel in our hearts everywhere.

Thank you, Oakley. Thank you, Joe. And thank YOU, Con, you hot dead babe, wherever you are. The back of the 1955 paperback says it all, a motto for almost every relationship I've ever had: "They cannot love each other fully, yet neither can they leave each other alone." Try to top THAT, you mediocre postmodern writers, most of whom probably don't even know what a "corpus" IS! Fans out there? Write to me!

An important novel about post-WWII America, especially California. Vivid characters, deeply involving plot and a marvelous sense of place and time. A real time capsule. Also, the best book yet with a site-specific San Diego setting.

This is Hall's breakrough novel, and there are few stronger. After a few years of writing excellent thrillers under the names of Jason Manor and O.M.Hall,he wrote a masterpiece. Corpus Of Joe Bailey is a key novel for all who were young during the pre & post WW11 years, for those whose parents were there, for all those who love good uncompromising fiction. The book is a haunting marvel. He went on to write the classic Warlock, but Bailey resonates more and more as the years go by.

This book chronicles Indiana basketball legend Damon Bailey's career until 1995. For any true Damon Bailey fan it is a MUST read. I really wish they'd do a follow up on him until the present time. Damon's basketball career didn't just abruptly end in 1995.

I followed Damon's career from the time he started in high school and the book is just like a diary of all the happenings. I am sure that there are lots of incidents that he did not think of when writing the book. I was there for most of his games all through high school and just totally enjoyed the book. Wendell Trogden has a very good way with words. After reading some of his other books, I could not resist buying the book he wrote with Damon. If you enjoy Indiana basketball, I am sure you will enjoy this book!!!

I was expecting a chapter or two on Damon's high school career, but half of the book was a description of all his high school games. It was too much information on his high school games and teammates. I was hoping for more details regarding his time spent at Indiana, game experiences, and his college teammates. A good read but not as interesting as Alford's book about his IU basketball experience.

I ordered this book to brush up on my skills a bit so far so good. I think that this it is a great book. It breaks the details down so you can easliy understand what they are talking about I have ordered the workbook to go along with it.

I am taking the CMA exam this month and have my Associates Degree in the field. I borrowed this book ftom a student who started school before I did. The text book we had was not near as informative! This text has everything you need to know! I am purchasing it for my own reference because it was so helpful. I highly recommend this book to all Medical Assistants!

This book is excellent if you or anybody you know that is in the field or training to be a Medical Assistant. I am currently in the program at my local community college and love this textbook. Infact all my classmates call it "THE BIBLE" we use it so much and for everything. It teached you everything from how to send int insurance claim forms to putting on a pair of laytex gloves on!! I am definatly keeping this book when I am done with my program for further reference... ***** 5 stars !!!

An outstanding historical overview of American foreign policy and individual Secretaries of State and the presidential policies they worked from (or at cross purposes with). Easy-to-read, it is written for the layman, not the academic.

I learned things I'd never heard of before, such as the fact that the United States once had troops occupying part of Russia! During the intervention of 1918, Europeans and America went in to support the White Russians and help quell the chaos during the early Russian Revolution.

Also that in early American history our relationship with Canada was anything but friendly. There were shooting incidents between Americans and Canadians partly over border disputes and partly over Canadian fears of American invasion.

I have used this book in college and for preparing high school classes. I find the explanation of historical events to be clear and systematic. The supplemental charts are easy to follow. I recommend this book for finding good explanations for the events that the United States was involved in and about the key players at the time.

Bailey exhaustively details diplomacy and foreign policy issues throughout the history of the United States up until the latest years included in each edition. Most university history professors or fellow authors, as well as Bailey himself, consider this the most important work of his literary career. Bailey chronicles the research, writing, and difficulty in finding a publisher for this book in his autobiography, The American Pageant Revisited. The average reader may be overwhelmed with using this daunting volume in a one semester university-level Foreign Policy or Diplomacy course. However, this work is second to none in terms of quality and detail, which make it a highly-sought, highly-used work in such situations. Students as well as instructors may wish to supplement this, or even use this as a supplement, with Thomas Patterson's two-volume American Foreign Policy or the memoirs or official biographies of any relevant figures, especially modern figures such as Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. More advanced or more interested students may wish to follow up on the sources Bailey uses to comprise the bulk of his narrative. Nonetheless, this remains a seminal and irreplaceable work for use in the classroom, in research papers or as the groundwork for a book on foreign policy or diplomatic concerns.

This book is about kids that wanted a new playground. They had to share the swing. One day the construction worker came to build a new playground. One of the workers came in the room during class and asked what the kids wanted in their new playground. Well, this is a very good book and I think you should read it. I feel like reading more Bailey School kids book.

The book report I am doing is called Elves Don't Wear Hard

Hats. It is about some kids where they need a new playground

for their school. They really want a new playground with some

swings. They have a building group come to make a new

playground, but they do not know what to build. They ask the

students what they wanted built, and the people who are going to

build it are Elves. The kids want a lot of things to be built

so they have to get going on it, so they tell them to all make a

list if they want to. (...) One day

something very exciting happened! I am not going to tell

what happend at the END so you have to READ it to find out!!!


I really liked this book. It made me want to read more of the

Bailey School Kids books. They are fun to read and have very

exciting endings. I would reccomend reading this book

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There are some weird grownups in Baily City. But could the short construction workers building the school playground really be a bunch of elves working on a secret present? THe Bailey School Kids Are Going To Find Out!