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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (version 3)

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Booker T. Washington

Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington, describing his personal path up from the position of a slave…

Putting the Most Into Life

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Booker T. Washington

The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…

Oak and Ivy

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…

The Man from Time

In Short Science Fiction Collection 068

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Frank Belknap Long

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Chapter 3 - The Farming Colonies

In The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, Vol…

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W. E. B. Du Bois

The question of the suppression of the slave-trade is so intimately connected with the questions as to its rise, the system of American slav…

Katy Ferguson/Poor Pompey

In Narratives of Colored Americans

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Abigail Mott

Abigail Mott was a Quaker and abolitionist from New York who, along with fellow Quaker M. S. Wood, has compiled a provocative collection of …

William Stanley Braithwaite

In The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States

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Benjamin Griffith Brawley

Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literat…

Chapter XXIII 1684 A New Enterprise

In La Salle, Discovery of The Great West

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Francis Parkman, Jr.

Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

Boyhood in West Virginia

In The Story of My Life and Work

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Booker T. Washington

The legacy of Booker T. Washington has inspired leaders for racial equality for over a century. He rose from a slave family to be adviser t…