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  • The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride

    A Rediscovered African American Novel by Julia C. Collins

    by Julia C. Collins ...
    In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an African American woman living in the small town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The first novel ever published by a black American woman, it is set in antebellum Louisiana and Connecticut, and focuses on ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Our Nig

    or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

    by Harriet E. Wilson, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Reginald Pitts ...
    The 1859 novel tracing the life of a mulatto foundling abused by a white family in 19th century New England. ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.' Thus begins the autobiography of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) who was born into slavery in ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    An American Slave

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    In 1845, runaway slave Frederick Douglass became, almost overnight, the most celebrated African American author in history with the publication of his Narrative. In stark, powerful prose, he conveyed his observations of owners and overseers, the demoralizing effects of slavery on both slave and slaveholder, and his own triumph over oppression. In the latter part of the century, Douglass became a ... Read more

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  • Lives Like Loaded Guns

    Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds

    by Lyndall Gordon ...
    Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come to us as an odd and helpless woman living a life of self imposed seclusion. Lyndall Gordon sees instead a volcanic character living on her own terms and with a steely confidence in her own talent; a woman whose family feuded over a hothouse of adultery and devastating betrayal and a woman who had her own secret. ... Read more

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  • The Life of P.T. Barnum

    by P. T. Barnum ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century…In 1834, desperate to create a better life for his family, small-time Connecticut businessman P. T. Barnum moved to New York City. With true entrepreneurial spirit and against all odds, he wowed audiences with his ensemble of musical spectacles, attractions and variety shows ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • My Wars Are Laid Away in Books

    The Life of Emily Dickinson

    by Alfred Habegger ...
    Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography, Alfred Habegger presents the first thorough account of Dickinson’s growth–a richly contextualized ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Narrative of Sojourner Truth

    by Sojourner Truth ...
    Narrative of Sojourner Truth is one of the most important documents of slavery ever written, as well as being a partial autobiography of the woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. With an eloquence that resonates more than a century after its original publication in 1850, the narrative bears witness to Sojourner Truth's thirty years of bondage in upstate New ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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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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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materialsThe preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and driver, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Lonely Hearts of Yesterday: Love & Mischief in 19th Century Personal Ads

    by Planet Explorers ...
    Personal advertisements have been around as long as newspapers themselves. If you're curious about what a "matrimonial ad" from the 1800s looked like, this is your book. Read it aloud and marvel at missives like:"Gentleman, 38, height 5 ft., 9 in., weight 170, black hair, brown eyes, fair complexion, wishes to meet lady, 35 to 38, refined, normal weight, good looking, good teeth, not tired of ... Read more

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  • Clotel

    or, The President's Daughter

    by William Wells Brown ...
    The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a variety of contemporary source materials, Brown fills the novel with daring escapes and encounters, as well as searing depictions of the American ... Read more

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