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Fine BooksFine BooksIf the mere taking of trouble ensured good work, this contribution to the Connoisseurs Library should be entitled to the modest praise of being superior to the rest of its authors book-makings, since it has been ten years on the stocks and much...
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The Road to Paris: A Story of AdventureThe Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure"With our company of riflemen that marched in Arnold's army through the Maine wilderness to attack Quebec, there was a sergeant's wife, a large and sturdy woman, no common camp-follower, but decent and respected, who one day,...
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Cannibals all! or, Slaves without mastersCannibals all! or, Slaves without mastersIn our little work, "Sociology for the South," we said, "We may again appear in the character of writer before the public; but we shall not intrude, and would prefer that others should finish the work which we have...
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Songs and Ballads of the Southern People: 1861-1865Songs and Ballads of the Southern People: 1861-1865This collection has been made with the view of preserving in permanent form the opinions and sentiments of the Southern people, as embodied in their Songs and Ballads of 1861-1865; which, better than any other medium, exhibit...
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A Short History of the WorldA Short History of the World The story of our world is a story that is still very imperfectly known. A couple of hundred years ago men possessed the history of little more than the last three thousand years. What happened before that time...
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The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry, with Legends of the Surrounding CountryThe Strange Story of Harper's Ferry, with Legends of the Surrounding CountryThe real story of Harper's Ferry is sad, and but little less wild and romantic than the old-time legends that abound in the long settled country around. The facts of the story we...
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American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11The Negro and the elective franchise. A series of papers and a sermonIn 1787 when the founders of the American Republic were framing the Constitution they encountered many difficulties in the work of construction, but none greater than the bringing together on terms of...
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The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw ItThe Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw ItTranscriber's Notes: No corrections of typographical or other errors have been made to this text. On pages 6 and 7 of the original, a note was typed vertically in the margin. These notes...
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The Storm Center: A NovelThe Storm Centre: A NovelThe place reminded him then and later of the storm centre of a cyclone. Outside the tempests of Civil War raged. He could hear, as he sat in the quiet, book-lined room, the turbulent drums fitfully beating in tented camps...
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My Unknown Chum: "Aguecheek"My Unknown Chum: "Aguecheek"In 1878 a letter of introduction to Mr. S of Detroit was instrumental in securing for me the close friendship of a man some twenty years my seniora man of unusual poise of mind and of such superb character that I...
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From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 19171917.... I suppose that a century hence men and women will think of that date as one of the world's black years flinging its shadow forward to the future until gradually new generations escape from its dark spell. To us...
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Ricordi di un garibaldino dal 1847-48 al 1900. vol. IRicordi di un garibaldino dal 1847-48 al 1900. vol. IMai, come in questo momento che scrivo, e che ho davanti a me sul tavolo, raccolte le bozze dei miei "Ricordi", ho sentita tutta la religione delle memorie, e il conforto dell'opera prestata per la...
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Presidential Candidates:Presidential Candidates: - Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 The sketches in this volume vary in length and minuteness, not from a disposition, on my part, to withhold facts, but because a few of my subjects...
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The Negro in the SouthThe Negro in the South - His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious DevelopmentFor many years it has been my earnest desire to found a Lectureship on Christian Sociology, meaning thereby the application of Christian principles to the Social, Industrial, and...
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 1670-1700The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 1670-1700 - Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those...
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A Woman's Experiences in the Great WarA Woman's Experiences in the Great War CHAPTER I. CROSSING THE CHANNEL II. ON THE WAY TO ANTWERP III. GERMANS ON THE LINE IV. IN THE TRACK OF THE HUNS V. AERSCHOT VI. RETRIBUTION VII. THEY WOULD NOT KILL THE COOK VIII. "YOU'LL NEVER...
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The Children's Story of the War Volume 4 (of 10)The Children's Story of the War Volume 4 (of 10) - The Story of the Year 1915In this volume I am going to tell you the story of the war as it unfolded itself during the year 1915. It was a year of life-and-death...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4Mazique Sanco was born a slave of Mrs. Louisa Green, in Columbia, South Carolina, on February 10, 1849. Shortly after Mazique was freed,...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3Uncle Cinto Lewis, ex-slave, claims to be 111 years old. He lived in a brick cabin with his wife, Aunt Lucy, on the...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume X, Missouri NarrativesSlave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume X, Missouri Narratives"I's born on December 25, 1854. My muthuh wuz Allie Ann Lane. Aftuh 'mancipation I tuk my daddies name Abbothe wuz Anthony Abbot, an' belonged...
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