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Frederick Douglass A Biography

Biography & Autobiography

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Frederick Douglass A Biography

Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of America's great icons. He escaped slavery to become one of our great abolitionists, statesman, writer, orator, all around social reformer and intellectual of our...

KirksVoice 2 hours 33 minutes

Colonel's Dream

Literary Fiction

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Colonel's Dream

In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former status quo and rebuilding itself as a region of the United States where new...

James K. White 9 hours 5 minutes

House Behind the Cedars

Literary Fiction

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - House Behind the Cedars

In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history....

James K. White 7 hours 29 minutes

Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans and white Americans of the South. Many of...

James K. White 6 hours 36 minutes

Marrow of Tradition

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Marrow of Tradition

In The Marrow of Tradition , Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era...

James K. White 9 hours 52 minutes

Conjure Woman

General Fiction

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Conjure Woman

Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in «Patesville» (Fayetteville), North Carolina. While drawing from local color...

James K. White 3 hours 39 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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