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  • Current Superstitions

    by William Wells Newell ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • My Southern Home

    Or, the South and Its People

    by William Wells Brown ...
    My Southern Home: Or, the South and Its People written by William Wells Brown who was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States. This book was published in 1880. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance ... Read more

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  • Clotel

    by William Wells Brown ...
    Series series African Library
    An early African American novel that tells the story of a young woman named Clotel, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and a slave. It follows her journey as she navigates the complexities of her identity and experiences the brutal realities of slavery. ... Read more

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  • Born in Chains - Collected Slave Narratives

    First-Person Testimonies of Enslavement, Escape, Resistance, and the Fight for Freedom

    by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Grimes, Solomon Northup, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Zamba Zembola, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Bayley, Henry Watson, John Brown, William Craft, Ellen Craft, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, Henry Box Brown, Phillis Wheatley, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Annie L. Burton, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, William Still, Moses Roper, Joseph Vance Lewis, Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley, John Thompson, Venture Smith, Isaac D. Williams, William Walker, Octavia Albert ...
    Born in Chains—Collected Slave Narratives assembles a capacious archive of bondage, flight, resistance, emancipation, and memory. Spanning autobiography, dictated testimony, spiritual reflection, political argument, and documentary recollection, the volume reveals the formal range of slave narrative traditions across the Atlantic world. Accounts of escape, family separation, literacy, labor, ... Read more

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  • The Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays. Illustrated

    by William Wells Brown, Harriet E. Wilson, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frances E. W. Harper, Langston Hughes, Phillis Wheatley, Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Charles Ball, Josiah Henson, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Elizabeth Keckley, Louis Hughes, Booker T. Washington, Henry Box Brown, James Hambleton Christian, Theophilus Collins, Seth Concklin, Charles Gilbert, Samuel Green, Jamie Griffin, Harry Grimes, John Henry Hill, Jane Johnson, Matilda Mahoney, Mary Frances Melvin, Aunt Hannah Moore, Alfred S. Thornton, W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were ... Read more

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  • The Most Influential Memoirs Of Former Slaves

    by Thomas Clarkson, Daniel Drayton, Louis Hughes, Lydia Maria Child, Austin Steward, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Moses Grandy, William Wells Brown, William Still, Nat Turner, Henry Bibb, Olaudah Equiano, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Kate Drumgoold, Frederick Douglass, Brantz Mayer, Theodore Canot, Booker T. Washington, Elizabeth Keckley, Charles Ball, Solomon Northup, Josiah Henson, Stephen Smith, Ellen Craft, William Craft, John Gabriel Stedman, Sarah H. Bradford, Lucy A. Delaney, L. S. Thompson, F. G. De Fontaine, Henry Box Brown, John Dixon Long, Harriet Jacobs, Jacob D. Green, Thomas S. Gaines, Willie Lynch, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Joseph Mountain ...
    The Most Influential Memoirs Of Former Slaves offers a profound exploration into the lives and experiences of those who bore the cruelty of slavery and emerged with voices that have transcended time. This anthology brings together a vast array of literary styles, including personal narratives, reflective essays, and poignant speeches, highlighting the resilience and resistance of former slaves. ... Read more

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  • The Great Book of Witchcraft

    Trials, Demonology, Folklore, and Gothic Tales of Magic, Persecution, and Social Panic

    by Howard Williams, Frederick George Lee, Walter Scott, Jules Michelet, M. Schele de Vere, John Ashton, William Godwin, W. H. Davenport Adams, Charles Mackay, George Moir, Margaret Murray, St. John D. Seymour, John G. Campbell, John Maxwell Wood, Bram Stoker, E. Lynn Linton, Wilhelm Meinhold, Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, Charles Wentworth Upham, M. V. B. Perley, James Thacher, William P. Upham, Samuel Roberts Wells, John M. Taylor, Allen Putnam ...
    Translated by Jane Wilde, Lucie Duff-Gordon, Lionel James Trotter ...
    The Great Book of Witchcraft gathers a capacious archive of superstition, persecution, folklore, theology, and Gothic imagination. Its selections range from clerical and legal inquiry to antiquarian description, historical narrative, ethnographic speculation, and supernatural fiction, revealing "witchcraft" as a changing cultural category rather than a single belief. Accounts of Salem and European ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of Witchcraft - History, Mythology & Art

    27 book Collection: Salem Trials, Lives of the Necromancers, Modern Magic, Witch Stories, Sidonia…

    by Cotton Mather, William Godwin, Howard Williams, Frederick George Lee, Walter Scott, Jules Michelet, M. Schele de Vere, John Ashton, W. H. Davenport Adams, Charles Mackay, George Moir, Margaret Murray, St. John D. Seymour, John G. Campbell, John Maxwell Wood, Bram Stoker, E. Lynn Linton, Wilhelm Meinhold, Increase Mather, Charles Wentworth Upham, M. V. B. Perley, James Thacher, William P. Upham, Samuel Roberts Wells, John M. Taylor, Allen Putnam ...
    Translated by Jane Wilde, Lucie Duff-Gordon, Lionel James Trotter ...
    The Mystery of Witchcraft - History, Mythology & Art' is a sweeping anthology that traverses the shifting terrains of witchcraft through various lenses, spanning historical analysis, mythological exploration, and artistic depiction. The collection boasts a variety of literary forms, drawing on works that range from scholarly treatises to lyrical narratives, enriching the reader's understanding of ... Read more

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  • WITCHCRAFT & MAGIC - Ultimate Collection

    Salem Trials, European Folklore, Demonology, and Gothic Tales of the Supernatural

    by Cotton Mather, William Godwin, Howard Williams, Frederick George Lee, Walter Scott, Jules Michelet, M. Schele de Vere, John Ashton, W. H. Davenport Adams, Charles Mackay, George Moir, Margaret Murray, St. John D. Seymour, John G. Campbell, John Maxwell Wood, Bram Stoker, E. Lynn Linton, Wilhelm Meinhold, Increase Mather, Charles Wentworth Upham, M. V. B. Perley, James Thacher, William P. Upham, Samuel Roberts Wells, John M. Taylor, Allen Putnam ...
    Translated by Jane Wilde, Lucie Duff-Gordon, Lionel James Trotter ...
    WITCHCRAFT & MAGIC - Ultimate Collection surveys the shifting meanings of sorcery, superstition, demonology, folk belief, and occult inquiry across several centuries. Combining trial narratives, historical studies, theological polemic, antiquarian scholarship, fiction, and cultural commentary, it reveals witchcraft as both a social accusation and a durable imaginative resource. Accounts of Salem ... Read more

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  • My Southern Home: Or, the South and Its People

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Depths of Antebellum Southern Society and Racial Dynamics

    by William Wells Brown, Keaton Dalesworth ...
    In "My Southern Home: Or, the South and Its People," William Wells Brown offers a vivid and poignant portrait of the antebellum South, drawing from his experiences as an escaped slave and a prominent abolitionist. Through a combination of narrative prose and poignant observations, Brown meticulously details the social customs, economic factors, and the disturbing realities of slavery, thereby ... Read more

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  • Clotel

    or, The Presidents Daughter

    by William Wells Brown ...
    "Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States" is an 1853 novel written by American author and playwright William Wells Brown. The story revolves around the titular Clotel and her sister, two fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson, and explores the devastating effect slavery had on African-American families. William Wells Brown (c. 1814–1884) was an ... Read more

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  • Clotel

    or, The President’s Daughter

    by William Wells Brown ...
    This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." It is a tragic mulatto story about a woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson. ... Read more

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