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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
This book is an autobiographical account by runaway slave Frederick Douglass that chronicles his experiences with his owners and overseers and discusses how slavery affected both slaves and slaveholders.
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Life and times of Frederick Douglass
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My bondage and my freedom
Autobiography of the nineteenth-century abolitionist who advocated the full freedom of the blacks.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent down the Mississippi, where he must endure brutal treatment. This is a powerful tale of the extreme cruelties of slavery, as well as the price of loyalty and morality. When first published, it helped…
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Twelve years a slave
Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
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La rue Cases-Nègres
L'action démarre rue Cases-Nègres. À Petit-Morne, en Martinique, dans les années 1930, c'est une série de cabanes fragiles, refuge des ouvriers agricoles harassés par leur travail sur une plantation sucrière – on dit une habitation. Dans cette autobiographie, le romancier antillais nous livre un beau récit d'enfance, dans une langue très tenue, depuis les premières années vécues auprès de la…
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The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and later success in business. Including a look at how slavery stood in West Africa, the book received favorable reviews and was one of the first slave narratives to be read widely.
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Rev. Calvin Fairbank during slavery times
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Soul on ice
A collection of essays and open letters written while a prisoner at California's Folsom State prison.
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Palmares
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Delilah
Thirty and fine, Samson Judges is preacher of the Peaceful Rest Missionary Baptist Church . He's beloved by his congregation, but temptation is about to strike in the form of divalicious beauty Delilah, and only the Good Lord knows if Samson will be able to keep his head on straight with her. Especially considering he's about to be married to Julia Rivers. Julia helped shape Samson into the man…
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Recollections of an old soldier
As they were in those days, the full title of Capt David Perry's book is its own description:
Recollections of an old soldier. The life of Captain David Perry, a soldier of the French and revolutionary wars, containing many extraordinary occurrences relating to his own private history, and an account of some interesting events in the history of the times in which he lived, no-where else…
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The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies ...: In Two Volumes
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Mr. Nice
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The Library of American Biography
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Autobiography
Autobiography
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Marse Henry : An Autobiography
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Missing Persons
Missing Persons
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