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When Joan Kelly took a weekend job as a professional submissive in a private dungeon, it seemed she’d finally found a perfect outlet for her pent-up desires. Suddenly, Joan was being paid to do things she’d only fantasized about.
Having spent several years scouring the Internet unsuccessfully for a man who would dominate her in the bedroom without getting on her nerves outside of it, Joan had nearly lost hope of satisfying her sexually submissive urges. Now, using her professional name, “Marnie,” she was being paid to do only what she felt like with kinky men who didn’t even expect to have any real sex in their sessions. To Joan, it almost felt like being paid to practice the art of self-centeredness–—except for the part where she had to kneel and address strangers as “Master.”
The Pleasure’s All Mine offers the reader a rare, intimate, often amusing, sometimes disturbing look into the life of a professional submissive–—one whose drive for self-acceptance and respect is as relentless as her sexual need for the services she provides. Readers will experience many humorous, bizarre, frightening, and utterly entertaining events through the perceptive and insightful eyes of this writer.
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Disappointment.......2007-06-08
There is nothing I can say about this book that will improve it. It is a memoir and shouldn't be viewed as anything but that. One cannot learn the lifestyle from this book.
Loved it.......2007-04-15
A page turner. I couldn't put it down. If you are looking for a graphic description of etreem sex this book isn't for you. The author does, however, skillfully reveal to the reader her hopes, fears and vulnerablilities as she pursues her career as a professional sub. Erotic enough to keep my attention, and then some. A great book for a nervous partner to read.
"I brought two kinds of cuffs.".......2006-08-31
When does a person go from asking why to why not? In a way, that is what Joan Kelly asks through out this memoir of her professional submission. At first, I wasn't so sure I liked Joan Kelly; she came across as aloof and subdued but then she is a submissive. Of course, you realize that she does have a strong will and certainly many personal opinions. I still don't know if I like her but I am most certainly intrigued by her.
"The Memoir of a Professional Submissive" begins with Joan's search to fulfill her desire to submit by attending a BDSM club demonstration. Unlike some, Joan already knows she needs to pursue a submissive role to gain sexual gratification. She's seeking out her fulfillment unsure how to go about it. After stumbling through a few awkward situations she finally ends up at a commercial dungeon for BDSM as a professional submissive. Joan Kelly grants us the privilege of sharing in her journey as a professional submissive. You might not like the journey she takes or the situations she puts herself in but you will certainly be compelled to read each page with pensive interest.
Joan Kelly writes of her journey with wonderful ease and a tempered pace that lends itself nicely to the gradual penetration in to the lifestyle of a professional submissive. This is not some pumped up porn fantasy but a small opening into an alternative lifestyle one woman takes to feel gratification and pay the rent. You can't help feel that this woman was no victim of circumstance but an explorer of self, which brings us back to the question of why or why not. Some of the actions in this book goes beyond what is accepted by the majority and at the same time you read it and societies morality isn't all that important to the discovery of self.
I felt a lot of emotion reading this book. Joan Kelly emblazons her every whim, care, opinion, and most of all her vulnerability into the pages of her memoir. There is a casualness to her writing that lends itself to an intimacy that is rare and delightful.
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different paths.......2006-03-21
I don't know if there are other books out there describing the journey of a professional submissive, but I enjoyed reading WHY Joan made the choices she did, her difficulties along the way and her courage to find what she needed. One of the main things this book does is show that "submissive" does not equal "doormat."
Her story is bound (pun intended) to strike a chord with many submissives who are NOT professional but who are also searching for that special connection. And it provides a highly personal view into the desires, fears, highs and lows that can accompany a dominant/submissive exchange.
Beyond the sexual nature of the subject matter, it is at heart a story of finding and accepting one's self.
The real deal.......2006-03-17
If you haven't spent time with this lady, you just wouldn't understand how wonderful she is. The book is a worthwhile read.
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This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
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Religion and Slavery in Primary Sources.......2007-10-06
SOME YEARS AGO A PROFESSOR OF 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY PROFESSED THAT RELIGION HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW OF 1850 AND DEFENSE. THIS BOOK IS RECOMMENDED TO HER. READ THIS AND YOU WILL FIND THE RELIGIOUS BASIS FOR THE DISOLUTION OF THE UNION AS WELL AS THE DEFENSES OF SLAVERY ND THE ABOLITIONISTS. THE EDITOR/AUTHOR HAS DONE A MARVELOUS JOB OF SELECTIONG AND PRESE4NTING ORIGINAL MESSAGES BY CONTEMPORARY PREACHERS.
aNOTHER VALUABLE PART OF THIS BOOK IS THE BIBLIOGRAPHY. IF THIS ONE THE WORK CITED IS NOT ONLY LISTED BUT THE EXPLANATION OF THAT WORK AND AUTHOR IS GIVEN IN SUCCINCT LANGUAGE. FOR EXAMPLE: JOHN C. LORD,"THE HIGHER LAW IN ITS APPLICATION TO THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT" "WHILE MANY PREACHERS IN THE NORTH WERE CALLING FOR DEFIANCE OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW, LORD CALLED FOR PATIENCE..."
