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Rousseau and Education According to Nature
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Thomas Davidson
In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…
In Old Plantation Days
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…
Jess
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H. Rider Haggard
The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are com…
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Sir Walter Scott
During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family ho…
Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem
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Sutton Griggs
Imperium in Imperio is a historical fiction novel by Sutton Griggs, published in 1899. The novel covers the life of Belton Piedmont, an educ…
The Aftermath of Slavery
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William A. Sinclair
This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair pu…
A Social History of the American Negro
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
A comprehensive history of what experiences and influences created the Negro American citizen as we find him at the beginning of the twentie…
Sree Krishna, The Lord of Love
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Baba Premanand Bharati
I beg to present this my humble work to the English reader. It is the history of the Universe from its birth to its dissolution. I have expl…
The Uncalled
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…
Walker's Appeal
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David Walker
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …
The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…
The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races
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Oscar Micheaux
This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But …
For Your Sweet Sake
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James Ephraim Mcgirt
This work is a collection of lyric poems - Summary by Jim Locke
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…
The Heart of Happy Hollow
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, …
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
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W. E. B. Du Bois
In November, 1897, I submitted to the American Academy of Political and Social Science a plan for the study of Negro problems. This work is …
Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia
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Isabel Eaton
This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…
Historical Romance of the American Negro
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Charles H. Fowler
It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of …
The Love of Landry
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Love of Landry is one of Dunbar's four novels, and one of three that are about white people. In this case, the story is about the recupe…
Charles Sumner, The Scholar in Politics
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Archibald Grimké
In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …