Memoirs
128 books
Memoirs
464
Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The...
7 hours 46 minutes
Memoirs
516
Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall - Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba
In 1881, Mrs. Cecil Hall's brother went to Manitoba to farm. In 1882, she went out for a visit of some two months, and followed that visit with a long sojourn in Colorado, returning to England as the snows began to...
3 hours 22 minutes
War & Military
491
Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Army Life in a Black Regiment
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored...
8 hours 40 minutes
Memoirs
530
Ernest Shackleton - South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic to the Ross Sea south of the Pacific, by way of the Pole. It set out from London on 1...
15 hours 33 minutes
Memoirs
450
William Westgarth - Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
Son of John Westgarth, surveyor-general of customs for Scotland, was born at Edinburgh, in June 1815. He was educated at the high schools at Leith and Edinburgh, and at Dr Bruce's school at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He then...
6 hours 21 minutes
