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  • African Americans in Covington

    by Eva Semien Baham ...
    Series series Images of America
    Covington is the seat of St. Tammany Parish government and sits north of Lake Pontchartrain in the New Orleans metropolitan area. Records from 1727 show 11 Africans on the north shore. One person of African descent was present at the founding of Covington on July 4, 1813. Most African Americans in antebellum Covington were slaves, with a modest number of free people, all of whom covered nearly ... Read more

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  • The Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be erected, he was sent for from long distances, to be head workman. On condition of paying his mistress two hundred dollars a year, and supporting himself, he was allowed to ... Read more

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  • Granta 120: Medicine

    Medicine

    Edited by John Freeman ...
    Series Book 120 - The Magazine of New Writing
    Clinicians have spent centuries perfecting the art of tending broken bodies. What happens when their medicine fails us? Where do we turn for healing of the body and the mind? In this wide-ranging collection of essays, memoir, poetry and photography, Granta magazine explores the mind of the physician, the plight of the patient and the maladies that bring us together. From a young man struggling to ... Read more

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  • Black Cool

    One Thousand Streams of Blackness

    Edited by Rebecca Walker ...
    All About Love author bell hooks and other innovative Black thinkers explore ‘coolness’ within Black culture, in this 10th anniversary edition of Rebecca Walker’s visonary essay collection.“[This] slim anthology gives itself a formidable task: pinning down the elusive definitions of ‘Black Cool,’ an aesthetic and a philosophy that echoes across the African diaspora.” —The AtlanticOriginally ... Read more

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  • The Booker T. Washington Reader

    by Booker T. Washington ...
    Here in one omnibus edition are Booker T. Washington's most important books. Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and not concerned enough about civil rights. It would not be until after his death that the world would find out that he had indeed worked a great deal for civil rights anonymously behind the scenes. Up ... Read more

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  • Electric Arches

    by Eve L. Ewing ...
    Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the fantastical, Ewing takes us from the streets of Chicago to an alien arrival in an unspecified future, deftly navigating boundaries of space, time, and reality with delight and flexibility. ... Read more

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  • African American Heritage Super Pack #2

    Courage and Perseverance

    by Booker T. Washington, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, Nella Larsen, Mary Prince, W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series. The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality. But it is also filled with courage and perseverance. Gathered here in this omnibus edition are ten books that exemplify courage and a willingness to fight against all odds and at any cost for what is right. These books shed light on ... Read more

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  • The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt

    by Charles W. Chesnutt, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    A collection from one of our most influential African American writersAn icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt, an incisive storyteller of the aftermath of slavery in the South, is widely credited with almost single-handedly inaugurating the African American short story tradition and was the first African American novelist to achieve national critical acclaim. This major ... Read more

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  • The Black Plague

    Karma or God's Will?

    by Imani Jackson, Tylon L. Rodgers ...
    Whats the most sensitive subject in America today? That would be racism. But for the most part it has always been an issue between those of the black and white race, where whites reigned under false superiority. Though the subject is worldwide, the karma that those of the white race now suffer behind actions taken during their time of false reign has never been brought to the forefront of America ... Read more

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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Complete Novels

    by Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
    Series series The Greatest Writers of All Time
    This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that ... Read more

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  • Diary of a Nappy Head

    by Theresa Anne ...
    To those around Jergen Black, beauty equaled having straight hair; it was an equation that she never quite understood. All her young life, Jergen watched her now thin-haired mother, Mamma Dee, constantly smoke up the kitchen with a hot comb while straightening people's hair and bragging about how beautiful they were going to look when she finished. Jergen's choice to wear her hair natural is ... Read more

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  • African American Topeka

    by Sherrita Camp ...
    Series series Images of America
    African Americans arrived in Topeka right before and after the Civil War and again in large numbers during the Exodus Movement of 1879 and Great Migration of 1910. They came in protest of the treatment they received in the South. The history of dissent lived on in Topeka, as it became the home to court cases protesting discrimination of all kinds. African Americans came to the city determined that ... Read more

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