A faithful diary records everyday Philadelphia life, faith, and spiritual reflection, blending sermons, conversations, charity, and personal candor.Written during the final years of her life, the diary of Anna Keyser Baker (1821–1877), offers a rare, eloquent window into everyday life, faith, and spiritual reflection in late-19th-century Philadelphia. A third-generation Philadelphia Swedenborgian, avid reader, dedicated friend, and Sunday School teacher, Anna docum...

The 1859 novel tracing the life of a mulatto foundling abused by a white family in 19th century New England.

Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children to escape the horrors of bondage but by flight. Bravely, with her four little ones, with firm faith in God and an ardent desire to be free, she forsook the prison-house, and succeeded, through the aid of my father, to reach a free State. Here life had to be begun anew. The old famili...

Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This comprehensive edition includes Jacobs's narrative in full alongside a full-length biography.For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost narrative, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Des...

Detailed accounts of escapes from slavery. First published in 1872. According to Wikipedia: "William Still (October 7, 1821 – July 14, 1902) was an African-American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, writer, historian and civil rights activist.' The Preface begins: "Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children...

One of the Top 10 “Books We Love” —Fresh AirThe definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years.Emily Dickinson was a letter writer before she was a poet. And it was through letters that she shared prose reflections—alternately humorous, provocative, affectionate, and philosophical—with her extensive community. While her letters often contain poems, and some letter...

A treasure trove of incredible lives lived.— RICK MERCER, comedian and authorMuir sets out to restore the faces of women who worked and struggled in nineteenth-century Toronto. A fascinating read.— WARREN CLEMENTS, author and publisherEmphasizes the enormously influential role women had in laying the groundwork for life in the city today.— DR. ROSE A. DYSON, author of Mind Abuse: Media Violence and Its ...

"A fascinating biography" of Elizabeth Seton, who shocked high society by converting to Catholicism—a faith that was illegal in New York when she was born ( Booklist).In this riveting biography of the first American saint, Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life encompassed wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774—when Catholicism was illegal and priests in...

"A fascinating trip back to a pastoral New Jersey where malls, gangsters and toxic waste did not exist, and violence still shocked the public."—Robert Schneck, author of The Bye Bye Man: And Other Strange-but-True TalesOn January 9, 1850, Judge John Van Winkle and his wife, Jane, were brutally stabbed to death by their former farm hand, John Jonston, in their home on Goffle Road in Hawthorne, NJ (which is still standing). Their murder would go down in hist...

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The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848Charles Lamb's library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends—caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. F...

Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature.**“Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us.”—New York Times“His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review**Mark Twain’s complete, uncensored Autobiography was...