Tag: Reckoning

January 3, 2024

In the Pines A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning [Audiobook]

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Free Download In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BY9YY8W8 | 2023 | 7 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 204 MB
Author: Grace Elizabeth Hale
Narrator: Nicole Swanson, Matt Godfrey
An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff-a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America. Grace Hale was home from college when she first heard the family legend. In 1947, while her beloved grandfather had been serving as a sheriff in the Piney Woods of south-central Mississippi, he prevented a lynch mob from killing a Black man who was in his jail on suspicion of raping a white woman-only for the suspect to die the next day during an escape attempt. It was a tale straight out of To Kill a Mockingbird, with her grandfather as the tragic hero. This story, however, hid a dark truth.

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January 3, 2024

Imperial Reckoning The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya [Audiobook]

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Free Download Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPN3RNZ8 | 2023 | 17 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 496 MB
Author: Caroline Elkins
Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt
As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya’s largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu-some one and a half million people. The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold-the victim of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu people’s ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence. Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them. The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya-a pivotal moment in twentieth-century history with chilling parallels to America’s own imperial project.

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