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  • The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction

    by Christine Bold et al. ...
    About the AnthologyGuided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, The Broadview Anthology of American Literature balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with a thoroughgoing reassessment of the canon that emphasizes American literature’s diversity, variety, breadth, and ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Hagar’s Daughter

    A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice

    by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins ...
    Hagar’s Daughter is Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s first serial novel, published in the Boston-based Colored American Magazine (1901-02). The novel features concealed and mistaken identities, dramatic revelations, and extraordinary plot twists, including a high-profile murder trial, an abduction plot, and a steady succession of surprises as the young black maid Venus Johnson assumes male clothing to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Recovering Five Generations Hence

    The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace

    by Bruce A. Glasrud, Alisha Knight, M. Giulia Fabi, Angela Boswell, Brian M. Jack, Veronica Watson, Nikki Brown ...
    Series Book 120 - Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
    Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that involving the printed word, was the key to black liberation.In 1916, before Marcus Garvey gained ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    by Frederick Douglass ...
    A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leaderThis compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize–nominated ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten – The Most Powerful Slave Narratives, Historical Documents & Influential Novels

    A Legacy of Resistance and Freedom

    by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet E. Wilson, William Wells Brown, Charles W. Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Albion Winegar Tourgée, Sutton E. Griggs, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, William Craft, Ellen Craft, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Booker T. Washington, Olaudah Equiano, Elizabeth Keckley, William Still, Sarah H. Bradford, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, L. S. Thompson, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, John Gabriel Stedman, Henry Box Brown, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Thomas S. Gaines, Brantz Mayer, Aphra Behn, Theodore Canot, Daniel Drayton, Thomas Clarkson, F. G. De Fontaine, John Dixon Long, Stephen Smith, Joseph Mountain, Ida B. Wells-Barnett ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Memoirs Narrative of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave The Underground Railroad Up From Slavery Willie Lynch Letter Confessions of Nat Turner Narrative of Sojourner Truth Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl History of Mary Prince Running a ... Read more

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  • On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience (Mobi Classics)

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War. ... Read more

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  • Harriet

    The Moses of Her People

    by Sarah H. Bradford ...
    Harriet Tubman was a fugitive slave whose work as a conductor on the Underground Railroad made her a legend. Born in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849 and supported herself by working in Philadelphia hotels before relocating to Canada and, later, New York. Tubman first returned to Maryland in 1850, when she helped a niece escape from Baltimore, and over the next ten ... Read more

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  • The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

    Edited by Hollis Robbins, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017.The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, ... Read more

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  • SLAVE

    12 Years A Slave and THREE ADDITIONAL Slave Narratives for the price of ONE (Contains "12 Years A Slave" NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE)

    by Wendy Barge ...
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    This volume includes 12 Years A Slave (NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE), Incidence in the Life of a Slave Girl, and the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave! Each work lends a human face to the North-American slave trade; an institution that was economically beneficial to the United States for hundreds of years! These individual revelations fomented a moral outcry, both in the ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    Penn Reading Project Edition

    by Benjamin Franklin, Amy Gutmann ...
    Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having ... Read more

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  • Black American Classics: eleven books in a single file

    by Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Charles Chesnutt ...
    This file includes: "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois, "The Conjure Woman" by Charles Chesnutt, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson, "Clotel or The President's Daughter" by William Wells Brown, "The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar", "De Turkey and De Law" by Zora Hurston, "A Century of Negro Migration" by ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Volume XI.

    by Edward Waldo Emerson ...
    The Complete Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Volume XI.. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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