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  • Free Love

    The Story of a Great American Scandal

    by Robert Shaplen ...
    A wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of “one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review).On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she’d had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America, for Beecher was the most famous preacher of the day, founder of the most ... Read more

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  • Up From Slavery

    by Booker T. Washington ...
    Named one of the best non-fiction books of the twentieth century by Modern Library, Up from Slavery is the poignant telling, in plain language, of Booker T. Washington’s rise from slavery to become a preeminent advocate for civil rights of his time.Although Up from Slavery was initially criticized by African-American leaders for Washington’s perceived soft-pedalling of his message of racial ... Read more

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  • My Bondage and My Freedom

    by Frederick Douglass, John David Smith ...
    “My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, “[is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War.” As his narrative unfolds, Frederick Douglass—abolitionist, journalist, orator, and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from the ... Read more

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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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  • Up From Slavery

    by Booker T. Washington ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, orator, author and leader of the African-American community. He was freed from slavery as a child, and after working at several menial jobs in West Virginia, earned his way through an education at Hampton Institute and Wayland Seminary. Upon recommendation of Hampton founder Sam ... Read more

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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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  • The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom as Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author

    by William Still ...
    Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children to escape the horrors of bondage but by flight. Bravely, with her four little ones, with firm faith in God and an ardent desire to be free, she forsook the prison-house, and succeeded, ... Read more

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  • My Bondage and My Freedom

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation’s enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War. My Bondage and My Freedom is Douglass’s masterful recounting of his remarkable life and a fiery condemnation of a political and social system that ... Read more

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

    A Library of America Paperback Classic

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    One of the greatest works of American autobiography, in a definitive Library of America text: Published seven years after his escape from slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) is a powerful account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture into which Frederick Douglass was born. It brought him to the forefront of the antislavery ... Read more

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  • Up From Slavery

    by Booker T. Washington, Digital Fire ...
    Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal experiences in working to rise from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and other ... Read more

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  • Up from Slavery

    Enriched edition. Memoir of the Visionary Educator, African American Leader and Influential Civil Rights Activist

    by Booker T. Washington, Darren Matthews ...
    Booker T. Washington's 'Up from Slavery' is a seminal autobiography that provides a detailed account of his journey from being enslaved to becoming one of the most prominent African American leaders of his time. The book is written in a simple and direct style, reflecting Washington's practical approach to dealing with the systemic challenges faced by African Americans in the post-Civil War era. ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    An American Slave, Written by Himself

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Series series Enriched Classics
    Enriched Classicsoffer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.Frederick Douglass’s powerful autobiographical account of life in bondage, his triumphant escape to ... Read more

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