Memoirs
128 books
Memoirs
495
Richard Burton Deane - Mounted police life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916)
Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie'; his life, experiences and trials as an officer in a new frontier – The Canadian...
9 hours 58 minutes
Memoirs
463
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
489
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
