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Iola Leroy
Read by James K. White
Frances E. W. Harper
This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was …
From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom
Read by James K. White
Lucy Ann Delaney
In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a fr…
Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839
Read by James K. White
Frances Anne Kemble and Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble
Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of eve…
The House Behind the Cedars
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the …
The Colonel's Dream
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former st…
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
Read by James K. White
Stanley Lane-Poole
A history of the pirating activities along and around the "Barbary coast" between the 15th and 19th centuries, from the time of th…
The Negro Problem
Read by James K. White
Various
This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift …
South American Jungle Tales
Read by James K. White
Horacio Quiroga
The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact …
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Read by James K. White
James Weldon Johnson
Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written …
Six Months In Mexico
Read by James K. White
Nellie Bly
This is an account of Nellie Bly's travels through Mexico in 1885. The book was originally a series of individual articles that she submitte…
The Man-Wolf
Read by James K. White
Émile Erckmann
"The Man-Wolf" is a 38,000 word novella that appears in the English language collection of short stories entitled, The Man-Wolf an…
A Book of Myths
Read by James K. White
Jean Lang
This is a collection of myths--mostly Greek with a smattering of others from the east--written in a clear and easy-to-read style. Lang compl…
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories
Read by James K. White
Guy de Maupassant
This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced h…
The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Volume 1
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Robert Paltock
This is a story about a Cornish man who becomes stranded on an island and survives much like Robinson Crusoe did. Although he finds enough t…
Violets And Other Tales
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and…
Marion, the Story of an Artist's Model
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Onoto Watanna
In this Asian/Canadian perspective on "foreignness," Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the cruelty of racial discriminati…
Stanton White: A Romance of the New South
Read by James K. White
Asa Zadel Hall
In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …
The Heir of Slaves; an Autobiography
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William Pickens
In the first of two autobiographies, Pickens describes his early life struggling to help his family free themselves from a system of tenant …
The Vengence of the Gods: And Three Other Stories of Real American Color Line L…
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William Pickens
Although slavery was abolished in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865, its cancerous tendrils …