Harriet: 793 books
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
In 1852, the United States of America was anything but united. The divisive issue of slavery was roiling the nation, which argued ad nauseam about the extension of slavery in new states as the nation pushed westward. Less than a decade later, Americans would fight each other in a Civil War that would...
A Collection of Words from the Roundtable
The Harriet May Savitz Writers of the Roundtable
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
A Collection of Words from the Roundtable is an anthology of 39 short stories from ten authors. This collection includes various takes on life, memoirs, happy times, sad times, along with some fun. Members of a seniors writing group, they share their experiences of life that literally cover a collective...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Solomon Northup, Frances Anne Kemble
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
The slave narrative is a literary sub-genre that emerged from the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations.
Some of the earliest memoirs of captivity known in England and the British Isles were...
The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle
Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Like no other event in our history, the Civil War divided the nation, redrew our notions of freedom and citizenship, and provided the backdrop for some of the most enduring works in the American literary canon. This Modern Library eBook bundle collects five titles that illuminate that transformative...
The Faces Behind the Chains: Thousands of Recorded Interviews, Memoirs & Life Stories of Former Slaves
Including Historical Documents & Legislative Progress of Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of thousands memoirs & life stories of former slaves. "The Faces Behind the Chains" strongly conveys the circumstances and brutal reality of a slave's life to a reader. This unique collection consists of the most influential...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It...
Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)
Das Herz der Finsternis, Moby-Dick, Sturmhöhe, Sherlock Holmes, Stolz und Vorurteil, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Alice im Wunderland, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit, Adam Bede, Robinson Crusoe, Walden...
Language: German
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Dieses eBook: "Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe...
Voices of Freedom
Four Classic Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Four of the most important and enduring American slave narratives together in one volume.
Until slavery was abolished in 1865, millions of men, women, and children toiled under a system that stripped them of their freedom and their humanity. Much has been written about this shameful era of...
by Mary Prince, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Straightforward, yet often poetic accounts of the battle for freedom, three memoirs by courageous black women vividly chronicle their struggles in the bonds of slavery, their rebellion against degrading injustice, and their determination to attain racial equality. In Narrative of Sojourner Truth,...
Women of Color Pray
Voices of Strength, Faith, Healing, Hope and Courage
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
A celebration of the voices of women of color in prayer
Women of color pray and have prayed out of necessity for survival, out of love for the Divine and because we believe in the power of prayer. Prayer has been the prevailing force behind the education of our children, protection and courage...
by Harriet Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Major international bestseller and critically acclaimed author Harriet Evans weaves an “absorbing tapestry…with a comic touch even in the midst of tragedy” (Kirkus Reviews) in this stunning family drama that will surprise you at every turn.
When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits...
by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller
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This Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other.
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published...
by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Austin Steward
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Slave Narrative Six Pack 3 presents six more essential texts:
Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs.
Escaping in a Chest: The Lear Green Story by William Still.
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by Harriet Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl...