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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
*Non-fiction
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Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall - Meaning of the Glorious Koran
The Koran (Qur'an) is regarded by Muslims as the word of God (Allah) as revealed to the prophet Muhammad. It is divided into 114 chapters (surahs), arranged roughly by length. This version, The Meaning of the...
16 hours 28 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Mary Barton
Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester during the 1830s and 1840s and deals heavily with the difficulties faced by the...
15 hours 57 minutes
Early Modern
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William Wood - Chronicles of Canada Volume 08 - Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
Louisbourg was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won without affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrary, it was a necessary link in the chain of waterside posts which connected...
2 hours 49 minutes
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