THIS VALUABLE BOOK IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. BUY IT, READ IT, AND ENJOY IT.
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In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the slave South carrying a fervent message in pursuit of a clear goal: to persuade the political leadership and the citizenry of the uncommitted slave states to join in the effort to destroy the Union and forge a new Southern nation.
Directly refuting the neo-Confederate contention that slavery was neither the reason for secession nor the catalyst for the resulting onset of hostilities in 1861, Charles B. Dew finds in the commissioners' brutally candid rhetoric a stark white supremacist ideology that proves the contrary. The commissioners included in their speeches a constitutional justification for secession, to be sure, and they pointed to a number of political "outrages" committed by the North in the decades prior to Lincoln's election. But the core of their argument--the reason the right of secession had to be invoked and invoked immediately-- did not turn on matters of constitutional interpretation or political principle. Over and over again, the commissioners returned to the same point: that Lincoln's election signaled an unequivocal commitment on the part of the North to destroy slavery and that emancipation would plunge the South into a racial nightmare.
Dew's discovery and study of the highly illuminating public letters and speeches of these apostles of disunion--often relatively obscure men sent out to convert the unconverted to the secessionist cause--have led him to suggest that the arguments the commissioners presented provide us with the best evidence we have of the motives behind the secession of the lower South in 1860-61.
Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century after the Civil War, Dew challenges many current perceptions of the causes of the conflict. He offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were absolutely critical factors in the outbreak of war--indeed, that they were at the heart of our great national crisis.
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Much Ado About Nothing.......2007-06-02
This very shallow book pretends to satisfy a need for original sources in the secession debates. The author is so authentic in this antebellum period that he admits it was only recently that he accepted the fact that slavery was an important if not the most important cause of the Civil War. The book offers excerpts and leaves the reader woondering how the editor chose what to include and exclude. There is no easy way to research this subject, and if you take the easy way out with this nearly worthless book, you will get the benefit of your lazy way out.
A persuasive case.......2006-08-20
Dew's book provides irrefutable evidence that the Confederacy was founded not to preserve the U.S. Constitution, or even states' rights, but to preserve slavery. The documents he cites (and reproduces) are letters and speeches from "secession commissioners" sent out from the lower south states (that seceded immediately after Abraham Lincoln was elected president) to other southern states. The commissioners uniformly laid out their single case for secession: preservation of slavery, and, by extension, white supremacy.
While Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens and others made this case loudly at the founding of the Confederacy, their about-faces after the war (when they claimed slavery had been the last thing on their minds) worked to convince many Americans that the Civil War was fought over states' rights.
Dew handles some pretty horrible material calmly and thoroughly, setting the stage for the commissioners, then letting them hang themselves with their own rope. It's a must-read for anyone studying U.S. history.
Apostles of Disunion........2006-03-10
In this remarkably brief work Dew seeks to reexamine the well- trod origins of southern secession in the period of 1860-61. By focusing on the speeches of state-appointed commissioners (Cotton State "apostles" that advocated immediate secession to the Upper South) he finds a potent combination of racism and slavery in their appeals. Because the terms of the commissioners' appeals occurred between slaveowning states, exclusively, the author suggests that their messages would be purer in sentiment and free from appealing to outside sentiments. This, he suggests, will leave would could be called an untainted, "pure strain" of proslavery thought.
Establishing himself in the customary pattern of declaring his own southern qualifications and sympathies, Dew reiterates the familiar context of debates on southern secession and the controversies surrounding Confederate heroes in modern times. Citing only one previous study (from 1931) to use these heretofore untapped sources, the author presents a very convincing, and exciting, promise of their content. Theory versus practice, though, is another matter.
In his examination of a sampling of the fifty-two men whose primary purpose was "to advance the cause of secession wherever they went (p. 23)," Dew finds three familiar themes: fear of racial equality, fear of a racial war of extermination, and fear of racial amalgamation. All three are well-known topics within the field; however, it appears that the author perhaps a bit too much credence to the impact of the "Neoconservative" branch within the historical field itself. His quarrel, it would seem, is with Public History, not with professional scholarship.
