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England, 1930s Guy Lawrence's mother, Lady Caroline, had married twice. He was the only child by her first marriage; his brother, Bertie Deverell, the only child by her second. The first was a marriage of convenience with a man many years older th...

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V1 London 1803 In the cold weather of London, Alice, a young woman who ran from her past, coincidentally meets her lover. She tells him how she got married in secret on the advice of the marchioness, Lady Fitz-Arthur, to a gentleman superior to he...

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Spring Forward is a collection of photographs, artwork, and writings by Erick Elliott. Elliott is the producer and member of the Brooklyn based hip hop group the Flatbush Zombies. In commenting on Spring Forward, Elliott notes, "I've worked o...

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Tubman's Underground Rail: Her Paths to Freedom. Guided by Harriet Tubman also known as the Moses of Her People. With Scenes from Her Life. An Original Compilation with an emphasis on the life and thoughts of the infamous abolitionist Harriet Tubm...

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Though Southern rural life has necessarily changed since the Civil War, I doubt that there is in the entire South a place where it has changed less than on the Burge Plantation, near Covington, Georgia. And I do not know in the whole country a pla...

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To reflect the individual character of this document, most inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and formatting have been retained. Obvious typos and some punctuation (mostly quotation marks) have been fixed. Spelling changes are underlined in...

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Every new publication on this, as well as other subjects, should have some grounds upon which it can set up its claim to a share of public patronage and support. Had I not believed that this work contained something new and useful, I would not hav...

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American slave narratives are a unique and fascinating historical resource. Although, the narratives have their contextual limitations-they are an invaluable primary source that allows one to gain insight pertaining to slaves from their own perspe...

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"Paine was the first to advise the Americans to assert their independence," says Richard Car- lile in his Life of Paine. "This he did in his fam- ous pamphlet, entitled Common Sense, which, for its consequences and rapid effect, was...

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THIS book is intended to form a companion volume to my edition of the treatise of Apollonius on Conic Sections lately published. If it was worth while to attempt to make the work of "the great geometer" accessible to the mathematician of...

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Texas Slave Narratives & Photographs: A Traditional History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Illustrated with Photographs. Part 3 Authored by Works Progress Administration, Compiled by J. Mitchell MA, Interviewer ...

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Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, Who Lived Forty Years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave Under Various Masters, and was One Year in the Navy with Commodore Barney,...

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This title contains 26 slave detailed and historically rich narratives not orginally circulated or published from the state of Tennessee. The narratives give sensational insight into the everyday lives of the former slaves interviewed. In addition...

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The matter contained in the succeeding pages was never intended for publication. It represents a short sketch of incidents, and participation in the late war, by the late MAJOR-GENERAL BRYAN GRIMES, and extracts from letters to his wife, written f...

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Until the recent outbreaks in Germany, where, under revolutionary conditions, a few lynchings have taken place, the United States has for long been the only advanced nation where government has tolerated lynching. In presenting this material we ha...

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ALABAMA WPA SLAVE NARRATIVES offer a wealth of information concerning the personal lives of those enslaved in the state of Alabama. This volume contains the personal interviews of 129 former slaves with over 70 photos of the interviewed subjects. ...

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This unique and original compilation of Work Progress Administration slave narratives contains 145 slave narratives from the states of Oklahoma and Texas. Slave narratives from Oklahoma are difficult to obtain in print format and this title contai...

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What our civilization would be today but for the old time preacher, it is hard to say. His tremendous faith and religious zeal may have filled his imagination with many realities that have no significance for the cold, practical, calculating eye o...

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This book is published with the hope of doing good in more ways than will be expedient to state at this time. It is intended not only to disseminate the truths and glory of the gospel system, but also, as far as possible, to inspire the Negro to t...

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Fully Illustrated, Including Over 1,100 Examples - Chapters: Algebraic Results - Coordinates - Lengths Of Straight Lines And Areas Of Triangles - Locus - Equation To A Locus - The Straight Line: Rectangular Coordinates - Straight Line Through Two ...

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Excerpt from The Mind and Society, Vol. 1: Trattato Di Sociologia Generale Vilfredo Pareto's Trattato di Sociologia generate appears in this English edition as the realization of dreams and efforts that extend over fifteen years. My first moves to...

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