"Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800" is a significant work that explores the early abolitionist sentiments and arguments against slavery. Authored by George Buchanan and William Frederick Poole, the book delves into the philosophical, moral, and religious objections to slavery that emerged prior to the 19th century. It highlights the contributions of various thinkers and activists who laid the groundwork for the abolitionist movement, showcasing their writings and thoughts that cha...

Ada Buisson was a Victorian novelist and short story author. This collection includes her three horror stories, all of which were published in the journal Belgravia in 1867-1869.

In 'The Popham Colony: A Discussion of its Historical Claims, with a Bibliography of the Subject', the editors present a nuanced exploration of one of America's earliest English settlements. This assemblage offers a sweeping survey of historical inquiries into the Popham Colony, skillfully interweaving narratives and documentation that challenge and affirm the colony's significance in early American history. The collection traverses a variety of literary styles'Äîfrom analytical essays to ...

This authoritative Bantam Classic edition presents readers with a wide-ranging selection of Benjamin Franklin’s most important writings, illuminating the complex and appealing character of this quintessential American who rose to fame as a publisher, inventor, educator, bon vivant, and statesman.Here are selections from Franklin’s newspaper articles, from the sage wisdom of Poor Richard’s Almanac, from his entertaining letters, from his scientific essays, from his politica...

A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leaderThis compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize–nominated historian John Stauffer, The Portable Frederick Douglass includ...

The autobiography of any great figure is likely to be interesting. Benjamin Franklin's is all the more so in that he not led a memorable life himself (only part of which he covers here), but was a lively observer who spent time in not only in different parts of the young thirteen colonies, but in London, where he worked as a journeyman printer and had his own sentimental misadventures. Whether you are interested in this monumental figure himself or life in the period in America and England...

Founding Fathers Four Pack includes the American classic The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the lesser-known concise Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, the biography Alexander Hamilton by Charles A. Conant and an insightful essay on John Jay by Elbert Hubbard.

Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity." The result is a classic of A...

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”- Marcus Garvey.Slave Narrative Six Pack 4 is a mixed bag of narratives, biographies and eye-witness accounts from ex-slaves and abolitionists:The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Mary Prince.The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave by William Wells Brown.White Slavery in the Barbary States by Charles Sumner.The Freedmen's Book by ...

A collection of historical literature documenting major slave revolts and uprisings throughout the Americas.Who will tell the stories of those who refused to be slaves? The Atlantic slave trade transported millions of humans from the coasts of West Africa into the New World, stripping them of their dignity, freedom, language and culture. The accepted notion is that these Blacks willingly submitted to the chattel slave system, accepting their new lot in life. When one scours the reco...

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”- Marcus Garvey.Slave Narrative Six Pack 4 is a mixed bag of narratives, biographies and eye-witness accounts from ex-slaves and abolitionists:The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Mary Prince.The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave by William Wells Brown.White Slavery in the Ba...

Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was an American writer, abolitionist, and womens rights activist. Childs work often shocked the readers of her day as she sought to fight against white supremacy and the male-dominant society. This edition of Childs An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans includes a table of contents.