For example, while he states that members of the League of the South maintain membership within no less than twenty-seven states and count in its ranks tenured professors at major universities, Dew makes no mention as to which departments they belong to, so we must speculate. The emphasis would be significant in terms of who is writing what. I mean to suggest that in the case of many Neocons, of which I believe Professor Dew to have a quarrel with, the most vocal of the bunch are from the field of economics, not history. While that in and of itself is not enough to warrant a quarrel with his argument, citing nonacademic works such as Tony Horwitz's 'Confederates in the Attic' and the Kennedy Brothers' 'Was Jefferson Davis Right?', etc., is. The point being, his quarrel is with the public's divided stand on the issues at root in Civil War causation.
On another level, no serious scholar could, or would, maintain that the shoddy works of the Kennedys, Thomas DiLorenzo, or Charles Adams (or the like) are anything other than Neo-Confederate propaganda at best; atrociously inaccurate, these works take the crux of their arguments out of their proper context and meaning, falsely creating tensions that did not exist, all for a specific purpose. These works, simply put, are grossly inappropriate falsities.
The work as a whole leaves many questions unanswered. As in the case of Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, North Carolina, and even Virginia, the secession commissioners ultimately failed there (they were sent specifically to induce immediate secession and offers to join at Montgomery for drafting of a Confederate constitution). What does it say for their contribution? If Virginia was, as the author correctly points out, the key to the slave South's ultimate success, why was such a major portion of its constituents reluctant to secede purely on the grounds that Dew suggests? Dew offers no such answers.
In the end two questions beg to be answered: Who is this book written for; and how is this book not already completely obvious? As to the former, I can only speculate that undergraduates might find some of the questions intriguing, though very much in line with accepted theory. There is simply no new ground covered here. Of minor significance is the inclusion of two primary sources: a pamphlet and a letter written by Commissioners Harris and Hale; of which some portions are, at times, provocative, the overall themes remain largely redundant. One would do better to refer to works by James McPherson, Lacy Ford, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Mills Thornton, etc., for a more scholarly view.
A fine piece of Civil War scholarship.......2005-07-28
Slavery is not THE cause of the Civil War if you ask the average Southern citizen. Rather a combination of states rights and a commitment to defeat Lincoln's Republicans was the common reason why the South seceded from the Union. But what many Southern sympathizers now and then have either forgotten or chose not to embrace are that slavery was at the core of secession.
Students today are taught in class that the final blow to the Confederacy and perhaps the number one cause of the Civil War was Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election to the presidency. Slavery is shown as a side effect or perhaps an overblown or overemphasized cause for Southern independence. What Civil War scholarship is finding out, and much of this has to do with Dew's book, is that slavery was the roots of the Civil War. Take out slavery and this country does not split into two.
Dew's book opens the reader's eyes to the roots of this nation's greatest war. Citing examples from the Southern secession commissioners, who pounded race and slavery in their letters to the various states, Dew shows remarkable evidence that the issue of "states rights" can be defined as the right to own slaves.
In this time period a majority of northern and southern whites saw blacks as inferior to their race. Yes northern whites mostly did not agree with slavery but it was never in question which race was superior. To southerners it was a test of manhood to be the dominant "species" in this country.
Dew's book is indeed a fine addition to any library.
The Truth Will Out.......2004-06-14
Why did the southern states attempt to secede from the Union in 1860-'61?
Confederate apologists constantly insist it was all a question of the Constitution. The Northern states were violating the Southern states rights to do something or another, and the South had no choice except secession in order to preserve 'Constitutional' govt. Union supporters insist that this isn't so. So what really happened?
Prof. Charles Dew cuts right to the heart of things by quoting the arguments made in 1861 by supporters of secession. Seven states passed secession ordinances in 1860 and '61, and four of them sent representatives to other slave states, explaining the reasons why they too should secede.
So what was the Southern cause? Surprise, surprise. It was WHITE SUPREMACY. The South needed to secede before the North amended the Constitution. In the nightmare world of the disunionists, the "Black Republicans," as the South invariably called them, were bent on seeing a South simultaneously: drenched in blood when the slaves rose in revolt; drenched in equality, as whites and blacks lived together withouth a master race; and drenched in miscegnation, as the races became one. Of course, it was logically impossible for all these things to happen at the same time, but logic was not the South's strong point.
Neither was honesty. As Dew makes clear, disunionists started lying about why they'd pushed secession as soon as they lost. Dew notes he was indoctrinated during his Florida youth with the story that "the South had seceded for one reason and one reason only: states' rights;" Dew also quotes contemporary neo-Confederates trying to deny the truth that the South was trying to preserve White Supremacy and Slavery.
Their sucessors keep it up: Art Chance maintains "No serious student of the War of Southern Independence can doubt that slavery and Southern perceptions of Northern fanaticism were the proximate causes of secession." Chance then tries to change the subject to 'why did the North resist Southern Aggression?' (Answer: we were fed up with being pushed around by the South).
'A reader from USA' sets up a fantasy about the Founding Fathers, citing a book titled FORCED FOUNDERS (go look at the reviews; they say the Virginian Founders were motivated by anti-slavery).
