University of Wisconsin Press
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume XXI
Ratification of the Constitution by the States, New York, Volume 3
Edited by John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, and Charles H. Schoenleber
This is the third of five planned volumes documenting New York State's public and private debates about the Constitution and the calling of New York's ratifying convention, featuring numerous newspaper items and letters, New York ratification chronologies, lists of New York officeholders, biographies of major figures, and many other important documents and editors' notes. This documentary series is a research tool of remarkable power, an unrivaled reference work for historical and legal scholars, librarians, and students of the Constitution.
John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino , and Richard Leffler have been editing this series since 1970. Charles H. Schoenleber joined the staff in 1987.
April 2005 LC: 75-014149 KR
600 pp. (est.) 6 X 9 1 map
ISBN 0-87020-367-3 Cloth $75.00 s
Paths of the People
The Ojibwe in the Chippewa Valley
Tim Pfaff
Anishinabe, Saulteur, Ojibwe, Chippewa-all these are names of a people who have lived in the Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin for the past three centuries. Ojibwe oral tradition speaks of life as a circular path, with parents passing on knowledge to children and grandchildren. Over the past 300 years, contact with Europeans and settlement by non-Native Americans have forced them to adapt to survive. The challenges each generation has faced-whether at treaty grounds, boarding schools, or boat landings-have influenced what knowledge has been passed down, what paths taken.
Tim Pfaff , curator of Public Programs at the Chippewa Valley Museum, served as principal writer for the five-person team that developed the Paths of the People project.
Distributed for the Chippewa Valley Museum
Available January 2005
LC: 93-071129 E
100 pp. 10 x 8
53 b/w photos, 24 illus.
ISBN 0-9636191-0-1 Paper $14.95 t
The Blind African Slave
Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
Jeffrey Brace as told to Benjamin F. Prentiss, Esq.
Edited and with an introduction by Kari J. Winter
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
William L. Andrews, General Editor
"It is my anxious wish that this simple narrative may be the means of opening the hearts of those who hold slaves and move them to consent to give them the freedom which . . . all mankind have an equal right to possess."-Jeffrey Brace, from The Blind African Slave
Born in West Africa around 1742, Jeffrey Brace was captured by slave traders at sixteen and shipped to Barbados, where he was sold. After fighting as an enslaved sailor in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to Connecticut and sold again. Brace later enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of winning his manumission. After military service, he was honorably discharged and was freed from slavery. In 1784, he moved to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There he married, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he narrated his life story to an antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss. Brace died in 1827, a well-respected abolitionist.
In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter supplements our knowledge of Brace's life and times with original documents and new material.
Kari J. Winter is associate professor of American studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change.
For more information contact Benson Gardner, our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
December 2004
LC: 2004007741 E
184 pp. 6 x 9 4 b/w illus.
ISBN 0-299-20140-6 Cloth $65.00 s
ISBN 0-299-20144-9 Paper $19.95 t
Native People of Wisconsin
Patty Loew
Distributed
for The Wisconsin State Historical Society
New Badger History seriesNative People of Wisconsin introduces students to the
twelve Indian nations that live in Wisconsin, and incorporates various ways
Native people remember the past, emphasizing the value of oral tradition. Chapters
devoted to each Wisconsin Indian Nation—the Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Potawatomi,
Oneida, Mohican, Brothertown, and six Bands of Ojibwe—have three main topics:
tribal traditions, tribal history, and tribal life today. This structure will
help young readers learn the unique history of each Nation, the ways that the
Nations differ from one another, the commonalities among the groups, and those
values Native people share with non-Indians.
Patty
Loew is an enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and
a recipient of the Outstanding Service Award of the Great Lakes Intertribal
Council. She is assistant professor of Life Sciences Communication at the University
of Wisconsin–Madison. Native People of Wisconsin is based on the research
and structure of her recent book, Indian Nations of Wisconsin, also published
by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
September 2003
136 pp. 8 x 6 3/4
192 illus., 32 maps (est.)
ISBN 0-87020-348-7 Paper $13.95 s
Native People of Wisconsin / Teacher's Guide and Student Materials
Bobbie Malone and Kori Oberle
Distributed
for The Wisconsin Historical Society Press
New Badger History series
The companion teacher's guide to Native People of Wisconsin offers a variety of activities that help students gain skills in expository reading and writing as well as reinforce the content of the student text. All the activities are interactive and link to the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards for the Social Studies. The accompanying CD-ROM includes video clips from the Wisconsin Studies instructional television programs, including the entire New Dawn of Tradition: A Wisconsin Powwow video, narrated by Patty Loew.
Bobbie
Malone is director of the Office of School Services at the Wisconsin Historical
Society and author of several books on Wisconsin history for the state's classrooms.
Kori Oberle is director of Instructional Program Development for the Wisconsin
Educational Communications Board.
The book Native People of Wisconsin, for which this title is the companion teacher's
guide, is based on the research and structure of Patty Lowe's recent book, Indian
Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal also published by the
Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
September
2003
160 pp. 8 1/2 x 11
32 illus., maps, & charts
large fold-out map
CD-ROM
ISBN 0-87020-349-5 Spiral Bound $34.95 s
In Praise of Black Women, Volume 2
Heroines of the Slavery Era
Simone Schwarz-Bart with André Schwarz-Bart
TRANSLATED BY ROSE-MYRIAM RÉJOUIS, VAL VINOKUROV, AND STEPHANIE DAVAL. WITH A FOREWORD BY HOWARD DODSON
Heroines
of the Slavery Era weaves oral tradition, folk legends and stories, songs and
poems, historical accounts, and personal writings from North and South America
and the Caribbean, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
These women of the slavery era include Aqualtune, a princess from Congo enslaved
in Brazil and the Caribbean, who led an army of ten thousand warriors in the
Battle of Mbwila; Anastasia, an African slave in Brazil, who today is considered
the patron saint of Brazil's blacks; Solitude, a slave in the French West Indies,
the leader of the survivors of the La Goyave and legendary in Guadeloupe to
this day; Phillis Wheatley, a slave in Boston, a child prodigy and brilliant
woman whose poetry is among the finest from the early American era; Harriet
Tubman, heroine of the Underground Railroad who helped hundreds of other slaves
escape to freedom in the United States and Canada; Ellen Craft, a slave who
successfully escaped to Philadelphia with her husband; Sojourner Truth, famed
orator on behalf of the rights of women and the abolition of slavery; and many
others.
Simone Schwarz-Bart is the author of six novels and a play, which have been translated and published in many languages; Between Two Worlds and The Bridge of Beyond have been published in English. André Schwarz-Bart is the author of three novels, including Le Dernier des justes (The Last of the Just), which was awarded the 1959 Prix Goncourt and has been translated into twenty languages. Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokurov have previously translated two works by French novelist Patrick Chamoiseau: Solibo Magnificent and Texaco. Stephanie Daval is completing a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Princeton University, specializing in Francophone literature.
October
2002
250 pp. color illus. 9 x 12
ISBN 0-299-17260-0 Cloth $49.95 t
March 4, 2005