'tabsaw' says the book "walks down the road well traveled," without giving titles of any of the other books making this argument.
Still, we progress. Not even the apologists for slavery reviewing this book have the nerve to deny that preserving Slavery and White Supremacy was the South's reason for secession. Once we get that established, we'll be able to go on to more interesting issues.
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The ten years preceding the outbreak of the United States Civil War in 1861 marked some of the most tumultuous and chaotic years in U. S. history. This anthology examines opposing viewpoints on two of the major issues of that -- the growing conflict over slavery and the secession crisis -- and looks at some of the major causes and consequences of the Civil War.
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A scholastic text for young adults.......2003-07-27
A volume in the Greenhaven At Issue in History series and edited by Jean Alicia Elster, The Outbreak Of The Civil War is a scholastic text for young adults offering both primary and secondary sources concerning the morass of causes and conflicting agendas that contributed to the eruption of the American Civil War. An excellent, balanced, fair-minded and well-researched resource, The Outbreak Of The Civil War is part of the Opposing Viewpoints series and very highly recommended for both school and community library collections.
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The centrality of religion in the life of the Old South, the strongly religious nature of the sectional controversy over slavery, and the close affinity between religion and antebellum American nationalism all point toward the need to explore the role of religion in the development of southern sectionalism. In Gospel of Disunion Mitchell Snay examines the various ways in which religion adapted to and influenced the development of a distinctive southern culture and politics before the Civil War, adding depth and form to the movement that culminated in secession. From the abolitionist crisis of 1835 through the formation of the Confederacy in 1861, Snay shows how religion worked as an active agent in translating the sectional conflict into a struggle of the highest moral significance. At the same time, the slavery controversy sectionalized southern religion, creating separate institutions and driving theology further toward orthodoxy. By establishing a biblical sanction for slavery, developing a slaveholding ethic for Christian masters, and demonstrating the viability of separation from the North through the denominational schisms of the 1830s and 1840s, religion reinforced central elements in southern political culture and contributed to a moral consensus that made secession possible.
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very interesting!.......2000-03-29
this is one of the first books i've read which has gone off the path in its study of the american civil war, a topic which one might think has had everything written on it. snay's writing is both clear and insightful.
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- Interesting Essays
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For generations, Civil War historians have debated the causes of our great national conflict. They have argued about the centrality of slavery to disunion, the nature of master-slave relations in the Old South, and the impact of the war on postbellum race relations, politics, and culture. Slavery, Secession, and Southern History advances these and other debates by bringing together ten original interpretive essays by twelve prominent scholars.
Perhaps no historian has had greater impact on the study of the antebellum South during the past quarter century than Eugene Genovese. The authors assembled for this volume engage, directly or indirectly, Genovese's work, reinforcing, revising, and challenging its central preoccupations. Reflecting interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, the essays explore the problems of slavery and slave resistance; the origin of the task system in South Carolina; the economics of John C. Calhoun; the divergent mind of the Old South on states' rights; the revolutionary impact of the Civil War on gender, class, and race relations; Faulkner's misleading representation of southern health and physical well-being; and Mary Chesnut's treatments of African American women.
The volume also contains as appendices an exhaustive compilation of Genovese's writings and a previously unpublished interview in which Genovese reflects on his own career as a historian and on the writing of history.
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Interesting Essays.......2002-04-30
The essays in this book are consistently interesting and thoroughly researched. The writers are some of the finest active historians of the American South. I particularly recommend Robert Paquette's article on slave drivers and Eugene Genovese's interview in Appendix A. I also liked Clyde Wilson's analysis of John C. Calhoun's economic thought. Calhoun's dual executive theory may have been off the mark but his economic thinking was first-rate and profoundly republican.
An outstanding analysis & interpretation of Southern history.......2000-09-05
Twelve scholars provide essays debating the cause of Civil War history and the relationships between slavery and master-slave relationships in the South in a title which revises and challenges central themes of Eugene Genovese's work on the subject. The result is Slavery, Secession, and Southern History, a new analysis and interpretation of Southern history recommended for any student of the era.
Slavery, Secession, and Southern History.......2000-05-08
If you are intrested in Slavery, Secession, and Southern History as am, this book is perfect fo you. Edited by the brillant Professor of Economics Louis Ferleger, this book is a collection of articles that discuss diffrent parts of th 19th century south. I think it is a great book every history buff should own, no collection is complete without it.
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Title: Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia.(Book Review)
Author: Nelson D. Lankford
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Date: August 1, 2004
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 70
Issue: 3
Page: 681(2)
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Title: Slavery, Secession, and Southern History. (Book Reviews).(Review)
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Date: March 22, 2001
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Volume: 54
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